Intra-Writer Variation in
Historical Sociolinguistics

Programme (as of 5 March):

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Wednesday, 17 March 2021

	Session 1: Intra-writer variation 'from below' II	Session 2: Intra-writer variation in the Middle East
	Chair: Christine Elsweiler (Munich)	Chair: Israel Sanz-Sánchez (West Chester)
14:00- 14:30	Marijke van der Wal (Leiden) Early Modern delegated writing: A case of intra-writer variation or a more complex phenomenon?	Martina Schmidl (Vienna) Intra-writer variation in Late Babylonian letters
14:30- 15:00	Anita Auer, Anne-Christine Gardner & Mark Iten (Lausanne) Patterns of linguistic variation in pauper petitions from the parish of Pangbourne, Berkshire	Esther-Miriam Wagner (Cambridge) Intra-writer variation in the Arabic sources of the Cairo Genizah
15:00- 15:30	Frauke Griese (Duisburg-Essen) “I am having quite a good time dodging the shells” – Exploring lexical emotional perspectives in Scottish war correspondence	Marta Andrić (Zagreb) Intra-Writer variation in Ottoman Turkish: The case of Evliya Çelebi

	Session 1: Intra-writer variation in diaries & logbooks	Session 2: Sociolinguistic identity & linguistic ideology
	Chair: Esther-Miriam Wagner (Cambridge)	Chair: Judith Huber (Erlangen)
16:00- 16:30	Laura Linzmeier (Regensburg) Style-shifting and individual language use in French logbook entries during the 17th–18th centuries	Mallory Matsumoto (Providence) Reconstructing the ideological foundations of classic Maya hieroglyphic writing
16:30- 17:00	Anna D. Havinga (Bristol) Intra-writer variation in an Austrian winegrower’s nineteenth-century chronicle	Sarah van Eyndhoven (Edinburgh) Pragmatism, patriotism and presbyterianism: Use of Scots in written correspondence during the Union debates (1689–1707)
17:00- 17:30	Andreas Krogull & Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden) The observee’s paradox. Accounting for differences between types of ego-document	Paul Cooper (Liverpool) “They would not change for the faultless style of the Queen herself”: Style-shifting, “Yorkshiremen”, and enregistered nineteenth-century Yorkshire dialect

Thursday, 18 March 2021

	Session 1: Intra-writer variation in Early Modern and Late Modern English	Session 2: Intra-writer variation in Old and Middle English
	Chair: Christine Elsweiler (Munich)	Chair: Julian Mader (Erlangen)
10:30- 11:00	Tamara García-Vidal (Murcia) Style-shifting in the use of synthetic and analytic comparative adjectives: Evidence from private letters in 15th to 18th century England	Christine Wallis (Sheffield, Manchester) Linguistic repertoires and intra-writer variation: Hemming of Worcester
11:00- 11:30	Ayumi Nonomiya (Kumamoto) The use of thou in George Bernard Shaw’s plays	Francisco Javier Minaya-Gómez & Javier Enrique Díaz-Vera (Castilla-La Mancha) Intra-writer variation in emotion conceptualization: Ælfric’s expressions for SHAME and GUILT and the development of Anglo-Saxon Christian identity
11:30- 12:00	Nancy Ávila-Ledesma & Carolina Amador-Moreno (Extremadura, Bergen) ‘The seas was like mountains’: Intra-writer variation and social mobility in Irish emigrant letters	Yoko Iyeiri (Kyoto) Intra-text variation as a case of intra-writer variation: Middle English scribal behaviours

	Session 1: Variation in legal and administrative documents I	Session 2: Language contact and variation in Spanish and Portuguese
	Chair: Katharina Gunkler-Frank (Erlangen)	Chair: Luzia Pätzel (Erlangen)
16:00- 16:30	Donald Tuten & María Jesús Torrens-Alvárez (Atlanta, Madrid) Nicholaus Martini scripsit: Latin-Romance hybridity in the documents of a thirteenth-century Castilian scribe	Israel Sanz-Sánchez (West Chester) A tale of two mergers: Sociohistorical agencies across the lifespan in language change
16:30- 17:00	Theodore Markopoulos (Patras) Μorphosyntactic variation in Early Modern Greek notary acts: Assessing the evidence	Victor Carreão (Campinas) Solidarity within the city of Santos and in the usage of personal pronouns by its inhabitants
17:00- 17:30	Jenelle Thomas (Oxford) Performing the gubernatorial persona(e): Stylistic variation in official correspondence	Tania Avilés Vergara (New York) Familial letters from the War of the Pacific (1879–1881): Deixis, identity negotiation and communities of practice

Friday, 19 March 2021

	Session 1: Stylistic choices of educated writers I	Session 2: Language contact & multilingualism I
	Chair: Christine Wallis (Sheffield)	Chair: Lena Sowada (Heidelberg)
10:30- 11:00	Anne-Christine Gardner (Lausanne) Petitioning for the education of the poor: The sociohistorical context of self-corrections in a Late Modern English draft letter	Brenda Assendelft (Leiden) The Frenchification of Dutch: A case study on the influence of French on Dutch in the period 1500 to 1900
11:00- 11:30	Manuel Padilla-Moyano & Eneko Zuloaga (France, Moscow, Basque Country) Two instances of intra-author variation in Basque: Canonical authors and linguistic choices as audience design	Charlotte Verheyden (Brussels) ‘If only I could speak French’. A historical sociolinguistic investigation of French influence on Late Modern Southern Dutch
11:30- 12:00	Oxel Uribe-Etxebarria (Basque Country) The linguistic choices of an early 19th century Basque writer	Andreas Krogull & Jill Puttaert (Leiden) From intra-writer variation to the bigger picture: Dutch-French language choice in private family correspondence

	Session 1: Stylistic choices of educated writers II	Session 2: Language contact & multilingualism II
	Chair: Tanja Säily (Helsinki)	Chair: Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden)
14:00- 14:30	Oliver Currie (Ljubljana) At the beginning was the verb: Word order change and style shifting in the sixteenth-century Welsh Bible translations	Jenny Robins (Munich, Urbana) Stylistic variation and code-switching in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Das buch der cirurgia
14:30- 15:00	Lucia Assenzi (Innsbruck) Intra-writer variation at the top of the social hierarchy in 17th-century Germany: The letters of Prince Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen	Carmela Perta (Chieti-Pescara) A trois de la clocke apres noone. On writer’s language use in some multilingual letters
15:00- 15:30	Tino Oudesluijs & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (Manchester, Vigo) Through the lens of The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1750–c.1820): Ego-documents, individuals and historical social networks	Veronika Girininkaitė (Vilnius) A case study of the intra-writer variation in the multilingual Diary (1904–1910) of Vytautas Civinskis (1887–1910)

	Session 1: Intra-writer variation in heritage settings	Session 2: Intra-writer variation in prescriptive and nationalist texts
	Chair: Samantha Litty (Erlangen, Flensburg)	Chair: Nils Langer (Flensburg)
16:00- 16:30	Yasmin Crombez, Rik Vosters & Wim Vandenbussche (Brussels) Exploring layers of language contact in emigrant writing	Eleonora Serra (Cambridge) Looking for norms for informal writings: An examination of sixteenth-century Italian metalinguistic texts
16:30- 17:00	Doris Stolberg (Mannheim) Intra-writer variation within and between languages: Developmental and social aspects	Spiros A. Moschonas (Athens) Intra-writer variation in prescriptive texts: On the standards of Standard Modern Greek
17:00- 17:30	Nora Dörnbrack (Oslo) Longitudinal variation in verb inflection in Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald’s writings	Giedrius Subačius (Urbana-Champaign) Modification of Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864) own prestandard Lithuanian orthography