Programme
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Recorded Talks
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Thursday, 28 October
09:30 - 10:00 Pre-conference meetup & technical checks
10:00 - 10:25 CONFERENCE OPENING
SESSION I: SCOTS LANGUAGE TEACHING IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
Chair: Bruce Eunson (Education Scotland)
10:30 - 10:50 Ragnhild Ljosland (Orkney) [short bio]
"Scots and Nynorsk: A comparison of two language movements’ struggle
for recognition in higher education" [abstract]
10:50 - 11:10 Jamie Fairbairn & Claire Needler [short bio] (Banff & Aberdeen)
"Scots language teaching: The transformative potential of an inclusive
approach to home languages" [abstract]
11:10 - 11:25 Discussion
SESSION II: LANGUAGE PLANNING IN SCOTLAND
Chair: Ragnhild Ljosland (Orkney)
11:30 - 11:50 Wilson McLeod (Edinburgh) [short bio]
"Assessing and amending the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005" [abstract]
11:50 - 12:10 Graham Turner (Herriot-Watt) [short bio]
"The signularity is near: The future of signed language in Scotland" [abstract]
12:10 - 12:25 Discussion
12:25 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
SESSION III: LINGUISTIC IDENTITIES AND LESSER-USED VARIETIES
Chair: Robert McColl Millar (Aberdeen)
14:00 - 14:20 James McDonald (La Réunion) [short bio]
"The Native and non-native linguists in Réunion and Scotland" [abstract]
14:20 - 14:40 Alexander Pavlenko [short bio], Anastasia Karlina & Galina Pavlenko (Rostov on Don)
"'Particular' factors contributing to conservation of lesser-used language
varieties: The evidence of an island dialect of Scots" [abstract]
14:40 - 14:55 Discussion
SESSION IV: LEXICAL AND ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN CORRESPONDENCE
Chair: Lisa Gotthard (Edinburgh)
15:00 - 15:20 Persijn Marius de Rijke (Bergen) [short bio]
"'[T]he largest mountan in nort america:' Evidence of 'Southern' Irish
English consonants in Ulster before 1900 in the Corpus of Irish English
Correspondence" [abstract]
15:20 - 15:40 Sarah van Eyndhoven (Edinburgh) [short bio]
"Eighteenth-century Hop-Scotch: The balancing act of location, status and
recipient on Scots in 18th century correspondence" [abstract]
15:40 - 15:55 Discussion
15:55 - 16:30 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
SESSION V: PERSPECTIVES ON DORIC
Chair: Jennifer Smith (Glasgow)
16:30 - 16:50 Dawn Leslie (Aberdeen) [short bio]
"Fisher, Farmer, Teuchter, Chav: Hyperlocal perceptions of North East
Scottish speech" [abstract]
16:50 - 17:10 Derrick McClure (Aberdeen) [short bio]
"Eppie Elrick, a Doric tour-de-force" [abstract]
17:10 - 17:25 Discussion
PLENARY TALK I
Chair: Christine Elsweiler (Munich)
17:30 - 18:30 Ole Schützler (Leipzig) [short bio]
"The elusive butterfly of Scottish Standard English" [abstract]
19:00 GET-TOGETHER ON WONDER
Friday, 29 October
09:30 - 10:00 Pre-conference meetup & technical checks
PLENARY TALK II
Chair: Christine Elsweiler (Munich)
10:00 - 11:00 Marina Dossena (Bergamo) [short bio]
"Rooted in myth? Scotland's languages in nineteenth-century North-
American journals" [abstract]
SESSION VI: LANGUAGE CONTACT IN CORRESPONDENCE
Chair: Sarah van Eyndhoven (Edinburgh)
11:05 - 11:25 Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Aberystwyth) [short bio]
"The Empire Writes Back: English-Gaelic code-switching in a letter from
New York 1778" [abstract]
11:25 - 11:45 Lisa Gotthard (Edinburgh) [short bio]
"The Scots Northern Subject Rule in contact" [abstract]
11:45 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 12:10 SHORT BREAK
SESSION VII: SCOTTISH WAR CORRESPONDENCE
Chair: Marina Dossena (Bergamo)
12:10 - 12:30 Frauke Griese (Duisburg-Essen)
"'I will come back alright': Uncovering linguistic strategies in Scottish
soldiers' last will letters" [abstract]
12:30 - 12:50 Kirsten Lawson (Bergamo)
"Letters from the front: A historical sociolinguistic analysis of trench
letters written by Scottish soldiers" [abstract]
12:50 - 13:05 Discussion
13:05 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 15:00 SLACK DISCUSSIONS IN DEDICATED ZOOM ROOMS:
- 'Gaelic sociolinguistics and language policy' (Wilson McLeod, Edinburgh) [short bio]
- 'Disconnect: tracing (morphosyntactic) change in seventeenth and early
eighteenth century Scots' (Robert McColl Millar, Aberdeen) [short bio] - 'How to approach pre-modern multilingualism in Scotland?' (Joanna Kopaczyk, Glasgow) [short bio]
- '21st century Scots: what is it, and where is it going?' (Jennifer Smith, Glasgow) [short bio]
SESSION VIII: TRANSLATION
Chair: Derrick McClure (Aberdeen)
15:00 - 15:20 Ruggero Bianchin (Glasgow)
"William Dunbar's Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo in
Italian and French translations" [abstract]
15:20 - 15:40 Karin Bosshard (Edinburgh) [short bio]
"'A stroll down the hoil for a fry of mogs and skeds': The Stornoway
voices of Ian Stephen's A Book of Death and Fish in German translation" [abstract]
15:40 - 15:55 Discussion
17:00 GET-TOGETHER ON WONDER
Saturday, 30 October
09:30 - 10:00 Pre-conference meetup & technical checks
PLENARY TALK III
Chair: Joanna Kopaczyk (Glasgow)
10:00 - 11:00 Robert Dunbar (Edinburgh)
"Nova Scotian Gaelic varieties: More than fossils" [abstract]
11:05 - 12:00 BUSINESS MEETING [agenda]
12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH BREAK
SESSION IX: PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
Chair: Ole Schützler (Leipzig)
13:00 - 13:20 Andreas Weilinghoff (Dortmund) [short bio]
"Politics and phonetics: Assessing the influence of party membership
on pronunciation among Scottish politicians" [abstract]
13:20 - 13:40 David Wheatley & Pavel Iosad [short bio] (Edinburgh)
"Acoustic correlates of the fortis/lenis distinction in early 20th century
Donegal Irish" [abstract]
13:40 - 13:55 Discussion
SESSION X: DIGITAL APPROACHES
Chair: Pavel Iosad (Edinburgh)
14:00 - 14:20 Kevin Buckley (Newcastle) [short bio]
"Uncovering linguistic lineage through using a character n-gram based
dialect classifier" [abstract]
14:20 - 14:40 John Kirk [short bio], Hans Christian Breuer, Ludwig Breuer,
Christian Hessle & Markus Pluschkovits [short bio] (Vienna & Pöttmes)
"The Digital Lexical Atlas of Scotland: An Introduction and some First Results" [abstract]
14:40 - 15:00 Christine Elsweiler (Munich) [short bio]
"Towards a speech act annotation scheme for 18th-century Scottish letters" [abstract]
15:00 - 15:15 Discussion
15:15 - 15:30 CONFERENCE CLOSING
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