The 6th Prescriptivism Conference will be held on 23-25 September 2021 with the theme “Modelling Prescriptivism: Language, Literature, and Speech Communities”.
#Prescriptivism2021 has come to an end. The organising committee wants to thank once more the plenary speakers and all the participants for such a fruitful and inspiring conference!
We hope to see you all in Aix-Marseille in 2024 #Prescriptivism2024!
Third plenary speaker of #Prescriptivism2021:
Prof. Don Chapman (Brigham Young University)
‘Not just a few dozen trouble spots’: Tallying the rules in English usage guides
SESSION: LANGUAGE PROFESSIONALS
Morana Lukač @moranalukac (Greifswald) & Adrian Stenton (Leiden)
"What guides copy‐editors’ decisions? From grammatical to sociolinguistic determinants"
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SESSION: LANGUAGE PROFESSIONALS
Linda Pillière (Aix‐Marsaille)
"Curbing creativity? The influence of copyeditors on contemporary fiction"
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14:30 – 16:00
Session: Language Professionals
with Linda Pillière (Aix‐Marsaille);
Morana Lukač @moranalukac (Greifswald) & Adrian Stenton (Leiden)
and Anja Wanner (Wisconsin‐Madison)
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SESSION: DIGITAL MEDIA
Theresa Heyd @mrs_heyd & Morana Lukač @moranalukac (Greifswald)
"The making of linguistic authority in the postdigital age"
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SESSION: DIGITAL MEDIA
Spiros Moschonas, Costas Mourlas & Thodoris Paraskevas (Athens)
"Prescriptivism and variation: The case of the Greek word for ‘coronavirus’"
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SESSION: DIGITAL MEDIA
Carmen Ebner (Leiden) @CarmenEbner
“Your not my type”: Effects of stigmatized linguistic variation in online dating
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11:30 – 13:00
Session: Digital Media
with Carmen Ebner @CarmenEbner (Leiden);
Spiros Moschonas, Costas Mourlas & Thodoris Paraskevas (Athens)
and Theresa Heyd @mrs_heyd & Morana Lukač @moranalukac (Greifswald)
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SESSION: ORTHOGRAPHY
Marlena Jakobs (Berlin)
"Orthographies in conflict – Low German writing systems as counteractions to dominant nationalist ideas in the 19th century"
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SESSION: ORTHOGRAPHY
Susanna Karlsson (Gothenburg) & Lena Lind Palicki (Stockholm)
"Maintaining symbolic power through language shaming – A case‐study of a spelling reform"
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SESSION: ORTHOGRAPHY
Dimitrios Meletis (Zurich)
"Literacy and self‐prescriptivism: A metapragmatic discourse analysis of attitudes towards orthographic regulation
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