Landslide V: Norm Negotiations

16-20 September 2008, Bergen, Norway

Solstrand Hotel

Abstracts

Pictures

Report on hf.uib.no

Program

Wednesday 17 September

9:00-9:20 Welcome
09:20-10:00 Henning Andersen (UCLA): Living Norms
10:00-10:30 Heinrich Kirschbaum (Passau): «Оползень Опояза»: Образ оползня нормы в научно-критическом творчестве формалистов

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-11:30 Peter Alberg Jensen (Stockholm): Мертвенность нормы: О философской эстетике Пастернака
11:30-12:00 Susanna Witt (Stockholm): Pasternak’s iskazhenie and the Practice of Creative Evolution
12:00-12:30 Karin Grelz (Lund): When Non-Negotiation is the Norm: Aestheticist Stances in the 1920s and 1990s (Tsvetaeva and Sorokin)

13:00 Lunch

14:30-15:00 Dirk Uffelmann (Passau): The Compliance with and Imposition of Social and Linguistic Norms from Vladimir Sorokin’s Norma to his Day of an Oprichnik
15:00-15:30 Tine Roesen (Copenhagen/Bergen): The Old Man’s New Language: Semantic Shifts and Linguistic Counteractions in Aleksei Slapovsky’s Oni (2005)

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-16:30 Daniel Weiss (Zürich): Лингвистическая судебная экспертиза в современной России и нормативная интерпретация закона

17:30–19:00 Drum circle (with Lars Kolstad)

19:30 Dinner

Thursday 18 September
9:30-10:00 Boris Norman (Minsk/Helsinki): Окказиональная метонимия, основанная на формальном сходстве слов (chair Martin)
10:00-10:30 Ljudmila Zubova (St Petersburg): Чтобы не говорить лексикой (динамика эвфемизмов)
10:30-11:00 Elena Markasova (St Petersburg): «Я не употребляю древние вводные слова…» (судьба вводных конструкций в русском языке последнего десятилетия)

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:00 Martin Paulsen (Bergen): Explicit Norm Negotiations in Post-Soviet Russian Language Debates
12:00-12:30 Ingunn Lunde (Bergen): Performative Metalanguage: Negotiating Norms Through Verbal Action

13:00 Lunch

14:30-15:00 Daniela Hristova (Chicago): Русский язык на грани нервного срыва — Krongauz's Verdict and its Reactions
15:00-15:30 Michael S: Gorham (Florida): “Let’s Speak Russian!” Monitoring and Norm Negotiation in the Electronic Media

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-16:30 Vera Zvereva (Moscow): «Езык падонкафф»: Дискуссии пользователей Рунета
16:30-17:00 Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (Edinburgh): How Upright is the Vertical? A View from the Margins on Ideological Norm Negotiation
17:00-17:30: Epilogue

19:30 Dinner

Friday 19 September
Excursion to Rosendal
Boat from Solstrand at 10:05, arrival at Rosendal 10:55, guided tour in the Manor (1655); lunch 12:30, boat back to Bergen 14:20, arrival in Bergen (city centre) 16:15. Last night in Park Pension.

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First Call for Papers

It is a pleasure to invite the Landslide group to the fifth and final project conference, which will take place in Bergen 16-20 September 2008, in Solstrand, where we gathered for the first time three years ago. The conference proper will take place 17-18 September, with Tuesday, 16 September and Saturday 20 September as days of arrival/departure. For Friday 19 September we plan a boat excursion to the Rosendal Baronial Manor from 1665. As usual, the project covers travel expenses, accommodation 16-20 September (last night in Bergen City, not Solstrand), and the meals.

The main theme of the conference is Norm negotiations. We here think about explicit norm negotiations as in discussions and debates about language, but also, and not least, about linguistic (and literary) practices which 'perform' norm negotiations in a variety of ways (cf Henning Andersen's concept of linguistic 'norm negotiations' meaning the constant participation by the speakers of a language in its development*). The main chronological framework is post-Perestroika Russia, but papers addressing the 1920-30s/the Soviet period are also welcome.
*) Henning Andersen, 1989, “Understanding Linguistic Innovations,” in Language Change: Contributions to the Study of its Causes, eds. Leiv Egil Breivik & Ernst Haakon Jahr, Berlin, p. 25.

A few keywords
concepts of the 'norm' (linguistic, literary, philosophical, political, ideological)
the formation of the (linguistic) norm
the landslide(s) of the norm, norm-breaking
language planning and language policy
language debates
linguistic performance/practices and the norm
norm negotiations in literature, popular culture, politics, new media etc
norm negotiations and linguistic reflexivity
linguistic humour/language play

Main deadlines
15 March 2008: conference registration with a tentative topic (send to ingunn.lunde@if.uib.no)
15 May 2008: paper title and abstract (300-500 words, send to ingunn.lunde@if.uib.no)

In view of the planned publication of conference papers (in the form of revised and expanded articles), I wish to take a slightly more active part in the development of your chosen topics this time, and I therefore hope that you will allow me to respond to your proposals (both topic and abstract) with a few comments and suggestions.

Ingunn Lunde