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Conference

Sociolinguistics Circle 2025

Date
Friday 4 April 2025
Address
Kamerlingh Onnes Building
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden
Room
A0.51 & B0.25

The Sociolinguistics Circle consists of a group of sociolinguists representing most—if not all—universities in the Netherlands and Flanders. Its main objective is to organise an annual one-day conference that aims to bring together students and researchers who study language variation, sociolinguistics, and the social dynamics of language with a connection to the Low Countries. Particular emphasis is placed on participation by students and other young researchers: the conference is open to researchers of all levels.

The eleventh edition of the Sociolinguistics Circle is organised by linguists from the Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies Research Group at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. The conference will take place as an all-day event on Friday 4 April 2025.

The plenary speakers for 2025 will be:

Registration

Registration is EUR 25,- and includes coffee breaks and lunch. BA and MA students can participate for free, but do need to register.

For registration, follow this link.

Deadline for registration is 31 March. Note that on-site registration is not possible.

Programme

The full programme is available here. As this is a paperless conference, you may like to download this programme so you can access it throughout the conference.

9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:25 - 9:30 Opening
9:30 - 10:15 Plenary 1
Janet Connor: "How to listen, and to whom? Enacting different ways of being a social entrepreneur"
  Room 1 Room 2
Parallel sessions Children's perspectives (Chair: Hannah De Mulder) Second language sociolinguistics & pluri-/multi-lingualism
(Chair: Marina Terkourafi)
10:15 - 10:45 Laura Rosseel & Eline Zenner
Children’s evaluation of socially meaningful language variation:
a two-dimensional perspective		 Annebeth Simonsz & Dick Smakman
Second Language Sociolinguistics. Culture representations
in Dutch and Georgian L2 teaching classrooms
10:45 - 11:15 Melissa Schuring, Steven Verheyen, Laura Rosseel & Eline Zenner
Je hoort het, je ziet het, je weet het: hoe kinderen over het verschil tussen Engelse leenwoorden en het Nederlands reflecteren		 Elise Alberts
Is God multilingual? Language Ideologies and Attitudes in a
Multilingual Church Network in the Netherlands
11:15 - 11:45 Hadis Tamleh
Exploring Family Language Policy Through Children’s Eyes: Language Portraits of Iranian Immigrant Children in the Netherlands		 Frauke Vervaeke & Anne-Sophie Ghyselen
Hoe pluricentrisch is het Nederlands echt? Inzichten uit
een online perceptie-onderzoek in Aruba, België, Nederland en Suriname
11:45 - 12:15 Anne-France Pinget & Thomas St. Pierre
The development of language attitudes towards Dutch accents in primary school children		 Veronique De Tier, Katrien Depuydt & Mathieu Fannee
Een infrastructuur voor dialectliefhebbers: het Bildtse dialect als pilot
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch & Poster session
13:00 - 13:45 Plenary 2
Julie Van Ongeval & Rik Vosters: "Unraveling myths in Dutch language history. A case study on language variation and change in Early Modern Antwerp (1564-1653)"
13:45 - 14:00 Coffee/tea break
Parallel sessions (Non-)gendered language (Chair: Eduardo Alves Vieira) Styles, registers and identity (Chair: Mo Gordon)
14:00 - 14:30 Morana Lukac
Can I Convince You to Use Non-Binary Pronouns? Yes, if You’re Familiar with Them.		 Eva van Kampen & Remco Knooihuizen
Reading, Writing, Speaking: Variation in Bokmål in central
eastern Norway
14:30 - 15:00 Hanne Verhaegen
A thematic analysis of attitudes towards gender-neutral pronouns in Dutch		 Emma Lambrecht
From Spoken Word to Wriken Text: Tracing Speech Patterns in 19th-Century West Flemish Pauper Letters and Witness Depositions
15:00 - 15:30 Alexander Martin & Hans Wilke
Zijn er ook vrouwen binnen een groep “studenten”? Bias bij interpretatie van algemene mannelijke rolnaamwoorden		 Sophia Agathocleous
Style shift between standard and non-standard variants: indexing or indexed by identity?
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break
Parallel sessions Sociophonetics (Chair: Dick Smakman) Community formation (Chair: Gijsbert Rutten)
16:00 - 16:30 Guus Houben & Katharina Pabst
Word-final nasal deletion in African American English		 Arie Elsenaar
Smoezen: gebruik en acceptatie
16:30 - 17:00 Seonok Lee, Suzanne V. Dekker & Dylan J.C. Rose
Accent Hierarchies and Raciolinguistic Bias: Exploring Student Attitudes Towards Non-Standard English Accents in a Dutch University		 Meike de Boer, Willemijn Heeren, Arjan Blokland
Online communities van zelfverklaarde “child lovers” op het darknet
17:00 - 17:30 Cesko Voeten
Variation and change in Frisian vowel breaking		 Guste Staseviciute & Leonie Cornips
Experiencing Closeness: Human-Animal Relationships Through Embodied Interaction
17:30 - 18:15 Plenary 3
Hielke Vriesendorp: "In defence of generalising (cautiously): LGBTQ+ language through aquantitative lens"
18:15 - 18:30 Closing & Announcement poster award & next year's conference

Contact

Affiliated universities and research institutions

  • Universiteit Antwerpen
  • Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • Universiteit Gent
  • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
  • Universiteit Leiden
  • KU Leuven
  • Universität Münster
  • Universiteit Namen
  • Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
  • Universiteit Tilburg
  • Universiteit Utrecht
  • Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden
  • Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal
  • Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam
  • NL-Lab, Humanities Cluster (KNAW)

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