Keynote and Plenary Speakers
34th International LAUD Symposium
Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation in its Structural, Conceptual and Cultural Dimensions
March 15 – 18, 2010
Landau/Pfalz ( Germany)
Confirmed Keynote Speaker
William Labov ( University of Pennsylvania )
The community as the focus of social cognition
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/
Confirmed Plenary Speakers
Penelope Eckert ( Stanford University )
Variation and the making of social meaning
http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/
Dirk Geeraerts ( University of Leuven )
Lexical variation as a sociolinguistic variable
http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl/dirkg.htm
Stefan Th. Gries ( University of California, Santa Barbara )
Sources of variability relevant to the (cognitive) sociolinguist,
and quantitative corpus methods to handle them
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/
Peter Harder ( University of Copenhagen )
Variation, structure and norms
http://harder.ansatte.hum.ku.dk/
Gitte Kristiansen ( Universidad Complutense de Madrid )
On the necessity of a Cognitive Sociolinguistics:
Dialectology as a non-modular approach to lectal variation
David Kronenfeld ( University of California, Riverside )
Shared cognitive structures: Flexibility and change.
http://anthropology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/kronenfeld/index.html
Dennis Preston ( Oklahoma State University )
The cognitive foundations of language regard
https://www.msu.edu/~preston/