| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, October 22, 2015 | 12:00PM - 6:00PM | External Event, Hart House, University of Toronto 7 Hart House Circle Toronto, ON M5S 3H3 |
October 22 – 25, 2015 | New Ways of Analyzing Variation 44: Intersections
Toronto is a large and (mostly) flat city that is criss-crossed by long and (mostly) straight major roadways. The urban grid functions as a sort of coordinate system; locals will tell you that if you've gone north of Steeles, you've left the city. Many neighbourhoods are as readily identified by prominent intersections as by their characteristics: Church and Wellesley, Bathurst and St. Clair, Yonge and Eglinton, Jane and Finch. In other senses, intersections play a role in the study of language variation and change. There are always the questions of how to divide up our data and of which cross-tabulations and interactions are meaningful when it comes to the interpretation. Social identity is also subject to intersectionality; the population can be split into subgroups according to any of the different social factors that we examine and then some. Variationist sociolinguistics itself lies at the crossroads of related subfields in linguistics and statistical modelling; interdisciplinary effort may yield new ideas and techniques. In all of these cases, the intersectional territory holds much to be learned. Co-hosted by the University of Toronto and York University, NWAV 44 will be centered around probing the places where variation meets other subfields of linguistics.
Registration for conference is required. For general inquiries, please email nwav44@chass.utoronto.ca or visit their website.
All events are taking place on or near the University of Toronto's downtown (St. George) campus. Hart House will be the primary venue for NWAV 44, however some sessions will also take place at University College, Sidney Smith and the Medical Sciences Building.
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