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<\/a><\/p>\nAlmost all of our researchers from the Philological Track made it to ICEHL. Matti Peikola, Mari-Liisa Varila, Hanna Salmi (currently at the University of Stockholm), Aino Liira, and Sirkku Ruokkeinen gave papers in the workshop \u201cParatextual Communication in a Historical Linguistic Perspective\u201d, organised by Matti Peikola and Birte B\u00f6s (University of Duisburg-Essen). Matti Peikola and Peter Grund (University of Kansas) presented a paper on orthographical variation together with Johanna Rastas. Aleksi M\u00e4kil\u00e4hde gave a paper on the metatheory of pragmaphilology. Susanna M\u00e4kinen gave a paper on references to fugitives in runaway slave notices. I gave a paper on the different translations of The Mirror of Alchemy. We were a busy lot!<\/p>\n
This was my first ICEHL, but I hope it won\u2019t be the last. The conference was packed astonishingly full of great papers and interesting discussions; the programme can be found here<\/a>. I have never been to a conference with so many excellent papers on fascinating topics that were relevant for my own research. I was especially excited by papers on topics such as medieval Latin-English code-switching, spelling variation and standardisation in the early modern period, and multilingualism in late modern medical discourse. <\/p>\n Despite the busy academic programme, there was also time for social events. The conference ceilidh on Tuesday 28 August was especially memorable: it was wonderful to dance and to watch a crowd of other scholars skipping merrily along to the live traditional music. Lots of us also found time to climb up to Arthur\u2019s Seat, the majestic hill right next to the conference location. <\/p>\n ICEHL also involved a final day of activities on Friday 31st August. Most of us Turku philologists \u2013 unsurprisingly \u2013 chose to go to Lindisfarne, the monastic Holy Island where the Anglo-Saxon Lindisfarne Gospels were produced. The weather was astoundingly warm and sunny; we had a glorious day trip filled with island beauty, the island\u2019s old history, and clean sea wind. It was a fitting and excellent ending to a week\u2019s worth of English historical linguistics. <\/p>\n Text by Sara Norja The International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL) was organised for the 20th time in Edinburgh on 27\u201330 August. The conference gathers together English scholars from around the world, studying English from Old to Late Modern. Almost all of our … Continue reading
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