ACADEMIC PROGRAM
The 5th Prescriptivism Conference will be held in the meeting rooms on the third floor of the historic Park City Library at 1255 Park Ave, Park City, Utah, 84060.
Registration will be open from 8:30 – 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday, June 21 in the hallway on the third floor of the library. If you need pick up conference materials at a different time, please come by the registration table next to Room 301 in the library.
| Time | Wednesday, June 21 |
| 9:15 – 9:30 a.m. | Conference Opening Room 301 |
| 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. | Session 1: Next to Godliness Room 301 |
| Nola Stephens, Grammar next to godliness: A linguist’s look at the intersection of prescriptivism and theology | |
| Kate Burridge, Linguistic cleanliness is next to godliness — but not for conservative Anabaptists | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break |
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Session 2: Prescriptivism and Linguistics Room 301 |
| Anja Wanner, “Prescriptivism is not the enemy” – on incorporating prescriptivism as a topic in linguistics class | |
| Dallin D. Oaks, Prescriptivism and pragmatic evaluation of speaker/writer competence | |
| Marla Perkins, Pragmatic prescriptivism in language description and documentation: Considerations inspired by Hobon | |
| 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Session 3: Empirical Distribution of Variants in Prescriptive Rules 1 Room 301 |
| Viktorija Kostadinova, The value of studying prescriptivism as a factor in language variation and change | |
| Johanna Wood, Changing pronouns and changing social values: Epicene pronoun use in the 19th-21st centuries | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Plenary Community Room Lieselotte Anderwald, The linguistic value of studying prescriptivism |
| 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Session 4: Empirical Distribution of Variants in Prescriptive Rules 2 Community Room |
| Emily Furner, The war over the Internet: Analyzing changes in the AP style guide through the NOW corpus | |
| Jordan Smith, said as a noun modifier in news writing | |
| 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | Reception – Old Town Cellars |
| Thursday, June 22 | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Session 5: Usage Guides Room 301 |
| Giuliana Russo, “Against the unidiomatic”. A study of H.W. Fowler’s A Dictionary of Modern English Usage | |
| Delaney Barney, Finding the values in English usage manuals: The distribution of types of rules in usage manuals | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Session 6: Prescriptivism and Descriptivism Room 301 |
| Don Chapman, What is the value of descriptivism? | |
| Carol Percy, Samuel Richardson (bap. 1689, d. 1761) and the value of the vernacular | |
| 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Session 7: Prescriptivism and Editors Room 301 |
| Linda Pillière, The values of US style and usage guides and their impact on British novels | |
| Jonathon Owen, The role of editors in codifying language | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Plenary Community Room Edward Finegan, TBA |
| 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Session 8: Meta-analysis and Meta-language Community Room |
| Marten van der Meulen, Changing values in 20th century prescriptivism in the Netherlands | |
| Alyssa A. Severin, Online language disputes: What can they teach us about prescriptivists’ values? | |
| 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. | Conference Dinner – Tupelo |
| Friday, June 23 | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Session 9: Language Planning and Education Community Room |
| Loreta Vaicekauskiene, Government-sponsored propaganda of prescriptivism and its effects on classroom language ideologies | |
| Nuria Yanez-Bouza, ‘the mark of a Letters being cut off or left out’: The apostrophe, or lack thereof, in British English | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Plenary Community Room John E. Joseph, Is/Ought: Hume’s Guillotine, linguistics, and standards of language |
| 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:30- 3:30 p.m. | Session 10: Prescriptivism and Identity Community Room |
| Carmen Ebner, “Good guys” vs “bad guys”: Constructing linguistic identities on the basis of usage problems | |
| Kate Burridge and Alyssa A. Severin, What do “little Aussie Sticklers” value most? | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Conference Discussion Community Room |
| 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Closing and Business Meeting Community Room |