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SUMMARY:Tran Truong, Penn State, Linguistics
DESCRIPTION:Morpholexical Variation in Conservative Quaker English\n\nTh
e Religious Society of Friends\, also known as Quakers\, form a historic
ally Protestant (but in the contemporary context theologically diverse)
set of denominations. Friends practice a non-doctrinal\, non-creedal for
m of worship centered around important principles called testimonies. Of
these\, the testimony of simplicity is most relevant to the concerns of
linguistic inquiry\, as it is the core of the Quaker value of plain spe
ech\, which is associated with a number of lexical (e.g.\, First Day ins
tead of Sunday) and morphological differences (e.g.\, the use of nominat
ive thee) from Mainstream U.S. English (MUSE). Linguistic research on Fr
iends is extremely limited\, and what little exists focuses almost exclu
sively on Liberal Friends. This talk introduces the Friends as a collect
ion of communities of practice (Wenger 1991\, Eckert 2006\, inter alia)
before discussing salient morpholexical characteristics of contemporary
Conservative Quaker English as used in Ohio. (Note that Liberal and Cons
ervative have special meanings to Friends that are unrelated to the conv
entional political meanings in MUSE.)\n\nFor more details: https://event
s.la.psu.edu/event/dr-tran-truong-penn-state-linguistics/
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Variation in Conservative Quaker English
The Religious Society of
Friends, also known as Quakers, form a historically Protestant (but in
the contemporary context theologically diverse) set of denominations. Fr
iends practice a non-doctrinal, non-creedal form of worship centered aro
und important principles called testimonies. Of these, the testimony of
simplicity is most relevant to the concerns of linguistic inquiry, as it
is the core of the Quaker value of plain speech, which is associated wi
th a number of lexical (e.g., First Day instead of Sunday) and morpholog
ical differences (e.g., the use of nominative thee) from Mainstream U.S.
English (MUSE). Linguistic research on Friends is extremely limited, an
d what little exists focuses almost exclusively on Liberal Friends. This
talk introduces the Friends as a collection of communities of practice
(Wenger 1991, Eckert 2006, inter alia) before discussing salient morphol
exical characteristics of contemporary Conservative Quaker English as us
ed in Ohio. (Note that Liberal and Conservative have special meanings to
Friends that are unrelated to the conventional political meanings in MU
SE.)
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr
-tran-truong-penn-state-linguistics/
LOCATION:102 Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
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