Conference on Language Variety in the South, Auburn University, April 1-3, 1993

奥本大学计划在南方举办一次语言多样性会议，这是1981年在南卡罗莱纳大学举行的一次会议的后续。奥本会议将于1993年4月1日至3日与东南语言学春季会议同时举行。它将为来自这个国家和其他国家的不同学科的学者提供一个论坛，否则他们将无法方便地见面。会议的目标之一是鼓励跨学科合作，促进正在进行的研究项目的初级和高级学者之间的讨论，让最近的博士和高级研究生接触到南美洲英语的最新研究，并促进研究人员和当地社区成员之间的交流。社会语言学家、方言地理学家、词典编纂者、历史学家、文学学者和教育工作者将分享他们对美国南部语言多样性的研究。每天都有不同的主题：周四的主题是材料和方法；星期五：语言接触、冲突和争议；周六的主题是话语和方言多样性。主题演讲、小组讨论和论文会议的结构是为了通过展示新数据来推进知识，鼓励对方法问题的探索，并为有争议的主题提供辩论的机会。这次会议的影响将远远超出该地区。通过卫星传输、录象和大量会议记录，将使比出席会议的人更广泛的听众能够了解会议活动。

ABSTRACT Auburn University plans to host a conference on Language Variety in the south, a follow-up to one held in 1981 at the University of South Carolina. The Auburn conference will meet April 1-3, 1993, in conjunction with Spring SECOL (Southeastern Conference on Linguistics). It will provide a forum for scholars in a variety of disciplines, from widely separated parts of this country and from other countries, who would otherwise not be able to meet conveniently. Among the goals of the conference are too encourage collaboration across disciplines, to promote discussion among junior and senior scholars of ongoing research projects, to expose recent Ph.D.'s and advanced graduate students to recent research in Southern American English, and to foster an exchange between researchers and local community members. Sociolinguists, dialect geographers, lexicographers, historians, literary scholars, and educators will share their research on language variety in the Southern United States. Each day will focus on a different theme: Thursday on Materials and Methods; Friday on Language Contact, Conflict, and Controversy; and Saturday on Discourse and Dialect Diversity. Keynote addresses, panels, and paper sessions have been structured so as to advance knowledge through presentation of new data, to encourage exploration of methodological issues, and to provide opportunities for debate over controversial themes. The impact of the conference will extend well beyond the region. Through satellite transmission, videotaping, and a volume of proceedings, conference activities will be made accessible to an audience much wider than that in attendance.