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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=pgilmore@u.arizona.edu href="mailto:pgilmore@u.arizona.edu">Perry
Gilmore</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=ofelia@email.arizona.edu
href="mailto:ofelia@email.arizona.edu">Ofelia Zepeda</A> ; <A
title=sdp@email.arizona.edu href="mailto:sdp@email.arizona.edu">Sue Penfield</A>
; <A title=Leisy@aol.com href="mailto:Leisy@aol.com">Leisy@aol.com</A> ; <A
title=ftbrl@uaf.edu href="mailto:ftbrl@uaf.edu">Beth Leonard</A> ; <A
title=Teresa.McCarty@asu.edu href="mailto:Teresa.McCarty@asu.edu">Teresa
McCarty</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:07 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Fwd: session on writing systems</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>FYI...Perry<BR><BR>Begin forwarded message:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><B><?color><?param 0000,0000,0000>From: <?/color></B>Leanne Hinton
<<A
href="mailto:hinton@calmail.berkeley.edu">hinton@calmail.berkeley.edu</A>><BR><B><?color><?param 0000,0000,0000>Date:
<?/color></B>March 9, 2005 7:16:31 PM MST<BR><B><?color><?param 0000,0000,0000>To: <?/color></B><A
href="mailto:sla_membership@lists.berkeley.edu">sla_membership@lists.berkeley.edu</A>,
<A
href="mailto:linganth@ats.rochester.edu">linganth@ats.rochester.edu</A><BR><B><?color><?param 0000,0000,0000>Cc:
<?/color></B><A href="mailto:munro@ucla.edu">munro@ucla.edu</A>, <A
href="mailto:stantonw@gse.upenn.edu">stantonw@gse.upenn.edu</A><BR><B><?color><?param 0000,0000,0000>Subject:
<?/color>session on writing systems<BR></B><BR>Hello everyone,<BR><BR>Last
year we had a session on "New Writing Systems" at the AAA. Because of the
change of venue, only three of us gave papers in that session. Some of the
people who couldn't come would still like to give their papers this year, but
since that would not make a full session, I'd like to invite other people to
submit papers on this topic as well. We need to submit this session by
April 1, . Since I am organizing another session this year and giving a
paper in it, I can't participate (other than be an avid audience member), but
if someone else will volunteer to chair it and be the official organizer, I'd
be happy to put it together with that person.<BR><BR>Here is last year's
session abstract:<BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Charcoal><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger>New
Writing Systems<?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Charcoal><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger>Indigenous
peoples and minority groups are developing new writing systems for their
languages, sometimes with linguists, and sometimes on their own. While
it might be thought that decisions around the development of a new writing
system are primarily about the sounds of the language, in fact such decisions
are fraught with great social and political issues. Feeding into the
orthographic design are concerns of ethnic identity and alliances, and bias
toward or away from writing systems in the dominant language due to political
concerns. The specific goals for use of the writing system will also be a
factor, such as whether it is for recording of a healthy living language, or
for the teaching of an endangered language, and whether there is a large pool
of scholarly writing on the language that the community must consult for the
sake of language revitalization. Linguists and language learners may
want a system that clearly specifies pronunciation, but speakers don't need
every sound specified and may prefer a simpler system, or one that has symbols
and spelling rules like a system they are already familiar with. New writing
systems may be for indigenous peoples who have traditionally entirely oral
means of expression, or may be developed by or for minority groups to replace
older writing systems, as an expression of a new kind of ethnic identity or a
new relationship to the dominant society. Whose agenda is met by a
particular orthographic design, what needs and uses the new writing system
fulfils, and how it reverberates in the community it is designed for, is the
topic of this
session.<?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/fontfamily><BR><BR><TT>--
<BR></TT><BR><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><BR> Prof.
Leanne Hinton<BR> Chair, Dept. of Linguistics<BR> 1203 Dwinelle
Hall<BR> University of California<BR> Berkeley, CA
94720-2650<BR><BR> email: hinton@calmail.berkeley.edu<BR> fax: (510)
643-5688<BR> phone: (510)
643-7621<BR><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>