23.854, Calls: Writing Systems/ Writing Systems Research (Jrnl)

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Subject: 23.854, Calls: Writing Systems/ Writing Systems Research (Jrnl)

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Date: 20-Feb-2012
From: Vivian Cook [Vivian.Cook at ncl.ac.uk]
Subject: Writing Systems Research


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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:07:48
From: Vivian Cook [Vivian.Cook at ncl.ac.uk]
Subject: Writing Systems Research

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Full Title: Writing Systems Research 


Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2012 

Invitation to Contribute to a Special Issue of Writing Systems Research on 
Writing Systems at Play

Writing Systems Research (now published by Taylor and Francis) are still 
inviting contributions to a special issue on Writing Systems at Play. The 
special issue will deal with a range of aspects of the writing system at play. 
The following are suggested topics, with some web-links to examples; other 
ideas within this topic will be welcome.

- Eye dialect attempts to convey the flavour of dialect speech rather than the 
actual pronunciation, e.g. English < wot >. To what extent is this tradition still 
alive in different languages? Does it discriminate against non-standard 
speakers? 
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/SpellingNovel/EyeDialect.htm

- Typographical layout. The writing system can be used to convey meaning in 
unorthodox ways in concrete poetry, for example Herbert's Easter Wings in 
the shape of angels' wings, or the Arabic calligraphic versions of the 
Bismillah, say as a bird. http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/wings.htm

- Advertisement (commercial function). Some advertisements trade on the 
form of letters, for example the < K > of 'Kellogg's' or the < M > of 
'McDonalds', an exploitation of Frith's logographic principle. How does this 
vary cross-culturally? 

- Conventional spelling neologisms. Some writing systems have conventional 
alternative spellings for particular genres and identities, e.g. the traditional < k 
> for < c > spelling in < Krusty the Clown > and < Kwikfit >. Are these cross-
linguistic conventions? Have they changed at all say for Twitter? 
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/SpellingNovel/NovelK.htm

- Human letter forms. From the Devil's Alphabet in which letters take the form 
of devils to police advertisement where < KNIVES > is shaped from knives to 
barbers' signs incorporating scissors, it is a tradition to make letter shapes 
out of other objects. 
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/SpellingNovel/ShapesAsLetters.htm

- Calligraphy. In some places calligraphy is art, in others it is religion. The 
decorative aspects of writing symbols are a vital part of many cultures.

- Text in art. A subgenre in contemporary art uses a motif of text, for example 
Jenny Holzer's Redaction Paintings LED installation using declassified texts 
from the Iraq War. What are the characteristics of such texts, for example the 
overwhelming use of capital letters? Is it language, meta-language, or what?

- 'Lishes' is one name for the use of one script to depict another, such as 
Greeklish, Arablish, Chinglish (but not the meaning of ungrammatical display 
English also known by these names). This emerging transferred uses of 
scripts for the internet and for public notices across many countries needs 
documenting.

- Ambigrams - the stylized depiction of letters or word illusions, e.g., a given 
word when rotated reveals another word, etc.
http://www.johnlangdon.net/ambigrams/.

Those who would like to contribute to these special issues on these lines are 
invited to contact Vivian Cook, joint editor of WSR, Vivian.Cook at ncl.ac.uk





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