26.2300, FYI: Call for Articles: The Crossroads of Brachylogy

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Subject: 26.2300, FYI: Call for Articles: The Crossroads of Brachylogy

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Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 20:28:01
From: Khadija Belfarhi [khadija_belfarhi at yahoo.com]
Subject: Call for Articles: The Crossroads of Brachylogy

 The research group Brachylogia-Algeria is pleased to announce the call for publication of a collected book entitled “The Crossroads of Brachylogy” which will include papers presented in the international conference held on February
07, 2015 in Annaba, Algeria. The call invites further contributions addressing a cross-disciplinary discussion on a variety of aspects of brachylogy related to linguistics, literature, philosophy, etymology, biology, computer sciences,
critical discourse analysis and music.

Rationale: 

“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life” is the brachylogical order that defines knowledge and action - the logos and praxis - of the human being set to the laws of concision, brevity, or in short “Brachylogy”. Since its appearance in ancient times, before Socrates, Socrates and after Socrates - Plato and Aristotle as thinkers of micrology and macrologie - the Brachylogy took a long route, serving the greatest variety of domains: rhetoric, literature, science, arts, political communication, religious practices ... and the list is not exhaustive, as the exact sciences are no exception. As a result, brachylogy -in its existence and extension- prevails in the most diverse fields of human activities. Beyond its formal or instrumental contribution, it constitutes a true form-meaning serving for a
whole coherent discourse for which it is set.

The brachylogy poses the question of the "long" and the "short-brief." It seems similar to ellipses but in a lot of uses it differs from. It marks too aphorisms and epigrammes. In other words, brachylogy achieves the lexical concision and opposes speechless discourse. In verbal interactions, concision is predominant and indispensible for communication and cooperation. Similarly, in technical discourse, it is a primary condition that the content of words is reduced in form and intensified in meaning to serve the requirements of the scientific information.  

The correspondence between the form and function of the brachylogical occurrences, or manifestations, is not all the time regular as there are forms of expression which exhibit another order. Proverbs, for instance, emerge from
the minimal quantity of words but allow for repetition which opposes directly the brachylogical condition.

We invite proposals dealing with one or more of the following topics:

-What motivates brachylogy?

-Does it reveal reflection on forms that are themselves brief or does it serve the brevity of the domain it occurs in?

-Do the same brachylogical forms perform the same functions throughout different occurrences?

-Is the brachylogical order a question of occurrence or degree?

Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book “The Crossroads of Brachylogy”. Interested should send a 300-word abstract and 200-word biography to khadija_belfarhi at yahoo.com by June 15, 2015. Proposers will be notified
about whether their submissions are accepted for the book.

Deadlines:

- submission of 300-word abstract by 15 June 2015

- notification of acceptance of proposals by 01 July 2015

- submission of completed papers by 30 August 2015

- submission of revised papers by 31 September 2015

- publication date: December 2015

 http://www.brachylogia.com/

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Philosophy of Language

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