27.3166, Calls: Gen Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Subject: 27.3166, Calls: Gen Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 11:22:47
From: Aimée Lahaussois [aimee.lahaussois at linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr]
Subject: Workshop on Comparative Glossing Practices

Full Title: Workshop on Comparative Glossing Practices 

Date: 28-Aug-2017 - 01-Sep-2017
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Aimée Lahaussois
Meeting Email: aimee.lahaussois at linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr
Web Site: http://ichols14.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/16 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

A workshop on Comparative Glossing Practices will be held at the 14th
International Conference for the History of the Linguistic Sciences (ICHOLS). 
We welcome proposals for participation in the workshop.

Glossing is a long-standing practice of text annotation found across
distinctly different cultures and historical periods from Antiquity to the
present.  The practice covers a number of very different realities and needs;
it results in, for example, the glosses produced by medieval grammarians, but
also the contemporary annotation of field transcriptions for the documentation
of oral languages.

In the interest of a cross-cultural comparison of glossing practices, ICHOLS
will be the venue for a workshop on glossing.  We welcome proposals relating
to glossing in any culture and time frame.  The following three areas of
investigation, relating to levels of analysis (namely text, system, and
cultural environment), highlight some possible topics:

1. Glosses at the textual level: glossing practices for lexicography and
morphosyntax

2. Glosses at the systemic level: standardization in glossing systems

3. Glosses and their cultural environment: types of knowledge needed to gloss
a text and the question of who holds this knowledge (individual or group)

Call for Papers:

A workshop on Comparative Glossing Practices will be held at the 14th
International Conference for the History of the Linguistic Sciences (ICHOLS),
August 28 - September 1 2017 in Paris.

We welcome proposals for participation in the workshop: abstracts are limited
to 400 words, including bibliography. The deadline is October 1 2016, to be
submitted both on the website: http://ichols14.sciencesconf.org/user/submit 

and to both workshop organizers:

aimee.lahaussois at linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr
cinato.franck at orange.fr

In the interest of a cross-cultural comparison of glossing practices, ICHOLS
will be the venue for a workshop on glossing.  We welcome proposals relating
to glossing in any culture and time frame.  The following three areas of
investigation, relating to levels of analysis (namely text, system, and
cultural environment), highlight some possible topics:

1. Glosses at the textual level: glossing practices for lexicography and
morphosyntax

a) Differences and similarities between the philological and linguistic
analyses applied to medieval texts and contemporary annotation of linguistic
data

b) Physical layout of glosses (marginal, interlinear, extra-textual) and how
this relates to the content; the correspondences between glossed word and
gloss (when other than interlinear) and how these are established; the effect
and process of standardization of the physical appearance and layout of
glosses within a particular linguistic or philological tradition

c) The contribution of glosses to the history of metalinguistic terminology

2. Glosses at the systemic level: standardization in glossing systems

a) What types of rules are codified for glossing or for various aspects of the
practice of glossing?  Are there different stages of standardization which can
be identified (such as those relating to different levels of linguistic
analysis)?

b) The hermeneutics of glosses: considering that the glossing of a text guides
the reader in understanding and interpreting the text, to what extent do
glosses constitute a conscious hermeneutic system?

c) Glosses (of all periods) make use of a number of abbreviations and
metalinguistic codes: what are the bases for these codes, and to what extent
have they been standardized?

3. Glosses and their cultural environment: types of knowledge needed to gloss
a text and the question of who holds this knowledge (individual or group)

a) Sets of glosses were occasionally copied as the medium for transmission of
precious knowledge associated with a specific text.  How did this practice
evolve and who was responsible for its transmission?

b) The language of glossing: glosses offer a unique perspective on code
switching.  What can we learn from cases where a given text and its glosses
use one and the same language versus cases where a text was glossed in another
or several other languages?  Are there consequences for the explication of the
text of the choice (whether voluntary or forced) of the language used for
glossing?

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