27.4237, Calls: Historical Ling, Socioling, Writing Systems/Finland

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Subject: 27.4237, Calls: Historical Ling, Socioling, Writing Systems/Finland

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:32:49
From: Sonja Dahlgren [sonja.dahlgren at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between Scribal Work and Language Use

 
Full Title: Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between Scribal Work and Language Use 

Date: 06-Apr-2017 - 08-Apr-2017
Location: Athens, Finland 
Contact Person: Sonja Dahlgren
Meeting Email: actofscribe-athens2017 at helsinki.fi
Web Site: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/actofscribe/tag/workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Writing Systems 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between scribal work and language use A Workshop

Date: April 6–8, 2017 (+ excursion on Sunday, April 9, to be informed later)

Venue: The Finnish Institute at Athens (Zitrou 16, GR-117 42 Athens)

The project Act of the Scribe (Academy of Finland) organises a workshop for
scholars discussing various aspects of scribal work and how these relate to
language use and language change in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Currently, we see
a growing interest on scribal practices and their role in language change, and
an on-going tradition of (socio)linguistic studies has been established in the
field of Classical languages. However, some fields of study are still
under-represented and hinder the ability to form a comprehensive general
picture of the linguistic situation at hand; for example, studying the
multilingual situation in especially Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Byzantine
times continues to be challenging due to a gap between the disciplines of
Greek and Latin on the one hand, and Demotic and Coptic research on the other.
One of the aims of this workshop is to promote dialogue between the various
written languages in Antiquity to be able to enhance the picture of ancient
scribal practices. The general focus of the workshop lies in studying the
interface between scribal work, including its technical properties, and
language use.

Confirmed speakers with provisional titles include:

Confirmed speakers with provisional titles include

- Rodney Ast (Heidelberg): Professional Literacy in Late Antiquity
- Klaas Bentein (Ghent): Documentary papyri as ''multimodal'' texts: Some
observations on the interrelationship between language choice, linguistic
register and handwriting in the Nepheros archive (III - IV AD)
- Jenny Cromwell (Copenhagen): Terminological and palaeographic innovations
among scribes in the administration of early Islamic Egypt
- Timo Korkiakangas (Oslo): Spelling variation and scribes' command of
documentary Latin: a computational approach
- Tonio Sebastian Richter: TBA
- Maria Chiara Scappaticcio (Naples): A Babrius’ Latin translation (P.Amh.
26): authors, scribes, and ‘mistakes of mistakes’
- Joanne Stolk (Oslo/Ghent): Scribal corrections in Greek papyri from Egypt
- Nicholas Zair (Cambridge): Old-fashioned spelling and sub-elite education in
the Roman Empire

Organizing committee :

- Martti Leiwo
- Sonja Dahlgren
- Hilla Halla-aho
- Marja Vierros

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/actofscribe/
University of Helsinki


2nd Call for Papers:

Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between scribal work and language use
A Workshop

Date: April 6–8, 2017 (+ excursion on Sunday, April 9, to be informed later)
Venue: The Finnish Institute at Athens (Zitrou 16, GR-117 42 Athens)

We invite interested scholars to submit abstracts (max. 500 words) by October
31, 2016 at the latest (actofscribe-athens2017 at helsinki.fi). Presentations are
expected to last 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion and the
preferred language is English. Topics that are of interest to the workshop
include, but are not limited to:

- Scribal education in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
- Writing and copying methods affecting linguistic output
- Written standards, substandard and register 
- Cross-cultural effect on second language use: transfer of linguistic
elements, scribal practices and orthographic conventions 
- The role of the scribe in language change and development
- The varying treatment of loanwords in contact situations




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