29.1834, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Writing Systems/Germany

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Subject: 29.1834, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Writing Systems/Germany

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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:04:17
From: Paul Rössler [paul.roessler at ur.de]
Subject: Punctuation Seen internationally: System - Norm - Practices

 
Full Title: Punctuation Seen internationally: System - Norm - Practices 

Date: 03-May-2019 - 04-May-2019
Location: Regensburg/Germany, Germany 
Contact Person: Peter Besl
Meeting Email: punctuation at ur.de
Web Site: http://www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-literatur-kultur/germanistik-sw-1/tagungen/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Syntax; Writing Systems 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2018 

Meeting Description:

Punctuation  is  a  formally  and  functionally  differentiated subsystem  of 
written  language. However, its  significance  is  controversial. Linguists 
of  the  language  system  and  of  language typology  consider  it  to  be 
of little or no  importance  for  the  language  system of  a  single language
as well as for other languages in comparison, and as ‘too insignificant’ to
deal with, and thus leave it to the ‘carping critics’. Even in  the  spelling
discourse,  punctuation  is  often reduced  to  its  certified  rules  without
 recognizing  the  linguistic  potential  of  the  syntactic, semantic, and
prosodic principles on which punctuation is based. Not to mention the everyday
writing practice in which punctuation is taken into account, but
still,depending on language, government, domain (school, public authority,
private sphere, etc.), and medium (e.g. social media), punctuation is still
used differently and individually. Even those who must teach and evaluate
punctuation as an orthographic substandard differ considerably with regard to
their assessment of how relevant punctuation actually is.

Thus, it is no surprise that punctuation has hardly been considered a part of
the research focus in the fields of language typology, contrastive
linguistics,   sociolinguistics and pragmalinguistics as well as studies
concerning attitudes and standards in language. Instead, punctuation research
is primarily conducted  in the domains of written language acquisition,
didactics of writing, and language code research. 
Especially in Germany, however, the study of the history of punctuation has
received new impetus in recent years. There are approaches to comparative
punctuation research in individual works, but contrastive punctuation research
including typology (language system), sociolinguistics (language norms) and
pragmatic aspects (language practice) remains highly desirable.

The aim of the conference is to focus on system, norm, and practice of
punctuation, and to discuss punctuation in connection with these three aspects
contrastively or comparatively, codicologically, and with regard to education
in international comparison.

The meeting addresses all scientists and researchers who deal with punctuation
from a typological, codicological, or norm-related perspective or with
didactics and implementation of the writing practice as well as those ones who
are interested in this topic area.


Call for Papers:

Conference from 3 to 4 May 2019, University of Regensburg/Germany

Punctuation Seen Internationally. System – Norm – Practice

Addressees:

The meeting appeals to all researchers who deal with or are interested in
punctuation from a typological, codicological, or norm-related perspective or
deal with the didactics and implementation of the practice of writing.

Contributions about all languages with a writing system and punctuation are
welcome.

Conference languages: English, German

If you are interested in participating and in giving a presentation, please
send a concrete topic (title plus abstract of max. 2500 characters) until 30th
June 2018 to the following address: punctuation at ur.de

Prof. Dr. Paul Rössler
University of Regensburg
German Department
Chair of German Linguistics
D-93040 Regensburg
E-mail: paul.roessler at ur.de




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