30.4619, Calls: Writing Systems/USA

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Subject: 30.4619, Calls: Writing Systems/USA

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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:27:19
From: David Mora-Marín [davidmm at unc.edu]
Subject: 13th International Workshop on Writing Systems and Literacy

 
Full Title: 13th International Workshop on Writing Systems and Literacy 
Short Title: AWLL13 

Date: 15-Oct-2020 - 17-Oct-2020
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA 
Contact Person: David Mora-Marín
Meeting Email: davidmm at unc.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

On the systematic nature of writing systems
13th International Workshop on Writing Systems and Literacy
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Continuing to bring together researchers from diverse research backgrounds and
from various countries, the Association of Written Language and Literacy's
thirteenth gathering (AWLL13) will be the first to be hosted in the USA at the
University of North Carolina.

Moreover, maintaining the core focus of AWLL workshops on understanding
writing systems, AWLL13's theme seeks to explore a set of fundamental
interrelated questions about the processes of codification and standardization
that writing systems undergo and whether it is ultimately justifiable to
regard natural writing systems as being systematic in nature. Accordingly,
abstract submissions that address some of the following research issues, for
example, will be particularly welcome:

- Do existing typologies of writing systems sufficiently elucidate the
systematic relationships that mediate between linguistic units and graphematic
representations?
- What are the factors that influence, both positively and negatively,
orthographic systemization? Is systemization driven primarily by external
forces, such as script adoption, or by internal motivations, such as
codification and standardization?
- Can attempts at orthography reform by central authority stakeholders be
effective and, if so, with what implications for programs of literacy
acquisition?
- Do the orthographic and grammatical properties of typologically different
writing systems interface systematically with the cognitive factors involved
in the acquisition of spelling and writing?
- Has technology, in its diverse forms, from printing, digitization, to
Unicode and emoji, contributed to systematization or does it foster diversity
in the era of digital communication?

Extending over 3 days, AWLL13's programme of approximately 2.5 days will
include two invited-speaker presentations, a themed symposium on the ''Writing
Systems of the Americas'', AWLL's business meeting, a number of oral
presentations sessions and two poster sessions, and will conclude with a panel
discussion.

Invited Speakers:

Peter T. Daniels (independent researcher, USA)
Min Wang (University of Maryland, USA)

Local organizer:

David Mora-Marín (University of North Carolina, USA)

Program committee:

Lynne Cahill (University of Sussex, UK), Terry Joyce (Tama University, Japan),
David Mora-Marín
(University of North Carolina, USA), Dorit Ravid (University of Tel Aviv,
Israel)

Further information:

If you have any queries regarding the conference,
please contact the local organizer, David Mora-Marín (davidmm at unc.edu).
For queries regarding AWLL,
please contact Terry Joyce (terry at tama.ac.jp).
AWLL website: http://faculty-sgs.tama.ac.jp/terry/awll/index.html
AWLL13 information @ http://faculty-sgs.tama.ac.jp/terry/awll/workshops.html


Call for Papers:

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted as a PDF attachment to
the local organizer(davidmm at unc.edu) by 15 April 2020. Please indicate whether
you would prefer to be considered for an oral session (30 mins inclusive of
Q&A time) or a poster session.

Details about registering for workshop participants (for both presenters and
non-presenters) will be distributed as soon as possible after acceptance
notifications have been sent. Similarly, the workshop programme, with
abstracts, will be circulated as soon as possible in advance.

Important Dates:

First call for papers: Mid-November 2019
Second call for papers: Mid-February 2020

Submission deadline: 15 April 2020
Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2020
Workshop dates: 15-17 October 2020




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