33.2490, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Translation, Typology, Writing Systems/Germany
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Subject: 33.2490, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Translation, Typology, Writing Systems/Germany
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:02:33
From: Anna Saller [Anna.Saller at ur.de]
Subject: Comparative Punctuation Worldwide
Full Title: Comparative Punctuation Worldwide
Short Title: com.punc.worldwide
Date: 22-Sep-2023 - 24-Sep-2023
Location: Regensburg, Germany
Contact Person: Paul Rössler
Meeting Email: compunc.worldwide at ur.de
Web Site: https://www.uni-regensburg.de/language-literature-culture/compunc/home/index.html
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Translation; Typology; Writing Systems
Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2023
Meeting Description:
Most languages have a writing system that includes punctuation marks.
Punctuation as a subsystem of written language has a different status in
different languages and is not only used for the graphical structuring of
texts, but can also fulfill syntactic, semantic or prosodic functions. The
functions performed by individual punctuation marks, but also by the
punctuation system as a whole, depend not only on the language in question and
its typology, but also on the writing domain (e.g. school, authority, private
sphere). Even though punctuation research is mainly conducted in the fields of
writing acquisition, writing didactics, and codex research, it is also a topic
of language typology research and comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics,
pragmalinguistics, language attitudes and standard language research – or it
should be. While approaches to comparative punctuation research are
discernible in individual papers, contrastive punctuation research that
includes language systems, sociolinguistic norms, and pragmatic practice is
still a desideratum – and at the same time the goal of this conference.
The conference Punctuation Seen Internationally, which took place in
Regensburg in May 2019, and the resulting volume Vergleichende Interpunktion –
Comparative Punctuation, have already made a first contribution to shed light
on punctuation across languages and from synchronic and diachronic
perspectives. The repertoire of languages (which included Germanic, Romance,
Slavic, Japonic, and Sino-Tibetan languages) is to be extended significantly,
and explicitly also to non-alphabetic writing systems, in the conference in
2023. Ideally, the conference will bring about a typological comparison in
terms of punctuation of the 20 largest languages in the world. However,
contributions on smaller and often overlooked (minority) languages, whose
writing and punctuation systems may have very unique regularities and dynamics
due to less rigid language policies and linguistic standardization, are also
very welcome.
The conference will cover a wide range of topics in punctuation in
international comparison. The aim is to have as typologically diverse a mix of
languages as possible from different language families and with different
writing systems (e.g. Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali,
Portuguese, Russian, Malay, French, German, Swahili, Japanese, Panjabi,
Persian, Turkish, Tamil, Korean, Vietnamese, and others).
Contributions may focus on a single language or compare languages. They may
focus on particular language domains, social groups, media, interaction with
certain levels of language (like semantics, syntax, pragmatics), a synchronic
or diachronic perspective etc.
Call for Papers:
Background:
Most languages have a writing system that includes punctuation marks.
Punctuation as a subsystem of written language has a different status in
different languages and is not only used for the graphical structuring of
texts, but can also fulfill syntactic, semantic or prosodic functions. The
functions performed by individual punctuation marks, but also by the
punctuation system as a whole, depend not only on the language in question and
its typology, but also on the writing domain (e.g. school, authority, private
sphere). Even though punctuation research is mainly conducted in the fields of
writing acquisition, writing didactics, and codex research, it is also a topic
of language typology research and comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics,
pragmalinguistics, language attitudes and standard language research – or it
should be. While approaches to comparative punctuation research are
discernible in individual papers, contrastive punctuation research that
includes language systems, sociolinguistic norms, and pragmatic practice is
still a desideratum – and at the same time the goal of this conference.
Objectives:
Ideally, the conference will bring about a typological comparison in terms of
punctuation of the 20 largest languages in the world. However, contributions
on smaller and often overlooked (minority) languages, whose writing and
punctuation systems may have very unique regularities and dynamics due to less
rigid language policies and linguistic standardization, are also very welcome.
Languages and Topics:
The conference will cover a wide range of topics in punctuation in
international comparison. The aim is to have as typologically diverse a mix of
languages as possible from different language families and with different
writing systems (e.g. Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali,
Portuguese, Russian, Malay, French, German, Swahili, Japanese, Panjabi,
Persian, Turkish, Tamil, Korean, Vietnamese, and others).
Contributions may focus on a single language or compare languages. They may
focus on particular language domains, social groups, media, interaction with
certain levels of language (like semantics, syntax, pragmatics), a synchronic
or diachronic perspective etc.
The following list of possible topics is primarily for inspiration and thus
far from exclusive:
* inventory of punctuation marks and their function
* principles of punctuation: syntax, semantics, rhythm/prosody etc.
* punctuation systems in relation to the types of language (isolating,
agglutinating, inflecting)
* punctuation systems in relation to the writing systems (logographic,
syllabic, alphabetic)
* functions of punctuation as text marker, syntax marker or word marker
* functions of punctuation in relation to the producer and recipient
perspective
* error tolerance and binding power of punctuation rules compared
* codification histories of punctuation systems
* punctuation reforms compared (successes/failures)
* explicit (= codified) and subsistent norms of punctuation
* language attitudes and language management with regard to punctuation
* metalinguistic discourse and language criticism on punctuation
* variation in punctuation (between regions, media, individuals, across the
lifespan)
* ...
These points are intended to encourage contributions from the above mentioned
areas of the various individual languages to be brought together and compared.
Contributions on all languages that have a writing system and some form of
punctuation are invited.
Language of presentation: English; duration: presumably 30 minutes
Please send your abstract (with title, max. 2500 characters) by 31 January,
2023 to:
compunc.worldwide at ur.de
Organization:
Prof. Dr. Paul Rössler
Dr. Peter Besl
Anna Saller
Regensburg University
Institute for German Studies
Chair of German Linguistics
93040 Regensburg, Germany
https://go.ur.de/compunc
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