6.365 Confs: VYGOTSKY, Chinese dialectology

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-365. Sun 12 Mar 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 213
 
Subject: 6.365 Confs: VYGOTSKY, Chinese dialectology
 
Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. <aristar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at emunix.emich.edu>
 
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               Ann Dizdar <dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
               Ljuba Veselinova <lveselin at emunix.emich.edu>
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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 06:43:44 -0600 (CST)
From: SMAGOR at aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu
Subject: VYGOTSKY CONFERENCE
 
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 20:19:58 -0800 (PST)
From: David Prager Branner (charmii at u.washington.edu)
Subject: Conferences in Chinese dialectology
 
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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 06:43:44 -0600 (CST)
Subject: VYGOTSKY CONFERENCE
 
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                           ANNOUNCING
         A CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY THE RESEARCH ASSEMBLY
         OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH
 
               Feb. 23-25, 1996, Chicago, IL  USA
 Working Title: "A Vygotsky Centenniel: Vygotskian Perspectives
                      on Literacy Research"
 
                        Conference Chairs
Carol Lee          Northwestern U.
Peter Smagorinsky  U. of Oklahoma
 
                            Speakers
Arnetha Ball       U. of Michigan
Courtney Cazden    Harvard
Anne Haas Dyson    UC-Berkeley
Judith Green       UC-Santa Barbara
Kris Gutierrez     UCLA
Vera John-Steiner  U. of New Mexico
Luis Moll          U. of Arizona
James Wertsch      Clark U.
 
                       Tentative Schedule
Friday Evening (Feb. 23)
7:30-7:45   Carol and Peter--Greeting
7:45-8:45   Opening Speaker (Speaker #1)
8:45-9:15   Breakout Groups
9:15-10:30  Cocktails
 
Saturday (Feb. 24)
8:00-8:30   Breakfast
8:30-9:30   Speaker #2
9:30-9:45   Coffee
9:45-10:45  Speaker #3
10:45-11:15 Breakout Groups
11:15-12:15 Speaker #4
12:15-2:00  Lunch
2:00-3:00   Speaker #5
3:00-3:45   Panel Discussion
3:45-4:45   Speaker #6
4:45-6:30   Cocktails
 
Sunday (Feb. 25)
8:30-9:00   Breakfast
9:00-10:00  Speaker #7
10:00-10:15 Coffee
10:15-11:15 Speaker #8
11:15-11:45 Breakout Groups
11:45-12:00 Closing (Carol and Peter)
12:00-12:30 Research Assembly Business Meeting
 
History of the Conference
     The conference is one of two scholarly gatherings sponsored
each year by the Research Assembly of the National Council of
Teachers of English (NCTE).  NCTE is a large organization (about
80,000 members) that is international in scope and serves the
interests of "English" or "Language Arts" teachers at all levels of
education.  The organization is currently examining the narrowness
of its focus; NCTE members increasingly recognize "language" rather
than "English" as the appropriate focus of our work given the
increasing linguistic diversity of our students.  The Research
Assembly is a small organization within NCTE with several hundred
members.
     The Mid-Winter Conference is designed as a small conference,
with a maximum registration of about 115, and has traditionally
been held at the Bismark Hotel in Chicago's Loop.  The purpose of
limiting the size is to promote conversation and networking, and to
give conference participants an opportunity to speak individually
with presenters and other participants.  The conference attracts a
mix of people including practicing teachers, graduate students, and
university professors.  Conversation across these groups is
important to the success of the conference.
 
     We are hoping to set up an e-mail discussion network that
people will subscribe to upon registering for the conference.  We
intend to stimulate a pre-conference discussion so that themes and
threads will emerge before we arrive on site, and the personal and
professional relationships that are so important to this
conference's success will begin to form.  We anticipate that this
will contribute to the uniqueness of the conference and also will
extend the benefits of those who attend.
 
     Information on registration will follow in future posts.
 
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 20:19:58 -0800 (PST)
From: David Prager Branner (charmii at u.washington.edu)
Subject: Conferences in Chinese dialectology
 
On March 27th there will be a full day of papers on Chinese dialectology
in two sessions at the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society, at
the Marriott Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah.
 
For more information please contact David Branner at
(yuenren at u.washington.edu).
 
1.  Meeting of the Yuen Ren Society, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm.
        Chair:  W. South Coblin.  The data for these papers is available
in the Society's journal, the _Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data_.
 
Jerry Norman, "A Glossary of Herpyng Dialect".  Description of a rural
dialect in Herpyng Township, Shawwuu County, Fukien.
 
Richard VanNess Simmons, "A Recording of the Story and Song of a Venerable
Harngjou Raconteur". Annotated transcription of oral literature in
Harngjou dialect.
 
Tao2 Liang4, "Repair in a Natural Conversation of Bei3-jing1 Mandarin".
Discourse analysis in Peking dialect, with emphasis on the phenomenon of
repair.
 
Arienne M. Dwyer, "From the Northwest China Sprachbund: Xun2-hua4 Chinese
Syntactic Data".  Description of a dialect of Northwestern Mandarin from
Chinghae Province, with annotated transcriptions of whole sentences and
particular emphasis on the mixed nature of the dialect.
 
David Prager Branner, "A Gutyan Jongbao Dialect Notebook".  Description of
an unusual dialect from the fringes of the greater Miinnan area in
Liancherng County, Fukien, with glossary and index.
 
Jeff Crosland, "Xia4-men2 Dialect Discourse Data".  Annotated
transcription of a conversation in the dialect of a village near Amoy.
 
2.  History of Mandarin Panel, American Oriental Society, 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm.
        Chair:  Steve Durrant
 
"Sequential Voicing in Sino-Japanese"
        Timothy J. Vance, Connecticut College
Many Japanese morphemes have one allomorph beginning with a voiceless
obstruent and another beginning with a voiced obstruent, the voiced
allomorph appearing only non-word-initially:  _tama_ 'ball, _me_+_dama_
'eyeball'.  The status of this *Sequential Voicing* (SV) in modern
Sino-Japanese is problematic.  This paper systematically compares
representative samples to assess the relative "susceptibitilty" to SV of
native Japanese and two-element Sino-Japanese items.  It also tackles the
daunting problem of SV *within* two-character Sino-Japanese items.
 
"Notes on the Phonology of Late Ming Guanhua"
        W. South Coblin, University of Iowa
This paper outlines the phonology of the late Ming Guanhua variety
codified in the Xiru ermuzi of Nicolas Trigault.  Certain features of this
system are then compared with that represented in the unpublished
Portuguese-Chinese dictionary of Matteo Ricci and Michele Ruggieri. These
comparisons lead to hypotheses about the way Trigault's type of Guanhua
reached its final form, about the relationships between competing Guanhua
varieties in the Ming period, and about the nature of Chinese koines in
general.
 
"On Certain Patterns of Vocalism in Mandarin, Wu, and Gan Dialects"
        Jerry Norman, University of Washington
In past attempts to classify Chinese dialects little attention has been
paid to vocalism.  This paper will be an attempt to use the number and
pattern of vocalic contrasts before -n and -ng to determine the boundary
between Mandarin on the one hand and Wu/Gan on the other.
 
The Philological View in Chinese Dialectology
        David Prager Branner, University of Washington
Philologists often misapprehend the real nature of the Chinese dialects.
Not only are there actually far more than the canonical 1277 syllables in
Peking dialect, but there are also features such as sound symbolism that
further alter our picture of the shape of the morpheme.  The canonical
figure of 1277 syllables is based on a notion of the Chinese syllable that
derives from character readings.
 
A Review of the Vocabulary and Grammar of the Towa Sanyo
        Richard VanNess Simmons, Rutgers University
This paper examines the vocabulary and grammar of the _Toowa sanyoo_, a
Chinese primer compiled in Japan by Okajima Kanzan (1674-1728).  While
apparently idealized, the particular combination of colloquial features
seen in the text does have a living parallel:  All can still be found in
the single dialect of modern Harngjou.  It is possible to surmise that the
Guanhuah koine current in the Jiangnan region in the late Ming may have
also been strongly reminiscent of the Harngjou dialect in most of its
major features.
 
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