23.2303, Calls: Writing Systems, Typology, Historical Linguistics/France

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Subject: 23.2303, Calls: Writing Systems, Typology, Historical Linguistics/France

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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:03:49
From: Jacqueline Leon [jleon at linguist.jussieu.fr]
Subject: Writing and Representations of Language and Languages

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Full Title: Writing and Representations of Language and Languages 

Date: 25-Jan-2013 - 26-Jan-2013
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Jacqueline Leon
Meeting Email: jleon at linguist.jussieu.fr
Web Site: http://shesl.org/ 

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

Call Deadline: 20-Jun-2012 

Meeting Description:

The title has two possible readings: writing as a representation of language, and the place of writing in linguistic description.

As the first 'linguistic tool' and 'technological revolution' in the arts of language (Auroux 1994), writing emerges as the very condition for the metalinguistic activity that leads, within the history of linguistic ideas, to the 'grammatization' (as per Auroux 1994) of languages, to theories about language and languages, and to the birth of linguistic traditions.

On the other hand, linguistic descriptions throughout history and in different cultural contexts have given a special place to writing. What is that place?

The goal of the 2013 SHESL/HTL annual conference is to reexamine the representations which grammatical and linguistic traditions of different times and places have given to writing. These questions can be examined through three perspectives:

1) Language, writing, text
2) Diversity of writing systems and linguistic systems
3) Anthropology, archeology, history

Within this general framework, we will consider materials (grammars, treatises, manuals, essays) devoted to the description and/or theorization of language and see to what extent they either directly embrace writing, or make it possible to describe and propose theories about writing.

Even though linguistic structuralisms have made it possible for some of these questions to be treated outside of the exclusive realm of the history of writing, it remains interesting to compare the treatment of the question of writing in other time periods and traditions which have strong connections to writing systems (logographic, pictographic, syllabic, hieroglyphic) and other types of representations. 

Call for Papers:

We welcome proposals on all topics relating to writing, including orthography and the acquisition of writing, and encourage submissions to place such questions in a historical and epistemological perspective.

Please send submissions (in English or French, abstract of 300 words maximum, with bibliography and keywords) before June 20, 2012, to: 

Christian.puech at univ-paris3.fr
Julie.lefebvre at univ-metz.fr
jleon at linguist.jussieu.fr

The subject heading should be: SHESL 2013.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 15.






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