35.2204, Calls: Script-Switching in Literary Texts

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Subject: 35.2204, Calls: Script-Switching in Literary Texts

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Date: 05-Aug-2024
From: Marianna Deganutti [mariannadeganutti5 at gmail.com]
Subject: Script-Switching in Literary Texts


Full Title: Script-Switching in Literary Texts

Date: 14-Mar-2025 - 14-Mar-2025
Location: online, Germany
Contact Person: Marianna Deganutti
Meeting Email: mariannadeganutti5 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://langueflow.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/cfp-script-switc
hing-in-literary-texts/

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2024

Meeting Description:

Script-Switching in Literary Texts

Online Colloquium Friday 14 March 2025

Writing has literally changed the course of human history. The
relationship between language and script is profoundly influenced by
political, cultural, economic, social and historical forces, which
affect the invention, adoption, development, transfer and adaptation
of writing systems; conversely, understanding writing systems offers
invaluable insights into these dynamics as well as human creativity.

This interplay is especially relevant in the realm of literature,
where scripts can be strategically employed to achieve among others
political, linguistic, stylistic and narratological functions.

Our aim is to approach literary heterographics in a wide range of
literary traditions and languages. Two or more scripts can be used
within a text (e.g. Tolstoy, Eliot, Pound, H. Rider Haggard, Mingya
Powles, Ståhlberg), or the text can be translated into other scripts
than the one(s) it was originally written in (e.g. translation of
works written in Cyrillic into the Latin script), or there may be
other options for script-switching (compare with code-switching) and
multiscriptism (compare with multilingualism).

Literary application of multiple scripts is the focus of our one-day
online colloquium planned for Friday 14 March 2025. We invite concise
(max. 15 minutes) discussion-inspiring contributions addressing the
phenomenon of script-switching and its subtler implications, including
the functions and motivations of these practices, analysis of the
visual aspects, challenges for translators, editors, publishers and
readers, etc. We especially encourage young scholars to participate.

Call for Papers:

Please send your abstract before 31 October 2024 of maximum 200 words
with three scientific questions and a short (up to 50 words) bio to
Dr. Marianna Deganutti, e-mail: marianna.deganutti // at // savba.sk
with a copy to zerocodeswitching // at // pm.me.

Organizers

Prof. Johanna Domokos, Bielefeld University and Károli Gáspár
University Budapest, LangueFlow
Dr. Marianna Deganutti, Slovak Academy of Sciences, LangueFlow
Dr. Jana-Katharina Mende, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg,
LangueFlow
Dr. Sabira Ståhlberg, Independent Scholar, LangueFlow



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