Symposium "The Idea of Writing", 25-27 juin

[pozdniakov.konstantin]

INALCO, LLACAN (CNRS),  <http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/> IUF 
<http://iuf.amue.fr/>


The IXth Symposium "The Idea of Writing": Writing names

Paris, 25-27 June 2012

INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75214PARIS cedex 13.

See the  program : <http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/fichiers/writing/>

http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/fichiers/writing/
<http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/fichiers/writing/>




Most decipherments of earlyand unknown writing systems before the
application of more distributionallyoriented analyses since the
unravelling of Linear B by Chadwick, Ventris andKroeber have heavily
relied upon the study of personal and place names inbilingual texts (cf.
Aalto 1945, Doblhofer 1957;1960, Pope 1975, Parkinson etal. 1999). The
crucial, yet peculiar position of names in writing thus has along
pedigree in the study writing systems, but it has never been
fullyexplored. The IXth "Idea of Writing" conference, to be held
in Paris between 25June and 27 June 2012 hopes to fill this gap by
bringing together specialistsin the history and theory of writing
systems from a wide range of disciplinarybackgrounds, to address the
theme of "names in writing".

Topics:

    * How are names represented in non-alphabetic     writing systems?
Are there special signs, diacritics, classifiers etc. to     mark names,
and how do they differentiate between personal, place, ethnic     and
other types of names?
    * What is the relationship between acts of     naming in spoken and
in written language, how do writing systems convey     the special
linguistic status of proper names in semantics, morphology,    
pragmatics etc. (cf. van Langendonck 2007)?
    * How do elements of writing systems     (letters, syllabic signs,
glyphs 
) function in anthropological name     giving practices
cross-linguistically and ethnographically?
    * Where do the borderlines between the     written and iconographic
representation of names get blurred?
    * What is the status of signatures and other     individualizing
authority or property marks in writing?
    * What is the role of names in the     decipherment of writing
systems, in the analysis of writing precursors and     of non-writing
marking systems?
    * Can linguistic and philosophical theories     of proper names
(Frege 1952, Kripke 1980, Anderson 2006, Coates 2006 etc.)     be
meaningfully extended to the domain of writing? How do written proper
names challenge conventional notions of wordhood, representational    
semantics, semiotics etc.?
    * How are names abbreviated, tabooed,     referred to, punned upon,
tracked, misspelled ... in writing systems?
    * Are there systematic differences between     the representation of
names in ancient, borrowed, or young writing     systems, arising in
colonial contexts?
    * What is the role of naming practices in     triggering the initial
development of writing systems and/or the initial     process of
phoneticization in early developmental stages of a given     writing
system?
    * How are writing systems and their elements     named and renamed?
etc.

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