LINGUIST List 21.2840 Wed Jul 07 2010 Calls: Discipline of Ling, General Ling, Writing Systems/France Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Noelle Serpollet, CerLiCO 25th International Conference Message 1: CerLiCO 25th International Conference Date: 06-Jul-2010 From: Noelle Serpollet <noelleserpolletyahoo.fr> Subject: CerLiCO 25th International Conference E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: CerLiCO 25th International Conference Short Title: CerLiCO Date: 27-May-2011 - 28-May-2011 Location: Orleans, France Contact Person: Noelle Serpollet Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/cerlico/cerlico.htm Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Writing Systems Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2010 Meeting Description: Twenty-Fifth International Conference CerLiCO Cercle Linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France / 27 Friday - 28 Saturday May 2011 Transcribing, Writing, Formalising - 2: In order to become a science, linguistics eventually departed from philology. Having turned away from publishing and commenting on texts, it has set up its field of observation outside vernacular writings in order to compare sound forms. Thus, it has given access to all languages (at whatever stage in their evolution), whether they have had a written form or not. The 25th CerLiCO International Conference will attempt to understand the work of the linguist when he specifies his objects and elaborates his tools. In this perspective it will discuss three fundamental notions, three gestures that are the basis of analysis: - Transcribing: This amounts to ponder the significance of the conversion of a sound signal into a graphic representation. - Writing: This asks the question of the existing relations between a conventional graphic system of representation and the structure of languages (phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic...) within their organisation and their interactions. - Formalising: This answers the necessity of an explanatory approach that will lead to the construction of a system – and no longer a mere inventory. A system possessing its own internal rules and having universal value in time, space and society. This would mean fulfilling Saussure’s algebraic linguistics project, parts of which can be assessed by automatic processing. Our aim will be to understand what gets accomplished within the movement going from the signal to modelling and what this work means. Call for Papers Presentations will last 25 minutes and will be followed by a 15 minute-discussion. The Conference will include a poster session, and there will be about 15 presentations altogether. The Proceedings will be published in 2011 in Travaux Linguistiques du CerLiCO, Vol. 25, Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Submissions should include, in addition to the author's institutional affiliation and e-mail address, an anonymous abstract of around 500 words / 3,000 signs, with a few references attached. Authors should specify whether they wish to present a paper or a poster. The abstracts will be posted on the CerLiCO website and sent to participants on registration for the Conference. Submissions should be sent in electronic format to : Noëlle Serpollet & Gabriel Bergounioux : cerlico.llsh[]univ-orleans.fr no later than 15 September 2010 Information about the Conference will be posted on the CerLiCO website: http://www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/cerlico/cerlico.htm Postal address: Université d'Orléans Faculté des Lettres, Langues et Sciences humaines - 10, rue de Tours – BP 46527 – 45065 Orléans Cedex 2 – France Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 07-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.