LINGUIST List 22.3445 Wed Aug 31 2011 Confs: Sociolinguistics, Writing Systems/Germany Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Daniel Buncic , Biscriptality – Sociolinguistic and Cultural Scenarios Message 1: Biscriptality – Sociolinguistic and Cultural Scenarios Date: 31-Aug-2011 From: Daniel Buncic <conferencebiscriptality.org> Subject: Biscriptality – Sociolinguistic and Cultural Scenarios E-mail this message to a friend Biscriptality – Sociolinguistic and Cultural Scenarios Short Title: BISCRIPTALITY Date: 19-Sep-2011 - 20-Sep-2011 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Contact: Daniel Buncic Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://biscriptality.org/ Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Writing Systems Meeting Description: At this conference, representatives of very different philological disciplines – from antiquity to modern times, from Africa through Europe to East Asia – will gather their expertise about sociolinguistic situations with two (or more) scripts for one language. The aim is to make generalizations about the social factors influencing script choice on the basis of a classification of such situations. Alexandra von Lieven (Berlin) Hieroglyphs and Hieratic – what is the difference and does it matter? Sandra Lippert (Tübingen) Hieratic vs. Demotic – Changing Uses of Two Egyptian Cursive Scripts (with an Excursus on the Development of Old Coptic) Yukiyo Kasai (Berlin) Multiscriptality in Old Turkish – Relationship between Scripts and Religions Terje Spurkland (Oslo) Runes and Roman Script in Medieval Scandinavia – Complementary Entities or Cross-over Phenomena? Marina Bobrik (Berlin) and Aleksej Gippius (Moscow) Sprachliche Idiome und Orthographische Systeme im alten Novgorod (Linguistic Varieties and Orthographic Systems in Old Novgorod) Achim Rabus (Freiburg) Von Diglossie zu Diglyphie? Sozio- und Schriftlinguistik des Russischen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (From Diglossia to Diglyphia: Russian Sociolinguistics and Linguistics of Writing in the 17th and 18th centuries) Ekaterina Kislova (Moscow) ‘Church Slavonic’ and ‘Civil’ Orthography of the Russian Language in Manuscripts and Printed Texts of the 18th Century Jürgen Spitzmüller (Zürich) The ‘Typographical Manifesto’. Blackletter/Roman Typeface Variation as a Social Practice in Germany Anastasia Antipova (Tübingen) Kyrillisches vs. lateinisches Alphabet in der Geschichte des Weißrussischen (Cyrillic vs. Latin Alphabet in the history of Belarusian) Daniel Bunčić (Tübingen) Zweischriftigkeit in Gegenwart und Geschichte des Serbokroatischen (Biscriptality in Past and Present of Serbo-Croatian) Carmen Brandt (Halle) Script as a Momentum of Identity Formation in South Asia Helma Pasch (Cologne) Alte Schriften Können überleben, wo Neue Keine Chance haben. Zweischriftige Situationen im Subsaharanischen Afrika (Old Secondary Scripts May Survive where New ones have No Chance. Biscriptal Situations in Sub-Saharan Africa) Barbara Sonnenhauser (Munich) Crimean Tatars return to Latin? Sandra Birzer (Regensburg) Sociolinguistic Specificities of Russian Transliterated E-mail Messages Henning Klöter (Bochum) Digraphia and Diorthographia in Greater China Ihar Klimaŭ (Minsk) Taraškevica vs. Narkamaŭka – the Case of a Bicultural Conflict in Belarusian and in Belarus Paul Rössler (Regensburg) Variants in Contemporary German Orthography and Their Status in Print Media Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 31-Aug-2011       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.