LINGUIST List 14.573

Thu Feb 27 2003

Calls: Diachrony of Writing/General Ling

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  • jjayez, 36th International Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea

    Message 1: The Diachrony of Writing

     Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 03:40:17 +0000
    From: soerenw <soerenwhum.ku.dk>
    Subject: The Diachrony of Writing


    The Diachrony of Writing

    Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Date: 11-Aug-2003 - 15-Aug-2003 Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2003

    Web Site: http://www.hum.ku.dk/ichl2003/ Contact Person: S�ren Wichmann Meeting Email: soerenwhum.ku.dk Linguistic Subfield(s): Writing Systems

    This is a session of the following conference: 16th International Conference of Historical Linguistics

    Meeting Description: The purpose of this session is to explore the question of how different writing systems have developed over time. The organizer not only welcomes papers on general issues concerning the development of writing but also papers that investigate local variations in particular systems. Please see the ICHL home page for more detailed information. NB: The dead-line for submission of abstracts is March 1.

    Message 2: 36th International Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea

     Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 06:20:55 +0000
    From: jjayez <jjayezwanadoo.fr>
    Subject: 36th International Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea


    36th International Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea

    Short Title: 36th SLE Location: Lyon, France Date: 04-Sep-2003 - 07-Sep-2003 Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2003

    Web Site: http://www.ens-lsh.fr/sle2003/ Contact Person: Afifa Zenati Meeting Email: Afifa.Zenatiens-lsh.fr Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics

    Meeting Description: The theme of this international meeting is ''Linguistics and data : types of data and language comparison''. It is open to all scholars interested in promoting discussions, exchanging ideas and reporting on recent progress in a variety of issues related to data processing in different languages and language comparison. The aim of the Meeting is to examine issues related to Language data processing and to compare the processing of different languages, whether the data is oral or written. The new technological means, in particular the managing of data (the making-up of large data-bases for example) enable linguists to tackle problems differently and it probably brings about new representations of what languages are. Therefore, our scientific relationship to linguistic objects of study is most certainly changing. But we would like to understand how the changes are coming about, what their origins are and what perspectives they give us on the analysis of Language and of languages.

    We especially welcome contributions on the following issues: - The modes in which this ''new'' form of linguistics is being elaborated : What has enabled the making-up of data-bases? What methodological choices have been guiding, are guiding or will be guiding this elaboration? How are they applied? What is the aim of their development? How does a historical perspective on these issues inform us? - Language comparison: How is linguistic diversity taken into account in the processing of the data? How can we develop and use a contrastive approach when we have enormous amounts of heterogeneous information? What is the impact of diachronic and comparative approaches on descriptions and theories?

    We would be glad to welcome a great variety of types of data (audio, video, transcriptions). The possibilities offered by the new software will be taken into account (quantitative analyses, which facilitate the processing of more and more texts, prosodic analyses, image processing, etc.). But we would also like to tackle the problems linked to data transcription, encoding and processing in difficult cases (Sign languages, languages that don't have a writing system, child language...) without forgetting the role of interpretation in the transcription process.

    In a more general way, in an epistemological perspective, we will question ourselves on the status of data in linguistic analysis: Is it possible to do linguistics without data? Does studying language mean studying languages ? Since when has there been a need to compare languages? In what perspectives has it been done? What is the status of typology?