Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century

Event Notification Type: 
Other
Abbreviated Title: 
G21C
Location: 
Online
Wednesday, 17 June 2020 to Friday, 19 June 2020
Contact: 
Yannis Haralambous

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LIST OF PRESENTATIONS
G21C Grapholinguistics in the 21st century—From graphemes to knowledge
https://grafematik2020.sciencesconf.org
June 17-18-19, 2020
Contact: Yannis Haralambous <grafematik2020@sciencesconf.org>
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The Grapholinguistics in the 21st century Conference will be held online, with two
presentation modalities: oral presentation and poster session (see below for more
details).

Registration for the conference is now open:
https://grafematik2020.sciencesconf.org/registration

Registration is *required* to follow oral presentations and poster sessions.

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LIST OF KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
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COON, Jessica. --- The Linguistics of Arrival: What an Alien Writing System Can Teach Us about Human Language

NEEF, Martin. --- What Is It That Ends with a Full Stop?

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LIST OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS (in alphabetical order)
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ASHOURINIA, Kaveh. --- Quantifying the Ambiguity of No Short Vowels in Persian Writing

DANET, Claire, Dominique BOUTET, Patrick DOAN, Claudia Savina BIANCHINI, Adrien CONTESSE, Léa CHÈVREFILS, Morgane RÉBULARD, Chloé THOMAS and Jean-François DAUPHIN. --- Transcribing Sign Languages with Typannot: A Typographic System Which Retains and Displays Multiple Levels of Information

DONNELLY, Kevin. --- Digitising Swahili in Arabic Script

DÜRST, Martin J. --- Between Characters and Glyphs - the Case of Han Ideographs

ELTI DI RODEANO, Sveva. --- Scripts in Contact: The Transmission of the First Alphabets

EVERTZ-RITTICH, Martin. --- What Is a Written Word and If So, How Many

FENDEL, Victoria Beatrix. --- A Small Step for a Man, a Giant Leap for a People: The Beginnings of the Coptic Alphabet

GNANADESIKAN, Amalia. --- S1: The Native Script Effect

HANDEL, Zev. --- Is Logographic a Valid Script Typology? Evidence from Historical Borrowing of the Chinese-Character Script

HARBOUR, Daniel. --- Vowel Writing and the Role of Grammar in Writing System Evolution

HONDA, Keisuke. --- A Modular Theoretic Approach to the Japanese Writing System: Possibilities and Challenges

HUOT-MARCHAND, Thomas and Johannes BERGERHAUSEN. --- The Missing Scripts

HUTTO, Megan. --- Press Rightward-Facing Triangle: Metaphor and Cross-Cultural Semiotics in Phone Applications

JEE, Hana, Monica TAMARIZ and Richard SHILLCOCK. --- Quantifying Sound-Graphic Systematicity and Application on Multiple Phonographs

KELLY, Piers. --- The Ottomaung Alphabet of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea: Documenting a New Script by Long-Distance Correspondence in a Politically Sensitive Environment

KETTANEH, Christine. --- Mute Melodies

KOCH, Christian. --- Wikimoldia - Digital Revitalization of the Moldovan Language

KULISH, Olga. --- Between the Words: Emotional Punctuation in the Digital Age Communication

KÜSTER, Marc Wilhelm. --- Mystic Messages - The Magic of Writing

LANDRAGIN, Frédéric, Yannis HARALAMBOUS and Kenichi HANDA. --- Graphemic and Graphetic Methods in Speculative Fiction

MELETIS, Dimitrios. --- Is the Syllable Universally the Most Salient Unit of Writing?

MOURAD, Ghassan, Dana AWAD and Marie-Rose AL-AMIL. --- The Role of Punctuation in Translation

NEUMAN, Yishai. --- Sociocultural Motivation for Spelling Variation in Modern Hebrew

OSTERKAMP, Sven and Gordian SCHREIBER. --- Challenging the Dichotomy between Phonography and Morphography: Transitions and Grey Areas

PERONO CACCIAFOCO, Francesco. --- A New Approach to the Decipherment of Linear A: Coding to Decipher Linear A, Stage 2

PIERSON, Morgane. --- Beyond the Semantic: Typographic Representation of Ancient Monetary Inscriptions

PRESUTTI, Stefano. --- Graphemic Complexity for the New Romance Phonemes in Italian: Some Reflections

PRESUTTI, Stefano. --- The Interdependence between Oral and Writing Systems. Towards a Greater Awareness

RASHWAN, Hany. --- Comparing the Visual Untranslatability of Ancient Egyptian and Arabic Writing Systems

SALGARELLA, Ester and Simon CASTELLAN. --- SigLA. The Signs of Linear A: A Linguistic and Palaeographic Database

SALOMON, Corinna. --- Comparative Perspectives on the Study of Script Transfer, and the Origin of the Runic Script

STOJANOV, Tomislav. --- The Sociolinguistics of Punctuation - What Can We Infer about Our Language by Observing the Evolution of Punctuation?

TAHA, Haitham. --- The Role of Semantic Activation during Word Recognition in Arabic among Typical and Poor Readers

UGRAY, Gábor. --- Progress Report on Hanzi Network Dictionary, a Shape-Based, Etymologically Motivated Character Decomposition Dataset with Functional Annotations

WACHENDORFF, Irmi. --- Typographetics of Urban Spaces - the Indication of Discourse Types and Genres through Letterforms and Their Materiality in Multilingual Urban Spaces

WÖHRMANN, Frithjof. --- Limitless Script-Choice? How Romanian Writing during the 19th Century Reveals the Limits of Current Understandings of ‘Writing System’

XU, Duoduo. --- Digitizing Dongba Pictographs: Semantic Index for a Unicode Database

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LIST OF POSTER PRESENTATIONS (in alphabetical order)
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BIANCHINI, Claudia Savina. --- How to Improve Metalinguistic Awareness by Writing a Language without Writing: Sign Languages and Sign Writing

DROZHASHCHIKH, Nataliia, Elena EFIMOVA and Evgenia MESHCHERYAKOVA. --- Form-Meaning Regularities in Old English Thesaurus and Corpora

FEDOROVA, Liudmila. --- To the Typology of Writing Systems

GIUNASHVILI, Helen. --- Old Aramaic Script in Georgia

JOYCE, Terry and Hisashi MASUDA. --- Constructing a Database of Japanese Compound Words: Some Observations on the Morphological Structures of Three- and Four-Kanji Compound Words

MELKA, Tomi S. and Robert M. SCHOCH. --- A Case in Point: Communication with Unknown Intelligence/s

MORIOKA, Tomohiko. --- Viewpoints on Structure Description of Chinese Character

MYERS, James. --- Levels of Structure within Chinese Character Constituents

SCHOCH, Robert M. and Tomi S. MELKA. --- A “Sacred Amulet from Easter Island – 1885/6 –”: Analyzing Enigmatic Glyphic Characters in the Context of the rongorongo Script

VERHEIJEN, Lieke. --- The Effects of Emoji and Emoticons in Webcare

VÉRY, Dalma. --- The Mediality of Typography and Textual Space

VLACHOU, Irene and Laurence PENNEY. --- Parametric Fallback Fonts for the Web

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PRESENTATION MODALITIES
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Oral presentations are organized as in physical conferences: one or more speakers present their work online and are followed by all registered participants. After the presentation questions can be asked. Oral presentations are recorded and will be posted on the conference's Web site.

Poster presentations are virtual rooms where speakers can present their work and interact with registered participants visiting the room. Poster sessions are held simultaneously and registered participants can freely join or leave any virtual room during the session. Poster sessions are not recorded but material chosen by speakers can be posted on the conference's Web site.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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* Conference: June 17-19, 2020

For more information on the conference please visit
https://grafematik2020.sciencesconf.org
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