Monthly meeting of the EVWRIT team to discuss and develop a new theoretical perspective towards communication practices in Antiquity.
Once a month from January 2019, the EVWRIT team will meet to discuss and develop a new theoretical perspective towards communication practices in Antiquity.
Theoretical sessions on fundamental aspects of novel methodologies (cognitive sociolinguistics, social semiotics, paléographie signifiante…) will be interchanged with practical ones (doing statistics, showing a database, presenting a paper…).
The reading group is open to anyone interested.
In this session of the reading group, we will discuss the possible social factors and meanings of spelling and spelling variations. The recommended literature for this session is the following:
- Sebba, Mark. 2015. Iconisation, attribution and branding in orthography. “Written Language & Literacy” 18 (2): 208-227.
- Sebba, Mark. 2012. Orthography as social action. Scripts, spelling, identity and power. In: Jaffe et al., “Orthography as social action. Scripts, spelling, identity and power”, 1-20.
- Sebba, Mark. 2012. Orthography as literacy. How Manx was “reduced to writing”. In: Jaffe et al., “Orthography as social action. Scripts, spelling, identity and power”, 161-176.
The session will be held in English.
For further questions or remarks, contact Geert De Mol at geert.demol@ugent.be.
For more information about the EVWRIT project, see http://www.evwrit.ugent.be/.