上智大学国際言語情報研究所、ヨーロッパ研究所、北海道大学スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター共催

シンポジウムとは何か」「言語にとってFlorian Coulmas

2018.11.10. (Sat)14:00-17:00
Sophia University

Central Library 9F, Room L921
上智大学中央図書館9階L921教室

TomaszWicherkiewicz

文字は単に音声言語を書きあらわすものではない。日本研究および社会言語学の泰斗で『文字の言語学：現代文字論入門』などの著作でも知られるクルマス教授と、ヨーロッパの少数言語復興、多言語主義政策に深く関わってきた気鋭の言語学者ヴィProgramme
ヘルキェヴィチ教授と共に、書くことの意味、また文字の違いが持つ言
14:00-14:10 開会
Florian Coulmas
語文化的、社会政治的意味を根本か
14:10-15:00 （デュースブルク・エッセン大学（ドイツ）／上智大学客員招聘教授）
ら捉え直す。
“Reviziting ‘The tyranny of writing’ ”「文字の横暴（ソシュール）を問い直す」

Tomasz Wicherkiewicz
15:00-15:50 （アダム・ミツキェヴィッチ大学（ポーランド）／北海道大学スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター客員研究員）“Writing and script in identity engineering”「書くことと文字によるアイデンティティ獲得」
16:00-16:15 コメント 荒井幸康（北海道大学スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター共同研究員）
16:15-17:00 質疑・議論

問い合わせ先：上智大学国際言語情報研究所：
Tel: 03-3238-3493
E-mail: i-lincom@sophia.ac.jp
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Tel: 03-3238-3902
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Free/No reservation required
入場無料/事前申し込み不要

Language: English & Japanese
使用言語: 講演：英語、コメント：日本語、質疑応答：両言語

Summary 要旨
Florian Coulmas“Reviziting ‘The tyranny of writing’ ”
The study of language, as the study of any subject, is dependent on writing because thescientific enterprise is. The scientific world view assumes that the things and events that
constitute the universe are understandable. Another fundamental assumption is thatknowledge accumulates and progresses, that is, that we know more now than people knew in
Aristotle’s time. In the absence of writing people are not ignorant, but for science as weunderstand it, writing is indispensable. It enables scientific insights to be given permanence,
separating message from messenger, text from author, judgement from judge, sentence fromspeaker. And it allows us to critically assess, take issue with, and build on the knowledge ofour forebears. This paper discusses the question of what writing means for the study oflanguage, taking as its point of departure Ferdinand de Saussure’s critique of spelling
conventions and its consequences for the evolution of modern linguistics. As in otherscientific disciplines, in linguistics, too, writing is a major tool. However, what distinguishes
the role of writing in linguistics from other fields of scholarship is that it relates to the objectof investigation in complex ways concerning both the scientific analysis of language and thesocial conditions of its use. In literate society it is imperative to understand what the“tyranny of writing” meant for the study of language when Saussure first used this term acentury ago, and what it means today.

Tomasz Wicherkiewicz“Writing and script in identity engineering”
Writing systems, script, orthographies, their choices, developments, and reforms affect theusers’ communities in multiple ways. They can and often do start and/or result in power playand evident (because most visible) dominance of language(s) over other language(s).
Wherever peoples are under the political influence of others, the more powerful polity usually
imposes (“top-down”) its scriptal principles (script, writing system, orthography, spelling,font, letters, etc.). On the other hand, many communities try to construct, strengthen ortransform their identity through a “bottom-up” scriptal planning programs and activities.
Both directions aim at achieving their goals through identity engineering and by what insome instances of language planning is labeled “language engineering”.
Those aspects of language dominance and identity engineering have long attracted myattention as sociolinguist (also within the paradigms of historical sociolinguistics), minority
policy expert and observer of language endangerment, maintenance and revitalization
instances.
In the proposed presentation I would like to refer to pragmatics and study of language andidentity engineering, followed and exemplified by some case studies from the sociolinguistic
history and the present language constellation(s) in Central-Eastern Europe.