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Graphemics in the 21st century—From graphemes to knowledge

/gʁafematik/ 2018 is the first conference bringing together disciplines concerned with writing systems and their representation in written communication. The conference aims to reflect on the current state of research in the area, and on the role that writing and writing systems play in neighboring disciplines like computer science and information technology, communication, typography, psychology, and pedagogy. In particular it aims to study the effect of the growing importance of Unicode with regard to the future of reading and writing in human societies. Reflecting the richness of perspectives on writing systems, /gʁafematik/ is actively interdisciplinary, and welcomes proposals from  researchers from the fields of computer science and information technology, linguistics, communication, pedagogy, psychology, history, and the social sciences. 
 
/gʁafematik/ aims to create a space for the discussion of the range of approaches to writing systems, and specifically to bridge approaches in linguistics, informatics, and other fields. It will provide a forum for explorations in terminology, methodology, and theoretical approaches relating to the delineation of an emerging interdisciplinary area of research that intersects with intense activity in practical implementations of writing systems.

The conference has been held at Pôle numérique Brest Iroise at Brest, France, on June 14-15, 2018.

The Proceedings of the 2018 Conference have been published by Fluxus Editions. They are available for free download and paperback copies can be bought on Amazon.com.

The second edition of the conference, Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, will be held in Paris, from June 17 to June 19, 2020.

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Conference program

  • DAY ONE: JUNE 14, 2018
     
  • 08:15-08:30 PICK-UP BY SHUTTLE AT PLACE DE LA LIBERTÉ, BREST
     
  • MORNING

    Session chair: Martin Dürst
     
  • 09:00-10:00 KEYNOTE: Florian Coulmas. The Best Writing System of the World  
     
  • 10:00-10:30 Marc Wilhelm Küster. Open and Closed Writing Systems—Some Reflections  
     
  • 10:30-11:00 David Roberts, Valentin Vydrin and Dana Basnight-Brown. Marking Tone With Punctuation: An Orthography Experiment in Eastern Dan (Côte d'Ivoire)  
     
  • 11:00-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

    Session chair: Martin Evertz
     
  • 11:15-11:45 Martin Raymond. ScriptSource: Documenting the Writing Systems of the World  
     
  • 11:45-12:15 David Březina. Character Similarity and Coherence in Typeface Design  
     
  • 12:15-14:00 LUNCH AT RAK (Restaurant administratif de Kernévent)
     
  • AFTERNOON

    Session chair: Cornelia Schindelin
     
  • 14:00-14:30 Joseph Dichy and Yannis Haralambous. French Inclusive Writing  
     
  • 14:30-15:00 Kamal Mansour. On the Origins of Arabic Script  
     
  • 15:00-15:30 Joseph Dichy. On the Writing System of Arabic. Semiographic characterization of Naskhi Letter Shapes  
     
  • 15:30-15:45 COFFEE BREAK

    Session chair: Christa Dürscheid
     
  • 15:45-16:15 Kavya Manohar and Santhosh Thottingal. Malayalam Orthographic Reforms: Impact on Language and Popular Culture  
     
  • 16:15-16:45 Tereza Slaměníková. On the Nature of Unmotivated Constituents in Modern Chinese Characters  
     
  • 16:45-17:15 Keisuke Honda. What Do Kanji Graphs Represent in the Japanese Writing System? An Examination of the Morphographic and Morphophonic Theories of Kanji Writing  
     
  • 17:15-17:45 Cornelia Schindelin. The Li-Variation: When the Ancient Chinese Writing changed to Modern Chinese Script  
     
  • 18:15 DEPARTURE OF SHUTTLE TO CENTER OF BREST
     
  • 20:30 DINNER AT OFFSIDE BAY, 4 RUE DE SIAM
     
  • DAY TWO: JUNE 15, 2018
     
  • 08:15-08:30 PICK-UP BY SHUTTLE AT PLACE DE LA LIBERTÉ, BREST
     
  • MORNING

    Session chair: Florian Coulmas
     
  • 09:00-10:00 KEYNOTE: Christa Dürscheid. Image, Writing, Unicode  
     
  • 10:00-10:30 Yannis Haralambous. A Roadmap to Graphemics  
     
  • 10:30-11:00 Martin J. Dürst. Are There Any Limits to Text Encoding?  
     
  • 11:00-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

    Session chair: Marc Küster
     
  • 11:15-11:45 Vlad Atanasiu. Ugraphia: The Utopia of an Perfectly Legible Script  
     
  • 11:45-12:15 Martin Evertz. The History of the Graphematic Foot in English and German  
     
  • 12:15-14:00 LUNCH AT RAK (Restaurant administratif de Kernévent)
     
  • AFTERNOON

    Session chair: Kamal Mansour
     
  • 14:00-14:30 Patricia Thaine and Gerald Penn. Vowel and Consonant Classification Through Spectral Decomposition  
     
  • 14:30-15:00 Nicolas Ballier, Erin Pacquetet and Taylor Arnold. Investigating Keylogs as Time-Stamped Graphemes  
     
  • 15:00-15:30 Sveva Elti di Rodeano. Digraphia: The Story of a Sociolinguistic Typology  
     
  • 15:30-15:45 COFFEE BREAK

    Session chair: Tereza Slam    ěníková
     
  • 15:45-16:15 Ray Stegeman. Graphemic Choices in Writing Papua New Guinean Languages Through the Years  
     
  • 16:15-16:45 Yifan Wang. “Latin Script” Revisited: Issues on Identification of a Script  
     
  • 17:00 DEPARTURE OF SHUTTLE TO CENTER OF BREST, RAILWAY STATION AND AIRPORT

For more information on the conference please visit
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