Variation within and among writing systems
Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents
Hg. von Paola Cotticelli-Kurras und Alfredo Rizza
The present volume, edited by Paola Cotticelli Kurras and Alfredo Rizza, deals with the variation within the systems of writing focusing on various aspects: the metalanguage of the discipline, the methods of analysis, the history of writing, its adaptation in the different cultural environment, the orthographic and linguistic policies, from Ancient Anatolia, Crete and Greece, and Italy to medieval Europe and Iceland.
English summary: The volume opens a newly founded series devoted to historical graphemics. The research field of graphemics is multidisciplinary and represents a bridge between philology, historical linguistics, epigraphy and semiotics. Historical graphemics deals with changes in writing systems and the alternative adaptations, contaminations and responses by individuals or groups within their cognitive and/or cultural framework.?The present volume, edited by Paola Cotticelli Kurras and Alfredo Rizza, deals with the variation within the systems of writing focusing on various aspects: the metalangue of the discipline, the methods of analysis, the history of writing, its adaptation in the different cultural environment, the orthographic and linguistic policies. The geographic and the chronological coordinates range from the historical alphabets of Europe (from the runes to the Old and Middle English or Old and Middle German traditions and the Old Italian texts) to the hieroglyphic and logosyllabic systems of the Mediterranean (Linear A and B) and the Near East (cuneiform and hieroglyphics in ancient Anatolia). The underlying cultural traditions testify the peculiarity of individual scriptures as an expression of local cultures. Good examples are provided can be found in Ancient Anatolia with the two systems attested in the II mill. b.C. in the Hittite realm (cuneiform and hieroglyphs), and, in the I mill. B.C. with the local alphabets and the challenges they pose for the quest of the origin and spreads of alphabets in the Mediterranean area. This volume also hosts the editio princeps of a new Sidetic inscription. Other interesting examples are to be found during the European Middle Ages, in particular aspects of orthographic variants in Old Icelandic and Old Italian. For the Mycenaeans variations in the administrative texts were characteristic and functional to social and cultural aspects of the time. German description: Der Band offnet eine neugegrundete Reihe LautSchriftSprache, die der historischen Graphematik gewidmet ist. Das Forschungsgebiet der Graphematik ist multidisziplinares und stellt die Brucke zwischen Philologie, Sprachgeschichte, Epigraphik und Semiotik dar. Die historische Graphematik die allgemeinen Strukturen uberlieferter Schreibsysteme. So beschaftigt sie sich beispielsweise mit Veranderungen im System und der Reaktion darauf durch die einzelnen Sprecher- bzw. Sprachgruppen, d.h. deren individuelle Losungsmoglichkeiten im Rahmen dieser Strukturen. Der vorliegende Band, herausgegeben von Paola Cotticelli Kurras und Alfredo Rizza, hat die Variation innerhalb der Schriftsysteme zum Gegenstand, in der es hauptsachlich um Konzepte, metalinguistische Aspekte, Analysemethoden und Geschichte der Schrift- und Adaptionsuberlieferung in Bezug auf kulturelle Unterschiede und Sprachpolitik in antiken und modernen Denkmalern geht. Die Beitrage erlautern beispielsweise Veranderungen im System und die Reaktion darauf durch die einzelnen Sprecher- bzw. Sprachgruppen, d.h. deren individuelle Losungsmoglichkeiten im Rahmen dieser Strukturen. Die geographischen und die chronologischen Koordinaten reichen von den historischen Alphabeten Europas (den Schriftsysteme aus dem germanischen Areal, von den Runen bis hin zu alt- und Mittelenglischen bzw. alt- und mitteldeutschen Uberlieferung und den altitalienischen Texten) uber die hieroglyphischen und logosyllabischen Schriftsysteme des Mittelmeeres (Linear A und B, die italischen Dialekte) und des Vorderen Orients (Keilschrift und Hieroglyphen im Altanatolien aus der indogermanischen literarischen Tradition). Die zugrundeliegenden kulturellen Traditionen bezeugen die Eigenartigkeit der einzelnen Schriftsysteme als Ausdruck lokaler Kultur. Ein gutes Beispiel dafur liefert das Altanatoliens mit den zwei Schriftsystemen im Hethiter Reich (Keilschrift und Hieroglyphen) bis hin zu den epikorischen Alphabeten Anatolien im I. Jahrtausend (sidetisch). Im europaischen Mittelalter werden Aspekte der orthographischen Varianten im Altislandisch und im Altitalienischen. Aus der mykenischen Zeit werden Variationen in den administrativen Texten, die charakteristisch und funktional fur jene Kultur und Uberlieferung sind. All diese Texte bezeugen eine Fulle unterschiedlicher Schrifttrager, die jeweils eine entscheidende Rolle in der Entwicklung der Schriftsystemen spielen: von den Tontafeln und den Steininschriften und Totengrabern bis hin zu den Metalltafelchen, Papyri und Papier.
- Edited by Paola Cotticelli-Kurras
- Edited by Alfredo Rizza
„[T]he foundation of this LautSchriftSprache – ScriptandSound series is a significant development in promoting interdisciplinary work in historical graphemics, and subsequent volumes in the series will contribute further to progress in this field.“<br/><br/>Von: Anna P. Judson<br/>In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.08.38<br/>----------------------------------------------------------------<br/>„1e origins of the volume lie in a conference of the same name as the volume series, LautSchri0Sprache (ScriptandSound; Verona 2013), which was the third one in the series. Twenty-one papers out of those presented in the conference have been published in the volume. 1e volume therefore presents an impressive collection of languages [...] However, the true richness of the volume does not lie in the collection of languages and their writing systems discussed, but on the analysis concerning the di!erent structures of writing systems and their "t with the (morpho-)phonological structures of other languages, when borrowed (“the perfect "t”). [...] the volume also includes studies on the chronology of the development of writing systems, studies on writing support, and cultural context, to mention a few. In this way, the volume certainly brings in something novel to the "eld, and is a welcome addition to the more traditional approach to research on writing systems.“<br/><br/>Von Sonja Dahlgren<br/>In: Arctos 54 (2020), S. 391 f.
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Von den Hieroglyphen zur Internetsprache: Das Verhältnis von Schrift, Laut und Sprache
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Spelling Identities
Individual Orthographic Usages in English, Nordic and Constructed Languages
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Writing and Orthography in Non-Literary Texts from Roman Britain
A Sociolinguistic Approach
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