Index des colloques


  • Colloque Appropriation du français en situation diglossique, 24_26 fév. 05
  • Journée Acquisition des langues: une interdisciplinarité nécessaire, 20 janv. 06
  • Journée AFLA Apprentissage des LV à l'école 16 nov 06
  • Demi journée thématique Acquisition et plurilinguisme janvier 2008
  • Demi_journée Acquisition, Séminaire MoDyCo, 29 nov. 2006
  • ColDoc 2008, colloque des jeunes chercheurs de MoDyCo
  • Journée Français périphériques et corpus oraux 17 avril 2008
  • Journées Dynamiques des francais et corpus 5 et 6 février 09
  • Journees Dynamiques des francais et corpus 28 29 janvier 2010
  • ColDoc 2010 La définition
  • JE Narration 22 octobre 2010
  • ColDoc 2011 Enonces en situation
  • Journee SLP 2012 Competence Performance
  • Colloque Cognition et littéracies mars 2012
  • ColDoc 2012 Traitement de corpus
  • Colloque Nature complexite linguistique juillet 2012
  • Workshop: Beyond the tyranny of writing, Luxembourg mai 2014
  • Colloque ELAN mars 2015
  • Workshop: Beyond the tyranny of writing, Luxembourg mai 2014

    Workshop: Beyond the tyranny of writing

    Monday, 26 May - Wednesday, 28 May 2014


    The Institute for Research on Multilingualism of the Research Unit ECCS organises a workshop on issues of (de-)standardisation and (re-)vernacularisation in written language. Guided by the notion of “tyranny of writing” (de Saussure 1916), the workshop focusses on the uses and ideologies of vernacular writing from contemporary and historical perspectives in various social settings and diverse cultural and linguistic contexts.


    The workshop will be opened on Monday, 26 May with a plenary talk by Florian Coulmas of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo. The next two days, we will have presentations from scholars from Luxembourg, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Sweden and Hong Kong discussing uses and ideologies of writing in a wide range of contexts, from Western Europe and Medieval Russia over Canada and the Balearics to West Africa and contemporary China.


    Download the workshop programme. <http://wwwfr.uni.lu/recherche/flshase/education_culture_cognition_and_society_eccs/news_events/workshop_beyond_the_tyranny_of_writing>



    <http://wwwfr.uni.lu/universite/actualites/a_la_une/workshop_beyond_the_tyranny_of_writing>


    Writing, the linguist de Saussure argued, is an imperfect, distorted image of speech and obscures our view of language and its structure. Guided by the notion of “la tyrannie de la lettre”, the workshop focuses on issues of (de-)standardization and (re-)vernacularisation in written language in various social settings and diverse linguistic contexts.


    The workshop explores the notion of the tyranny of writing, and the possibilities of going beyond, by discussing the uses and ideologies of standard and vernacular writing from contemporary and historical perspectives, investigating both forms and functions of written language and the social conditions of its use.


    On the first evening of the conference, Prof. Dr. Florian Coulmas (Tokyo) will introduce the notion of “tyranny of writing” in an opening lecture and present what this concept meant for the study of language when Saussure first used this term a century ago, and what it means today. In his abstract he highlights that writing is one of the most powerful tools in our society: “It enables scientific insights to be given permanence, separating message from messenger, text from author, judgement from judge, sentence from speaker. And it allows us to critically assess, take issue with, and build on the knowledge of our forebears.”


    What does the “tyranny of writing” mean in the Luxembourg context? After the opening lecture, Prof. Dr. Jean-Jacques Weber (Luxembourg) will elaborate the tension between spoken and written Luxembourgish in Luxembourgish policy of education.


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    The launch event of the workshop is open to the general public and will be taking place on Monday, 26 May from 5 pm at Campus Walferdange, building II, room Vygotsky.

    For any additional information, contact Dr Constanze Weth, associate professor at the Institute for Research on Multilingualism.


    Photo caption: From the "Also Remember" section of the Saturday Review of Literature, June 23, 1951, p. 14. The caption reads: "Due to hundreds of requests the General has added a creative writing course to the curriculum . . ."


    Organisational contact: Constanze Weth & Kasper Juffermans.