140132 UE Introduction to the Linguistics of Scripts in South Asia (2017S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie

Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Fr 03.02.2017 10:00 to Fr 10.03.2017 10:00
Deregistration possible until Mo 03.04.2017 23:59

Details

max. 24 participants

Language: German

Lecturers

Georg Berkemer

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

    
    Friday
    10.03.
    10:00 - 13:00
    Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
    
    Friday
    10.03.
    14:00 - 17:00
    Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
    
    Saturday
    11.03.
    10:00 - 13:00
    Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
    
    Saturday
    11.03.
    14:00 - 17:00
    Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
    
    Friday
    17.03.
    10:00 - 13:00
    Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
    
    Friday
    17.03.
    14:00 - 17:00
    Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
    
    Saturday
    18.03.
    10:00 - 13:00
    Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
    
    Saturday
    18.03.
    14:00 - 17:00
    Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

When and how does writing as a cultural technique arrive in South Asia? The answer to this question is a contested one. It can be stated with certainty, however, that after an initial phase of script development each South Asian language was attributed its own
script. Script plays much more than in Europe the role of a marker of identity and contains in itself sociocultural information about its users.
Written communication in South Asia is presently of a threefold nature. There is English and Latin script as a ‘global’ media, and there are classical and modern media of communication in South Asian writing systems which are used in contestations of cultural and political nature. Examples are opposite pairs such as Sanskrit versus Prakrit languages or Urdu versus Hindi. So in both India and Pakistan regional writing systems are carriers of dominant, literate regional identities.
Our course approaches such questions from the point of view of history and paleography as well as from language sociology.

Assessment and permitted materials

Hausarbeit.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Coulmans, Florian (2003): Writing Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge UP
Falk, Harry (1993): Schrift im alten Indien. Ein Forschungsbericht mit Anmerkungen. Tübingen: Günter Narr.
Haarmann, Harald (2009): Geschichte der Schrift. München: Beck

Association in the course directory

MASK6c (UE A), IMAK6 , MAK7

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