140132 UE Introduction to the Linguistics of Scripts in South Asia (2017S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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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
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max. 24 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
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
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Aims, contents and method of the course
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
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
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:34
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.