Journal of Research in Reading, 31(1)

Journal title/雑誌タイトル:
Journal of Research in Reading

Volume/巻号:
Volume 31, No. 1

Publisher/出版社:
Blackwell

Table of contents/目次:
Click here.

Journal of Research in Reading, 30(4)

Journal title/雑誌タイトル:
Journal of Research in Reading

Volume/巻号:
Volume 30, No. 4

Publisher/出版社:
Blackwell

Table of contents/目次:
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Reading and Writing, 20(6-9)

Journal title/雑誌タイトル:
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Volume/巻号:
Volume 20, Nos. 6-9

Table of contents/目次:
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New Book: Planning Chinese Characters

Book Title/書籍タイトル:
Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?

Series Title/シリーズ・タイトル:
Language Policy, 9

Authors/著者:
Shouhui Zhao & Richard B. Jr. Baldauf

Publisher/出版社:
Springer

TOC/目次:
Available from the publisher's website.

Abstract/要旨:

The whole world has been watching the vast changes that are currently occurring in China, but few people are aware that at the same time, to ensure the writing system serves these changes well, Chinese characters have also undergone significant reform. While focusing on current problems, developments and possible solutions, this book also details the major implementation of language planning programs for the modernization of the Chinese writing system that have occurred over the last century.

The volume provides a broad and in-depth analysis of the conflict between one of the world’s oldest surviving script systems and the latest developments in communication technology. Comprehensive in coverage, interdisciplinary in structure, with copious references to assist readers in locating a wide range of resources, this book offers an analytic discussion of character planning that will prove of great value to language policymakers and those who are interested in China/East Asian studies and sinology. [Quoted from the publishers website]

Details/詳細:
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New Book: Remembering the Kanji 3 (Second Edition)

Book Title/書籍タイトル:
Remembering the Kanji 3: Writing and Reading Japanese Characters for Upper-Level Proficiency (Second Edition)

Authors/著者:
James W. Heisig & Tanya Sienko

Publisher/出版社:
University of Hawai`i Press

TOC/目次:
Available from the publisher's website.

Abstract/要旨:

Students who have learned to read and write the basic 2,000 characters run into the same difficulty that university students in Japan face: The government-approved list of basic educational kanji is not sufficient for advanced reading and writing. Although each academic specialization requires supplementary kanji of its own, a large number of these kanji overlap. With that in mind, the same methods employed in volumes 1 and 2 of Remembering the Kanji have been applied to 1,000 additional characters determined as useful for upper-level proficiency, and the results published as the third volume in the series. [Quoted from the publisher's website]

Details/詳細:
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New Book: Remembering the Kanji 2 (Third Edition)

Book Title/書籍タイトル:
Remembering the Kanji 2: A systematic Guide to Reading the Japanese Characters (Third Edition)

Author/著者:
James W. Heisig

Publisher/出版社:
University of Hawai`i Press

TOC/目次:
Available from the publisher's website.

Abstract/要旨:

Following the first volume of Remembering the Kanji, the present work takes up the pronunciation of characters and provides students with helpful tools for memorizing them. Behind the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China lie several coherent patterns. Identifying these patterns and arranging them in logical order can reduce dramatically the amount of time spent in the brute memorization of sounds unrelated to written forms. [Quoted from the publisher's website]

Details/詳細:
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UPDATE: Nihongo Kutoho Kenkyukai/日本語句読法研究会

The first meeting of the study group 日本語句読法研究会 (Nihongo Kutoho Kenkyukai) was held on January 12. For reviews, click on the links below.

日本語句読法研究会の第一回研究会が1月12日に開催されました。以下のリンクから出席者による報告をご覧になれます。

• 先週の12日、日本語句読法研究会、始動しました。(ひつじ書房)
• 日本語句読法研究会に出席してきました (タマゴの散歩道－文字世界を巡る旅－)
  

Writing Systems Syllabi (via LINGUIST List)

Peter T. Daniels, co-editor of The World's Writing Systems (1996), has posted the following message on LINGUIST List (19.261):

World's Writing Systems (1996) の編著者の一人であるPeter T. Daniels氏が、LINGUIST List (19.261) に以下のメッセージを投稿されています：

Subject: Writing Systems Syllabi

I have been a scholar of writing systems for 20+ years, but I am not a teacher. The opportunity has arisen to perhaps submit a proposal for a textbook on writing systems, so I would appreciate the opportunity of examining syllabi for one-semester (or one-quarter) courses on writing systems that have been taught by linguists, and I am not aware of any repository of such syllabi.

Thus: I would appreciate receiving any syllabus -- the more detailed the better -- that has been used for a course in writing systems.

Thank you.

Call for Papers: The 136th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan/日本言語学会

The 136th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Gakushuin University (Tokyo, Japan) from June 21 to 22, 2008. Deadline for papers is March 20, 2008.
For details, click here.

日本言語学界の2008年春季大会（第136回大会）が2008年6月21と22日の両日に学習院大学（東京都）にて開催されます。発表申し込みの締め切りは2008年3月20日となっています。
詳細はこちらをご覧ください。

New Feature: CALENDAR

Today I added the CALENDAR feature to the side bar so that I can list upcoming events and call deadlines. By clicking the links you can jump to the relevant pages.

本日サイドバーにCALENDARを追加しました。ここには学会などの各種イベントの開催日や締め切りなどの予定を掲載していきます。リンクをクリックすると関連ページにジャンプします。

Nihongo Kutoho Kenkyukai/日本語句読法研究会

I received a notice about a new study group called 日本語句読法研究会 (Nihongo Kutoho Kenkyukai), which will focus on issues related to the Japanese punctuation system. According to their web page, the first meeting will be held on Saturday, January 12, 2008, starting from 3 p.m. The place for the meeting is to be confirmed.

For details, click here.


日本語の句読法について研究する「日本語句読法研究会」が発足したそうです。会のページによれば、第一回研究会は2008年1月12日(土)15時より開催されるとのことです。なお、会場は未定とのことです。

詳しくはこちらをご覧ください。

Written Language and Literacy, 10(1)

The latest issue of Written Language and Literacy (Vol. 10, No. 1) has been published. For the table of contents and other information, click here.


『Written Language and Literacy』の最新号（10巻1号）が出版されました。目次などの情報はこちらをご覧ください。

Call for Papers: The 6th Workshop on Writing Systems

A call for papers has been published on LINGUIST List (18.3200) for The Sixth Workshop on Writing Systems, which will take place from September 18 to 19, 2008, at University of Braunschweig in Germany. The topic for the present workshop is Typology of Writing Systems. Submission deadline is May 2, 2008.

The invited speakers are William J. Poser (University of British Columbia/Yinka Dene Language Institute) and Rebecca Treiman (Washington University).

For details, click here.


2008年9月18日から19日の二日間に渡りドイツのUniversity of Braunschweigで開催されるThe Sixth Workshop on Writing Systemsの発表者募集がLINGUIST List (18.3200) を通じて通知されました。今回のワークショップのテーマはTypology of Writing Systems（文字・表記体系の類型論）となっています。LINGUIST Listの通知によれば、発表希望者は2008年5月2日までに要旨を提出することになっています。

なお、このワークショップでは、William J. Poser氏(University of British Columbia/Yinka Dene Language Institute)とRebecca Treiman氏(Washington University)による基調講演も予定されているそうです。

詳細はこちらをご覧ください。

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Reading and Writing

A call for papers has been published on LINGUIST List for a special issue of Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. The subtitle for the special issues is Acquiring Reading in Two Languages: Linguistic and Orthographic Factors. Call deadline is February 1, 2008.

For details, click here.


『Reading and Writing』特別号への投稿募集がLINGUIST Listで通知されました。特別号のサブタイトルはAcquiring Reading in Two Languages: Linguistic and Orthographic Factorsとなっています。募集締め切りは2008年2月1日です。

詳細はこちらをご覧ください。

BBC on Simplified English Spelling

Should we simplify spelling? - BBC News (July 10, 2007)

This article revisits the old and never-ending debate on English spelling reform. It features a series of emails exchanged between Ms. Masha Bell, a member of the Simplified Spelling Society, and Prof. Vivian Cook of Newcastle University. Ms. Bell argues that the current spelling system needs to be simplified to facilitate children's learning to read. Prof. Cook opposes her view from a linguistic standpoint, stressing that spelling is just one of various factors related to literacy.

Reading and Writing, 20(1-5)

Information on the latest issues of Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 20, Nos. 1-5) is now available from the publisher's website.


『Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal』の最新号（20巻1-5号）に関する情報が出版社のウェブサイトで公開されました。

Update: CAASL-2

Programme and other information on the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL-2) is now available from the workshop's homepage.

Workshop on Writing Systems and the Linguistic Structure

This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 18th International Congress of Linguistics (CIL 18).

• Date: July 21-26, 2008
• Place: Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
• Website: http://www.cil18.org/workshop/workshop_08.htm
  

According to the meeting description, centre to this workshop will be the following questions, although papers on other topics are also encouraged:

• What kinds of formal constraints constrain the mapping between language and
  writing?
• What effects do properties of writing systems have on conscious (or
  unconscious) knowledge of language among literate speakers.
• Are properties of scripts and writing systems -- e.g. such overt properties
  as script directionality -- related to what kind of information is encoded?

For those who are interested in giving a presentation, the deadline for submitting the abstract is August 31, 2007. For details, visit the official website shown above.

The Role of Phonology in Reading Acquisition

A workshop entitled The Role of Phonology in Reading Acquisition
will be held at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS).

Date: February 28-29, 2008
Place: Bamberg, Germany
Website: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/guk/tagungen/dgfs2008/program/panel_sessions/

Update: Workshop On Scripts, Non-scripts and (Pseudo)decipherment

Programme and other information on the Workshop On Scripts, Non-scripts and (Pseudo)decipherment is now available from the workshop's website.