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Giustina Selvelli PhD Graduate Ca Foscari University of Venice - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Giustina Selvelli PhD Graduate Ca Foscari University of Venice - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Giustina Selvelli PhD Graduate Ca Foscari University of Venice ametista84@yahoo.it Language and alphabet in the Armenian diaspora of Plovdiv, Bulgaria: symbolic cultivation and identitary memory. AWPEL SEMINAR, 30th May 2017, Mytilini
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10-month ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Anthropological/ethnographic approach to writing systems:
Giorgio Raimondo Cardona (1943-1988):
- The Anthropology of Writing (1981)
- Universal History of Writing (1986) (in Italian)
David Barton, Uta Papen:
- The Anthropology of Writing. Understanding
Textually Mediated Worlds (2010)
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Sociolinguistic approach to writing systems’ analysis:
In the Southeast European context:
Greenberg, R., “Language and Identity in the
Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration”, 2004
Bugarski, R., “Language from peace to war”
(“Jezik od mira do rata”, in Serbo-Croatian) (1994), “Language in social crisis” (“Jezik u društvenoj krizi”) (1997), “Script” (“Pismo”) (1996).
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Other sociolinguistic approaches to writing systems:
Fishman, J., (ed.) “Advances in the creation and
revision of Writing systems” (1977).
Sebba, M., “Ideology and Alphabets in the
former USSR” (2006), “Sociolinguistic approaches to writing systems research” (2009), “Orthography as social action. Scripts, spelling, identity and power” (2012).
Wellish, H., “The conversion of scripts. Its
nature, history and utilization” (1978).
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Glagolitic alphabet (864 A.D.)
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Georgian alphabet (430 A.D.)
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Ge’ez alphabet (6th–5th century BC)
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The current Armenian Diaspora
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Armenians in Plovdiv
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The diaspora: transnational and “transtemporal”
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Great Armenia in the space of memory
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The plate at the entrance of the school
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The Armenian School Victoria and Krikor Tiutiunjian
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The “Golden” alphabet plate
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Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet
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Symbols of belonging at the Armenian school
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The local bi-weekly newspaper “Parekordzagan Tzain”
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The alphabet in the “private” space
- f inscription
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“Commodification” of the alphabet?
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From graphic system to aesthetic element:
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The “aesthetic” rhetoric on the alphabet
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The Armenian Apostolic Church “Surp Kevork”
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The Armenian Apostolic Church “Surp Kevork”
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Inscription of the public space
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The Monument to the memory of the Genocide
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The crypt of the Church and the “Genocide memorial”
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The power of objects at the little “Genocide museum”
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Objects from a lost dimension
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Objects from a lost dimension
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Objects from a lost dimension
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Objects from a lost dimension
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The Armenian graveyard
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First Armenian tombstones (1880s)
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The tombstones with spelling mistakes:
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Two different orthographies
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Three (or more) different
- rthographies
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“Communist” tombstones
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