Epistemology of graphemics: history, onomastics, topics, interaction with other disciplines

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Graphemics in the 21st century

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From graphemes to knowledge

The conference will take place at Télécom Bretagne, Brest, on June 14-15-16, 2018.

Conference topics

• Epistemology of graphemics: history, onomastics, topics, interaction with other disciplines
• Foundations of graphemics
• History and typology of writing systems, comparative graphemics
• Semiotics of writing and of writing systems
• Computational/formal graphemics
• Graphemic theory of Unicode encoding
• Graphemics as part of linguistics, in particular: graphemics vs. phonology
• Orthographic reforms, theory and practice
• Graphemics and multiliteracy
• Sinographemics
• Typographemics and interaction of typography and graphemics
• Texting, latinization, new forms of written language
• ASCII art, emoticons and other pictorial uses of graphemes
• The future of writing, of writing systems and styles
• Graphemics and font technologies
• Graphemics in steganography and computer security (phishing, typosquatting, etc.)
• Graphemics in media and communication / Aesthetics of writing in the digital era
• Graphemics in experimental psychology and cognitive sciences
• Teaching graphemics, the five Ws and one H
• Applications of graphemics in natural language processing and text mining
• Applications of graphemics in optical character recognition and information technologies