International Workshop, organized by the Institute of Iranian Studies (IFI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and Vienna Linguistic Society and the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
13.12-15.12.2016, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Ancient societies display, in varying degrees, a multilingual environment. Among the numerous studies dealing with this issue the social implications of multilingualism has not yet received much attention. We would like to discuss six major aspects:
(a) cognitive aspects of the relation between language and social experience in the dialectic conditions of a multilingual state.
(b) religious experience and social pragmatics in the context of ancient societies
(c) attempts to impose the language of the elite upon the dependant classes, including its application for “imperialistic” purposes;
(d) studying the relevance of linguistic forms of expression for the questions of social message, institutional communication and ‘invention of traditions’ within a specific socio-political system;
(e) addressing the use and misuse of languages for establishing group identities, focussing on antagonistic social groups on various levels of a society;
(f) social dimensions of literary genres: hymnal poetry vs. epic poetry in the field of tension between social strata such as priests vs. kings-warriors.
In the framework of the conference the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press shall present the new fascicle of the Grammatica Iranica monograph series, by Rüdiger Schmitt, dedicated to the stylistics of Old Persian inscriptions and published in the Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik series of the Sitzungsberichte der ÖAW:
Stylistics of Old Persian Royal Inscriptions
The keynote lecture on questions of multilingualism in Bactria will be delivered by Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt, Foreign Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
PROGRAMME (PDF)
December 13, 2016
| till 16:30 | Arrival of the participants |
| 16:30–17:00 | Registration |
| Opening Session – Chairman: Jens Braarvig | |
| 17:10–17:10 | Florian Schwarz (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Welcome and introduction on behalf of the Institute of Iranian Studies |
| 17:10–17:20 | Hans Christian Luschützky (University of Vienna / Vienna Linguistic Society): Welcome and introduction on behalf of the Vienna Linguistic Society |
| 17:20–17:30 | Velizar Sadovski (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Rüdiger Schmitts Stilistik der altpersischen Inschriften im Kontext der Grammatica Iranica |
| 17:30–17:45 | Rüdiger Schmitt (Laboe, Germany / Austrian Academy of Sciences): Stilfiguren in den achämenidischen Königsinschriften |
| 17:45–18:00 | Tea break |
Late Afternoon Session – Chairman: Florian Schwarz |
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| 18:00–18:15 | Hans Christian Luschützky (Vienna Linguistic Society): Vorstellung der Vortragenden: Paola Cotticelli |
| 18:15–19:00 | Paola Cotticelli (University of Verona): Die pragmatische Wirkung der Rhetorik in den hethitischen Texten |
| 19:00–19:30 | Discussion |
December 14, 2016
| Early Morning Session – Chairman: Adriano V. Rossi | |
| 10:30–11:00 | Jens Braarvig (University of Oslo, Norway): Some loan translations in Old Norse |
| 11:00–11:30 | Dariush Borbor (Research Institute and Library of Iranian Studies, Teheran): Metaphor, Metonymy and Cognition in Comparative Reduplication |
| 11:30–12:00 | Coffee break |
| Late Morning Session – Chairman: Hans Christian Luschützky | |
| 12:00–12:30 | Adriano V. Rossi (University of Naples): Achaimenidika |
| 12:30–13:15 | Rüdiger Schmitt (Laboe, Germany / Austrian Academy of Sciences): Onomastica Irano-Aramaica Bactriana. Zu den Personennamen der aramäischen Dokumente aus Baktrien |
| 13:15–15:30 | Lunch break |
| Early Afternoon Session – Chairman: Rüdiger Schmitt | |
| 15:30–16:00 | Oswald Panagl (University of Salzburg): Stilfiguren und sprachliche Interferenzen Im Dithyrambos Persai des Timotheos |
| 16:00–16:45 | Velizar Sadovski (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Heroic epics “from hero to zero”? Sociolinguistic stratification, politics of discursive authority and development of Indo-Iranian poetic genres in Vedic times |
| 16:45–17:15 | Tea break |
| Late Afternoon Session – Chairwoman: Paola Cotticelli | |
| 17:15–17:45 | Ran Zadok (University of Tel Aviv): Iškūz(a) |
| 17:45–18:15 | Gebhard Selz (University of Vienna): Teaching an early writing system in a multilingual society |
| Early Morning Session – Chairman: Ran Zadok | |
| 10:00–10:30 | Mark Geller (Freie Universität zu Berlin): Multilingualism in Babylonian Lexicography |
| 10:30–11:00 | Florentina Badalanova-Geller (TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Freie Universität zu Berlin): Enochiana: from Babylon to Byzantium |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee break |
| Late Morning Session – Chairman: Oswald Panagl | |
| 11:30–12:00 | Roman Gundacker (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Nominal compounds and ancient Egyptian geography. The geographic awareness of the ancient Egyptians in the third millennium BC according to linguistic evidence |
| 12:00–12:30 | Klaus Wagensonner (Yale University): Ancient interpreters. Commenting, explaining, and translating in ancient Near Eastern sources |
| 12:30–13:00 | Gebhard Selz (University of Vienna) and Velizar Sadovski (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Closing remarks |