MEXT Funded Research Project
Second Symposium: Standard Norms in Written Languages –Historical and
Comparative Studies between East and West
Held at the Conference Room of the Institute of Mongolian Studies,
University of Inner Mongolia
Languages of the Symposium: Chinese, English, Japanese and Mongolian
5th September 2014
8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome speech: President of the Institute of Mongolian Studies of the
University of Inner Mongolia
9:15-9:50 HARA Kiyoshi: Overview of the Project and the Objective of this
Symposium (in Japanese with translated text in Chinese)
Part 1: Overview of the East-West Comparison, Moderator: BAO Lianqun
9:50-10:50 Florian COULMAS: Writing System and Standardization (in
English with translated texts in Japanese and Chinese)
10:50-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:00 Thomasz KAMUSELLA: Are Central Europe and East /
Southeast Asia Alike? The Normative Isomorphism of Language, Nation and
State (in English with translated texts in Japanese and in Chinese)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Part 2: Europe and South Asia, Moderator: HUHBATOR
13:30-14:10 FUJII Takeshi: Competing Writing Systems: Devanagari and
Kaithi (in Japanese with translated text in Chinese)
14:10-14:50 NAWA Katsuo: Writing in one's mother tongue without
orthography: The case of Rang in Byans, Nepal and adjascent regions (in
Japanese with translated text in Chinese) (in Japanese with translated text
in Chinese)
14:50-15:10 Coffee Break
15:10-15:50 HARA Kiyoshi: Written norms of minority languages with long
written tradition: The example of the Celtic languages (in Japanese with
translated text in Chinese)
15:50-16:30 Tomasz KAMUSELLA: Creating Languages in Central Europe:
A Longue Durée Perspective (in English with translated texts in Japanese
and in Chinese)
16:30-17:10 TERAO Satoshi: Standardization of the writing systems in
indigenous languages in Middle and South America: The example of Bolivia
and Ecuador (in Japanese with translated text in Chinese)
17:10-18:00 General Discussion, Moderator: HARA Kiyoshi
18:00-19:30 Symposium Party
6th September
Part 3: East Asia, Moderator: BAIYINMENDE
9:00-9:20 TERAO Satoshi: Summary of the discussions of day one (in
Japanese with simultaneous translation in Chinese)
9:20-10:00 ARAKI Noriko: Interpreting words in Chinese serial novels in
Ming period (in Japanese and in Chinese)
10:00-10:40 HUANG Xing: Standardization of written languages of minority
people in China (in Chinese with translated text in Japanese)
10:40-11:30 OCHIAI Morikazu: On the Beijing language one hundred years
ago (in Japanese or in Chinese)
11:30-12:10 TANAKA Katsuhiko: On the Mongolian language norm (in
Japanese with translated text in Mongolian, abridged text in Chinese)
12:10-13:30 Lunch
Part 4 From East Asia to East-West Comparison, Moderator: OCHIAI
Morikazu
13:30-14:10 HUHBATOR: On the Standardization of written Mongolian in
Inner Mongolia and its actual significance (in Japanese and in Mongolian
with translated text in Chinese)
14:10-14:50 TANAKA Katsuhiko: On the language norm in Japanese (in
Japanese with translated text in Mongolian, and brief text in Chinese)
14:50-15:10 Coffee Break
15:10-18:00 General Discussion, Moderator: HARA Kiyoshi
Discussants: Florian COULMAS, TANAKA Katsuhiko, FUJII Takeshi,
NAWA Katsuo, TERAO Tomonori, OCHIAI Morikazu (in Japanese with
simultaneous translation in Chinese), HUANG Xing, XU Daming,
BAIYINMENDE (in Chinese with simultaneous translation in Japanese)
Poster sessions: Tomasz KAMUSELLA: Language Maps of Central Europe
BAO Lianqun: Manchurian Language