GRK 1458: Notational Iconicity: Materiality, Perceptibility and Operativity of Writing

研究培训小组的目的是调查在人文科学中具有核心重要性的一个主题：扩展意义上的记号题字的写作概念。通过柏林-波茨坦地区13个不同学科的研究人员之间的合作，它的目标是促进视角的转变，从以语音为基础的语言写作概念转变为图像化的语言中立概念。虽然，特别是在西方字母中心论的范围内，书写往往被简单地视为记录口语的手段，但研究培训小组认为，重要的是考虑符号的维度，使书写不仅仅是用于记录口语的媒介。例如，当人们从事诸如编写计算、更正文本、处理科学公式、编写音乐作品或编排、绘制图表或编程等活动时，但也在编写纵横字谜、回文和字谜等游戏时，这些活动不能用口语来充分描述。此外，非欧洲的非字母书写系统显示出明显的图像化潜力。研究培训小组的目标是帮助克服书写/符号概念，这种概念不仅在表音学上有所减少，而且过于狭隘地以欧洲为中心。我们的主要假设是，写作最好被认为是一种混合形式，结合了话语(语言)和图标(图像)的特征。字母和非字母的记数法都是如此。将调查写作的探索和创造潜力，可见性和可用性之间的联系，科学和艺术、日常生活、娱乐和宗教实践中符号形式的审美质量和可操作性之间的关系。它以“符号象似性”为指导思想，关注文字与其隐含的象似性之间的关系。

The Research Training Group aims to investigate a topic that is of central importance in the humanities: the concept of writing in the extended sense of notational inscription. By means of collaboration between researchers from thirteen different academic disciplines in the Berlin-Potsdam area, its objective is to contribute to a change of perspective from a phonographic, language-based concept of writing to an iconographic, language-neutral concept. Whilst, particularly within the horizon of "occidental alphabetcentrisms", writing has tended to be regarded simply as means of recording spoken language, the Research Training Group believes that it is important to consider the dimensions of notation that make writing more than merely a medium used to record spoken utterances. When, for instance, people go about such activities as writing calculations, correcting texts, dealing with scientific formulas, writing musical compositions or choreographies, drafting diagrams or programming, but also in writing games like crossword puzzles, palindromes and anagrams, these activities cannot adequately be described by recourse to spoken language. Moreover, non-European non-alphabetic systems of writing reveal a distinctly iconographic potential. The Research Training Group aims to contribute to overcoming a concept of writing/notation that is not only reduced on phonography but also too narrowly Eurocentric. Our leading hypothesis is that writing is best conceived as a hybrid form, combining discursive (language) and iconic (image) characteristics. And this is true for both alphabetical and non-alphabetical systems of notation. The explorative and creative potential of writing, the connections between visibility and usability, between aesthetical quality and operational power of forms of notation in scientific and artistic, everyday, playful and religious practices will be investigated. With the guiding concept of "notational iconicity", its focus is upon the relation between writing and its implicit iconic nature.