(apologies for cross posting)
Hi all,
In keeping with the TEI Call for Papers for their member's meeting (1-3 November 2007, University of Maryland), I would like to put together a proposal for a session on Markup as a theory of text. This topic came up on TEI several months ago and received some expressions of interest. Basically, I am wondering about two types of questions:
1) What are the theoretical implications of digital markup for editors, paleographers, book historians, literary critics, linguists, etc. Are they different from, similar to, or of a completely different order from previous print practice?
2) Are markup schemas theories of the structure of a text in the way that linguistic theories are theories of language or literary theories are theories about literature? Do they/should they have theoretical lives of their own?
Of course I'm open to other understandings of the topic and papers do not need to concentrate specifically, exclusively, or at all on the TEI. They can be broad ranging or concentrate on specific smaller issues.
To keep with the TEI submission guidelines, I'd like to have abstracts emailed to me daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca (*not* the address I am using to post to this mailing list) by March 26th, so that I have sufficient time to come up with a slate before the TEI's April 6 deadline.
-dan