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<p class="stile20" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">LEXIS</span></b><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">, </span></b><span class="stile21"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">THE STUDY OF LEXICON ACROSS CULTURAL IDENTITIES
AND TEXTUAL GENRES</span></b></span><span class="stile21"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="stile20" style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="stile261"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">International
Conference, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Verona</st1:placename></st1:place>, 11-13 November
2010<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="stile20" style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Website: <a href="http://fermi.univr.it/lexis/index.html">http://fermi.univr.it/lexis/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile11"><span class="stile291"><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></b></span></p><p class="stile11"><span class="stile291"><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Call for papers</span></b></span><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="stile20" style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="stile261"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></span></p><p class="stile20" style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="stile261"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Research on
dictionaries and foreign language textbooks generally focuses separately either
on specialized textual genres or on cultural issues, whereas so far only few
studies have joined the two aspects so as to focus on lexicon – be it general
or specialized –</span></span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> <span class="stile261">from a cultural perspective.
Yet all uses of a language, including those for special</span> <span class="stile261">and teaching purposes, entail some cultural dimension. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile20" style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="stile261"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Hence,
culture(s)-sensitive lexicographical tools are needed that enable speakers to
achieve the necessary cultural knowledge (including the awareness of the
diversities among</span></span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> <span class="stile261">cultural systems) to
communicate successfully in international settings, even for specific and
professional purposes – e.g., in domains such as business, institutional,
legal, media, medical, political, or tourist discourse.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile20" style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="stile261"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The conference,
organized within the framework of the national research project “Dictionaries,
Language Materials and Words across Languages, Cultures and Ideologies”, aims
at shedding light on the relationship between lexicon and cultural heritage,
focusing on dictionaries, glossaries and textbooks.</span></span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile11"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="stile11"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Papers (20 <span class="spelle">mins</span> + 10 <span class="spelle">mins</span>
discussion) are invited, focusing on theoretical and methodological issues
concerning mainly</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile11" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-GB">culture-bound terms in textbooks, dictionaries and
glossaries, be they monolingual, bilingual, multilingual, thesauri, visual and
specialized dictionaries;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile11" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-GB">borrowing, translation and coinage of new words
functioning as a means of correspondence between different linguistic and
cultural systems</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile11" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-GB">relationships between lexicon and culture
particularly in <span class="stile421">the following fields:</span></span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> <span style="">business - law - media – medicine</span> – <span style="">politics and institutions – tourism</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile11"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></strong></p><p class="stile11"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-GB">The deadline for the submission
of abstracts (max 400 words)</span></strong><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">is <b>15 May 2010</b></span></strong>. Please indicate your
name, affiliation, snail mail and email address on the abstract and send it in
.doc or .rtf format to: </span><span style=""><a href="mailto:lexis@ateneo.univr.it"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">lexis@ateneo.univr.it</span></a></span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile11"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 30 June 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile11"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="stile11"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">LANGUAGES OF THE CONFERENCE:<b> </b>English, French, Italian, Spanish.</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile11"><span class="stile291"><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></b></span></p><p class="stile11"><span class="stile291"><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Keynote speakers: </span></b></span><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="stile11" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="spelle"><span style="" lang="FR"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="" lang="FR">GEOFFREY WILLIAMS</span></b><span style="" lang="FR">, <span class="spelle">Université</span> de Bretagne-<span class="spelle">Sud</span>, Vice-President of <span class="spelle">Euralex<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="stile11" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="FR"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="" lang="FR">JEAN
PRUVOST</span></b><span style="" lang="FR">, <span class="spelle">Université</span> de <span class="spelle">Cergy-Pontoise</span>,
Director of the CNRS Laboratory <span class="spelle">Lexiques</span> <span class="spelle">Dictionnaires</span> <span class="spelle">Informatique</span> and of
<span class="spelle">Dictionnaires</span> <span class="spelle">Bordas</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="stile11"><span class="stile291"><b><br></b></span></p><p class="stile11"><span class="stile291"><b>Scientific </b></span><span class="spelle"><b>Committee</b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="stile11"><span class="stile301"><span style="">Roberto
CAGLIERO, Roberta FACCHINETTI, Cristiano FURIASSI,</span></span><span style="color: black;"> <span class="stile301">Cesare
GAGLIARDI, Giovanni IAMARTINO, Pierluigi LIGAS, Nadia MINERVA,</span> <span class="stile301">Carmela NOCERA, Stefania NUCCORINI,</span> <span class="stile301">Maria
Teresa PRAT ZAGREBELSKY, Felix SAN VICENTE SANTIAGO.</span></span></p>
<p class="stile11"><span class="stile291"><b><br></b></span></p><p class="stile11"><span class="stile291"><b>Organizing </b></span><span class="spelle"><b>Committee</b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="stile11"><span class="stile301"><span style="">Elisabetta
ADAMI, Anna BELLADELLI, Cristiana CHIARINI, Roberto CAGLIERO,</span></span><span style="color: black;"> <span class="stile301">Marta
DEGANI, Roberta FACCHINETTI, Paolo FRASSI, Cesare GAGLIARDI,</span> <span class="stile301">Maria Cristina GATTI, Pierluigi LIGAS, Maria Ivana LORENZETTI,</span>
<span class="stile301">Paola VETTOREL, Anna ZANFEI</span></span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="stile11"><span class="spelle"><b><br></b></span></p><p class="stile11"><span class="spelle"><b>Coordination</b></span><b>:<span class="stile291"> </span></b><span class="stile291"><span style="">Roberta FACCHINETTI</span></span></p>
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