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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div><br></div><div>=======================================================</div><div><br></div><div>Language(s) in knowledge dissemination: LINKD workshop 2012</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Modena (Italy) 11-13 October 2012</div><div><br></div><div>=======================================================</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
<span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The
international workshop ‘Language in knowledge dissemination’ hosted by the </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Department of
Studies on Language, Text and Translation will take place in Modena on 11-13
October 2012.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt">Knowledge Dissemination (KD) has become increasingly
important in modern society for the socio-economic and cultural development of
citizens. The issue of how experts communicate their specialist knowledge to
lay-people has been widely discussed in the press and is often tackled in terms
of “translating” otherwise exclusive knowledge into more comprehensible
language. Comprehensibility can be seen as a matter of simplification,
explicitation or formulation in terms that are suitable to the level of knowledge
of the addressee. The issue can also be studied in terms of re-contextualizing
knowledge. As the applied linguistics literature on popularising is not extensive,
useful indications can come from studies on intercultural communication, when
looking at KD as “mediation” of knowledge between members of different
communities, each with their peculiar cultural and communicative practices. KD
can be seen as an example of “inter-discourse communication” i.e. communication
that cuts across the boundaries of discourse communities characterized by
different types of knowledge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt">While the issue of KD has often been studied in
relation to sciences that require exclusive expertise –e.g. chemistry or
physics, the LINKD workshop would like to consider both “hard” and
"soft" sciences. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt">The objective of the workshop is to explore the
language processes involved in KD in a theoretical, descriptive and applied
perspective. In particular, it aims to provide a clearer definition of the nature
of popularizing discourse, by means of an analysis of its strategies across
disciplines and languages, also including the discursive construction of
professional identity and intercultural communication, a closer lexical
investigation of specific domains, the deployment of lexicographic tools and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt">an
investigation of the use of visual elements in popularisation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt">Two complementary strands of linguistic investigation
- corpus analysis and genre analysis – will be brought together to ascertain
how far KD is actually characterized by intense use of metadiscourse, forms of
readers’ engagement, systematic use of definitions, reformulation, higher
degrees of explicitness, careful use of word-image relationship.</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt">The basic strands of analysis will concern:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">i) intralinguistic analysis of the recontextualization
process that leads from a specialized texts to its popularization outside the
circle of domain-specific experts; </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ii) multilingual analysis of the internal features of
knowledge dissemination, aimed at defining its strategies in different genres,
media, domains;</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">iii) thematic exploration of the multiple formats of
KD, ranging from introductory readings to scientific reports, travel literature
or children’s books.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">In particular, contributions are invited, focusing on</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">a)
features of popularized discourse in comparison to the scientific discourse; </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">b)
differences and similarities of KD genres in different cultures; </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">c)
studies of language variation across genres (focusing on metadiscourse, reformulation,
explicitness, lexis and phraseology); </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">d)
specific case studies on the verbal and visual language of KD in chosen
contexts; e) studies of translation problems and processes in KD;</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f)
comparative analyses of the dissemination flows in various languages and cultures
and social value of knowledge dissemination.</font><font face="Times New Roman, serif" style="font-size:14pt"></font></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><b><u><span lang="EN-US">PANEL PROPOSALS</span></u></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US">The organizers encourage proposals for panels
including sets of four related papers.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">The workshop is
held by the LINKD research group, active within CLAVIER (http://</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.clavier.unimore.it/" target="_blank">www.clavier.unimore.it</a></span><span lang="EN-US">) .</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">One of the
purposes of the LINKD 2012 workshp is to reinforce national and international
cooperation with scholars and research centres that can widen and complement
the interest in knowledge dissemination.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The workshop
will start early in the afternoon on the first day and close around lunchtime
on the third day, after a roundtable in which participants and invited speakers
will discuss theoretical and methodological issues emerged from the papers
presented in the previous sessions. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Speakers who have accepted to participate are: Susan
Hunston, Jan Engberg, Josef Schmied, Geoffrey Williams.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Presentation Guidelines</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes
for discussion.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Working Language: English/German/Spanish/French/Italian</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Contributions will be accepted on condition that they
are relevant to the special theme of the workshop. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Abstract Submission </font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no more
than 500 words by July 12th to the following address: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:linkd2012@unimore.it" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">linkd2012@unimore.it</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please do not include any self-identifying information
on the abstract; indicate only the title and the abstract itself. On a separate
cover sheet, include:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:150%"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Title:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:150%"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Format:
(paper/ poster)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:150%"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Author(s):</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:150%"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Affiliation(s):</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:150%"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Postal
mailing address (for primary author):</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:150%"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">E-mail (for
primary author):<b><u></u></b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:150%"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><b><u><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Important dates </font></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><b><u><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Submission deadline: 12th July, 2012</font></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">July 25th:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Notifications of acceptance</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">September 10th:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Deadline for early bird registration</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">September 17th: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Preliminary Programme</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Organizing committee:</font></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Marina Bondi – Silvia Cacchiani - Giuliana Diani – Flavio
Angelo Fiorani - Franca Poppi – Corrado Seidenari - Annalisa Sezzi – Daniela
Sorrentino</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Scientific Committee:</b> Marina Bondi (Modena e Reggio Emilia) – Julia
Bamford (Napoli) - Marco Cipolloni (Modena e Reggio Emilia) - Franca Poppi
(Modena e Reggio Emilia) - Jan Engberg (Aarhus) – <a name="137ef159761242f2__GoBack"></a>Marina
Dossena (Bergamo) - Giuliana Garzone (Milano) – Antonie Hornung (Modena e
Reggio Emilia) - Rita Salvi (Roma) – Marc Silver (Modena e Reggio Emilia) –
Elena Tognini Bonelli (Siena)</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">For any additional information, please contact Franca
Poppi at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:franca.poppi@unimore.it?subject=Clavier%2011" target="_blank">franca.poppi@unimore.it</a></span></font><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> or visit
the LINKD workshop page on the CLAVIER web-site, <a href="http://www.clavier.unimore.it/site/home/articolo18234.html" target="_blank">http://www.clavier.unimore.it/site/home/articolo18234.html</a></font><font size="4" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></font></span></p>
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