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<pre><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">(Apologies for cross postings)
CLAVIER 11
TRACKING LANGUAGE CHANGE
IN SPECIALISED AND PROFESSIONAL GENRES
Modena, 24-26 November 2011
The international conference ‘Tracking Language
Change in Specialised and Professional Genres’,
hosted by the CLAVIER Group, will take place in Modena on 24-26 November 2011.
The nature of genres has always been defined as
both static and dynamic, functioning as
discursive action within particular social,
historical and cultural contexts but open to
individual and collective creativity and
innovation. Corpora can be powerful tools in
tracking this kind of change, as clearly shown by
a well-established tradition in historical
linguistics, where growing interest has been
shown in the diachronic analysis of specialized
genres. Elements of change, however, can also be
seen at work in contemporary discourse. As a
consequence, there is an increasing need for
diachronic approaches that may help map changes
brought about for example by new technologies or globalization.
Nowadays, with the recession of the traditional
constraints of geography on social and cultural
arrangements brought about by globalization, new
cultural and linguistic interconnections are
being established, for example in academic and
professional settings. This state of things can
account both for the emergence of new
‘globalizing genres’, and for the implementation
of a series of adaptations to the existing ones,
as possible solutions to guarantee the success
and survival of different genres in an era which
celebrates the need for a ‘global reach’.
The conference intends to focus on such issues in
order to provide a better definition of the
methods of investigation of language change, the
tools, the approaches, the new perspectives,
bringing together two complementary strands of
linguistic investigation - corpus analysis and
genre analysis. The conference purports to
describe the extent to which language resources
and generic resources are creatively exploited in
discourse, variously responding to or determining
new socio-cultural scenarios, with a special
interest in technological developments which have
radically changed the way specialized knowledge is disseminated.
In particular, contributions are invited,
focusing on textual, intertextual, organizational
aspects of genres, as well as on
interdiscursivity and other aspects which
contextualize genres as reflections of changing
disciplinary and professional cultures,
investigating how their integrity is negotiated
and exploited, in the following domains:
· Academic
· Professional
· Institutional
The conference is held by the CLAVIER (Corpus and
Language Variation In English Research) group, a
research centre founded by the Universities of
Bergamo, Firenze, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Roma
“La Sapienza”, and Siena, currently based in Modena.
One of the purposes of the 2011 CLAVIER
conference is to reinforce national and
international cooperation with scholars and
research centres that can widen and complement
the interest in language variation both in quantitative and qualitative terms.
Plenaries
Plenary speakers who have accepted to participate are:
Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire)
Winnie Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Hong Kong)
Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich)
The conference 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.
The colleagues who have agreed to take part in the round table are:
Jan Engberg (Aarhus School of Business)
Giuliana Garzone (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Maurizio Gotti (University of Bergamo)
Josef Schmied (Chemnitz University of Technology)
Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham)
Elena Tognini-Bonelli (University of Siena)
Geoffrey Williams (University of South Brittany).
Presentation Guidelines
Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.
Working Language: English
Contributions will be accepted on condition that
they are relevant to the special theme of the Conference.
Abstract Submission
Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no
more than 500 words by June 20th to the following </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">address: </span></pre><pre><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">clavier11 <at> <a href="http://unimore.it">unimore.it</a> </span></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">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:
Title:
Format: (paper/ poster)
Author(s):
Affiliation(s):
Postal mailing address (for primary author):
E-mail (for primary author):
Important dates
June 20th: Deadline for receipt of abstracts
July 11th: Notifications of acceptance
July 26th: Deadline for early bird registration
July 29th: Preliminary Programme
Organizing committee:
Marina Bondi – Silvia Cavalieri - Giuliana Diani - Franca Poppi
Scientific Committee:
Julia Bamford (Napoli) - Marina Bondi (Modena e
Reggio Emilia) – Gabriella Del Lungo (Firenze) -
Marina Dossena (Bergamo) – Franca Poppi (Modena e
Reggio Emilia) - Rita Salvi (Roma) – Elena Tognini Bonelli (Siena)
For any additional information, please contact
Franca Poppi:</span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">
franca.poppi <at> <a href="http://unimore.it">unimore.it</a></span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">or visit the Conference web-site at: </span></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"></span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://clavier11.sltt.unimore.it" target="_top"></a></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://clavier.sltt.unimore.it/on-line/Home.html">http://clavier.sltt.unimore.it/on-line/Home.html</a>
Prof. Franca Poppi
Associate Professor of English Linguistics
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Largo Sant'Eufemia, 19
41121 Modena
Italy
tel. + 39 059 2055946 </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">
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