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<td class="p-match" align="left" width="700">Cross-culturally Speaking, Speaking Cross-culturally<br><br><br> <br><br>Date: 06-Jul-2009 - 08-Jul-2009 <br>Location: Sydney, Australia <br>Contact Person: Bert Peeters <br>Meeting Email: Bert.Peeters<img src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" align="absBottom"><a href="http://humn.mq.edu.au">humn.mq.edu.au</a> <br>
<br>Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics <br><br>Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2008 <br><br>Meeting Description: <br><br>Conference Title: 'Cross-culturally speaking, speaking cross-culturally' <br>
<br>Dates: 6-8 July 2009 <br><br>Location: Macquarie University, Sydney <br><br>Organised by the Department of International Studies, Macquarie University <br>in cooperation with the Département des Sciences du Langage, Université <br>
Montpellier 3 <br><br>Organisational Board: <br>Bert Peeters (Chair), Brigitte Jandey, Marika Kalyuga, Martina Möllering, <br>Karin Speedy (all of Macquarie University); Christine Béal (Université <br>Montpellier 3) <br><br>
Scientific Board: <br>Nathalie Auger (Université Montpellier 3), Astrid Berrier (Université du <br>Québec à Montréal), Christopher Candlin (Macquarie University), Françoise <br>Demougin (IUFM Montpellier), Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, <br>
University of London), Cliff Goddard (University of New England), <br>Marie-Noëlle Guillot (University of East Anglia), Barbara Hanna (Queensland <br>University of Technology), Tony Liddicoat (University of South Australia), <br>
Miranda Stewart (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow), Véronique Traverso <br>(Université Lyon 2), Jock Onn Wong (National University of Singapore) <br><br>Guest Speakers: <br>Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (Université Lyon 2) - TBC <br>
Claire Kramsch (University of California, Berkeley) - TBC <br>Anna Wierzbicka (Australian National University) <br><br>Conference Blurb: <br>Issues in cross-cultural communication have exercised the minds of thousands of <br>
scholars world-wide and will no doubt continue to do so in the foreseeable <br>future. Cross-cultural communication is often relatively unproblematic (as <br>relatively unproblematic, that is, as communication within cultures), but it is <br>
a well-known fact that problems do develop from time to time and warrant the <br>attention of linguists and applied linguists alike. Cross-cultural pragmatic <br>failure, as it has been called, occurs because of insufficient knowledge, either <br>
of the formal rules of the language in which an interaction takes place (rules <br>that relate to its lexicon, its phonetics, its syntax), or of more elusive <br>aspects related to implicit cultural norms and values, often not adequately <br>
taught in foreign language classrooms. In the absence of appropriate <br>cross-cultural savoir-faire, it can have disastrous repercussions for <br>interpersonal relationships and lead to unhelpful stereotyping. <br><br>Call for Papers <br>
<br>Like its predecessor, the July 2007 Montpellier conference on which it seeks to <br>build, the present gathering is part of an ongoing cooperative agreement <br>between our two institutions and will bring together a number of scholars <br>
interested in gaining a better understanding, through the study of actual <br>communicative behaviour or otherwise, of the various linguistic and pragmatic <br>aspects of cross-cultural competence which are required for communication across <br>
cultural boundaries to be successful. Presenters wishing to analyze actual <br>communicative behaviour may choose among the following approaches: <br>1) A "comparative" approach which entails side-by-side observation of native <br>
speakers using their respective native languages in similar contexts or <br>interactions. The comparative approach allows similarities and differences in <br>usage and expectations in pre-defined communicative contexts to be brought into <br>
focus, and thus paves the way towards formulating hypotheses on potentially <br>sensitive points in cross-cultural situations. <br><br>2) A "cross-cultural" approach which entails analysis of contact situations in <br>
which speakers belonging to different cultural backgrounds interact with one <br>another. The cross-cultural approach allows identification of presumed obstacles <br>in cross-cultural communication which appear to generate misunderstanding or <br>
interpersonal clashes, and thus paves the way towards the identification of <br>underlying cultural values which are relevant for one or more of the speakers <br>but not for all. <br><br>3) A "pedagogical" approach which relies on observation of interlanguage <br>
behaviour among peers, comparing it to native performance in similar contexts or <br>interactions. The pedagogical approach relies on simulations and allows L1 <br>interferences on L2 to be brought into focus and thus complements findings <br>
achieved within a cross-cultural approach. <br><br>Regardless of the approach selected for a particular investigation, presenters <br>must make sure always to examine how the linguistic and cultural aspects of <br>verbal behaviour are intertwined. In addition, they are asked, whenever <br>
possible, to go beyond a purely descriptive approach and to envisage the <br>theoretical and/or pedagogical implications their data may provide. <br><br>Presentations not based on concrete communicative behaviour (i.e. the analysis <br>
of linguistic interaction using one of the approaches mentioned above) are also <br>invited, and will be especially welcome if they seek to engage with a newly <br>developed ethnolinguistic pathways model, preferably honouring its requirement <br>
to use the natural semantic metalanguage developed by Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff <br>Goddard. The aim of the model is to facilitate the study of cultural values <br>through language, and provides researchers and advanced students alike with <br>
strategies to gain a better knowledge of values using linguistic data. It seeks <br>to illustrate how and to what extent the detailed study of communicative <br>behaviour (ethnopragmatics), phrases (ethnophraseology), key words (ethnosemantics) <br>
and productive syntactic patterns (ethnosyntax) can lead to the discovery of <br>putative cultural values which are then to become the subject of further <br>investigation leading to either the confirmation or the rejection of their <br>
assumed status; and also how and to what extent, through a detailed study of <br>communicative behaviour, phrases, key words and productive syntactic patterns, <br>cultural values typically associated with a particular linguistic community can <br>
be further corroborated (ethnoaxiology). More information on the ethnolinguistic <br>pathways model is available on <br><br><a href="http://www.eurolang.mq.edu.au/staff/peeters/Pathways.pdf">http://www.eurolang.mq.edu.au/staff/peeters/Pathways.pdf</a> <br>
<br>Deadline for Submission of Abstracts <br>Single-spaced abstracts written in Times New Roman 12 and not exceeding one page <br>(excluding bibliographical references), with 1 inch margins on all sides, should <br>be e-mailed to Bert Peeters (Bert.Peeters<img src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" align="absBottom"><a href="http://humn.mq.edu.au">humn.mq.edu.au</a>) by 15 November 2008. <br>
They will be anonymously assessed by two or three members of the scientific <br>committee. Acceptances, either conditional or final, will be communicated by the <br>end of January 2009, and a provisional conference program will be released by <br>
the end of February. Although the main conference language will be English, <br>abstracts and presentations in French will be considered.
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<div><strong>Date:</strong> 04-Sep-2008 <br><strong>From:</strong> Derek Bousfield <debousfield<img src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" align="absBottom"><a href="http://uclan.ac.uk">uclan.ac.uk</a>><br>
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<div> Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness II Short Title: LIAR II <br><br>Date: 30-Jun-2009 - 02-Jul-2009 <br>Location: Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom <br>Contact Person: Jonathan Culpeper <br>Meeting Email: impoliteness2009<img src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" align="absBottom"><a href="http://lancaster.ac.uk">lancaster.ac.uk</a> <br>
Web Site: <a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/liar/index.htm">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/liar/index.htm</a> <br><br><br><br>Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2009 <br><br>Meeting Description: <br><br>30 June - 2 July 2009 <br>
Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness II (LIAR II): <br>The 2009 International Conference of the Linguistic Politeness Research Group <br>Lancaster, United Kingdom <br><br>Call for Papers <br><br>Building on the success of the first impoliteness conference (LIAR) at the <br>
University of Huddersfield in 2006, this three-day conference focuses on <br>language and communication that might be described as 'impolite', 'rude', <br>'aggressive', 'face-attacking', 'conflictive', 'confrontational', <br>
'linguistically aggressive', 'verbal bullying', 'discursive antagonism', etc. <br>However, we also warmly welcome any papers that are related to politeness <br>theory, application or practice in any form. Researchers and postgraduates <br>
working in fields such as linguistics, sociology, psychology, communication <br>studies, business studies, organizational studies, conflict resolution studies, <br>literature and philosophy are particularly welcomed, though the conference is <br>
open to all interested parties. The abstract deadline for both papers and <br>posters is 30th January 2009. (Please contact the organizers regarding any <br>proposals for panels before this date). <br><br>Opening Plenary: <br>
Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster) <br><br>Plenary Speakers: <br>Sara Mills (Sheffield Hallam University) <br>Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) <br>Karen Tracy (University of Colorado) <br>
<br>Contact: <br>Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University) and/or <br>Derek Bousfield (University of Central Lancashire) <br>Conference Email: impoliteness2009<img src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" align="absBottom"><a href="http://lancaster.ac.uk">lancaster.ac.uk</a> <br>
<br>Conference Website: <br><a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/liar/index.htm">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/liar/index.htm</a> <br><br>Linguistic Politeness Research Group Website: <br><a href="http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ea/politeness">http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ea/politeness</a> <br>
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