16.283, Confs: Applied Ling/Pragmatics/Socioling/Moscow, Russia

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Date: 27-Jan-2005
From: Manfred Schmitz < manfred.schmitz at intertext.de >
Subject: Communication Services in the Context of Global Intercultural Exchange

	
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:23:49
From: Manfred Schmitz < manfred.schmitz at intertext.de >
Subject: Communication Services in the Context of Global Intercultural Exchange


Communication Services in the Context of Global Intercultural Exchange

Date: 30-Sep-2005 - 01-Oct-2005
Location: Moscow, Russian Federation, Russia
Contact: Manfred Schmitz
Contact Email: manfred.schmitz at intertext.de
Meeting URL: http://www.ialb.net

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics;
Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Translation

Meeting Description:

The XXX Annual Conference of the International Association Language and
Business (IALB) deals with the intercultural aspects of multilingual
communication services within the framework of industrial and commercial
globalisation, i.e. the increasing integration of national economies, in
particular due to trade and the flow of capital, but also to the ever
increasing migration and technological development across national borders
and even from continent to continent. One important objective in education
and training in the communications-related professions, viz. in the
language professions, is to advance and promote comprehension and
understanding in multilingual communication, especially within the context
of today's globalised and almost limitless multimedia information society
and the world-wide transfer of knowledge and technology. Courses of study
such as ''Specialised intercultural communication'' are evidence of the
growing awareness that ever-greater importance must be attached to a
comparative study of the cultural environments of the various language
communities because translation and interpreting must also contain the
transfer of culture element in addition to the transfer of texts from one
language to the other. ''Culture'' here should be understood in its
all-inclusive sense, covering specialised knowledge in all sectors of
society, in technology, industry and commerce, the environment, the law and
politics. This conference is intended to promote the interchange of
information and knowledge in this sector which is now moving more and more
into focus, identify problem areas and, in particular,  provide the
language practitioners with the continuing professional development they
require. The organising team in Moscow has been devoting a lot of attention
for quire some time to the subject of interculturality and they enjoy an
excellent reputation in training students for the language professions.

The conference this year will have four working languages: English, French,
German and Russian. The topics for discussion shall include:

-	Culture as language - Language as culture (language, mentality, social
behaviour)
-	Global information processes taking into consideration intercultural aspects
-	Cultural aspects of the language of technology, commerce, industry, the
law and politics
-	Interculturality in practical translation and interpreting
-	The foreigner's language: foreign language university courses - modern
profiles!

This conference is aimed at

-	 Scientists and academic teaching staff at universities, institutes of
higher education and academies dealing with foreign-language communication
and which desire to give due consideration to the constantly changing
circumstances prevailing on the labour markets by adapting their curricula
to meet the practical requirements their students will face in the future;
-	Technical writers, translators and interpreters, and teachers of foreign
languages who are conscious of the fact that they need to set new accents
in their fields of activity and refocus their professional skills to cover
a wider range;
-	Specialists from industry, trade and commerce, the law and politics, for
whom international communication is a salient constituent part of their
professional activities and who have understood that differentiation of
their knowledge and abilities in this context represent a resource for
profit enhancement in their organisations.





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