17.2601, Confs: Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 17.2601, Confs: Pragmatics/UK

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Date: 14-Sep-2006
From: Emmanuel DEFAY < emmanuel.defay at univ-lyon2.fr >
Subject: AFLS Symposium 

	
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:28:01
From: Emmanuel DEFAY < emmanuel.defay at univ-lyon2.fr >
Subject: AFLS Symposium 
 



AFLS Symposium 

Date: 03-Nov-2006 - 04-Nov-2006 
Location: Norwich, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom 
Contact: Marie-Noelle Guillot 
Contact Email: m.guillot at uea.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.llt.uea.ac.uk/news_events/crossculturalpragmatics.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads: Speech Frames and Cultural Perceptions

Pragmatique comparée à la croisée des chemins: Cadres du discours et perceptions culturelles 

The purpose of this interdisciplinary event is to bring together, under the umbrella of cross-cultural pragmatics, researchers from domains which are particularly sensitive to cross-cultural issues, to promote the cross-fertilisation of ideas and theoretical approaches, and explore, beyond stereotypes, key concerns associated with verbal communication across language, culture and acquisitional divides.
 
Domains of specific interest will be interlanguage pragmatics, mediation (with reference to real-life or fictional contexts, i.e. translation/interpreting, but also dubbing / subtitling / translation / adaptation of fictional interactions, for example)  and non-standard varieties of language. These are spheres of enquiry in which cross-cultural issues and their implications in various respects (e.g. pragmatic development for interlanguage) surface with peculiar acuteness, and which give us privileged access to data for refining their study. Questions the workshop will aim to explore include: the interface between the linguistic and the cultural, between speech frames and cultural perceptions, misapprehensions of pragmatic values across languages and their implications, issues of membership knowledge generally, issues of transfer, intercultural styles. 

The workshop will focus principally, but not exclusively, on the  French/English pair,  a combination of languages which has received comparatively limited attention in cross-cultural pragmatics (but see Béal, Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Traverso), and even less in interlanguage pragmatics. It will, by virtue of its themes and the inbuilt interdisciplinarity of cross-cultural pragmatics generally, be informed by different theoretical paradigms (e.g. conversation and interactional discourse analysis, intercultural communication, politeness theory and, for interlanguage, second language acquisition and psycholinguistics). Proposals, for individual papers (20 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions) or proposer-led round-table sessions on a particular theme (1h30), will be expected clearly to identify their theoretical frame(s) of reference.

The general framework for the workshop will be provided by plenary papers delivered by distinguished scholars representing complementary perspectives: cross / intercultural studies (Helen Spencer-Oatey, Cambridge University), discourse in interaction (Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Université Lyon 2),  interpreting and non-standard language varieties (Declan McCavana, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris).





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