18.2937, Calls: General Ling,Ling Theories/Germany; Applied Ling,Socioling/Poland

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Subject: 18.2937, Calls: General Ling,Ling Theories/Germany; Applied Ling,Socioling/Poland

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1)
Date: 08-Oct-2007
From: Monika Rathert < m.rathert at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de >
Subject: Nominalizations Across Languages 

2)
Date: 08-Oct-2007
From: Urszula Okulska < u.okulska at uw.edu.pl >
Subject: Critical Discourse Analysis and Global Media

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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:58:04
From: Monika Rathert [m.rathert at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Nominalizations Across Languages 
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Full Title: Nominalizations Across Languages 

Date: 29-Nov-2007 - 01-Dec-2007
Location: Stuttgart, Germany 
Contact Person: Monika Rathert
Meeting Email: m.rathert at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
Web Site: http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb10/rathert/forschung/nominalizations.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2007 

Meeting Description

This workshop on 'Nominalizations Across Languages' takes place in Stuttgart, 
November 29 - December 1 2007. It is organized by Artemis Alexiadou (Universität
Stuttgart, Institut für Linguistik: Anglistik) and Monika Rathert (Universität
Frankfurt/Main, Institut für Kognitive Linguistik). The workshop is financed by
the German Research Foundation DFG (GZ 4851-339-07). 

Call for Participation and Posters

In addition to the talks (see below), there is room for 10-15 poster
presentations. Please send your poster abstract (not more than 2 pages) via 
email to m.rathertlingua.uni-frankfurt.de. Deadline for poster abstracts: 
October 31st 2007. 

Thursday, 11/29/07 
starting 18.00 Warming Up 

Friday, 11/30/07 
starting 08.00 Registration & Coffee 
08.50-09.00 Artemis Alexiadou (Universität Stuttgart) & Monika Rathert
(Universität Frankfurt a.M.): Opening 
09.00-09.40 Klaus von Heusinger (Universität Stuttgart) & Regine Brandtner
(Universität Stuttgart): Meaning Transfer and the Compositional Semantics of
Nominalizations 
09.40-10.20 Barbara Stiebels (ZAS Berlin): Nominalizations as sentential arguments 
10.20-10.40 coffee 
10.40-11.20 Chris Barker (New York University): Nominalizations, events, and
puzzles of identity 
11.20-12.00 Melanie Uth (Universität Stuttgart): The rivalry between the French
nominalization suffixes -ment and -age from a diachronic perspective 
12.00-13.30 lunch 
13.30-14.10 Nicole Dehé (Freie Universität Berlin) & Vieri Samek-Lodovici
(University College London): N-raising in DPs, evidence from prosodic phrasing 
14.10-14.50 Judith Meinschaefer (Universität Konstanz): Derived nouns,
nominalized infinitives and finite verbs in Spanish 
14.50-15.10 coffee 
15.10-15.50 Torgrim Solstad (Universität Stuttgart): Arguments in nominalisations 
15.50-16.30 Andres Salanova (MIT/ University of Ottawa): Action nominalizations
do not embed extended verbal projections 
16.30-17.10 Poster Session with coffee 
17.10-17.50 Magdalena Schwager (Universität Frankfurt a.M.): Possessives:
Definiteness, anaphoricity and binding 
17.50-18.30 Antonio Fabregas (University of Madrid/ Tromsø): A syntactic account
of affix rivalry in Spanish nominalizations 
starting 19.30 conference dinner   

Saturday, 12/1/07 
starting 08.00 Registration & Coffee 
09.00-09.40 Liesbet Heyvaert (Leuven University): Nominalization in English as
integration of clausal-constructional and nominal categories 
09.40-10.20 Monika Basic (University of Tromsø): On the morphological make-up of
nominalizations in Serbian 
10.20-10.40 coffee 
10.40-11.20 Ingrid Kaufmann (Universität Konstanz): Argument realization in
German event nominalizations 
11.20-12.00 Tibor Laczkó (Debrecen University): A New Account of Possessors and
Event Nominals in Hungarian 
12.00-13.30 lunch 
13.30-14.10 Antje Roßdeutscher (Universität Stuttgart): Syntactic and semantic
constraints in the formation and interpretation of -ung-nouns 
14.10-14.50 Artemis Alexiadou & Florian Schäfer (Universität Stuttgart): t.b.a. 
14.50-15.10 coffee 
15.10-15.50 Isabelle Roy (University of Tromsø): Nominalizations and relational
adjectives 
15.50-16.30 Chiara Melloni (Verona University): A morpho-semantic account of
deverbal nouns 
16.30-16.40 coffee 
16.40-17.20 Ivy Sichel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): t.b.a. 
17.20-18.00 Monika Rathert (Universität Frankfurt a.M.): Deverbal
nominalizations in German and English 
starting 18.00 Party

Registration

Faculty 30 Euro, students/low income 20 Euro. 
Payment is on-site. 

Further Information

Travel and accommodation information will be available on the workshop web site 
(http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb10/rathert/forschung/nominalizations.html) which 
will be updated regularly. For further information, please send an email to 
m.rathertlingua.uni-frankfurt.de.

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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:58:33
From: Urszula Okulska [u.okulska at uw.edu.pl]
Subject: Critical Discourse Analysis and Global Media 
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Full Title: Critical Discourse Analysis and Global Media 
Short Title: GlobE 2008 

Date: 18-Sep-2008 - 20-Sep-2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland 
Contact Person: Urszula Okulska
Meeting Email: u.okulska at uw.edu.pl
Web Site: http://globe.ils.uw.edu.pl 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2008 

Meeting Description

The theme of this conference locates at the intersection of cross-cultural
discourse analysis, critical linguistics and translation theory. 

Suggested topics within the scope of the Conference:
- media communication as intercultural communication: mediation, translation,
adaptation; 
- information, values, reader (viewer) orientation;
- globalization and local world views; 
- global information politics and local ideologies in the media;
- local mediation of global topics;
- global mediation of national topics and cultural emphases (collective
memories, taboos, de-sacralization of symbols);
- re-contextualization and semiotic re-coding in the media (multi-modal
communications);
- mediating humor and irony;
- global genres and local media politics; 
- use and abuse in cross-cultural mediation of texts (documents, statements,
opinions, images); 
- use and misuse of citations and reported speech;
- use and misuse of science in political discourse;
- ideologies and power in the media;
- developing solidarity and hostility through the media; 
- professionalism and ethics in media communication (translation);
- knowledge-based societies and the media: educational aspects;
- media discourses and language teaching;

Individual papers (20 min. paper + 10 min. discussion) and workshop proposals
are invited. Abstracts (300-500 words), with the author's name, affiliation,
e-mail address, and paper title should be sent via e-mail to the Conference
address globe.ils at uw.edu.pl by the end of February 2008.
Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors by 31 March 2008.

Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

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