24.2350, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Italy

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Subject: 24.2350, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Italy

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Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:17:25
From: Silvia Cacchiani [silvia.cacchiani at unimore.it]
Subject: CLAVIER 13 - Discourse in and through the Media

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Full Title: CLAVIER 13 - Discourse in and through the Media 
Short Title: CLAVIER13 

Date: 06-Nov-2013 - 08-Nov-2013
Location: Modena, Italy 
Contact Person: Silvia Cacchiani
Meeting Email: clavier13 at unimore.it
Web Site: http://www.clavier.dslc.unimore.it/site/home.html 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2013 

Meeting Description:

CLAVIER (http://www.clavier.unimore.it/site/home.html) is a research group based in Modena and including a network of Italian universities (Bergamo, Florence, Milan State, Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Siena and Trieste) with an interest in combining two complementary strands of linguistic investigation - corpus analysis and discourse analysis - for a quantitative and qualitative study of language variation in English in terms of diachronic, geographic and socio-cultural dimensions. Within this research framework, CLAVIER is pleased to announce its 2013 International Conference:

CLAVIER 13
Discourse in and through the Media. Recontextualizing and Reconceptualizing Expert Discourse. 
Modena, 6-8 November 2013

Recontextualizing and reconceptualizing expert discourse has become increasingly important in modern society. Yet although Knowledge Dissemination (KD) is now receiving increasing attention, the discursive strategies and the pragmatics of KD in and through the media have not received serious consideration. Knowledge dissemination can be seen as a form of ‘asymmetric’ communication between experts and lay-people, or ‘mediation’ of knowledge and intercultural and ‘inter-discourse communication’ (Scollon, Scollon 1995) between members of different cultures, discourse communities and communities of practice. This amounts to re-contextualization (Calsamiglia, Van Dijk 2004) and inclusion of types of ‘intralinguistic’ translations. Here, simplification, explicitation, reformulation (Mauranen 2006), reconceptualization of terms in the subject field ‘translate’ exclusive expertise into ‘comprehensible’ knowledge, suitable to the background of the addressee. 

In this context, the aim of the conference is to stimulate the debate on a variety of aspects related to the representation of specialised discourse in and through the media, e.g. voice and point of view, argumentative practices, knowledge construction, multimodality, re-contextualization and re-conceptualization of knowledge, and peer-to-peer communication within genres aimed at knowledge dissemination and popularization. The conference is intended to encourage cross-generic and cross-disciplinary investigations, in an attempt to advocate integrated approaches to the study of media discourse with a view to both theoretical background and practical applications. More specifically, the key-issues of the conference include (but are by no means limited to) the following:

- Web genres and web-mediated knowledge dissemination
- Register variation and knowledge representation across media
- Re-contextualizing knowledge in and through the media
- Genres of knowledge dissemination, from both a synchronic and a diachronic point of view

The following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation:

Colleen Cotter, Queen Mary University of London
Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki 
Cornelius Puschmann, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Oxford

Members of the scientific committee will also be presenting their current research.

The conference will start early in the afternoon on the first day and close around lunchtime on the third day, with a roundtable in which participants and invited speakers will discuss theoretical and methodological issues emerged from the papers presented in the previous sessions.

Organizing Committee:

Marina Bondi
Silvia Cacchiani
Giuliana Diani
Davide Mazzi
Annalisa Sezzi
Anna Stermieri

Call for Papers:

Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no more than 300 words (including references) by July 15, 2013 to the following address: clavier13 at unimore.it. 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:
Email:

Important Dates:

July 15, 2013: Deadline for receipt of abstracts
July 31, 2013: Notification of acceptance/rejection
September 10, 2013: Programme
September 1 - September 30, 2013: Early-bird registration
October 1 - October 31, 2013: Standard registration  

For any additional information, please contact us at clavier13 at unimore.it or visit us at http://www.clavier.dslc.unimore.it/site/home.html.

Scientific Committee:

Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) 
Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence)
Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo) 
Giuliana Garzone (State University of Milan)
Giuseppe Palumbo (University of Trieste)
Rita Salvi (Sapienza University of Rome)
Elena Tognini Bonelli (University of Siena)
Silvia Cacchiani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) 
Davide Mazzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)







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