26.3885, Calls: Ling & Lit, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Italy

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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:26:54
From: Francesca Raffi [raffi.francescafr at gmail.com]
Subject: Languaging Diversity: Language(s) and Powe

 
Full Title: Languaging Diversity: Language(s) and Power 

Date: 03-Mar-2016 - 05-Mar-2016
Location: Macerata, Italy 
Contact Person: Elena Di Giovanni
Meeting Email: elena.digiovanni at unimc.it

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 10-Oct-2015 

Meeting Description:

The University of Macerata is proud to host the third conference of the Languaging Diversity series. After the success of the first two events, held at the University of Napoli Orientale in 2013 and the University of Catania in 2014, the third conference will centre around a specific topic: Language/s and power.
 
Plenary speakers include:
 
- Jorge Diaz Cintas, University College London, UK
- Writer Jamaica Kincaid, in conversation with writer and translator Franca Cavagnoli
- David Katan, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy

Registration:

Registration will open in September 2015.
Early bird rate: (10 September 2015- 20 January 2016): 110 euros (90 for students*)
Regular rate: (21 January -20 February 2016): 150 euros (110 for students*)
*to qualify for the student rate, proof of student status must be provided.

Call for Papers:

Writing, reading, interpreting, translating, reporting and re-telling are all activities which draw different cultures and languages together. Diversity is at the core of all these activities, which generate lingua-cultural encounters and clashes, often leading to new beginnings, more or less hybrid spaces and identities.

Following the very successful events in Naples in 2013 and Catania in 2014, the third edition of the Languaging Diversity international conference will be held at the University of Macerata, laying emphasis on the interactions between language(s) and culture(s) from the point of view of the power they generate, enforce, reinforce and undermine.

As Bassnett and Trivedi said with reference to translation, “it does not happen in a vacuum, but in a continuum”. And it is a highly manipulative activity. This is clearly true of all other forms of intercultural communication, through which power is in turn negotiated, imposed, hidden, distorted.

With its focus on power, Languaging Diversity 3 invites contributions from linguistic, literary, translation, interpreting and cultural studies scholars, as well as from academics in neighbouring disciplines with an interest in the dynamics of power, language and culture.
 
The conference is open, but not limited, to the following topics:

- The (re-)writing of power
- Institutional discourse and power projection
- Power relations in translation
- Audiovisual translation and accessibility as vehicles for/subverters of power
- Brokering power in interpreting
- Linguistic and cultural power in postcolonial settings
- Gender studies and the expression of power
- Corpus-based approaches to the study of power in language
- Variationist approaches to the expression of power in language: native/L1 vs. non-native/L2, original vs. mediated (translated, interpreted, edited), written vs. oral texts
- Authority and power in academic, professional and specialised language, including across disciplines
- Comparative and contrastive approaches to the expression of power across languages
- History, languages and powers.

Proposals:

We invite colleagues to send panel proposals in line with the topics above by 10 October 2015. Panel proposals should consist of a title, a 500-word description, the name/s of the panel host/s, plus at least two possible contributors, their affiliations, and proposed presentation title.

Confirmation of acceptance of panel proposals will be sent by 30 October.
 
Individual proposals: Abstracts for 20-minute papers (within or outside approved panels) should be sent by 20 December 2015, using the form which will be provided on the conference website. Abstracts should be 300-words long and accompanied by, references, name and affiliation of presenters. Notification of acceptance will be provided by 6 January.
 
All proposals shall be sent to: lang.div at unimc.it




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