27.465, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Translation/Ireland

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Subject: 27.465, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Translation/Ireland

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:26:56
From: Paul Sambre [paul.sambre at kuleuven.be]
Subject: ESSE 2016 Seminar: The Discursive Representation of Globalised Organised Crime

 Full Title: ESSE 2016 Seminar: The Discursive Representation of Globalised Organised Crime: Crossing 

Date: 22-Aug-2016 - 26-Aug-2016
Location: Galway, Ireland 
Contact Person: Paul Sambre
Meeting Email: paul.sambre at kuleuven.be
Web Site: http://www.esse2016.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Translation 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

Criminal syndicates are part of globalization, as they expand their activities across borders and export criminal models to other countries (Allum 2013). Since globalization entails crossing national, cultural and linguistic boundaries, it necessarily implies a linguistic dimension (Fairclough 2007; Wodak et al. 1999). In this respect, English as a lingua franca plays an important role in the media landscape as it serves as a global platform for world audiences. In spite of this, little attention has been devoted to the way national crime syndicates are discursively represented and recontextualized in English (Allum et al. 2010; Caliendo et al.; in press, Machin and Mayr 2013). 

This Seminar aims at bringing together different theoretical orientations inspired by linguistics, (critical) discourse studies, political discourse and translation studies in order to provide corpus-assisted analyses in different types of media, genres and formats (e.g. print media, documentary and feature movies, TV and digital supports). Such genres bring criminal organizations with foreign origins (such as the Italian mafias, South American drug cartels, amongst others) to a global audience in English, raising awareness about their globalizing reach and about the need to harmonise legal definitions of mafia-related crimes across the Eu.

References

Allum, Felia. 2013. Godfathers, dark glasses and pasta: discussing British
perceptions of Italian Mafias.  Sicurezza e Scienze sociali. Thematic issue
The perception of the Italian Mafias abroad and foreign organized crime, 1/3:
52-68.
Allum, Felia, Francesca Longo, Daniela Irrera and Panos A. Kostakos. 2010
(eds.). Defining and Defying Organized Crime. Discourse, perceptions and
reality. London: Routledge.
Caliendo, Giuditta, Inge Lanslots, Paul Sambre. In press. La ‘Ndrangheta, da
Sud, oltre frontiera, a Nord. Sulla rappresentazione multimodale di una
malavita globalizzata. Civiltà italiana. 
Fairclough, Norman. 2007. Language and globalization. London: Routledge.
Machin, David and Andrea Mayr. 2013. Personalising Crime and Crime-fighting in
Factual Television: an Analysis of Social Actors and Transitivity in Language
and Images. Critical Discourse Studies 10(4): 356–372.
Wodak, Ruth, De Cillia, Rudolf, Martin Reisigl, Martin and Karin Liebhart
(eds.). 2009. The Discursive Construction of National Identity. Edinburgh,
Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

Call for Papers: 

Participants are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of their proposed papers directly to the convenors of the seminar before 28 February 2016. They will be informed of the convenors' decision by 31 March 2016. Seminar presentations may be of maximum 15 minutes.

Submission format

- First name and surname
- Institutional affiliation
- E-mail (please, limit to one address)
- Title of paper
- Abstract (max. 200 words)
- Equipment needed (all seminar rooms will be equipped with a computer and a
projector).

Convenors

Giuditta Caliendo, University Lille 3, France,
giuditta.caliendo at univ-lille3.fr
Giuseppe Balirano, University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy, gbalirano at unior.it
Paul Sambre, University of Leuven, Belgium, Paul.Sambre at kuleuven.be

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