27.4198, Calls: Ling & Lit, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Estonia

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Subject: 27.4198, Calls: Ling & Lit, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Estonia

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:00:05
From: Liisi Laineste [liisi at folklore.ee]
Subject: Across Borders VII: Cultures in Dialogue

 
Full Title: Across Borders VII: Cultures in Dialogue 
Short Title: Across Borders 

Date: 27-Apr-2017 - 29-Apr-2017
Location: Tartu, Estonia 
Contact Person: Liisi Laineste
Meeting Email: acrossborders2017 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.folklore.ee/rl/fo/konve/AcrossBorders/2017/ 

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

Call Deadline: 20-Dec-2016 

Meeting Description:

The 7th international Across Borders conference organisers would like to
invite all scholars in humanities, esp. literature, linguistics,
communication, folkloristics, media, cultural studies, humour studies,
translation and interpreting, teaching methodology, to a discussion on the
broad subject of cultural neighbourhood and intercultural encounters within
it.

The conference will this time take place in Tartu, Estonia. Please find the
call for papers and further detailed information on the conference webpage at
http://www.folklore.ee/rl/fo/konve/AcrossBorders/2017/ or on the conference
Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/1587717398203255/. Feel free to
spread the news of our conference among colleagues and in your institutions.
The conference will definitely offer a rewarding scholarly and social
experience!

The important deadlines are:

- The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is December 20, 2016
- Acceptance notifications will be sent by January 1, 2017
- The deadline for paying early registration fee (120 EUR) is March 31, 2017
- Late registration fee (150 EUR) can be paid until April 20, 2017.


Call for Papers:

Intercultural encounters accompanying the movement of individuals and groups
receive a variety of expressions and call for a debate in an interdisciplinary
context. The conference aims at investigating aspects of culture, language and
literature in the context of a world made more mobile than ever before. 

The organizers of the conference wish to invite scholars in humanities, esp.
literature, linguistics, communication, folkloristics, media, cultural
studies, humour studies, translation and interpreting, teaching methodology,
to a discussion on the broad subject of cultural neighbourhood, especially
related to: 

- Minority cultures and literature, migration and narration, the Other,
autobiography and identity
- Communication styles, pragmatics of intercultural communication,
communication in institutions, folkloric communication, ethnolinguistics
- Humour and irony in cultural context
- Cross-cultural aspects of translation and (language) teaching, English as an
international lingua franca, language contacts, culture and the teaching of
languages, global learning, innovation in education
- Contemporary culture and media, transnational / transmedial cultural texts,
cultural and linguistic globalization / localization

Paper proposals with abstracts (300 words) should be sent by using the online
form on the conference webpage
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScN3pTgaQJZKHVVhVRghlreiWn-Eb0tKhuwO
0DlI9Ov5vP8qQ/viewform).




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