28.781, Calls: English, Linguistics & Literature/Albania

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Subject: 28.781, Calls: English, Linguistics & Literature/Albania

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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:43:55
From: Armela Panajoti [armelap at assenglish.org]
Subject: English and I: Literary and Cultural Encounters

 
Full Title: English and I: Literary and Cultural Encounters 
Short Title: ASSE2017 

Date: 08-Jun-2017 - 10-Jun-2017
Location: Vlora, Albania 
Contact Person: Armela Panajoti
Meeting Email: asse2017 at assenglish.org
Web Site: http://www.assenglish.org/eandi/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

Although the influence of English upon other languages and cultures is
enormous, the conference seeks to particularly inspire versatile and
challenging responses to the way and extent to which contact with English, the
language, culture and literature(s), has influenced users of English
(teachers, writers, speakers, immigrants or simply people) by informing and
reshaping their mindset, attitude to things, lifestyle or even identity. 

We invite scholars to join us in the reconsideration of past and present
relations and encounters of English with other languages and cultures as
represented in literature, cultural studies and other related areas of study.


Call for Papers:

English and I: Literary and Cultural Encounters
Fourth ASSE International Conference on British and American Studies
8-10 June 2017
Vlore, Albania 

Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2017

In today’s world flooded by globalization, internationalization,
interculturalisation and other related concepts and social approaches, English
has become a necessity that often conditions our work, lifestyle and even our
way of thinking. Although it would be curious enough to trace back the
beginnings of such influence of English upon other languages and cultures, it
would be even more interesting to investigate the ways in which English has
interacted with them over the years and centuries. Occurring inside and
outside the UK and at a multi-layered level of cultural exchange, that is,
between English and Welsh or English and Irish, between English and the former
colonies, between English and the European and American worlds, these
encounters have been far from easy ones.  The historical perspective of these
encounters is indeed important to understand why English has acquired such
linguistic, cultural and literary dominance not only among the
English-speaking countries but also worldwide, but it is even more important
to investigate the outcome(s) of these encounters, resulting most notably from
conflict, migration, mixed marriage, (mis)communication etc. 

What is more, in the recent decades, the advances of technology at large and
of information technology in particular have given English a special status as
the language of communication technology. 

Although the influence of English upon other languages and cultures is
enormous, the conference seeks to particularly inspire versatile and
challenging responses to the way and extent to which contact with English, the
language, culture and literature(s), has influenced users of English
(teachers, writers, speakers, immigrants or simply people) by informing and
reshaping their mindset, attitude to things, lifestyle or even identity. 

We invite scholars to join us in the reconsideration of past and present
relations and encounters of English with other languages and cultures as
represented in literature, cultural studies and other related areas of study.

Some possible topics the conference aims at addressing include:

- Historical encounters of English with other languages and cultures
- Representations of English(es) in language, literature, and culture
- The role of English in a world of technology
- Identit(ies) in the making
- How English is transforming and shaping language, literature, and culture
- The influence of English in human communication
- Literary representations of cultural encounters 
- English, globalization and internationalization: Issues and trends
- English, migration, integration and mobility
- English and a world on the move
- English, media and the social media
- Discursive constructions of cultural encounters
- English Language Teaching and educational technologies

Papers are welcomed from but are not limited to:

- British and Commonwealth Literature
- American Literature
- Literary Theory
- Literary Criticism
- Cultural Studies
- Intercultural Communication
- Communication Studies
- Media Studies
- Discourse Analysis
- Pragmatics
- Linguistics
- Semiotics
- Translation Studies
- Applied Linguistics
- ESP

The conference language is English. Please send your abstracts (about 250
words) for papers (20 min) as an MS word attachment to the following
Email-address by 31 March 2017:
asse2017 at assenglish.org.  

Please follow the template to be found at
http://www.assenglish.org/eandi/abstracts/ for abstract submission.

A selection of papers will be published in the journal in esse: English
Studies in Albania, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2.




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