29.1541, Calls: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Translation/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1541. Mon Apr 09 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1541, Calls: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Translation/Italy

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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:44:06
From: Francesca Bianchi [francesca.bianchi at unisalento.it]
Subject: Specialised Discourse and Multimedia: Linguistic features and translation issues

 
Full Title: Specialised Discourse and Multimedia: Linguistic features and translation issues 

Date: 14-Feb-2019 - 16-Feb-2019
Location: Lecce, Italy 
Contact Person: Francesca Bianchi
Meeting Email: francesca.bianchi at unisalento.it
Web Site: https://www.facebook.com/Specialised-Discourse-and-Multimedia-Conference-659001681159753 

Linguistic Field(s): Translation 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Portuguese (por)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2018 

Meeting Description:

This conference focusses on scientific and technical discourse and the ways in
which it appears in or is shaped by multimedia products. The key-issues of the
conference include (but are by no means limited to) the following:

- New multimodal or multimedia forms of specialised discourse (in
institutional, academic, technical, scientific, social or popular settings)
- Linguistic features of specialised discourse in multimodal or multimedia
genres
- The popularisation of specialised knowledge in multimodal or multimedia
genres
- The impact of multimodality and multimediality on the construction of
scientific and technical discourse
- The impact of multimodality/multimediality in the practice and teaching of
interpreting 
- The impact of multimodality/multimediality in the practice and teaching of
translation 
- New multimedia modes of knowledge dissemination
- The translation/adaptation of scientific discourse in multimedia products:
challenges and solutions
- Diatechnical transpositions of specialized discourse. 

Analytical approaches based on synchronic, diachronic and/or contrastive,
intralinguistic, interlinguistic and intercultural perspectives (including:
translation; transcreation; simplification) are all equally welcome. Studies
on one or more of the working languages of the conference are particularly
appreciated. 

The working languages of the conference are English, Italian, Spanish, French,
Portuguese.
Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.


Call for Papers:

Submissions should be directed to francesca.bianchi at unisalento.it by 31 July
2018. In the object line of the message please enter “ABSTRACT SUBMISSION”.

The required format for submissions is an abstract of 300-500 words (excluding
references), possibly in MS/word format.

Please do not include any self-identifying information on the abstract;
indicate only the title and the abstract itself. On a separate cover sheet,
please specify:

Title:
Author(s):
Affiliation(s):
Postal mailing address (for primary author):
E-mail (for primary author):
Telephone (for primary author):

Proceedings:

A volume of selected papers will be published. Detailed guidelines for
formatting and submitting the manuscript will be provided immediately after
the conference. 

Organizing Committee:

Francesca Bianchi, Gian Luigi De Rosa, Francesco Morleo, Elisa Fina, Caterina
Varasano, Francesca Degli Atti

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