29.14, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Discourse Analysis/Italy

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Subject: 29.14, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Discourse Analysis/Italy

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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:51:04
From: Luisa Caiazzo [luisa.caiazzo at unibas.it]
Subject: Naming, Identity and Tourism

 
Full Title: Naming, Identity and Tourism 
Short Title: NIT 

Date: 03-May-2018 - 05-May-2018
Location: Potenza, Italy 
Contact Person: Luisa Caiazzo
Meeting Email: nitunibas at gmail.com
Web Site: http://disu.unibas.it/site/home/naming-identity-and-tourism/articolo2005701.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The international conference focuses on the significance of names and naming
practices for issues of identity in tourism discourses. We welcome theoretical
contributions, case studies and methodological reconsiderations aimed at
investigating the relationship between names/naming and identity within
several areas of interest ranging from linguistic, literary, historical and
archeological references to local traditions as well as to the strategies
adopted to rebrand places to make them more appealing to potential visitors.

Participants are required to complete the registration form available here

Conference registration dates:

Early bird registration: by 15 March 2018
Late registration: between March 16, 2018 and May 1, 2018
On site registration


Call for Papers:

The international conference fosters a multidisciplinary approach in exploring
the broad theme of naming, identity and tourism. We welcome theoretical
contributions, case studies and methodological reconsiderations aimed at
investigating the relationship between names/naming and identity within
several areas of interest, including but not limited to 

- Archaeology and tourism
- Collective memory and tourism discourses
- Film-induced tourism 
- Heritage tourism
- Intangible heritage tourism
- Literature-induced tourism 
- Naming controversies and tourism
- Recovering lost language in tourism discourses
- The commodification of tourist sights
- The use of minority languages for promotional purposes 
- Tourism discourses
- Translation issues 

Especially welcome are original papers within onomastic and critical discourse
research or which highlight and apply new methodologies sourced from anywhere
across the humanities and social sciences. 

Abstract Submission:

Please send an abstract of up to 300 words together with a brief biographical
note to nitunibas at gmail.com by January 15, 2017. 

Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 15, 2018. 

Scientific Committee:

Giuseppe Balirano, Director of I-LanD (Identity, Language and Diversity
Interuniversity Research Centre) Italy 
Luisa Caiazzo, University of Basilicata, Italy
Oliviu Felecan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, North University Centre
of Baia Mare, Romania
Peter Jordan, Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria
Iman Laversuch Nick, President of the American Name Society, Germanic Society
for Forensic Linguistics, Germany 
Grant Smith, Eastern Washington University, United States




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