29.258, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Socioling, Translation/Spain

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Subject: 29.258, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Socioling, Translation/Spain

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:47:20
From: Vidal Antoni [antoni.vidal at urv.cat]
Subject: Language at Work Conference: Research Advances in Social Sciences

 
Full Title: Language at Work Conference: Research Advances in Social Sciences 

Date: 07-Jun-2018 - 08-Jun-2018
Location: Tarragona, Spain 
Contact Person: Alarcón Amado
Meeting Email: amado.alarcon at urv.cat

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

The conference aims to foster discussion among social scientists about the
relations between language and work, including occupations, labor processes
and employment conditions. Within this broad field, the conference will focus
on the central role language plays in labor processes. We start from the
centrality of language in the information society, since information is
linguistically coded and, for a wide range of products and services, language
becomes raw material. Language is thus a key component of productivity,
employability, wages, and control. First and additional languages, computer
languages, numerical systems, scripts or protocols can be approached as
today’s working tools that must be mastered by professionals on an everyday
basis. Beyond the classical “language industries” whose outputs are books or
translations, today’s conversations and texts are produced in a wide range of
workplaces where they can be understood as the final product of the labor
process.

Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the conference will bring together
scholars engaged in research on workplace language skills and their
implications for broader social and economic concerns, including social and
economic inclusion, job security, long-life learning, unionization, gender
inequalities, and wage differentials.

Conference program will be prepared after speaker's confirmation, your
acceptance of abstract proposal. 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:  

Florian Coulmas (Duisburg Essen University, Germany), 
Anthony Pym (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain),
and others pending of corfirmation.


Call for Papers:

Abstracts proposals should be sent to: amado.alarcon at urv.cat. The abstracts
should be at least 300 words in length with four keywords and must include the
name and affiliation of the authors. Abstracts should in English, alongside
other versions if appropriate. Presentations can be in other languages than
English, but presenters should provide a summary in English to the organizers
and the audience. The proposals will be evaluated by the scientific committee.
Accepted contributions will be allocated time slots of 25 minutes for
presentation.

Topics:

‐ Defining and measuring language skills related to job performance
‐ Language standardization/agency and production processes
‐ “Linguistic-jobs” and “non-linguistic” jobs
‐ Non-natural languages in the labor market. Technical and numerical
languages.
‐ Professions and sectorial language. Jargons, company speak.
‐ Language skills, wages, employment, and employability
‐ Language as raw material, tool, and product
‐ Language, hiring, and promotion
‐ Social and economic implications of language work
 
Abstract submission deadline: March 15 2018
Notification of abstract evaluation: April 15 2018
Presenter registration: May 1 2018

Inscription Fees:

The inscription fees include program folder and coffee breaks. 
General price: 100 € 
Reduced price (for students and members of supporting institutions): 70 €

Grants:

8 registration grants and 4 travel grants will be awarded among accepted
authors. Accepted authors should send a Statement of need between April 16 and
20 2018 to: amado.alarcon at urv.cat. Grants will be allocated before May 1 2018.

Scientific Committee Members: 

Amado Alarcón (Universitat Rovira i Virgili); Till Burckhardt (Université de
Gèneve, Swicherland); Stéphanie Cassilde (Centre d'Études en Habitat Durable,
Belgic); Florian Coulmas (Duisburg Essen University, Germany); Antonio Di
Paolo (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain); Federico Farini (Middlesex University
in London, UK); Keiji Fujiyoshi (Otemon Gakuin University, Japan); Michele
Gazzola (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany); Nadezhda Georgieva-Stankova
(Trakia University, Bulgaria); Maria Guadalupe González (Universidad
Pedagógica Nacional, Mexico); Cecilio Lapresta (Universitat de Lleida, Spain);
Josiah McC Heyman (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Maria Cristina
Morales (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Anthony David Pym (Universitat
Rovira i Virgili, Spain); Roland Terborg (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Mexico); Ester Torres (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain); Trinidad
Valle (Fordham University, USA); Antoni Vidal (Universitat Rovira i Virgili);
Johanna Woydack (University of Vienna, Austria).




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