30.3725, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Italy
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Subject: 30.3725, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Italy
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 05:00:11
From: Kim Grego [kim.grego at unimi.it]
Subject: Age-Specific Issues. Language, Spaces, Technologies
Full Title: Age-Specific Issues. Language, Spaces, Technologies
Short Title: Ages2020
Date: 02-Apr-2020 - 03-Apr-2020
Location: Milan, Italy
Contact Person: Organising Committee
Meeting Email: ages2020 at unimi.it
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation
Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2019
Meeting Description:
This conference stems from the inter-university research project Age.Vol.A.
(Ageing, Volunteers, Assistants), funded by the Cariplo Foundation for the
years 2018-2021, aimed at easing or removing the linguistic and cultural
barriers existing between home-assisted Italian seniors and their non-Italian
caregivers – a widespread social phenomenon in Italy – through multilingual
digital tools and applications. The Age.Vol.A. perspective is
multi-disciplinary, and the project is run by a team of scholars in English
linguistics, translation studies, social sciences like anthropology, and
science communication.
Call for Papers:
- Event venue: Università degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan), Milan,
Italy.
- Abstracts (ca. 300 words plus max 6 references) should be sent as Word files
to ages2020 at unimi.it no later than 31 December 2019. Notifications of
acceptance will be issued by 31 January 2020.
- Presentations will be 20 minutes, with 10 extra minutes for discussion.
- A selection of papers from the conference will be published following
double-bind peer-review.
- The registration fee is € 120 and it includes the conference material, all
coffee breaks and lunches. A reduced fee of € 100 is available for
PhD students, junior and non-tenured scholars.
The fee is payable by bank transfer to:
Università degli Studi di Milano. Dipartimento SMeLSI. Conference Ages2020.
Bank branch: Banca Intesa San Paolo, via Verdi 28, Milano, Italy
Account no.: 000000463971 – ABI: 03069 – CAB: 09400 - CIN code: G
IBAN: IT97G0306909400000000463971 – SWIFT CODE: BCITITMMXXX
Identification: “Ages2020 YOUR NAME AND SURNAME”
- In case of multiple authors, all attending scholars need to register.
- A social dinner will be held in a typical restaurant in Milan on the evening
of Thursday 2 April 2020. Please let us know if you wish to come in the
registration form. The cost of the event will be around € 35 and it will be
payable in cash only at the registration desk on arrival.
- You are welcome to send us your registration form as soon as you decide to
participate, while payment is due no later than 29 February 2020. Please send
a copy of your payment to ages2020 at unimi.it. Your registration will only be
final once the payment is received.
- More information will be provided in future circulars and on the conference
website (to be announced).
Following our Seniors2019 conference on ageing issues, we invite abstracts for
papers on ‘Age-Specific Issues’, as seen in terms of language, space and
technology. This conference stems from the inter-university research project
Age.Vol.A. (Ageing, Volunteers, Assistants), funded by the Cariplo Foundation
for the years 2018-2021, aimed at easing or removing the linguistic and
cultural barriers existing between home-assisted Italian seniors and their
non-Italian caregivers – a widespread social phenomenon in Italy – through
multilingual digital tools and applications. The Age.Vol.A. perspective is
multi-disciplinary, and the project is run by a team of scholars in English
linguistics, translation studies, social sciences like anthropology, and
science communication.
This inter-university (University of Insubria and University of Milan, Italy)
initiative, with its multi-disciplinary approach and eclectic research team,
focuses on seniors or ‘older adults’ and language and communication issues,
but it would like to open this year’s conference to inputs about other age
groups and from any other perspectives that pay close attention to the
linguistic, social, economic and ethical aspects of (weaker) social groups
defined in terms of age. This would allow us to compare different age-related
communication strategies and share knowledge about them. Indeed, while
globalization phenomena and portable technology seem to be levelling out the
world’s population in a sort of democratising effect, we are concurrently
witnessing trends of social re-grouping according to variously defined
criteria, from nationalisms to localisms, from groups of interest supporting
or protesting specific causes (e.g. ecology and vaccines), to even smaller
groups based on common interests and objectives among the most disparate
(Anderson-Levitt 2003, Appadurai 1996 and 2006, Flesher-Fominaya 2014).
Age groups are one such significant phenomenon, not only at the social level
but also, for example, in terms of business, with specific products and
services increasingly tailored to reach smaller and more specific ages (Yoon
1997, Yates / Patalano 1999, Lambert-Pandraud / Laurent 2010, Dobbs / Remes /
Woetzel 2017, Vicentini 2017, Arensberg 2018). Linguistically, sociolinguists
have been addressing this theme for decades now, with its approach drawing
upon social constructivist tradition, which highlights the importance of
language in understanding society and social categories, hence promoting the
study of language attitudes, beliefs, and reactions about the use of language
(on seniors, see, e.g., Coupland / Jaworski 1997: 70-72), which are related to
the theme of identity (Fairclough 1995, Irwin 2010: 100) and migration (Beacco
et al. 2017, Britain / Trudgill 1999, Extra / Verhoeven 2011). Proposals with
a multidisciplinary focus will be especially welcome.
Scientific committee:
Michael Brannigan (Center for Biomedical Ethics Education and Research, Alden
March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York), Paola
Catenaccio (University of Milan, Italy), Boyd Davis (University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, US), Kim Grego (University of Milan, Italy), Federico
Pasquaré Mariotto (University of Insubria, Italy), Alessandra Vicentini
(University of Insubria, Italy)
Organising committee:
Kim Grego, Alessandra Vicentini, Daniel Russo, Moira Luraschi, Giulia Rovelli
We look forward to seeing you in Milan in 2020!
The event is organised by the University of Insubria and the University of
Milan as part of the research project “Age.Vol.A. Ageing, Volunteers,
Assistants. Multilingual Tools for Assisting the Ageing”, funded by Fondazione
Cariplo (2018-2021).
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