31.2213, Calls: English; Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Ling & Lit, Translation/France

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Subject: 31.2213, Calls: English; Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Ling & Lit, Translation/France

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Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 12:19:48
From: Stephanie Lerat [stephanie.lerat at univ-lorraine.fr]
Subject: GERAS 42nd International Conference

 
Full Title: GERAS 42nd International Conference 

Date: 18-Mar-2021 - 20-Mar-2021
Location: Nancy, France 
Contact Person: Stephanie Lerat
Meeting Email: stephanie.lerat at univ-lorraine.fr
Web Site: https://www.geras.fr/colloques/colloque-2021 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Translation 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2020 

Meeting Description:

The 42nd International Conference of GERAS, Groupe d'Étude et de Recherche en
Anglais de Spécialité (English for Specific Purposes Study and Research Group)
will take place from March 18-20, 2021 at the Université de Lorraine (Nancy,
France). The theme of the conference is: Literary and scientific culture(s):
Continuities and Discontinuities in English for Specific Purposes.


Call for Papers: 

In 1959, in Britain, C.P. Snow described two ''cultures'' that he believed
radically divided the field of knowledge - a literary culture and a scientific
culture. In France, this divide remains to this day, as evidenced by Sokal &
Bricmont (1997). It should be noted that at the time of Snow's writing,
classical literature was highly valued socially - to the detriment of science.
Today, the opposite is true, but the divide remains. And reading Morin (1994),
one can understand how the historical formation of academic disciplines in the
19th century led to such divide. This implies that both diachronic and
societal aspects may be taken into account when trying to characterize the
phenomenon. It is therefore around this divide between sciences and humanities
that the GERAS 2021 conference wishes to examine the relationship between
language skills and domain-related knowledge. Primarily addressed to English
for Specific Purposes (ESP), this investigation may also be directed to other
Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP).

We invite papers which address this divide from all perspectives (ESP, LANSAD,
didactics, translation, etc.) and which investigate questions such as:

- To what extent is this matter related to the methodology being used or to
the domain involved? To put it somewhat provocatively, is working on ASP for
science, for example, more scientific than working on ESP for economics? Is it
more scientific to work on large computerized corpora than to analyze the
content or rationale of an ESP course?

- What teacher-training or professional experience must teachers hold in the
field being taught to feel at ease with their professional identities and,
thereby, feel legitimate in front of their students - who are experts in that
field?

- How can the the gap between general language and ESP be bridged?

- Which pedagogical practices can be set up in the classroom in order to
reconcile the various issues involved when teaching ESP?

- Does translation contribute to building bridges (Bensimon, 1998: 3)? Between
language and specialized fields? Between the Humanities and Sciences? Or do we
rather see discontinuities / breaks appearing in the guise of problems of
''translatability and untranslatability of cultures'' (Rüdiger & Gross 2009)?

The full call for papers can be found at:
https://www.geras.fr/colloques/colloque-2021

Submission guidelines: 

Authors are invited to submit their proposals according to these guidelines:

Format: 300-word abstracts (excluding bibliographical references)
Languages: English (preferred) and French (in order to facilitate the
participation of our international colleagues, communications in French should
be accompanied by slides in English)
Deadline: December 1, 2020
Abstract submission: https://geras2021.sciencesconf.org




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