34.2344, Calls: 6th International Symposium Language for International Communication. Trans-cultural Ecosystems: Language, Culture, and Literature

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Subject: 34.2344, Calls: 6th International Symposium Language for International Communication. Trans-cultural Ecosystems: Language, Culture, and Literature

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Date: 29-Jul-2023
From: Margarita Spirida [margarita.spirida at lu.lv]
Subject: 6th International Symposium Language for International Communication. Trans-cultural Ecosystems: Language, Culture, and Literature

Full Title: 6th International Symposium Language for International
Communication. Trans-cultural Ecosystems: Language, Culture, and
Literature
Short Title: LINCS

Date: 09-May-2024 - 10-May-2024
Location: Riga, Latvia
Contact Person: Margarita Spirida
Meeting Email: margarita.spirida at lu.lv
Web Site: https://conferences.lu.lv/event/393/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Call Deadline: 12-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

6th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM LANGUAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION.
TRANS-CULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS: LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND LITERATURE

Organized by the University of Latvia (Latvia) in association with Le
Mans University (France)

Riga, 9-10 May 2024

Call for Papers:

We are pleased to invite you to the Sixth International Symposium
Language for International Communication (LINCS) titled
“Trans-cultural ecosystems: language, culture, and literature” to be
held in Riga on May 9-10, 2024.

The International Symposium Language for International Communication
has been an integral part of the research ecosystem of the Department
of English Studies, the Centre for Applied Linguistics, and the
Department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the
University of Latvia since 2009. At the conference “Transcultural
Perspectives in Language, Literature and Culture in the 21st Century”
at Le Mans University (France) organized in association with the
University of Latvia on May 19-20, 2022, the topic of transculturality
opened broad perspectives on the study of discourses.

Through discourses, people generate and transmit knowledge on a
variety of issues, including climate change, environmental
sustainability, conservation, endangered species, and eco-inequality.
Moreover, it has been recognized that language as part of ecosystems
may not only influence our thoughts, ideas, ideologies, and worldview
but also affect our behaviour. In this regard, language, culture, and
literature play a prominent role in encouraging the protection of
environment and promoting more eco-friendly living, so
eco-transculturality can appear valuable in environmental humanities
and central to transcultural ecocriticism. This symposium aims at a
close examination of these trans-cultural ecosystems.

We invite papers that explore language use and meaning creation in
fiction or non-fiction marked by a transcultural worldview and a
particular sensibility to eco-issues. Since environmental and nomadic
thought is also marked by an accrued sensibility to the nonhuman,
special attention could also be given to how eco-transcultural
imagination highlights the nonhuman.

We invite submissions on but not limited to the following topics:

Metaphor and its fundamental usefulness: ecology of language
Meaning creation in interaction
Linguistic and cultural diversity in specific socio-political settings
Education and classroom practices: ecology of language
Diversities in new technology use in language, culture and literature
Multilingual language policies in sociopolitical, economic, and
cultural environments
Environmental discourse: narrative of climate change
Eco-transcultural theory
Transcultural eco-poetics; ecology and transcultural life-writing;
transcultural eco-art
Eco-transculturality in philosophical nomadism
Lexicology, lexicography, terminology

Keynote speakers

Piotr Cap, Professor and Chair of Pragmatics, University of Lodz,
Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7685-4112

Hubert Zapf, Professor and Chair of American Literature at the
University of Augsburg, Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5785-2093

Working language
English, French, and Spanish

Format of the symposium
At the moment, we are planning for the symposium to take place as an
in-person event.

Abstract submission
Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted by February 12, 2024
(For further information regarding abstract submission and format,
please visit the symposium website starting September 25, 2023]

All abstracts will be blind peer reviewed. The accepted abstracts will
be available on the Symposium website in a Book of Abstracts before
the symposium.

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