[Corpora-List] cfp Lexis - The Study of Lexicon across Cultural Identities and Textual Genres - Verona, 11-13 Nov 2010

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LEXIS, THE STUDY OF LEXICON ACROSS CULTURAL IDENTITIES
AND TEXTUAL GENRES

International
Conference, University
 of Verona, 11-13 November
2010

Website: http://fermi.univr.it/lexis/index.html


Call for papers 


Research on
dictionaries and foreign language textbooks generally focuses separately either
on specialized textual genres or on cultural issues, whereas so far only few
studies have joined the two aspects so as to focus on lexicon – be it general
or specialized – from a cultural perspective.
Yet all uses of a language, including those for special and teaching purposes, entail some cultural dimension. 

Hence,
culture(s)-sensitive lexicographical tools are needed that enable speakers to
achieve the necessary cultural knowledge (including the awareness of the
diversities among cultural systems) to
communicate successfully in international settings, even for specific and
professional purposes – e.g., in domains such as business, institutional,
legal, media, medical, political, or tourist discourse.

The conference,
organized within the framework of the national research project “Dictionaries,
Language Materials and Words across Languages, Cultures and Ideologies”, aims
at shedding light on the relationship between lexicon and cultural heritage,
focusing on dictionaries, glossaries and textbooks.


Papers (20 mins + 10 mins
discussion) are invited, focusing on theoretical and methodological issues
concerning mainly

-        
culture-bound terms in textbooks, dictionaries and
glossaries, be they monolingual, bilingual, multilingual, thesauri, visual and
specialized dictionaries;

-        
borrowing, translation and coinage of new words
functioning as a means of correspondence between different linguistic and
cultural systems

-        
relationships between lexicon and culture
particularly in the following fields: business - law - media – medicine – politics and institutions – tourism


The deadline for the submission
of abstracts (max 400 words) is 15 May 2010. Please indicate your
name, affiliation, snail mail and email address on the abstract and send it in
.doc or .rtf format to: lexis at ateneo.univr.it

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 30 June 2010. 


LANGUAGES OF THE CONFERENCE: English, French, Italian, Spanish.


Keynote speakers: 

-        
GEOFFREY WILLIAMS, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Vice-President of Euralex

-        
JEAN
PRUVOST, Université de Cergy-Pontoise,
Director of the CNRS Laboratory Lexiques Dictionnaires Informatique and of
Dictionnaires Bordas


Scientific Committee

Roberto
CAGLIERO, Roberta FACCHINETTI, Cristiano FURIASSI, Cesare
GAGLIARDI, Giovanni IAMARTINO, Pierluigi LIGAS, Nadia MINERVA, Carmela NOCERA, Stefania NUCCORINI, Maria
Teresa PRAT ZAGREBELSKY, Felix SAN VICENTE SANTIAGO.


Organizing Committee

Elisabetta
ADAMI, Anna BELLADELLI, Cristiana CHIARINI, Roberto CAGLIERO, Marta
DEGANI, Roberta FACCHINETTI, Paolo FRASSI, Cesare GAGLIARDI, Maria Cristina GATTI, Pierluigi LIGAS, Maria Ivana LORENZETTI,
Paola VETTOREL, Anna ZANFEI


Coordination: Roberta FACCHINETTI

 

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Best wishes,

Elisabetta Adami
University of Verona
 		 	   		  
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