[Corpora-List] CALL FOR PAPERS: The Study of Lexicon across Cultural Identities and Textual Genres -- VERONA

[Prof.ssa Roberta Facchinetti]

THE STUDY OF LEXICON ACROSS CULTURAL IDENTITIES AND TEXTUAL GENRES
International Conference
University of Verona, 11-13 November 2010


*AIM OF THE CONFERENCE*
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.


*CALL FOR PAPERS*
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 the submission of abstracts (max 400 words) is 30 April 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.


*KEYNOTE SPEAKERS*
GEOFFREY WILLIAMS, Université de Bretagne-Sud, 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, Cesare GAGLIARDI, Maria Cristina GATTI,
Pierluigi LIGAS, Maria Ivana LORENZETTI, Paola VETTOREL, Anna ZANFEI

*COORDINATION*: Roberta FACCHINETTI


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