[Corpora-List] CLAVIER 11 International Conference

[Franca POPPI]

Apologies for crosspostings



CLAVIER 11

TRACKING LANGUAGE CHANGE
IN SPECIALISED AND PROFESSIONAL GENRES

Modena, 24-26 November 2011

The international conference ‘Tracking Language Change in Specialised and
Professional Genres’, hosted by the CLAVIER Group, will take place in
Modena on 24-26 November 2011.

The nature of genres has always been defined as both static and dynamic,
functioning as discursive action within particular social, historical and
cultural contexts but open to individual and collective creativity and
innovation. Corpora can be powerful tools in tracking this kind of change,
as clearly shown by a well-established tradition in historical
linguistics, where growing interest has been shown in the diachronic
analysis of specialized genres. Elements of change, however, can also be
seen at work in contemporary discourse. As a consequence, there is an
increasing need for diachronic approaches that may help map changes
brought about for example by new technologies or globalization.

Nowadays, with the recession of the traditional constraints of geography
on social and cultural arrangements brought about by globalization, new
cultural and linguistic interconnections are being established, for
example in academic and professional settings.  This state of things can
account both for the emergence of new ‘globalizing genres’, and for the
implementation of a series of adaptations to the existing ones, as
possible solutions to guarantee the success and survival of different
genres in an era which celebrates the need for a ‘global reach’.

The conference intends to focus on such issues in order to provide a
better definition of the methods of investigation of language change, the
tools, the approaches, the new perspectives, bringing together two
complementary strands of linguistic investigation - corpus analysis and
genre analysis. The conference purports to describe the extent to which
language resources and generic resources are creatively exploited in
discourse, variously responding to or determining new socio-cultural
scenarios, with a special interest in technological developments which
have radically changed the way specialized knowledge is disseminated.

In particular, contributions are invited, focusing on textual,
intertextual, organizational aspects of genres, as well as on
interdiscursivity and other aspects which contextualize genres as
reflections of changing disciplinary and professional cultures,
investigating how their integrity is negotiated and exploited, in the
following domains:
•	Academic
•	Professional
•	Institutional

The conference is held by the CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation In
English Research) group, a research centre founded by the Universities of
Bergamo, Firenze, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Roma “La Sapienza”, and Siena,
currently based in Modena.

One of the purposes of the 2011 CLAVIER conference is to reinforce
national and international cooperation with scholars and research centres
that can widen and complement the interest in language variation both in
quantitative and qualitative terms.

Plenaries
Plenary speakers who have accepted to participate are:
Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire)
Winnie Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Hong Kong)
Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich)

The conference will start early in the afternoon on the first day and
close around lunchtime on the third day, after a roundtable in which
participants and invited speakers will discuss theoretical and
methodological issues emerged from the papers presented in the previous
sessions.

The colleagues who have agreed to take part in the round table are:
Jan Engberg (Aarhus School of Business)
Giuliana Garzone (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Maurizio Gotti (University of Bergamo)
Josef Schmied (Chemnitz University of Technology)
Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham)
Elena Tognini-Bonelli (University of Siena)
Geoffrey Williams (University of South Brittany).

Presentation Guidelines
Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.
Working Language: English
Contributions will be accepted on condition that they are relevant to the
special theme of the Conference.

Abstract Submission
Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no more than 500 words by
June 20th to the following address: clavier11 at unimore.it.
Please do not include any self-identifying information on the abstract;
indicate only the title and the abstract itself. On a separate cover
sheet, include:

Title:
Format: (paper/ poster)
Author(s):
Affiliation(s):
Postal mailing address (for primary author):
E-mail (for primary author):

Important dates
June 20th: Deadline for receipt of abstracts
July 11th: Notifications of acceptance
July 26th: Deadline for earlybird registration
July 29th: Preliminary Programme

Organizing committee:
Marina Bondi – Silvia Cavalieri - Giuliana Diani - Franca Poppi

Scientific Committee:
Julia Bamford (Napoli) - Marina Bondi (Modena e Reggio Emilia) – Gabriella
Del Lungo (Firenze) - Marina Dossena (Bergamo) – Franca Poppi (Modena e
Reggio Emilia) - Rita Salvi (Roma) – Elena Tognini Bonelli (Siena)

For any additional information, please contact Franca Poppi  at
franca.poppi at unimore.it or visit the
Conference web-site at: http://clavier11.sltt.unimore.it




_______________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora