[Corpora-List] Call for papers: Genre- and Register-related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora

[Marie-Aude Lefer]

International conference
 Genre- and Register-related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual
CorporaOrganizers: The Linguistic Society of
Belgium and Institut Libre Marie Haps - Brussels
 11-12 January 2013
 www.mariehaps.be/lsb2013
 
 The conference aims at bringing together researchers working on the
compilation and annotation of genre- and register-controlled multilingual corpora as well as specialists in
corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies investigating genre- and register-related text
and discourse features from a multilingual perspective. Proposals dealing with the benefits of corpus-based
studies for translator training are also welcome, especially those that examine discourse features across
languages. 
 
 Conference themes
 The conference
will mainly explore four areas. The conference themes include, but are not restricted to, the following: 
 - Lexical variation across genres and registers:  How do
lexemes and multi-word units contribute to the (automatic) identification of genres and registers across
languages? To what extent is genre-/register-specific lexis similar in
non-translated and translated language? 
 - Text- and discourse-structuring
features: Bottom-up approaches: What types of information
packaging (topic-focus structure) are relevant to genre and register identification? What lexico-syntactic
features should be taken into account in text segmentation across genres and registers and across languages
(e.g. anaphoric chains, sequence-framing adverbials)? What are the main challenges of multilingual
multidimensional analysis (Biber 1995)? Top-down
approaches: What rhetorical moves (Swales 1990, 2002; Biber et al. 2007) are specific to what genres and
registers? What moves are language-specific within the same genre and register? What linguistic features are
move-specific across languages? 
 - Pragmatic features with and without
discourse markers: e.g. epistemic modality and subjectivity, evidentiality, attitude (value judgments,
attenuation, etc.), argumentative value of statements.
 - New corpus compilation and
annotation projects: Issues in the compilation and linguistic (mainly pragmatic) annotation of multilingual
genre- and/or register-controlled corpora of written texts and/or audiovisual translation corpora. 
 There
will be two categories of presentation: 
 - Full paper (25 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion) - Poster 
 For a more detailed version of the
call for papers, see the conference website www.mariehaps.be/lsb2013
 Keynote
speakers
 We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have
accepted our invitation to give a keynote presentation at the conference:
 Douglas
Biber (Northern Arizona University, USA)María de los Ángeles Gómez González
(University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)Sylviane Granger (Université
catholique de Louvain, Belgium)Stella Neumann (RWTH Aachen
University, Germany)Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University, Canada)      
 
 Language of the conference
 English
 
 Abstracts
 Your
abstract should be between 800 and 1,000 words (+ list of references). Abstracts should be sent by email to
lsb.conference at ilmh.be, before 1 June 2012. Please mention your name and affiliation in the body of your
email and name the attachment as follows: abstract_yourfirstname_YOURLASTNAME.doc
 Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously
by the scientific committee. You will be notified of the outcome of the review process by 15 September
2012.
 
 Organizing committee
 Marie-Aude Lefer (chair, Institut libre Marie Haps)Svetlana Vogeleer (chair, Institut libre Marie Haps)
 Lieven Buysse (HUB University College Brussels)Sylvie De Cock (Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis)Gert De Sutter (University
College Ghent)Patrick Dendale (University of
Antwerp)Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université
catholique de Louvain)Christine Michaux (University of Mons)
 
 Scientific committee
 Karin Aijmer
(Göteborg University)Silvia Bernardini
(University of Bologna at Forlì)Lieven Buysse (HUB University College Brussels)Bruno Cartoni (University of Geneva)Jean-Pierre Colson (Institut libre Marie Haps)Sylvie De Cock (Université catholique de Louvain & Facultés Universitaires
Saint-Louis)Gert De Sutter
(University College Ghent)Bart Defrancq (University College Ghent)Ilse Depraetere (University of Lille 3)Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université catholique de Louvain)Stanisław
Goźdź-Roszkowski (University of
Łódź)Hilde Hasselgård (University of
Oslo)Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University)Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ldt)Sara Laviosa (University of Bari)Raphael Salkie
(University of Brighton)John Swales (University of Michigan)Richard Xiao (Edge Hill University)
 Sponsoring optionsFor sponsoring options, please contact lsb.conference at ilmh.beContact and information
 lsb.conference at ilmh.be
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