[Corpora-List] CALL FOR PAPERS: LINKD workshop 2012

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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Language(s) in knowledge dissemination: LINKD workshop 2012

Modena (Italy) 11-13 October 2012

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The international workshop ‘Language in knowledge dissemination’ hosted by
the Department of Studies on Language, Text and Translation will take place
in Modena on 11-13 October 2012.

Knowledge Dissemination (KD) has become increasingly important in modern
society for the socio-economic and cultural development of citizens. The
issue of how experts communicate their specialist knowledge to lay-people
has been widely discussed in the press and is often tackled in terms of
“translating” otherwise exclusive knowledge into more comprehensible
language. Comprehensibility can be seen as a matter of simplification,
explicitation or formulation in terms that are suitable to the level of
knowledge of the addressee. The issue can also be studied in terms of
re-contextualizing knowledge. As the applied linguistics literature on
popularising is not extensive, useful indications can come from studies on
intercultural communication, when looking at KD as “mediation” of knowledge
between members of different communities, each with their peculiar cultural
and communicative practices. KD can be seen as an example of
“inter-discourse communication” i.e. communication that cuts across the
boundaries of discourse communities characterized by different types of
knowledge.

While the issue of KD has often been studied in relation to sciences that
require exclusive expertise –e.g. chemistry or physics, the LINKD workshop
would like to consider both “hard” and "soft" sciences. The objective of
the workshop is to explore the language processes involved in KD in a
theoretical, descriptive and applied perspective. In particular, it aims to
provide a clearer definition of the nature of popularizing discourse, by
means of an analysis of its strategies across disciplines and languages,
also including the discursive construction of professional identity and
intercultural communication, a closer lexical investigation of specific
domains, the deployment of lexicographic tools and an investigation of the
use of visual elements in popularisation.

Two complementary strands of linguistic investigation - corpus analysis and
genre analysis – will be brought together to ascertain how far KD is
actually characterized by intense use of metadiscourse, forms of readers’
engagement, systematic use of definitions, reformulation, higher degrees of
explicitness, careful use of word-image relationship.The basic strands of
analysis will concern:

i) intralinguistic analysis of the recontextualization process that leads
from a specialized texts to its popularization outside the circle of
domain-specific experts;

ii) multilingual analysis of the internal features of knowledge
dissemination, aimed at defining its strategies in different genres, media,
domains;

iii) thematic exploration of the multiple formats of KD, ranging from
introductory readings to scientific reports, travel literature or
children’s books.

In particular, contributions are invited, focusing on

a) features of popularized discourse in comparison to the scientific
discourse;

b) differences and similarities of KD genres in different cultures;

c) studies of language variation across genres (focusing on metadiscourse,
reformulation, explicitness, lexis and phraseology);

d) specific case studies on the verbal and visual language of KD in chosen
contexts; e) studies of translation problems and processes in KD;

f) comparative analyses of the dissemination flows in various languages and
cultures and social value of knowledge dissemination.

  *PANEL PROPOSALS*

*The organizers encourage proposals for panels including sets of four
related papers.*

The workshop is held by the LINKD research group, active within CLAVIER
(http://www.clavier.unimore.it) .

One of the purposes of the LINKD 2012 workshp is to reinforce national and
international cooperation with scholars and research centres that can widen
and complement the interest in knowledge dissemination.

The workshop 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.

Speakers who have accepted to participate are: Susan Hunston, Jan Engberg,
Josef Schmied, Geoffrey Williams.

*Presentation Guidelines*

Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.

Working Language: English/German/Spanish/French/Italian

Contributions will be accepted on condition that they are relevant to the
special theme of the workshop.

*Abstract Submission *

Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no more than 500 words by
July 12th to the following address: linkd2012 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 *

*Submission deadline: 12th July, 2012*

*July 25th:* Notifications of acceptance

*September 10th:* Deadline for early bird registration

*September 17th: *Preliminary Programme

*Organizing committee:*

Marina Bondi – Silvia Cacchiani - Giuliana Diani – Flavio Angelo Fiorani -
Franca Poppi – Corrado Seidenari - Annalisa Sezzi – Daniela Sorrentino

*Scientific Committee:* Marina Bondi (Modena e Reggio Emilia) – Julia
Bamford (Napoli) - Marco Cipolloni (Modena e Reggio Emilia) - Franca Poppi
(Modena e Reggio Emilia) - Jan Engberg (Aarhus) – Marina Dossena (Bergamo)
- Giuliana Garzone (Milano) – Antonie Hornung (Modena e Reggio Emilia) -
Rita Salvi (Roma) – Marc Silver (Modena e Reggio Emilia) – Elena Tognini
Bonelli (Siena)

For any additional information, please contact Franca Poppi at
franca.poppi at unimore.it <franca.poppi at unimore.it?subject=Clavier%2011> or
visit the LINKD workshop page on the CLAVIER web-site,
http://www.clavier.unimore.it/site/home/articolo18234.html
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