[Corpora-List] CLAVIER13 second circular: Sketch Engine Pre-Conference Workshop

[Silvia CACCHIANI]

CLAVIER (http://www.clavier.unimore.it/site/home.html) is a research group
based in Modena and including a network of Italian universities (Bergamo,
Florence, Milan State, Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Siena and Trieste) with an
interest in combining two complementary strands of linguistic
investigation - corpus analysis and discourse analysis - for a
quantitative and qualitative study of language variation in English in
terms of diachronic, geographic and socio-cultural dimensions. Within this
research framework, CLAVIER is pleased to announce its 2013 International
Conference:


CLAVIER 13
Discourse in and through the Media. Recontextualizing and
Reconceptualizing Expert Discourse.
Modena, 6-8 November 2013

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Using the Sketch Engine for corpus-based discourse analysis
Adam Kilgarriff
(Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
Modena, 6 November 2013, 9:30-12:30


CONFERENCE INFORMATION

Recontextualizing and reconceptualizing expert discourse has become
increasingly important in modern society. Yet although Knowledge
Dissemination (KD) is now receiving increasing attention, the discursive
strategies and the pragmatics of KD in and through the media have not
received serious consideration. Knowledge dissemination can be seen as a
form of ‘asymmetric’ communication between experts and lay-people, or
‘mediation’ of knowledge and intercultural and ‘inter-discourse
communication’ (Scollon, Scollon 1995) between members of different
cultures, discourse communities and communities of practice. This amounts
to re-contextualization (Calsamiglia, Van Dijk 2004) and inclusion of
types of ‘intralinguistic’ translations. Here, simplification,
explicitation, reformulation (Mauranen 2006), reconceptualization of terms
in the subject field ‘translate’ exclusive expertise into ‘comprehensible’
knowledge, suitable to the background of the addressee.

In this context, the aim of the conference is to stimulate the debate on a
variety of aspects related to the representation of specialised discourse
in and through the media, e.g. voice and point of view, argumentative
practices, knowledge construction, multimodality, re-contextualization and
re-conceptualization of knowledge, and peer-to-peer communication within
genres aimed at knowledge dissemination and popularization. The conference
is intended to encourage cross-generic and cross-disciplinary
investigations, in an attempt to advocate integrated approaches to the
study of media discourse with a view to both theoretical background and
practical applications. More specifically, the key-issues of the
conference include (but are by no means limited to) the following:

- Web genres and web-mediated knowledge dissemination
- Register variation and knowledge representation across media
- Re-contextualizing knowledge in and through the media
- Genres of knowledge dissemination, from both a synchronic and a
diachronic point of view.


A PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP on USING THE SKETCH ENGINE FOR CORPUS-BASED
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS will be held by Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd,
UK) on Wednesday 6 (9:30 – 12:30), More information will be available
shortly on the conference website. Participation is free but places are
limited. If you wish to participate, please send an email to
clavier13 at unimore.it.

The following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation:

Colleen Cotter, Queen Mary University of London
Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki
Cornelius Puschmann, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Oxford

Members of the scientific committee will also be presenting their current
research.


Scientific Committe:
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) - Nicholas Brownlees
(University of Florence) - Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo) -
Giuliana Garzone (State University of Milan) - Giuseppe Palumbo
(University of Trieste) - Rita Salvi (Sapienza University of Rome) - Elena
Tognini Bonelli (University of Siena) - Silvia Cacchiani (University of
Modena and Reggio Emilia) - Davide Mazzi (University of Modena and Reggio
Emilia)

Organizing Committee:
Marina Bondi - Silvia Cacchiani - Giuliana Diani - Davide Mazzi - Annalisa
Sezzi - Anna Stermieri


SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

New deadline for submission of abstracts: August 1, 2013
Notification of acceptance: August 14, 2013

Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no more than 300 words
(including references) by August 1, 2013 to the following address:
clavier13 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:
Email:

Important Dates:

August 1, 2013: Deadline for receipt of abstracts
August 14, 2013: Notification of acceptance/rejection
September 10, 2013: Programme
September 1 - September 30, 2013: Early-bird registration
October 1 - October 31, 2013: Standard registration

For any additional information, please contact us at clavier13 at unimore.it
or visit us at http://www.clavier.dslc.unimore.it/site/home.html.



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