Second Call for papers - 'Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures'

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From: Cornelia Ilie [mailto:cornelia.ilie at gmail.com] 
Sent: 12 April 2011 11:51
To: Sunderland, Jane
Subject: Second Call for papers - 'Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures'

Dear Jane,

Below please find the updated Call for papers for the International
conference *'Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures: Interdisciplinary
Approaches'* to be held at the University of Bucharest, 29 September-1
October 2011.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could post it on the GALA-L (IGALA)
List).

Thank you,
Cornelia Ilie

University of Bucharest                                   CNCSIS - UEFISCDI
Faculty of Letters
Centre for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Edgar Quinet 5-7, 010017, Bucharest, Romania
Tel./fax: +40 213146177

International conference

*Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures: Interdisciplinary Approaches*

September 23-24, 2011,

Bucharest, Romania

You are cordially invited to participate in the international conference on
Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures, organized by the Centre for
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (University of Bucharest,  Faculty of
Letters), in connection with the Research Project Tradition and Modernity in
the Romanian Parliamentary Discourse: a Pragma-Rhetorical Approach,
sponsored by the CNCSIS - UEFISCSU (code 2136/ 2008, PN II IDEI).

The conference has an interdisciplinary scope and is open to specialists in
several fields, such as Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, History, Political
Sciences, Sociology, Media and Communication.

The topic is motivated by the growing interest for research on political
discourse and particularly parliamentary discourse, one of its major
subgenres. The distinctive features of parliamentary practices are of
central interest to scholars who are concerned with exploring various
traditions and rhetorical discourse styles in and across European
parliaments. Many investigations are increasingly based on flexible,
interdisciplinary, and multi-layered methodologies, whose main challenge is
to try and integrate different approaches to the multifaceted manifestations
of this discourse genre in a coherent system of analysis.

The historical perspective on national parliamentary discourses has the
advantage of opening the way to a deeper understanding of the diversity of
parliamentary practices across time and space. It aims at highlighting the
particular roles played by local socio-historical factors, ideologies,
collective mentalities, and social psychology in building up
culture-specific traditions of political institutions.

The perspective developed by political sciences contributes to shedding
light upon the way social events are filtered by ideology and mapped onto
discourse.

The linguistic perspective focuses on integrating context-based
socio-political observations into the framework of pragmatics and
pragma-rhetorical analysis of discourse.

The conference will be held at the Faculty of Letters, University of
Bucharest.

*Presentation format*

a)     *Plenary lectures* (45 minutes + 15 minutes discussion time):

- Kari Palonen, Professor of Political Science, University of Jyväskylä,
Finland

- Cornelia Ilie, Professor of English Linguistics, Malmö University, Sweden

b)    *Panels* (20 minutes for each participant + 30 minutes discussion
time):

- 'Cross-European parliamentary concepts'

- 'Parliamentary Discourse in a Gender Perspective'

- 'Tradition and Modernity in the Romanian Parliamentary Discourse: a
Pragma-Rhetorical Approach'

c)  *Papers* (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion time).

Conference languages: English and French.

*Abstracts*

Abstracts should have max. 300 words (no references) for panel participants
as well as for individual papers.  They should be in the language chosen for
the presentation.

The abstracts should be accompanied by the following data: author's name,
country, affiliation, email address.

Deadline for abstracts: May 1, 2011. The  abstracts should be sent to the
following email address: mc_tinescu2000 at yahoo.com.

Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2011.

*Conference fee*:

Regular: 100 euros - early bird (by June 1, 2011); after June 1, 2011: 120
euros

Students: 60 euros for students - early bird (by June 1, 2011); after June
1, 2011: 70 euros

Conference fee includes: welcome and final reception, coffee breaks, book of
abstracts, conference kit.

The fees will be paid into the following account:

Banca Comerciala Romana S.A.

Swift: RNCB RO BU

IBAN: RO87RNCB0076010452620003

CUI/CNP: 4505502

Beneficiary: Universitatea din Bucuresti

Bulevardul Mihail Kogalniceanu, 36-46, sector 5, Bucuresti

With the mention: taxa participare Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures:
Interdisciplinary Approaches

*Workshop Program and Abstract Book*

The workshop program and abstract book will be provided to the participants
and will be available online at the conference web site.

*Transportation*

By train

There are international trains from Bucharest to Munich, Prague, Venice,
Vienna, Budapest, Zagreb, Belgrade, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Kiev and
Moscow. Due to the poor quality of rail infrastructure train travel on long
distances takes considerable time.

By plane

>From the Henri Coanda (Otopeni) Airport: bus no. 783 to city center (stops
at Piata Romana, Piata Universitatii (21 Decembrie 1989), Piata Unirii). A
round trip ticket is about 8 ron (2 euros).

By taxi:

The prices may vary from 50 ron to 150 ron (depending on the company). Avoid
private persons offering to give you a ride to the city center or the Fly
taxi company (very expensive).

Recommended hotels

*Ambasador* (Magheru Avenue), close to the University (between Piata Romana
and Piata Universitatii) http://www.ambasador.ro/tarife-60-ro.html

*Horoscop* (Piata Unirii) http://www.hotel-horoscop.ro/english/tarife.html

*Siqua* (behind the Opera House; three bus stops to the Faculty of Letters)
http://www.hotelsiqua.ro/en/

Further details about conference logistics are available on the conference
website of the Faculty of Letters:

http://www.unibuc.ro/prof/ruxandoiu_l_g/

Conference proceedings: Plans are being made for the publication of selected
presentations.

*Organizing committee*:

Liliana Ionescu-Ruxandoiu
Professor of Linguistics
University of Bucharest, Romania

Andra Vasilescu
Professor of Linguistics
University of Bucharest, Romania

Cornelia Ilie
Professor of English Linguistics
Malmö University, Sweden

Shirin Rai
Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies
University of Warwick, UK

Marlène Coulomb-Gully
Professeure des Universités en SIC (Sciences de l'Information et de la
Communication)
Université Toulouse 2, France

*Scientific committee*:

Pasi Ihalainen
Professor of General History
University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Paul Bacot
Professeur de Science politique
Université Lumière Lyon 2, France

Paul Chilton
Professor of Linguistics
Lancaster University, UK

Drude Dahlerup
Professor of Political Science
Stockholm University, Sweden

Nicola Lupo
Professor of Parliamentary Law
Deputy Dean of Faculty of Political Science
School of Government
Luiss University, Rome, Italy

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Cornelia Ilie
Professor of English Linguistics
Malmö University, Sweden
E-mail: cornelia.ilie at gmail.com; cornelia.ilie at mah.se
www.mah.se/corneliaIlie
http://www.nav.mah.se/person/id/KSCOIL
http://www.coepolcon.fi/researchers/46/cornelia-ilie
http://www.epardis.idresearch.hu
http://www.enieda.eu
http://www.dialog-forum.org

New book: European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse Strategies and
Interaction Practices
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DAPSAC%2038

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