[lg policy] call: Spoken Language in a Multimodal Context

[Harold Schiffman]

Spoken Language in a Multimodal Context

Date: 10-Dec-2012 - 11-Dec-2012
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contact Person: Sandra Falbe
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.upf.edu/edi/en/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language
Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation

Call Deadline: 31-May-2012

Meeting Description:

Over the last decade, the concept of multimodality has gained
increasing significance across those sciences concerned with
investigating the function, use and development of media that combine
visual and auditory elements. The audiovisual text is considered to be
the example par excellence for multimodality as it explains the
interest that communication and translation studies have in
determining the extent of multimodality more precisely in the context
of audiovisual genres.

However, the way in which the interaction between the different
channels or modes is perceived or modelled, has consequences for the
approach taken by other textual and discourse genres, e.g. written
literature, which, ultimately, should be considered a multimodal
product as well. In this field, the concept of multimodality clashes
with other concepts such as the concept of simulated orality, which is
based on the assumption that e.g. in literary dialogues the spoken
language is evoked in the written code or mode of the text
(conceptional orality).

The concept of simulated or fictional orality is based on the
differentiation between the phonic and the graphic code as the
fundamental ways of communication in contrast to the idea of focussing
on the transmission of the content, which can be approached through
communicative immediacy or distance. The evocation of the spoken
language and the oral context is therefore the point of intersection
between this type of literary text and the prefabricated orality of
audiovisual fiction, which dramatizes text that has been written to be
spoken.

Leaving aside the fictional genres, it seems that in today's
information society the traditional distinction between orality and
writing is vanishing. In the maze of channels and codes offered by the
new communication technologies, the use of language is redefined. This
can be seen by the impact on written language which supposedly has
become more immediate and accentuates informal and colloquial
elements. It can be assumed that all these changes also affect the
oral use of language and the presence of the spoken language in these
changed contexts with their altered communicative aims. In this
regard, the spoken word is resituated as an element in between various
modalities and adapted to these contexts.

The workshop on 'The Spoken Language in a Multimodal Context.
Description, Teaching, Translation' of the International Doctoral
School 'Culture, education and communication' will take place on 10
and 11 December 2012 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona,
Spain). Among the participants will be the eight member universities
of EDI: Roma Tre (Italy), Foggia (Italy), Potsdam (Germany), Louvain
la Neuve (Belgium), Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy), Paris
Ouest Nanterre La Défense (France), Université d'Avignon et des Pays
de Vaucluse (France) and UPF (Barcelona, Spain). In line with its
raison d'être, the EDI offers the opportunity of getting to know the
other doctoral candidates and of a fruitful exchange of ideas.

The 2012 edition of the workshop will bring together about thirty
doctoral candidates, who are working in the field of Linguistics,
Information and Communication, Translation, Philosophy, Education,
Psychology, Museology, Arts and Cinema.

The aim of the workshop is to help the doctoral candidates in
presenting a clear abstract of their thesis work regarding
elaboration, oral presentation and constructive debates with other
participants; in a language other than their mother tongue.

2nd Call for Papers:

Extended call deadline: May 31, 2012

May 31, 2012: Deadline to hand in the proposals for the papers,
together with an abstract of approximately 250 words (in English or
French, but not the author's mother tongue), including the following
information:

Surname(s) and name of the author
Postal address
Email address
Academic Institution
Doctoral Programme
Topic of thesis
Topic of paper
Abstract

It is suggested that the presentations focus on the spoken language in
the following areas of fiction and non-fiction, considering the
multimodal conditions of the genres:

- Audiovisual genres, audiovisual narration, audiovisual translation,
audio description
- Comics and graphic novels and translation
- Picture books and cinema for children and translation
- Literature, in particular, narratives and the adaption of literary
works to other modes and in other areas (comics, movies, children
books, didactic material, etc.)
- Sign language and sign language interpretation
- Journalistic texts and translation
- Web pages and translation
- Audio guides, museum pedagogy and didactics, the distribution
object-text (spoken word), staging of the object
- Learning and teaching of first and second languages in a multimodal context
- e-learning and spoken language
- Interactive learning, spoken language and multimodality

Semiotic approaches to multimodality will be welcomed and the
description of socio-pragmatic and cultural, psychological,
pedagogical and didactical as well as linguistic and translational
aspects.

http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2320.html

-- 
**************************************
N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to
its members
and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner
or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents.
Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal,
and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message.
 A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well.  (H. Schiffman,
Moderator)

For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to
https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/
listinfo/lgpolicy-list
*******************************************

_______________________________________________
This message came to you by way of the lgpolicy-list mailing list
lgpolicy-list at groups.sas.upenn.edu
To manage your subscription unsubscribe, or arrange digest format: https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list