[lg policy] call: Genre- and Register-related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora

Wed May 16 14:49:49 UTC 2012

Genre- and Register-related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora

Date: 11-Jan-2013 - 12-Jan-2013
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact Person: Marie-Aude Lefer
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.mariehaps.be/lsb2013

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2012

Meeting Description:

Genre- and Register-related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora
Organizers: The Linguistic Society of Belgium and Institut Libre Marie
Haps - Brussels
11-12 January 2013
http://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.

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)

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)

Sponsoring Options:

For sponsoring options, please contact lsb.conferenceilmh.be.

Contact and Information:

lsb.conferenceilmh.be

Final Call for Papers:

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.

Proposals dealing with the benefits of corpus-based studies for
translator training are also welcome, especially those that examine
discourse features across languages.

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:

http://www.mariehaps.be/lsb2013

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.conferenceilmh.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 30 June
2012.

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)

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