10.1678, Confs: The Semiotics of Writing/ Univ of San Marino

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Date:  Thu, 4 Nov 1999 10:13:34 +0100
From:  "Dssc" <dssc at unirsm.sm>
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Date:  Thu, 4 Nov 1999 10:13:34 +0100
From:  "Dssc" <dssc at unirsm.sm>
Subject:  The Semiotics of Writing/ Univ of San Marino

International Conference
The Semiotics of Writing
Transdisciplinary perspectives on the technology of writing

November 12-14, 1999
Grand Hotel - Republic of San Marino
Viale Onofri, 31

Friday 12

15.00
Patrick John Coppock
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
 Introduction: Identity, audience and community in writing research

Jack Goody
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Transdisciplinary enquiries in literacy: the social sciences and the book

Martin Nystrand
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Culture supports for empirical research on writing


Saturday 13

9.00
David Barton
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Letter writing as a socialpractice

Lars Sigfred Evensen
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Grounding in interaction

Kjell-Lars Berge
University of Oslo, Norway
The development of a textculture: Theoretical reflections on the notion of
the +IBg-text+IBk- based on empirical studies of the 18th century society

Thomas Huckin
University of Utah, USA
Rhetorical invention and textual silences

15.00
Anna-Malin Karlsson
Stockholm University, Department of Scandinavian Languages
To write a page. Concepts and practices of homepage use.

Finn Bostad
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Dialogue in asynchronous online writing

Anne Freadman
The University of Queensland, Australia
The visit of the instrument maker

Carol Berkenkotter
Michigan Technological University, USA
Picturing the insane: Relationship between text and graphics in 19th century
psychiatric case history



Sunday 14

9.00
Maurizio Gnerre
University of Cassino, Istituto Orientale di Napoli
The semiotics of ephemeral graphisms in two South-American indigenous
societies

Carolyn Miller
North Carolina StateUniversity, USA
Writing in a culture of simulation

Jim Martin
University of Sydney, Australia
Fair trade: negotiating meaning in multimodal texts

Gunther Kress
University of London, United Kingdom
Rethinking writing in the context of multimodality

 Tuition fee: 120.000 Italian Lire
Students: 60.000 Italian Lire

For further information and hotel reservation please contact:

Universit+AOA- di San Marino
Contrada Omerelli, 77
47890 Repubblica di San Marino

>>From Italy:
Tel.: 0549/882516
Fax: 0549/882619

>>From other countries:
Tel.: +-39/549/882516 or +-378/882516
Fax: +-39/549/882519 or +-378/882519

http://www.unirsm.sm
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