20.3151, Calls: Discipline of Ling, General Ling, English Lang/Czech Republic

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Date: 16-Sep-2009
From: Jan Chovanec < chovanec at phil.muni.cz >
Subject: Diversification and Its Discontents: 9th Brno International Conference
 

	
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Full Title: Diversification and Its Discontents: 9th Brno International Conference 

Date: 04-Feb-2010 - 06-Feb-2010
Location: Brno, Czech Republic 
Contact Person: Alena Zapletalova
Meeting Email: brno.conference at hotmail.com
Web Site: http://www.phil.muni.cz/wkaa/home/konference/9bc_eacs/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General
Linguistics; Pragmatics; Translation 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2009 

Meeting Description:

Diversification and Its Discontents: Dynamics of the Discipline
9th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies

Organized and hosted by:
The Czech Association for the Study of English (CZASE)
Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno

Keynote Lectures:
Andreas H. Jucker (Universität Zürich)
Pragmatics of the New Media: Multimodal Communication in Virtual Worlds
	
Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow)
Shadow Lines: Nationalism and Transnationalism in British Romantic Studies
	
Martin Hilský (Charles University, Prague)
Shakespeare´s Theatre of Language: Czech Experience 

Call for Papers

The proposed conference topic is designed to give scholars from a range of
disciplines (including linguistics, literary and cultural studies, translation
studies and ELT methodology) a common platform from which to address issues
specific to their discipline.

The following linguistics and translation sections have been proposed (for more
details, see the conference website):

S1 Information Structure of Discourse 
Seminar Leaders:
Libu?e Du?ková (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Jana Chamonikolasová (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

S2  English in Academic Contexts 
Seminar Leaders:
Markéta Malá (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Renata Povolná (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

S3 Communication Strategies in English/Czech Discourse 
Seminar Leaders:
Christopher Hopkinson (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)
Renáta Tomá?ková (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)

S4 Understanding Patterns of Meaning in Language 
Seminar Leaders:
Nad??da Kudrná?ová (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Radek Vogel (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

S5 Didactics of Diachrony
Seminar Leaders:
Jan ?ermák (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Ond?ej Tichý (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

S6 Analysing Verbal Interaction in the Media
Seminar Leaders:
Jan Chovanec (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Marta Dynel (University of ?ód?, Poland)

S7 Stereotyping in Media in English 
Seminar Leaders:
Slávka Toma??íková (P. J. ?afárik University, Ko?ice, Slovakia)
Bo?ena Velebná (P. J. ?afárik University, Ko?ice, Slovakia)

S15 Integrating Research in Translation Studies
Seminar Leaders: 
Renata Kamenická (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Ji?í Rambousek (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

S16 Translation Studies - More than Recycling?
Seminar Leaders: 
Renata Kamenická (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Ji?í Rambousek (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

Some Panel Topics:
(a complete list will be publicized with the names and lecture titles of
individual speakers in the preliminary conference programme on 1 November 2009)

Learning to Teach Translation
Dialogic Discourse
Why Should We Study Old English Runic Inscriptions?
Old English Plant Names and Modern Electronic Media and Techniques

Deadline for panels and posters: 31 October 2009.
http://www.phil.muni.cz/wkaa/home/konference/9bc_eacs/





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