25.4210, Confs: English, Discourse Analysis, Translation/Italy

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Subject: 25.4210, Confs: English, Discourse Analysis, Translation/Italy

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:37:50
From: Gloria Cappelli [g.cappelli at angl.unipi.it]
Subject: English for Specific Purposes and Tourism Discourse

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English for Specific Purposes and Tourism Discourse 

Date: 28-Nov-2014 - 28-Nov-2014 
Location: Pisa, Italy 
Contact: Gloria Cappelli 
Contact Email: g.cappelli at angl.unipi.it 
Meeting URL: http://www.cli.unipi.it/ricerca/eventi 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Translation 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

The workshop is organized by the LSP Research Unit of the Centro Linguistico di Ateneo (University of Pisa) and focuses on some of the most recent developments in the research on ESP and Tourism Discourse. The speakers are four of the most prominent Italian scholars in this field.

With its intricate mix of informative, descriptive, and persuasive function, tourism discourse represents an ideal vantage point to investigate phenomena such as the linguistic construction of identity, the creation of stereotypes and culturemes as well as linguistic variation and change. 

Program:

9.30  
Greetings: prof. Mauro Tulli (Director of the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics), prof. Marcella Bertuccelli (Director of Centro Linguistico di Ateneo), prof. Elena Carpi (UDRILS Coordinator), dott. Federico Tognoni (Fondazione Campus Studi del Mediterraneo)

10.00
Opening remarks 
Gloria Cappelli (Università di Pisa)

10.15
Elena Manca (Università del Salento)
Translating the language of tourism: a linguistic and socio-cultural perspective

10.45
Sabrina Francesconi (Università di Trento)
Generic hybridity  in tourism-travel texts

11.30
Stefania Maci (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)
Meaning-making in web 2.0 tourism discourse

12.00
Olga Denti (Università di Cagliari)
Pragmatic and social appeal in tourism apps

12.30
Discussion

13.00
Closing remarks








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