26.1319, Calls: Historical Ling, Lexicography, Ling & Literature, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Italy

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Subject: 26.1319, Calls: Historical Ling, Lexicography, Ling & Literature, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Italy

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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:13:14
From: Carolina Flinz [c.flinz at ec.unipi.it]
Subject: Tourist Guidebooks: Where the Vocabulary and the Images of Cultural Heritage Meet

 
Full Title: Tourist Guidebooks: Where the Vocabulary and the Images of Cultural Heritage Meet 

Date: 11-Jun-2015 - 12-Jun-2015
Location: Pisa and Florence, Italy 
Contact Person: Annick Farina
Meeting Email: annick.farina at unifi.it

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Ling & Literature; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 25-Mar-2015 

Meeting Description:

The conference focuses on the ways in which cultural heritage narrative, vocabulary and imagery intertwine in tourist guidebooks in passages dedicated to urban spaces, landscapes, architecture, figurative art and crafts. 

Which words and images are used to describe cultural heritage assets? How are certain items selected through narratives and what is instead left out? What is the role of the author(s) in selecting which cultural assets to include in a guidebook and how to represent them linguistically and figuratively? How do images and the lexical repertoire stabilize to the point of becoming stereotypical? What is the interplay of text and images? These are some of the questions that will be explored.

On the one hand, the conference aims to investigate tourist guidebooks as the locus where the real or virtual tourist experience is shaped and, therefore, their key contribution to the creation of the image of the destination and its heritage. Through description and narration, guidebooks become intermediaries between the reader and the cultural heritage of the destination.  On the other hand, guidebooks should be studied in terms of their relationship with the individual reader, guiding them through a cultural space and focusing on the most representative aspects of specific places and epochs. Moreover, their influence is not limited to the time of travel; they also represent a textual space capable of organizing the traveller’s memories by bringing together actual spaces and the tourist’s subjective experience of them. 
 
Who Can Participate:
 
The research unit on the Vocabulary of Cultural Heritage is interdisciplinary and multilingual in nature and investigates the synergy between text, language and images. The conference aims at bringing together scholars working in the fields of linguistics, literature, geography, architecture, history, photography, and communication. Travellers are also welcome to participate in the debate. 

Possible Topics:

- The vocabulary of cultural heritage in tourist guidebooks from synchronic or diachronic perspectives
- Translated touirst guidebooks
- Different editions of tourist guidebooks
- The images of cultural heritage in tourist guidebooks in synchronic or diachronic perspectives 
- The imagery of cultural heritage 
- The protagonists of tourist guidebooks: authors of texts and images and readers
- Interactions with other descriptive genres: tourist guidebooks and travel journals, tourist guidebooks and travel photography 
- The study of tourist guidebooks at large: open issues

Call for Papers:

Deadline:

Proposals should be submitted by 25 March 2015. Please send your proposal to annick.farina at unifi.it

Abstracts should include the following information:

Title:
Type of contribution (presentation/poster)
Author
Affiliation:
Address:
E-mail:

Organizing Committee:

Annick Farina
Tiziana Serena
Elena Carpi
Gloria Cappelli
Carolina Flinz




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