27.3187, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 27.3187, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:18:32
From: Marlies Whitehouse [marlies.whitehouse at zhaw.ch]
Subject: Financial literacy - a Key to the Real World

Full Title: Financial literacy - a Key to the Real World 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Marlies Whitehouse
Meeting Email: marlies.whitehouse at zhaw.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

Panel: Financial literacy – a key to the real world

Convenors:

Marlies Whitehouse, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Monika Kovarova-Simecek, UAS St. Pölten, Austria
Gabrielle Wanzenried, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts,
Switzerland

Over the last years, the study of communication in finance from a discursive,
textual, and quantitative perspective has attracted strong interest not only
in economics and finance, but also in the humanities. This panel intends to
enhance the understanding of the pragmalinguistic aspects of financial
communication in general and financial literacy in particular from innovative
perspectives. In line with the overall theme of the IPrA 2017 Conference,
“Pragmatics in the real world”, the panel focuses on the key role of financial
literacy in society and discusses research in which the various genres of
finance (e.g., pension fund information, financial analysts’ recommendations,
corporate announcements, bank statements, insurance letters, tax forms,
financial advisors’ papers) are examined with inter- and transdisciplinary
approaches that reconstruct, scrutinize, or aim at improving the communication
between financial experts and society-at-large (Whitehouse & Perrin, 2015). By
doing so, this panel addresses theoretical, methodological and practical
challenges of investigating the intertextual dynamics and linguistic
strategies at the interface of verbal, visual, and numerical languages.
Methods combined include text analysis, multimodal genre analysis, writing
research, critical discourse analysis, but also quantitative approaches such
as correlation and regression analysis. We intend to contribute to an enhanced
understanding of what the characteristics of financial communication are,
which strategies the stakeholders use, and where there is a mismatch between
the actual financial literacy – or even illiteracy – of lay persons and the
assumptions or policies of financial experts. By creating the occasion for
close interdisciplinary dialogue between complementary disciplines, the panel
aims at developing a common agenda of joint research on financial literacy as
a key to an economically shaped world.

Whitehouse, M., & Perrin, D. (2015). Comprehensibility and comprehensiveness
of financial analysts’ reports. In A. Rocci, R. Palmieri & L. Gautier (Eds.),
Text and discourse analysis in financial communication. Thematic issue of
Studies in Communication Sciences (pp. 111–119).

Call for Papers:

If you are interested in participating with a presentation, please submit an
abstract using the IPrA conference website before October 15. 

Link: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1510

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