27.13, Calls: Pragmatics/Italy

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Subject: 27.13, Calls: Pragmatics/Italy

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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:42:52
From: Luisa Gregori [gregori at wisc.edu]
Subject: 2016 Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian

 
Full Title: 2016 Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian 

Date: 22-Jun-2016 - 27-Jun-2016
Location: Naples, Italy 
Contact Person: Colleen Ryan
Meeting Email: ryancm at indiana.edu
Web Site: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~aati/napoli/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2016 

Meeting Description:

The AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) announces its next International Conference to take place in Naples, Italy from June 22-27, 2015, hosted by the Università degli Studi di Napoli di Federico II and the Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale. The general program outline is as follows:

This conference promises to be another vibrant international meeting, given, first and foremost, its location. Naples is a unique city, one where historical, cultural, and political events have taken root, unraveled, and entwined in original ways across the centuries.

The conference is open to all themes, but the AATI also invites colleagues to think in particular in terms of those more pertinent to some of the current events in Italy. Along with general topics such as pedagogy, linguistics, culture, literature, cinema, theater, Italian as a second language, Italian language abroad, Italian identities in the world, history, media, economy, the arts, etc., we also suggest a focus on more ''local'' topics that have Naples and the Campania region at their core. Some examples might be:

Italian language abroad (the teaching, diffusion, and politics of)
Italian culture and identity around the world
Linguistic globalization: The relationship between ''strong'' and ''weak'' languages
The new ''Southern Question''
Italian immigration today vs. Italian emigration of yesteryear
Migrants writers in Italy: a new canon of Italian literature?
The Neapolitan Enlightenment: from philosophical thought to political economy
Giambattista Vico and his influence in and outside of Italy
Naples and Classical Greece
>From San Gennaro to nativity scenes: religious practices and their influence in Italy and abroad
Neapolitan dialect literature and its diffusion in Italy and abroad
The new southern novel: from mystery to denunciation
Neapolitan theater
Totò and the Neapolitan comic tradition
Naples and contemporary Italian cinema
Neapolitan Song and Dance: History and Influence

Call for Papers: 

Session: Pragmatics and Italian Language Teaching

Session organizer:  Luisa Gregori, PhD student at UW-Madison, Madison, WI.

Crystal (1997: 301) defined pragmatics as “the study of language from the point of view of users, especially of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction and the effects their use of language has on other participants in the act of communication.” Over the last 30 years, scholars in this field revealed how pragmatic skills (such as making requests, complaining, refusing, giving compliments, and the like) are not acquired intuitively by foreign or second language learners, even after intensive exposure to and practice in the target language. They also showed through longitudinal studies how the development of pragmatic competence strongly benefits from instruction. Yet, so far pragmatics has not often been the explicit focus of attention in foreign/second language curriculum planning and design. 
This session invites papers that analyze how speech acts are realized in Italian and how they could be effectively taught, examine the learnability of pragmatic skills in collegiate environments, or investigate the reliability of textbooks in raising learners’ pragmatic awareness.

Forms of presentation: presentation
Speaking time is limited to 20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion time.
   
Conference languages: English, Italian
Submission of abstracts: Please submit a title, 300 word abstract, and a brief biographical note, by 29 February 2016 to Luisa Gregori at gregori at wisc.edu.




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