CROSS-CULTURAL PRAGMATICS AT A CROSSROADS II: LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS ACROSS MEDIA

CROSS-CULTURAL PRAGMATICS AT A CROSSROADS II: LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS ACROSS MEDIA Wednesday 29 June-Friday 1 July 2011, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, Plenary speakers Juliane House (Hamburg University, Germany) Gunther Kress (University of London. UK) Michel Marcoccia (University of Troyes, France) Jeremy Munday (University of Leeds, UK) Luis Pérez-González (University of Manchester, UK) Miranda Stewart (University of Strathclyde, UK) This conference is the second in a series launched in 2006 with “Cross-cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads: Speech Frames and Cultural Perceptions” at the University of East Anglia, and the fourth in a sequence of related events including “Les enjeux de la communication interculturelle” in Montpellier (France) (Université Paul Valéry) in 2007 and “Cross-culturally speaking, speaking cross-culturally” in Sydney in 2009 (Macquarie University). Like its 2006 forerunner, this second event will be interdisciplinary. It aims to bring together, under the umbrella of cross-cultural pragmatics, researchers from domains which are particularly sensitive to cross-cultural issues, to promote the cross-fertilization of ideas and theoretical approaches, and explore key concerns associated with communication across language and culture boundaries. The theme of this second conference is ‘Linguistic and Cultural Representations across Media’, understood broadly as relating to the cross-over of language, mediation activities and media in a multilingual framework. It is intended to encompass communication and information flows in a range of contexts (e.g. the press, television and computer games, cinema, the theatre, museums, and the world wide web or other information channels); and to explore a range of activities central to the sharing of information and knowledge across languages and cultures in a global context: news transfer,multimedia and screen translation (e.g. subtitling, dubbing, etc.), stage translation and adaptation, the provision of multilingual information (e.g. in museums, trade fairs, etc.). Questions that the conference will aim to explore across media under the theme of linguistic and cultural representations include: • Representations and the perpetuation of cultural a-priori and/or conflict • Representations as a vehicle promoting cross-cultural and cross-linguistic sensitivity • Representations as a locus for (re)-negotiations of individual and group identities • Representations as agents of hybridization of communicative practices • Responses to representations • Shifts in response paradigms Research papers focusing on the little explored domain of audience reception will be particularly welcome. The general framework for the conference will be provided by plenary papers delivered by distinguished scholars representing different languages and complementary perspectives: intercultural communication, cross-cultural pragmatics, discourse studies (including media discourse), translation studies (including screen translation and theatre adaptation), with application to English as a lingua franca, French, German, Spanish inter alia. The conference will focus principally, but not exclusively, on European languages, still unevenly represented in cross-cultural pragmatics. It will, by virtue of its themes and of the inbuilt interdisciplinarity of cross-cultural pragmatics generally, be informed by different methodological paradigms (e.g. CA, interactional discourse analysis, discourse analysis, cross- and intercultural pragmatics, politeness theory, psycholinguistics). Proposals, for individual papers (20 minutes) or proposer-led panels on a particular theme (90 to 120 minutes), will be expected clearly to identify their theoretical frame(s) of reference and methodological approach. The meeting URL is http://www.uea.ac.uk/ccp2		Abstract Submission has been closed Reviewer Login: Abstract Review is closed
Meeting Location: University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Contact Information: Marie-Noelle Guillot m.guillot@uea.ac.uk
Meeting Dates: The CROSS-CULTURAL PRAGMATICS AT A CROSSROADS II: LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS ACROSS MEDIA will be held from 29-Jun-2011 to 01-Jul-2011.
Abstract Submission Information: Abstracts can be submitted from 15-Apr-2010 until 30-Nov-2010.
Abstract Rating Information: Submitted Abstracts will be reviewed and rated from 01-Dec-2010 until 31-Jan-2011. Authors will be notified of their acceptance after 31-Jan-2011.

CROSS-CULTURAL PRAGMATICS AT A CROSSROADS II: LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS ACROSS MEDIA, m.guillot@uea.ac.uk