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International Conference The Semiotics of Writing Transdisciplinary perspectives on the technology of writing November 12-14, 1999 Grand Hotel - Republic of San Marino Viale Onofri, 31 Friday 12 15.00 Patrick John Coppock The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Introduction: Identity, audience and community in writing research Jack Goody University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Transdisciplinary enquiries in literacy: the social sciences and the book Martin Nystrand University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Culture supports for empirical research on writing Saturday 13 9.00 David Barton Lancaster University, United Kingdom Letter writing as a socialpractice Lars Sigfred Evensen The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Grounding in interaction Kjell-Lars Berge University of Oslo, Norway The development of a textculture: Theoretical reflections on the notion of the +IBg-text+IBk- based on empirical studies of the 18th century society Thomas Huckin University of Utah, USA Rhetorical invention and textual silences 15.00 Anna-Malin Karlsson Stockholm University, Department of Scandinavian Languages To write a page. Concepts and practices of homepage use. Finn Bostad The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Dialogue in asynchronous online writing Anne Freadman The University of Queensland, Australia The visit of the instrument maker Carol Berkenkotter Michigan Technological University, USA Picturing the insane: Relationship between text and graphics in 19th century psychiatric case history Sunday 14 9.00 Maurizio Gnerre University of Cassino, Istituto Orientale di Napoli The semiotics of ephemeral graphisms in two South-American indigenous societies Carolyn Miller North Carolina StateUniversity, USA Writing in a culture of simulation Jim Martin University of Sydney, Australia Fair trade: negotiating meaning in multimodal texts Gunther Kress University of London, United Kingdom Rethinking writing in the context of multimodality Tuition fee: 120.000 Italian Lire Students: 60.000 Italian Lire For further information and hotel reservation please contact: Universit+AOA- di San Marino Contrada Omerelli, 77 47890 Repubblica di San Marino >From Italy: Tel.: 0549/882516 Fax: 0549/882619 >From other countries: Tel.: +-39/549/882516 or +-378/882516 Fax: +-39/549/882519 or +-378/882519 http://www.unirsm.sm E-mail: dssc+AEA-unirsm.smMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue