LINGUIST List 12.2542

Thu Oct 11 2001

Calls: Gender and Language, Language Variation

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Patricia.Bou, Gender and Language: Gender of Translation / The Translation of Gender
2. David Beck, Language Variation within and across Language Families

University of Valencia
First International Seminar on Gender and Language:
The Gender of Translation / The Translation of Gender
16-18 October, 2002


CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear colleagues,

The Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the University of
Valencia will host on 16-18 October, 2002, the First International
Seminar on Gender and Language (The Gender of Translation / The
Translation of Gender).

We would like to invite proposals for papers, workshops and posters on
all aspects of gender and language studies and, especifically, on all
theoretical and practical aspects of the interface between gender and
language studies and translation studies.

Topics for the Seminar will include, among others: 
- analysis of gender marking in translation.
- women, men, language and translation.
- gender bias in translation.
- translation as gender-specific cultural transfer.
- translating the body.
- re-translating gender-specific texts (e.g. the Bible).
- the challenge to grammatical gender in translation.
- the feminisation/masculinisation of translations.
- translators vs. translatresses.
- relation between women and translation: on the borders of meaning.
- feminist translation.
- the translation of identity.
- how sites of translation become gendered.
- authorship in women's and men's translations.
- sexism and translation.
- etc.

The Seminar is interdisciplinary: we invite work on diverse
languages and from a variety of fields of study, although with a
main focus on language and discourse.

Dates: 16, 17 & 18 October 2002.

Plenary speakers:
Prof. Deborah Cameron (Institute of Education, London)
Prof. Ruth Wodak (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Prof. Mary Talbot (University of Sunderland)

Papers:
We seek 20-minute papers, approx. 4,000 words in length (plus
10 minutes discussion). Please send a 250-word abstract in electronic
format (MS Word 98), indicating:
- title of paper. 
- author(s).
- author's affiliation (mailing address, phone/fax number, e-mail)
- indicate the materials you will require (video, OHP, slide
projector, etc.)

Final papers should not exceed 4,000-word length, and they must be
handed in to the organisation at the Seminar (in triplicate plus a
copy on diskette).

Workshops:
Send a workshop description, in electronic format (MS Word 98),
indicating:
- title of workshop.
- author(s).
- author's affiliation (mailing address, phone/fax number, e-mail)
- indicate the materials you will require (video, OHP, slides
projector, etc.)
- aims and methodology.
- target audience.
- duration (maximum 2-3 hours).

Please send proposals by 15 May 2002, to:
By e-mail: jose.santaemiliauv.es
By fax or ordinary mail:
Dr. Jose Santaemilia,
Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya,
Universitat de Valencia
Av. Blasco Ibaez, 32
Valencia-46010
Tel. (34) 96 386 42 62 / (34) 96 398 34 20
Fax (34) 96 386 41 61

Notification of acceptance will be given approximately 1 July 2002.
Articles will be considered for publication (Guidelines for
publication will be sent to Seminar contributors).

Registration: see form below.

Official languages of the Seminar: English, Spanish and Catalan.


Seminar coordinator: Dr. Jose Santaemilia.
Organising committee: Dr. Patricia Bou, Dr. Peter Vickers.

Universitat de Valencia
Facultat de Filologia
Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya


REGISTRATION FORM

First International Seminar on Gender and Language
(The Gender of Translation / The Translation of Gender)
University of Valencia, 16-18 October 2002

Surname

Name

Title (Mr., Ms., Dr., etc.)

Affiliation (university, etc.)

Address

Country

Telephone number (home)

Telephone number (work)

Fax number

E-mail address

Please indicate:
Attendance only 
Contributor
Student

Title of paper (if applicable)



Seminar registration fees (in Euros)
			Attendant	Contributor	Student
Before September 15th	60.10		72.12		30.05
			(Pta. 10,000)	(Pta. 12,000)	(Pta. 5,000)

After September 15th	72.12		90.15		36.06
			(Pta. 12,000)	(Pta. 15,000)	(Pta. 6,000)

Method of payment:
Bank transfer to the following account number:
Bank: CAM (Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo) - Urbana Exposicion
(Valencia)
Account:2090-2821-42-0040116872
Payable to: VSGL 2002 (Valencia Seminar on Gender and Language 2002)

Please send the completed form (with a copy of bank transfer) by 15
September 2002 to the Seminar coordinator:

Dr. Jose Santaemilia,
Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya,
Universitat de Valencia
Av. Blasco Ibaez, 32
Valencia-46010
Tel. (34) 96 386 42 62 / (34) 96 398 34 20
Fax (34) 96 386 41 61
e-mail: jose.santaemiliauv.es



Patricia Bou Franch
Departamento de Filologia Inglesa y Alemana
Avda. Blasco Ibaez 32 - 46010 Valencia SPAIN
Tlno: (34) 96.386.47.28
Fax: (34) 96.386.41.61
patricia.bouuv.es

WSCLA 7 - Call for Papers

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
March 22 - 24, 2002

CALL FOR PAPERS

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together linguists doing
theoretical work on the indigenous languages of North, Central, and
South America. Papers in all core areas of linguistics (phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics) within any theoretical
framework will be considered, but we especially invite papers which
address the theme of this year's conference:

Convergence and Divergence: Language Variation within and across
Language Families

While the bulk of theoretical work in linguistics has by and large
relied on the convenient fiction that languages are stable, uniform
synchronic systems that are consistent and self-contained across
communities of speakers, linguists working on the languages of the
Americas-the majority of which are unwritten and have no normative or
"standard" form-have often been confronted with a startling degree of
variation within what speakers consider to be a single language.
Conversely, researchers working in well-established linguistic areas
or Sprachb=FCnde such as the Northwest Coast have found that what are
patently different and genetically unrelated languages share a
tremendous number of phonological and grammatical features.