LINGUIST List 14.1379

Wed May 14 2003

Calls: Lang&Communication/Lang&Rhetoric

Editor for this issue: Karolina Owczarzak <karolinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. linguisticjournal, Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication
2. cornelia.ilie, Conference on Language, Culture, Rhetoric

Journal: Language and Intercultural Communication 

Contact: Irina Fedotova
Contact Email: linguisticjournaladygnet.ru 
URL: http://www.adygnet.ru/nauchrab/Injaz/journal.htm

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics 
Call Deadline: 10-Jun-2003

The international linguistic journal ''Language and Intercultural
Communication'' founded by Adyghe State University, Maikop, Russia,
needs more articles written in English by foreign linguists to be
included in the June issue of the journal. The theme of the journal
covers many linguistic areas connected with intercultural
communication in its very broad meaning. The deadline is 10 June
2003. The journal is to be published by the end of June 2003. 

It is devoted to multiple aspects associated with Intercultural
Communication and Linguistics. We are encouraging all linguists doing
their research in these fields of study to submit their articles for
publication, irrespective of their citizenship and country of
residence. The Journal is a refereed edition and therefore preference
will be given to high quality professional articles, which will
contain original scholarly research, manifest new approaches and
trends in linguistic studies and will be in conformity with the main
theme of the Journal.

Language, Culture, Rhetoric: Linguistic communication in a cultural
and rhetorical perspective

Short Title: Language,Culture,Rhetoric

Date: 06-Nov-2003 - 07-Nov-2003
Location: �rebro, Sweden
Contact: Ida Lindberg
Contact Email: asla2003hum.oru.se 
Meeting URL: http://www.oru.se/org/inst/hum/asla/index_eng.htm

Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics 
Call Deadline: 20-Sep-2003


Meeting Description:
ASLA Conference
�rebro University, 6-7 November, 2003

Language, culture, rhetoric:
Linguistic communication in a cultural and rhetorical perspective

On behalf of ASLA (Association su�doise de linguistique appliqu�e),
the English section of the Department of Humanities, �rebro
University, Sweden, will host this years ASLA Conference. The
conference will be held on 6-7 November, 2003. The programme will
contain plenary sessions and workshops. Submissions are invited that
may deal with the conference theme as a whole, or with theoretical or
empirical aspects, such as the rhetoric of language and the language
of rhetoric, cross-cultural or multi-cultural communication patterns,
specific and mixed rhetorical practices in different discourse types,
etc. We welcome papers on a wide range of theoretical approaches,
including interdisciplinary studies covering fields such as
contrastive linguistics, discourse analysis, (comparative) rhetoric,
ethnolinguistics, linguistic argumentation and cognitive
linguistics. 

Our use of language reflects and shapes our cultural identity and
cognition, our ways of thinking and feeling, our value judgements and
behaviour. Recent linguistic studies indicate a growing interest for
exploring the interrelation between three core notions: language,
culture and rhetoric. Several investigations of oral and written
communication both in everyday situations (informal meetings,
telephone conversations, etc.) and in institutional settings
(political discourse, business communication, etc.) have contributed
to mapping and analysing intracultural and intercultural aspects of
converging, as well as diverging, interaction patterns. Rhetoric as
theory and method plays an essential role in unveiling and exploring
the relation between the written and the spoken word, between
private/public roles and language use, between empowering and
manipulating communication strategies, between non-fictional and
fictional language use, between tradition-bound and ground-breaking
cultural conventions, between source language and target language
constraints in terms of translation goals and outcomes.

This year's ASLA symposium aims at offering researchers who are
interested in the issue of convergence between language, culture and
rhetoric an opportunity to meet and share ideas. Proposed
contributions may either deal with the conference theme as a whole, or
they may concern theoretical or empirical aspects, such as the
rhetoric of language and the language of rhetoric, cross-cultural or
multi-cultural communication patterns, specific and mixed rhetorical
practices in different discourse types, etc. We welcome papers on a
wide range of theoretical approaches, including interdisciplinary
studies covering fields such as contrastive linguistics, discourse
analysis, (comparative) rhetoric, ethnolinguistics, linguistic
argumentation and cognitive linguistics.


PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Michael Hoey, Director of Applied English Language Studies Unit,
Department of English Language & Literature, University of Liverpool,
U.K. 
Committed reading, shallow reading, targetted reading: Some key
features of written communication revisited

Sigmund Ongstad, Professor, Faculty of Education, Oslo University
College, Norway 
The blindness of focusing: Validating language and excerpts of culture
with Habermas & Halliday


CONFERENCE SECTIONS

The symposium will include a number of section-related papers. Papers
may be presented in English or in Swedish.

There are already five planned conference sections:

-Culture-based differences in vocabulary and interaction styles
(Coordinator: Prof. Jens Alwood)
-The interface of oral and written, and/or of old and new, rhetorics
in encounters between people and between cultures (Coordinator:
Prof. Jan Anward)
-The rhetoric of language, music and visual image (Coordinator:
Prof. Lennart Hellspong)
-The rhetorical institutionalisation of language - Subsections:
rhetorical and argumentative strategies in political discourse
(Coordinator: Prof. Cornelia Ilie), legal discourse, journalistic
discourse and/or religious discourse
-The role of translation in the age of globalisation and multi-media
rhetoric: Theoretical and/or practical issues


SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Abstracts should be submitted no later than 20 September, 2003, and
they will be reviewed anonymously. Notification of acceptance will be
announced by 1 October, 2003.

CONFERENCE EMAIL
asla2003hum.oru.se 

CONFERENCE WEBSITE
http://www.oru.se/org/inst/hum/asla/index_eng.htm


ASLA and the Department of Humanities 
�rebro university

Cornelia Ilie (Chair)
Ida Lindberg 
Kajsa Andersson 
Gudrun Brundin