LINGUIST List 21.2930 Thu Jul 15 2010 Confs: Socioling, Text/Corpsus Ling, Discourse Analysis/Poland Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Monika Kopytowska, Summer Institute on Language and Culture Data in Contrast Message 1: Summer Institute on Language and Culture Data in Contrast Date: 15-Jul-2010 From: Monika Kopytowska <mkopytowskauni.lodz.pl> Subject: Summer Institute on Language and Culture Data in Contrast E-mail this message to a friend Summer Institute on Language and Culture Data in Contrast Short Title: SILCC 2010 Date: 07-Sep-2010 - 17-Sep-2010 Location: ?ód?, Poland Contact: Monika Kopytowska Contact Email: mkopytowskauni.lodz.pl Meeting URL: http://silcc.pl Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Meeting Description: Language as a medium of culture and part of culture, discourse as both culturally constituted and constitutive of culture, and communication as a way of negotiating cultural meanings continue to inspire, fascinate, and perplex linguists from a variety of backgrounds and orientations, from lexicographic to pragmatic, from descriptive to prescriptive, from theory centered to practice and ideology-oriented. Collecting, exploring, comparing and describing their data of various types and from different sources they continually encounter methodological dilemmas and challenges, which makes them even more eager to strive for new appropriate and effective solutions and tools that would enable them to address various aspects of this multi-dimensional language-culture interaction in a novel and comprehensive way. It is the abundance of methodological questions of the validity and reliability of the techniques used in data collection, processing, analysis and retrieval along with a number of social, psychological, and practical considerations and a growing awareness of the need for cognitive pluralism in language and culture studies that became the motivation behind and the organising principle of SILCC 2010. Topics: The second edition of the Summer Institute will provide insights into various types of data as well as methods and tools allowing for effective and reliable analyses. The themes to be addressed include: -Intercultural competence -Cognitive cultural patterning -Contrastive pragmatics and discourse analysis -Dialectics of mass media communication -Contrasting lexical patterns -Translation -Multilingual corpora -Empirical data In a series of stimulating lectures, presentations and workshops, a dedicated team of leading experts in pragmatics and discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, translation and cultural studies will provide participants of the programme with solid methodological foundations for analyzing various types of data (corpora with written or spoken texts, data from sociolinguistic interviews, elicited data from fieldwork, etc.) and introduce up-to-date procedures and tools. The participants guided and supervised by the tutors, will be encouraged to apply selected methods in a series of individual and group tasks and in the final project, which will then be evaluated by a group of experts. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 15-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.