LINGUIST List 21.4054 Thu Oct 14 2010 Calls: Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling/United Kingdom Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.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.     Svetlana Kurtes , Breaking the News on European Televisions Message 1: Breaking the News on European Televisions Date: 12-Oct-2010 From: Svetlana Kurtes <s.kurtesgooglemail.com> Subject: Breaking the News on European Televisions E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Breaking the News on European Televisions Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Svetlana Kurtes Meeting Email: s.kurtesgooglemail.com Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 23-Oct-2010 Meeting Description: IPrA Panel: Breaking the news on European televisions: cross-cultural perspectives (an ENIEDA initiative) Panel convenors: Svetlana Kurtes (Cambridge, UK) Teodora Popescu (Alba Iulia, Romania) Discussant: Cornelia Ilie (Malmo, Sweden) The panel is organised by members of ENIEDA (The European Network for Intercultural Education Activities). The central goal of ENIEDA is to promote research in the field of intercultural education and linguistic studies across European countries and beyond. In this panel we would like to present and discuss some major issues of a new cross-cultural project that we have recently initiated. Its end-goal is to provide a cross-cultural analysis of the layout, structure and thematic sequencing of TV news programme in several European countries. The ways in which such programmes are designed, planned and structured and carried out is of utmost importance for the ways in which they are received, perceived and evaluated by the intended audiences, as well as by other audiences. While the ongoing process of 'harmonisation' and 'convergence' of information channels is taking place across national borders in Europe, the specific organisation, layout, scope and focus on national TV news programmes display varying specific recurring patterns of framing the news. Our particular interest in mapping the characteristics of individual news programmes and comparing them across national borders was prompted by a growing need to better understand the commonalities and differences between culture-based media activities that play an important role in representing, and at the same time in shaping, the perceptions, mentalities and identities of millions of Europeans on the continent. Call For Papers Our research strategy aims at understanding not only patterns of media use of news, but also its socio-cultural embeddedness. On a macro-level, a most useful analytical approach has been the action theoretical frame of analysis of TV news used in Renckstorf, McQuail and Jankowski (1996) and further developed in Renckstorf, McQuail and Jankowski (2001). On a pragmatic micro-level we make use of a pragma-rhetorical and critical discourse- analytical approach (McQuail 1992, Renckstorf et al. 2001). The starting point is a pragma-rhetorical approach to institutional discourse (Ilie 2006), which focuses on the correlation between spatial-temporal frames (in terms of spatial and temporal elements, i.e. participant positioning in space and time), participant frames (in terms of shifting roles and identities, as well as speaker-addressee and speaker-audience relationships) and interaction frames (in terms of institutional and interpersonal structuring of participant relationships in goal-oriented interaction activities). Particular emphasis is laid on the multimodal analysis of the visual layout, the interactive speaker-audience interface, the gendered role distribution, the layout and sequencing of different types of news (politics, economy, culture, sports, weather). The project investigations will focus on the main national (public) television news broadcasters in the European countries under scrutiny. The basic research questions to be addressed in the panel contributions are the following: - Which are the typical or defining features of news programmes across cultural and national borders in the European countries under consideration in terms of setting, visual cues, content, structure, interaction? Which general and specific purposes do they serve? - Which broadcasting conventions are common to news programmes in most of the European countries concerned? - What ideological assumptions and socio-cultural values seem to be embedded in the layout, structure and content of different news programmes? - How are social and/or transnational phenomena regarding asylum seekers, migrants, minority groups, a.s.o., presented and treated in news broadcasts across Europe? Which are the biased forms of representation used in news programmes? - To what extent do certain news programmes depart from or stretch the conventions of the genre? How do particular types of news programmes depart from the conventions of the genre? - In what ways do particular news programmes respond to audience expectations and in what ways do they contribute to constructing audience expectations? References Ilie, Cornelia. 2006. Towards a pragma-rhetorical approach: From rhetoric to pragmatics and beyond. In Ashok Thorat (ed.) Pragmatics, 16-37. Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Aundh, Pune. McQuail, D. 1992. Media performance: Mass communication and the public interest. Sage. Renckstorf, K., McQuail, D. and Jankowski, N. (eds.). 1996. Media use as social action: A European approach to audience studies. London/Rome: Libbey. Renckstorf, K., McQuail, D. and Jankowski, N. (eds.). 2001. Television news research: Recent European approaches and findings. Berlin: Quintessenz. Call For Papers We welcome participants wishing to take part in the panel and invite abstracts for 30 minute long presentations (inclusive of discussion time) on the topics suggested, but not strictly limited to the list above. Abstracts should be anonymous, up to 400 words (including examples and references), submitted as an attachment (doc, rtf or pdf) to the panel convenors: Svetlana Kurtes (s.kurtesgooglemail.com) Teodora Popescu (teo_popescuhotmail.com). Please specify 'IPrA Panel' in the subject of your message, and include author(s) name(s), affiliation(s) and contact details (including email addresses) in the body of the message. Important Dates: Abstract submission deadline: 23 October 2010 Notification of acceptance: 26 October 2010 Final submission via the IPrA website: 29 October 2010. Please note that in order to participate you need to be an active member of IPrA. Further details and instructions are to be found at: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE12&n=1403 Please read the instructions carefully! We look forward to receiving your contributions, Svetlana Kurtes & Teodora Popescu Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-Oct-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.