LINGUIST List 22.4928 Thu Dec 08 2011 Calls: English, Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling/Italy Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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.     Giuliana Diani , Corpus and Genre in English for Academic Purposes Message 1: Corpus and Genre in English for Academic Purposes Date: 07-Dec-2011 From: Giuliana Diani <giuliana.dianiunimore.it> Subject: Corpus and Genre in English for Academic Purposes E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Corpus and Genre in English for Academic Purposes Short Title: CLAVIER 12 Date: 12-Apr-2012 - 13-Apr-2012 Location: Modena, Italy Contact Person: Giuliana Diani Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://clavier.sltt.unimore.it/site/home.html Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation Subject Language(s): English Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: Research on English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has shown an increasing interest in the developments in corpus linguistics and genre analysis over the last two decades. The major contribution to EAP has come in the description of the specific features of academic discourse. The joint contribution of corpus-based studies and discourse analytical methods can be seen as one of the reasons for the current burgeoning of EAP studies, with important repercussions on didactic approaches. A significant development in this respect is the recent change of focus from EAP teaching to EAP learning. The Seminar intends to focus on such issues in order to provide a better definition of the methods of investigation of academic English, the tools, the approaches, the new perspectives, bringing together two complementary strands of linguistic investigation - corpus analysis and genre analysis. The Seminar purports to describe the extent to which the English language and generic resources are creatively exploited in academic discourse, variously responding to or determining new scenarios, with a special interest in technological developments which have radically changed the way knowledge is disseminated across academic communities. The Seminar is held by the CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation In English Research) group, a research centre founded by the Universities of Bergamo, Firenze, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Roma 'Sapienza', and Siena, currently based in Modena. One of the purposes of the Seminar is to reinforce national and international cooperation with scholars and research centres that can widen and complement the interest in English for Academic Purposes both in quantitative and qualitative terms. The Seminar will offer two plenary sessions, a round table and parallel sessions restricted to a maximum of 20 talks. The Seminar will start early in the afternoon on Thursday 12 April and close around 5 pm on Friday 13 April, after a round table in which participants and invited speakers will discuss theoretical and methodological issues emerged from the papers presented in the previous sessions. For the plenary lectures the following keynote speakers have accepted to participate: Dr. Maggie Charles (Oxford University Language Centre) Dr. Rosa Lorés Sanz (University of Zaragoza) Number of Participants: The number of participants will have to be restricted to a maximum of 50. Conference Fee: The conference fee amounts to 60 Euros (professionals) and 30 Euros (students). It includes a conference bag, all tea/coffee breaks and dinner (12 April). Registration: Participants should register by sending a registration form to clavier12unimore.it not later than 31 March 2012 - cancellations should be notified not later than 1 April 2012. Information on the venue, registration, and hotels can be found on the seminar website at: http://clavier.sltt.unimore.it/site/home.html Call for Papers: Contributions are invited, focusing on the following themes: 1. Genre and textual analysis in EAP 2. Corpus analysis in EAP 3. Contrastive EAP rhetoric 4. Pedagogical implications in EAP 5. English as Lingua Franca in academic settings 6. Translation and terminology in EAP Presentation Guidelines: Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for discussion. Working Language: English Contributions will be accepted on condition that they are relevant to the specific themes of the Seminar. Abstract Submission: Please send an anonymous abstract totalling no more than 300 words by 15 January 2012 to the following address: clavier12unimore.it Please do not include any self-identifying information on the abstract; indicate only the title and the abstract itself. On a separate cover sheet, include: Title: Format: (paper/ poster) Author(s): Affiliation(s): Postal mailing address (for primary author): E-mail (for primary author): Important Dates: 15 January 2012: Deadline for receipt of abstracts 10 February 2012: Notifications of acceptance/rejection 13 February 2012: Programme and Registration open Scientific Committee: Julia Bamford (Napoli), Marina Bondi (Modena and Reggio Emilia), Nicholas Brownlees (Firenze), Marina Dossena (Bergamo), Giuliana Diani (Modena and Reggio Emilia), Rita Salvi (Roma), Elena Tognini Bonelli (Siena) For any additional information, please contact Giuliana Diani at giuliana.dianiunimore.it. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Dec-2011       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.