LINGUIST List 14.1379

Wed May 14 2003

Calls: Lang&Communication/Lang&Rhetoric

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    Message 1: Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication

     Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 01:33:56 +0000
    From: linguisticjournal <linguisticjournaladygnet.ru>
    Subject: Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication


    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.

    Message 2: Conference on Language, Culture, Rhetoric

     Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:21:47 +0000
    From: cornelia.ilie <cornelia.iliehum.oru.se>
    Subject: Conference on Language, Culture, Rhetoric


    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