LINGUIST List 25.2939
Tue
Jul 15 2014
Calls: Portuguese,
Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics, Language
Acquisition/Belgium
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Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 14-Jul-2014
From: Karina Molsing
<karina.molsing
pucrs.br>
Subject: Portuguese as an
Additional Language: Author Presence
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Full Title: Portuguese as an Additional
Language: Author Presence
Date: 26-Jul-2015 - 31-Jul-2015
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Contact Person: Karina Molsing
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Pragmatics
Subject Language(s): Portuguese
Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2014
Meeting Description:
As the second most spoken Romance language and
the fourth most spoken additional language in
the world, Portuguese is considered a language
of the future and is predicted to be spoken by
335 million people around the world by 2050. In
the area of higher education, there has been a
substantial increase in the number of foreign
exchange students entering Brazilian and
Portuguese higher education institutions.
Therefore, contributions aimed at improving the
teaching-learning processes of Portuguese as an
Additional Language (PAL) are much needed at
the academic level.
The aim of the panel is to bring together works
in language acquisition, cross-cultural
comparison and other corpus-based analyses in
order to highlight author presence in
Portuguese academic productions. Author
presence includes terms such as 'stance' (Biber
2003, 2012), a broad concept that refers to how
an author positions himself with respect to the
target audience through the use of a variety of
linguistic elements (e.g. pronoun choices) and
strategies (e.g. hedging).
As Hyland (2002) claims, a central element of
pragmatic competence is the ability of language
users to construct a credible representation of
themselves and their work, aligning themselves
with the socially shaped identities of their
communities. In this sense, academic writing
and speaking, like all forms of communication,
is an act of identity. In addition to conveying
the scientific information, it also reflects
the dominant cultural values of a linguistic
community. Therefore, pragmatic resources are
employed to share meanings, signal who we are
and to draw in, influence and persuade readers
and listeners.
Call for Papers:
In order to advance a discussion of how these
pragmatic resources are established in academic
discourses, we invite oral presentation
proposals on theoretical studies and researches
with learner or native speaker corpora to
promote awareness raising regarding the
linguistic expression of PAL learners in
developing an effective stance in academic
production.
Abstracts should be at least 250 and at most
500 words and should be sent to
karina.molsing
pucrs.br. The deadline for abstract
submissions is September 15, 2014.
Please note that all presenters at
International Pragmatics Conference must be
IPRA members.
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