CROSS-CULTURAL PRAGMATICS AT A CROSSROADS II:
LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS ACROSS MEDIA
29.06.11-01.07.10
University of East Anglia, Norwich UK,
Plenary speakers
Juliane House (Hamburg University, Germany)
Gunther Kress (University of London. UK)
Michel Marcoccia (Troyes University of Technology, France)
Jeremy Munday (University of Leeds, UK)
Luis Pérez-González (University of Manchester, UK)
Miranda Stewart (Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece)
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CALL FOR PAPER This conference is the second in
a series launched in 2006 with "Cross-cultural
Pragmatics at a Crossroads: Speech Frames and
Cultural Perceptions" at the University of East
Anglia, and the fourth in a sequence of related
events including "Les enjeux de la communication
interculturelle" in Montpellier (France)
(Université Paul Valéry) in 2007 and
"Cross-culturally speaking, speaking
cross-culturally" in Sydney (Australia) in 2009 (Macquarie University).
Like its 2006 forerunner, this second event will
be interdisciplinary. It aims to bring together,
under the umbrella of cross-cultural pragmatics,
researchers from domains which are particularly
sensitive to cross-cultural issues, to promote
the cross-fertilization of ideas and theoretical
approaches, and explore key concerns associated
with communication across language and culture boundaries.
The theme of this second conference is
-Linguistic and Cultural Representations across
Media', understood broadly as relating to the
cross-over of language, mediation activities and
media in a multilingual framework. It is
intended to encompass communication and
information flows in a range of contexts (e.g.
the press, television and computer games,
cinema, the theatre, museums, and the world wide
web or other information channels); and to
explore a range of activities central to the
sharing of information and knowledge across
languages and cultures in a global context: news
transfer,multimedia and screen translation (e.g.
subtitling, dubbing, etc.), stage translation
and adaptation, the provision of multilingual
information (e.g. in museums, trade fairs, etc.).
Questions that the conference will aim to
explore across media under the theme of
linguistic and cultural representations include:
? Representations and the
perpetuation of cultural a-priori and/or conflict
? Representations as a
vehicle promoting cross-cultural and cross-linguistic sensitivity
? Representations as a
locus for (re)-negotiations of individual and group identities
? Representations as
agents of hybridization of communicative practices
? Responses to representations
? Shifts in response paradigms
Research papers focusing on the little explored
domain of audience reception will be particularly welcome.
The general framework for the conference will be
provided by plenary papers delivered by
distinguished scholars representing different
languages and complementary perspectives:
intercultural communication, cross-cultural
pragmatics, discourse studies (including media
discourse), translation studies (including
screen translation and theatre adaptation), with
application to English as a lingua franca, French, German, Spanish inter alia.
The conference will focus principally, but not
exclusively, on European languages, still
unevenly represented in cross-cultural
pragmatics. It will, by virtue of its themes and
of the inbuilt interdisciplinarity of
cross-cultural pragmatics generally, be informed
by different methodological paradigms (e.g. CA,
interactional discourse analysis, discourse
analysis, cross- and intercultural pragmatics,
politeness theory, psycholinguistics).
Proposals, for individual papers (20 minutes) or
proposer-led panels on a particular theme (90 to
150 minutes), will be expected clearly to
identify their theoretical frame(s) of reference and methodological approach.
Abstract deadline: 30 November 2010
Language: English, French or Spanish
Proposal: 300-word anonymous abstract (600
words for panels) to be submitted through the
Linguist List at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/CCPII 2011
Principal Organisers: Dr Marie-Noëlle Guillot
((m.guillot /at/ uea.ac.uk)) and Dr Roger Baines ((r.w.baines /at/ uea.ac.uk))
School of Language and Communication Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
