[ecrea] CFPs: CLAVIER 13 - Discourse in and through the Media. Recontextualizing and reconceptualizing expert discourse

(with apologies for cross-posting)

CLAVIER (http://www.clavier.unimore.it/site/home.html) is a research group
based in Modena and including a network of Italian universities (Bergamo,
Florence, Milan State, Rome “La Sapienza”, Siena and Trieste) with an
interest in combining two complementary strands of linguistic
investigation - corpus analysis and discourse analysis – for a
quantitative and qualitative study of language variation in English in
terms of diachronic, geographic and socio-cultural dimensions.

Within this research framework, CLAVIER is pleased to announce its 2013
International Conference:


CLAVIER 13
Discourse in and through the Media.
Recontextualizing and reconceptualizing expert discourse

Modena, 6-8 November 2013

Call for Papers

Recontextualizing and reconceptualizing expert discourse has become
increasingly important in modern society. Yet although Knowledge
Dissemination (KD) is now receiving increasing attention, the discursive
strategies and the pragmatics of KD in and through the media have not
received serious consideration. Knowledge dissemination can be seen as a
form of ‘asymmetric’ communication between experts and lay-people, or
‘mediation’ of knowledge and intercultural and ‘inter-discourse
communication’ (Scollon, Scollon 1995) between members of different
cultures, discourse communities and communities of practice. This amounts
to re-contextualization (Calsamiglia, Van Dijk 2004) and inclusion of
types of ‘intralinguistic’ translations. Here, simplification,
explicitation, reformulation (Mauranen 2006), reconceptualization of terms
in the subject field ‘translate’ exclusive expertise into ‘comprehensible’
knowledge, suitable to the knowledge of the addressee.

In this context, the aim of the conference is to stimulate the debate on a
variety of aspects related to the representation of specialised discourse
in and through the media, e.g. voice and point of view, argumentative
practices, knowledge construction, multimodality, re-contextualization and
re-conceptualization of knowledge, and peer-to-peer communication within
genres aimed at knowledge dissemination and popularization. The conference
is intended to encourage cross-generic and cross-disciplinary
investigations, in an attempt to advocate integrated approaches to the
study of media discourse with a view to both theoretical background and
practical applications. More specifically, the key-issues of the
conference include (but are by no means limited to) the following:

- Web genres and web-mediated knowledge dissemination;
- Register variation and knowledge representation across media;
- Re-contextualizing knowledge in and through the media;
- Genres of knowledge dissemination, from both a synchronic and a
diachronic point of view.


The following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation:

Colleen Cotter, Queen Mary University of London
Mauranen, University of Helsinki
Anna Cornelius Puschmann, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of 
Oxford

Members of the scientific committee will also be presenting their current
research.

The conference will start early in the afternoon on the first day and
close around lunchtime on the third day, with a roundtable in which
participants and invited speakers will discuss theoretical and
methodological issues emerged from the papers presented in the previous
sessions.

Presentation Guidelines
Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.
Time will be allotted for a poster session.
Working Language: English

Abstract Submission
Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no more than 300 words
(including references) by July 15th 2013 to the following address:
(clavier13 /at/ unimore.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

July 15th, 2013: Deadline for receipt of abstracts
July 31st, 2013: Notification of acceptance/rejection
September 10th, 2013: Programme
September 1st - September 30th, 2013: Early-bird registration
October 1st – October 31st, 2013 : Standard registration


Organizing Committee
Marina Bondi – Silvia Cacchiani – Giuliana Diani – Davide Mazzi –
Annalisa Sezzi – Anna Stermieri

Scientific Committee
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence)
Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo)
Giuliana Garzone (State University of Milan)
Giuseppe Palumbo (University of Trieste)
Rita Salvi (Sapienza University of Rome)
Elena Tognini Bonelli (University of Siena)
Silvia Cacchiani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Davide Mazzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)


For any additional information, please contact us at (clavier13 /at/ unimore.it)
or visit us at http://www.clavier.dslc.unimore.it/site/home.html.


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