9-11 July, 2012 - University Residential Centre of Bertinoro, Italy
Hosted by:
Center for Linguistic-Cultural Studies (CeSLiC)
Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bologna, Italy
With the endorsement of:
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Provisional programme and detailed travel info now available (see right box).
CONFERENCE THEME:
Permeable contexts and hybrid discourses
The Theme is meant to address the increasingly typical nature of text and discourse: ‘hybridity’. In an SFL perspective, this means that the cultural and situational contexts that tend to activate meanings and wordings must also be seen as being ‘hybrid’, or as Hasan (2000) has more fittingly put it, ‘permeable’: "It is not simply that predetermined qualities of genres are being mixed, combined, hybridized: the fact of the matter is that by these devices people extend, elaborate and reclassify their discursive contexts. Derrida’s celebrated claim that one cannot not mix genres should really be rephrased as contexts of life cannot but be permeable; the rest follows by the dialectic of language and discursive situation".
CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS
Caroline Coffin (Open University) - Abstract
Srikant Sarangi (Cardiff University) - Abstract
Geoff Thompson (University of Liverpool) - Abstract
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Donna R. Miller (Chair), Paul Bayley, Cinzia Bevitori, Jane H. Johnson, Enrico Monti (webmaster)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
David Banks (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
John Bateman (Universität Breman, Germany);
Sheena Gardner (Coventry University, UK)
Carlos A. M. Gouveia (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Robin Fawcett (Cardiff University, UK)
Lise Fontaine (Cardiff University, UK)
Martin Kaltenbacher (Universität Salzburg, Austria)
Anne McCabe (St. Louis University, Madrid, Spain)
Stella Neumann (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
Mick O’Donnell (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Christopher Taylor (SSLIMIT, Trieste, Italy)
Carol Taylor Torsello (Università di Padova, Italy)
Sonja Starc (Univerza na Primorskem, Koper, Slovenia)
Erich Steiner (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
Elizabeth Swain (Università di Trieste, Italy)
Eija Ventola (Aalto-yliopisto, Finland)
IMPORTANT DATES
1st call for papers - 1 October, 2011
2nd call for papers - 30 November, 2011
Submission abstracts - 1 December - 15 January, 2012
(ABSOLUTE FINAL CLOSING DATE) - 15 January, 2012
Inform acceptance - 28 February, 2012
Registration opening - 1 March, 2012
SOLE & ABSOLUTE REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT deadline - 15 April, 2012