GlobE 2008

Deadlines

2008-03-31

2008-02-29

29 Feb 2008

Submission

31 Mar 2008

Notification

Metrics

Venue

Warsaw, Poland

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We invite contributions locating at the intersection of cross-cultural discourse analysis, critical linguistics and translation theory.

Suggested topics within the scope of the Conference:

    * media communication as intercultural communication: mediation, translation, adaptation;
    * information, values, reader (viewer) orientation;
    * globalization and local world news;
    * local mediation of global topics;
    * global mediation of national topics and cultural emphases (collective memories, taboos, de-sacralization of symbols);
    * re-contextualization and semiotic re-coding in the media (multi-modal communications);
    * mediating humor and irony;
    * global genres and local media politics;
    * use and abuse in cross-cultural mediation of texts;
    * use and misuse of citations and reported speech;
    * use and misuse of science in political discourse;
    * ideologies and power in the media;
    * developing solidarity and hostility through the media;
    * professionalism and ethics in media communication (translation);
    * knowledge-based societies and the media: educational aspects;
    * media discourses and language teaching; 


Individual papers (20 minutes paper + 10 minutes discussion) and workshop proposals are invited. Abstracts (300-500 words), with the author's name, affiliation, e-mail address, and paper title should be sent via e-mail to the Conference address globe.ils@uw.edu.pl by the end of February 2008.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors by 31 March 2008.

Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
	

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