Conference website

The goal of the joint conference is to promote both theoretical and applied research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are interested in different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.). Three parallel sessions will be held on the following topics:
(i) Pragmatics theories: neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of mind, meaning, role of context, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions, im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, etc.
(ii) Intercultural, cross-cultural an societal aspects of pragmatics: research involving more than one language and culture or varieties of one language, lingua franca, technologically mediated communication, bilinguals’ language use, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills, language of aggression and conflict, etc.
(iii) Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, etc.

Email address for inquires
AmPra12@gmail.com

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Pragmatics of the Americas Conference

Abstract deadline: 15, April 2012
Notification of acceptance: 1st June, 2012
Please, include your name, affiliation and e-mail address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All presentations will be in English.

Panel proposals are welcome. Panel organizers should send an abstract of the panel (max. 300 words) and abstracts of the panel participants as an email attachment to AmPra12@gmail.com. They can also submit their panel proposal at http://ampra.uncc.edu
The deadline for panels is the same as for papers, April 15th, 2012.

Conference language. en

Source. Deborah Bosley

A number of potential contributors for the 1st issue of connexions on “International Professional Communication: yesterday < today > tomorrow” have asked for a few more days to send in their manuscripts, so I am extending the deadline another week. If you have already started, but have not yet finished your position paper or literature review, or if you have a great idea, but have not yet got round to writing it down, you can still send in your complete 400-500 word Position Paper, or Literature Review for this issue (please note that the list of references is not part of the word count). The new deadline is Tuesday, February 7, 2012.

A very warm thank you to all the colleagues who sent in their manuscripts. They are highly appreciated, and forecast a very exciting issue.

Please continue forwarding this CFP to people who might be interested.

I will be glad to answer your questions.

Thank you.

Rosário Durão
Editor

editor@connexionsjournal.org
www.connexionsjournal.org

I would also like to clarify 3 points:

• the length of the final position statements and literature reviews is 400-500 words (I believe this is the ideal length to get a broad, yet detailed picture of the major trends and tendencies in the practice, teaching, and research of IPC and its context in the past, present and future),
• we request that you please not submit abstracts, only the final 400-500 word statements or reviews,
• when submitting a position paper, please describe discipline- and work-specific terms, concepts and implicit references, in order to cater for the journal’s diverse audience.

Thank you for considering writing a paper for the First Issue of connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional.

I will be glad to answer all your questions,

Best,

Rosário Durão
Editor
editor@connexionsjournal.org
connexionsjournal.org

It is Susan Weinschenk‘s presentation “Neuro Web Design: What makes them click?” at UXLx2010, Lisbon, Portugal.

The lecture is indexed under Human Computer Interface and Interaction, and you can access it here.

connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional (ISSN 1647-2373) places great emphasis on Special Issues as a unique means of promoting high-quality research in thematic areas related to international professional communication.

The journal accepts proposals from Guest Editors for issue 1(2): December 2012, until November 30, 2011 – just 2 days away!

You can read the requirements at http://connexionsjournal.org/special-issues/. Please send your proposal for this issue to me at editor@connexionsjournal.org.

Please also note that the deadline for proposals for special issues 2(1): June 2013, and 2(2): December 2013 has been extended to February 15, 2012.

I will be glad to answer your questions.

Best,

Rosário Durão
Editor
editor@connexionsjournal.org

• 1(2): December 2012
• 2(1): June 2013
• 2(2): December 2013

and that your proposal for one of these issues, especially issue 1(2), would be deeply appreciated.

Please send your proposals by November 30, 2011 to to editor@connexionsjournal.org.

You can view the requirements at http://connexionsjournal.org/special-issues/.

I will be glad to answer your questions.

Rosario Durão
Editor
connexionsjournal.org

The presentation is indexed under Translation, interpretation, internationalization, localization, globalization, controlled languages, and you can access it here.

The presentation is indexed under Information development & artifacts, and you can access it here.

You’re welcome to join!

It is Don Norman‘s presentation “Living with complexity” at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States.

The lecture is indexed under Information design and visual communication, and you can access it here.

It is Sophie Hurst‘s presentation “Local is global: effective multilingual web strategies” at the W3C Workshop: Content on the Multilingual Web, held in Pisa, Italy.

The lecture is indexed under Communication and information management, and you can access it here.

I invite and encourage you to propose a theme and guest edit a Special Issue of the journal:

• Special Issue 1(2): December 2012
• Special Issue 2(1): June 2013
• Special Issue 2(2): December 2013
• Special Issue 3(2): December 2014

Issue 3(1): June 2014 will be composed of regular submissions.

Please send your proposals for a Special Issue to Rosario Durao at editor@connexionsjournal.org by November 30, 2011. I will be glad to answer your questions.

To read the requirements for Special Issue proposals here, please go to http://connexionsjournal.org/special-issues/.

Thank you for considering organizing a Special Issue for connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional.

Rosário Durão
Editor
editor@connexionsjournal.org

Auditório DISAL (av Marquês de São Vicente, Barra Funda, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)
November 18-19, 2011

Conference website

The “Occupation: Translator” (PROFT, from the original name in Portuguese) Symposium aims to promote discussion of  translation and related activities. The conference topic is the role of CAT tools and technology in the activity of professional translators.

The conference gathers leading practitioners, students and theorists of translation and interpretation, from Brazil and abroad to consider the current state of the field. It is also open to teachers, writers, and researchers whose object of study is language.

The event attracted a diverse range of speakers from cultural studies, translation history, subtitling, audio description, technical and literary translation, and related areas.

At the close of the conference lyric singer Andrea Kaiser and lute player Carin Zwilling (both translators) will perform music from Shakespeare’s plays. On Saturday afternoon, the journal PROFT em Revista (annals of the 2010 PROFT Symposium) will be launched.

Conference language. pt

Source. AnaJulia Perrotti-Garcia

We start with a video – a lecture by Karen Schriver on “Reading on the web, implications for online information design,” in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The lecture is indexed under Information design and visual communication, and you can access it here.

Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
June 26-29, 2012

Conference website  |  CFP

Genre 2012 will continue the tradition and scholarly conversation that originated with the first international colloquium on Genre Studies, “Rethinking Genre,” held at Carleton University in 1992.

The goals of Genre 2012 are the following:

• To create a dialogue among the three major traditions of Genre Studies: (a) English for Specific Purposes (ESP), (b) North American/New Rhetorical Studies, and (c) Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics (the Sydney School);
• To present the most recent research developments in each of these three traditions with respect to writing in academic, workplace, and community settings;
• To explore possible convergences among the three traditions; and
• To provide a communicative space for discussion of other possible approaches to Genre Studies.

Keynote speakers. Charles Bazerman (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), Vijay Bhatia (City University of Hong Kong), Ken Hyland (University of Hong Kong), James Martin (University of Sydney, Australia), Carolyn Miller (North Carolina State University, USA), David Russell (Iowa State University, USA), Catherine Schryer (Ryerson University, Canada), John Swales (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA).

Special session presenters. Anis Bawarshi (University of Washington, USA), Adair Bonini (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), Amy Devitt (University of Kansas, USA), Ann Johns (San Diego State University, USA), Anthony Paré (McGill University, Canada), David Rose (University of Sydney, Australia), Clay Spinuzzi (University of Texas at Austin, USA), Christine Tardy (DePaul University, USA).

Conference languages. en (and other languages).

Source. Natasha Artemeva, Carleton University, Canada

If you depend on efficient and effective communication to get your messages across and to understand the messages of others, and you have given considerable thought, and even spoken and written about the ways international professional communication influences, and is influenced by context, you might like to write a position paper or literature review for the journal.

Your point of view will help us chart the area of international professional communication in the past, present, and future.

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