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GlobE 2008: Critical Discourse Analysis and global media
Location: Warsaw, poland
Period: September 18-20, 2008
Deadline to submit paper: end of February 2008
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
Istruction paper
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.
Information & Contact
Institute of Applied Linguistics
University of Warsaw
Browarna 8/10
00-311 Warsaw, POLAND
PECOB: Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe - University of Bologna - 117, c.so della Repubblica - Italy
