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ICLC7-UCCTS3 is an international academic conference in the fields of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, which combines in a single venue the latest editions of two conference series: the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), which will be officially hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Ghent University (UGent), and the 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS), which will be officially hosted by the Faculty of Applied Language Studies of University College Ghent (HoGent). Between them, ICLC7 and UCCTS3 encompass the full range of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based interpreting studies. Given the complementary nature of these fields of study, and the methodological overlap between them, the primary aim of ICLC7-UCCTS3 is to bring together people and create theoretical and empirical synergies across disciplinary boundaries.

Invited speakers: Volker Gast (Jena), Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (Athens), Sylviane Granger (Louvain-la-Neuve), Anna Mauranen (Helsinki), Sandra L. Halverson (Bergen)

Website: http://www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be/

Papers are invited on a broad range of themes in the areas of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation/interpreting studies, provided they address one or more of the following issues:

• the aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistics; its relationship with neighbouring disciplines such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics
• the aims, objectives and scope of corpus-based translation studies, in particular the ongoing debate about so-called translation universals: criticism and explanation (regarding e.g. the role of ‘risk aversion’), the ‘dominance’ of the source language, interaction between universals (e.g. explicitation v. normalisation), effects of genre and other external variables
• corpus-based interpreting research and its relationship with translation research
• the role of theoretical frameworks; comparability, incommensurability and the tertium comparationis; the necessity and significance of the ‘socio-cultural link’
• types, uses and mutual limitations of corpus data; the benefits of combining parallel and comparable corpora and their methodological relationship; the benefits of combining different methodologies, including multivariate statistics, distinctive collexeme analysis, etc.
• the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and general interface issues on the other (e.g. syntax/morphology, syntax/pragmatics)
• contrasts between languages at the levels of text, register, discourse, and information structure
• the effect of the source language or of particular language pairs on translation and how to factor it into quantificational analyses

Papers will last 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. All submissions will be anonymously evaluated by members of the scientific committee with the relevant expertise, and the conference programme will combine mixed sessions with sessions focusing on contrastive linguistics or translation/interpreting studies, as appropriate.

Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system, which may be accessed at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc7uccts3, no later than October 1st, 2012. Abstracts must be anonymous and should not exceed 500 words, excluding references. Submissions are limited to two per individual, at least one of which must be co-authored.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by December 15th, 2012.

In the meantime, please direct any inquiries to iclc7uccts3@easychair.org.

Organising committee (UGent/Hogent): Torsten Leuschner (chair), Bart Defrancq (chair), Petra Campe, Timothy Colleman, Gert De Sutter, Renata Enghels, Patrick Goethals, Gudrun Rawoens, Miriam Taverniers, Sonia Vandepitte, Marleen Van Peteghem, Piet Van Poucke

English below

Op vrijdag 25 en zaterdag 26 maart 2011 vindt aan de Universiteit Leiden een workshop plaats over ‘De constructiegrammatica van het Nederlands’, georganiseerd door het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics in samenwerking met de vakgroep Nederlandse taalkunde van de Universiteit Gent.
De workshop wil een aantal onderzoekers samenbrengen met expertise in de studie van de Nederlandse grammatica vanuit verschillende theoretische en methodologische perspectieven die passen onder het algemene label van de “constructionele” of “constructiegebaseerde” benaderingen. De bedoeling is om een overzicht te geven van het actuele onderzoek naar diverse aspecten van het Nederlandse constructicon – waarbij de focus niet beperkt blijft tot het hedendaagse Standaardnederlands maar ook oudere taalfasen en/of moderne (niet-standaard)variëteiten omvat – en om verschillende constructionele invalshoeken met elkaar te vergelijken.

Speciale gast is William Croft, die op zaterdag 26 maart zal spreken over recent werk binnen Radical Construction Grammar.

Please note that at the day before the workshop (thursday March 24), William Croft will give a talk in the LUCL colloquium lecture series, entitled ‘An integrated semantic representation of the causal and aspectual structure of events’. See: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/news-events/lucl-colloquium/colloquium-24-march.html

Het volledige programma is nu beschikbaar op de website van de workshop:

http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/upcoming-conferences/construction-grammar.html

Alle lezingen vinden plaats in collegezaal 148 van het Lipsiusgebouw, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden.

Deelname is gratis, maar belangstellenden worden verzocht zich voor 15 maart aan te melden op CxGDutch@gmail.com. Geef daarbij ook aan of u op vrijdagavond 25 maart wil deelnemen aan het diner (niet gratis).

Workshop ‘The construction grammar of Dutch’

On March 25-26, 2011, The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics will host a two-day workshop on ‘The construction grammar of Dutch’, in collaboration with the Ghent University Linguistics Department.

The workshop will bring together specialists in various domains of Dutch grammar, using different approaches or formalisms that fall under the general rubric of construction-based grammar, with the aim of providing an overview of current research into aspects of the Dutch constructicon and of stimulating discussion between different (broadly) constructionist approaches. Papers will deal with present-day standard Dutch as well as earlier stages of the language and/or other present-day varieties.

Special guest is William Croft, who will talk about recent work in Radical Construction Grammar.

Please note that at the day before the workshop (thursday March 24), William Croft will give a talk in the LUCL colloquium lecture series, entitled ‘An integrated semantic representation of the causal and aspectual structure of events’. See: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/news-events/lucl-colloquium/colloquium-24-march.html

The full program is now on-line at:

http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/upcoming-conferences/construction-grammar.html

All talks will be given in room 148 of the Lipsius builing, Cleveringaplaats 1.

Participation is free of charge, but if you are interested in attending the workshop, you are requested to let us know before March 15 at  CxGDutch@gmail.com.  Please indicate whether you would like to join us for dinner on Friday March 25 (not free).

The International LCM organizing committee

• Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Language and Communication
• Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Philosophy
• John Lucy, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology
• Aliyah Morgenstern, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics
• Anneli Pajunen, University of Tampere, Finnish Language
• Esther Pascual, University of Groningen, Communication Studies
• Victor Rosenthal, Inserm-EHESS, Paris
• Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, Psychology
• Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Linguistics/Cognitive Semiotics

LCM V Local organizing committee

• Ana Margarida Abrantes, Catholic University of Portugal,  Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture
• Peter Hanenberg, Catholic University of Portugal,  Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture

Final call for papers
Deadline December 15

Stylistics across disciplines
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
June 16-17, 2011

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Douglas E. Biber, Northern Arizona University (USA)
Barbara Dancygier, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
Arie Verhagen, Leiden University (The Netherlands)

Stylistics is a field of study that is growing and developing fast. Its central concern is the way cognitive and communicative effects are achieved by means of linguistic choices. It therefore encompasses literary studies and linguistics as well as discourse studies. In spite of the shared, overarching definition of what it is, the field of study of Stylistics is highly fragmented. It mainly takes place within the boundaries of the various, more traditional, domains of study, e.g. literary analysis, rhetoric, (critical) discourse analysis, applied linguistics, etc. As a result, a comprehensive understanding of the wide variety of interests and foci of attention in stylistic studies, as well as exchange of knowledge between these research domains, is developing relatively slowly.

In recent years, successful attempts have been made to take an integrative, cross-disciplinary perspective on Stylistics, focusing on the shared research object: language use. An example is the expanding body of studies associated with the International Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Especially fruitful has proven to be the developing area of ‘cognitive poetics’, a field closely allied with the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics, which includes attention for contextual factors and the inherently ‘subjective’ basis of language in linguistic analysis. This Stylistics across disciplines conference links up with these developments and intends to offer a platform for exchange of ideas and to stimulate fruitful collaboration among linguists, literary scholars and discourse scholars studying ‘style’.

We invite participants from all relevant fields to participate in the Stylistics across disciplines conference to discuss the opportunities and problems regarding the development of Stylistics as a coherent and methodologically sound research discipline. We welcome papers on (but not limited to) the subject of:
• Possibilities and limitations of an interdisciplinary perspective: what can literary scholars learn from the way style is studied in linguistics or rhetoric, and vice versa?
• Opportunities and problems of a ‘linguistic stylistics’
• Methodological issues: qualitative (interpretive analysis) or quantitative methods (digital humanities, corpus stylistics) and different research methods (corpus analysis, experimental effect studies) in relation to various research contexts
• Development of theoretical notions and analytical tools especially suited for stylistic analysis
• Context-sensitivity of stylistic patterns and analysis: how does stylistic choice interact with contextual factors such as institution, genre characteristics, etc.?
• Language specificity and culture specificity of stylistic phenomena and analysis

Please submit your abstract (in Word or PDF format, containing the title of your paper, author’s name(s) and affiliation(s), max. 500 words) to stylistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl. The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2010. Notification of acceptance will be by February 1, 2011.

Organizing committee:
Suzanne Fagel
Maarten van Leeuwen
Ninke Stukker
stylistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Scientific committee:
Jaap Goedegebuure (literary studies)
Ton van Haaften (language and communication)
Jaap de Jong (rhetoric)
Arie Verhagen (linguistics)

The Stylistics across disciplines conference is organized by researchers from the NWO research project Stylistics of Dutch (Leiden University 2007-2012); website: http://www.stylistics.leidenuniv.nl).