Critical Discourse Analysis and global media

Location:Warsaw, Poland
Period:18-20 September 2008
Deadline: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;

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

Institute of Applied Linguistics
University of Warsaw
Browarna 8/10
00-311 Warsaw, POLAND
www.ils.uw.edu.pl
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