The IATIS Comp@ss :: Events Schedule

Type of Event: Conference
Date: 2010-06-15
Venue: Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
Event theme(s): We welcome submissions in the following areas: :: state-of-the-art developments, modifications and critiques of relevance theory; :: practical applications of relevance theory (e.g. language learning/teaching, translation studies, literary theory); :: mental representations, concepts, the architecture of the mind; :: meaning and communication; :: ways of interpreting various types of discourse; :: social aspects of communication and language use; :: experimental studies verifying or falsifying predictions derived from relevance theory. Talks will be organised around major topics, depending on the contents of the submissions. The format is 20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes question time. Proposals for workshops, panel discussions and other sessions are welcome. Plenaries will take from 45 to 90 minutes including discussion.

Description: The conference aims to provide a venue for linguists and other scholars to explore phenomena of human communication and cognition from the perspective of relevance theory as well as related and competing approaches. We would also like to encourage those interested in translation studies and literary analysis to test and evaluate the efficiency of the theory of relevance with regard to those fields of studies. Papers are invited that range from purely theoretical linguistic and/or pragmatic studies to empirical applications in language, translation and literature.

Keynote Speakers: Deirdre Wilson (University College London, UK)
Thorstein Fretheim (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
Francisco Yus (University of Alicante, Spain)
Deadline for submission of proposals: 2010-04-15
Registration deadline:
Contact details: Abstracts, consisting of up to 700 words (together with examples and references) should be sent to ifr@uw.edu.pl
In the plain text part of your e-mail, please supply the following information:

:: name, title/position
:: title of the paper
:: affiliation
:: e-mail address

Contact and more information:

e.walaszewska@uw.edu.pl
m.kisielewska@uw.edu.pl
a.piskorska@uw.edu.pl

Institute of English Studies

Warsaw University
Nowy Swiat 4
00-497 Warszawa, Poland

tel. (+48) 22 55 314 24
tel. (+48) 22 625 28 62
fax (+48) 22 625 29 31

Event website: http://www.ifr.uw.edu.pl