SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

13th annual conference of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies (BSBS)

Time: November 7 - 9th, 2008.

Venue: Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia

Topic :  DISCOURSES OF GLOBALIZATION

The aim of the conference is to shed light on the impact of global processes on language communication viewed from different perspectives: meaning construction and identity building, literature, translation, language manipulation, language policies and language teaching/ learning; dynamics of globalization discourses in terms of universalization/ particularization, homogenization/ differentiation, integration/ fragmentation, etc.

 We invite submissions from scholars working in the field of:

Literature and Culture Studies

General Linguistics

Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics

Applied Linguistics, Translation Theory, Language Teaching/ Learning

Communication Studies, Intercultural Communication

History, Sociology of Language

Those willing to participate in the Conference can apply for:

1)      PAPER PRESENTATION SESSIONS - (20 min. presentation plus 10 min. discussion)

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Fernando Galván, ESSE President

Prof. Martin A. Kayman FRSA FEA, Cardiff University

Prof. Jack K. Chambers, University of Toronto

Prof. Lilyana Grozdanova, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

2. PANEL DISCUSSIONS

a.      NATION AND NOVEL

Convener: Prof. Dr. Tatyana Stoicheva,

St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

What happens to Anderson's imagined community of readers in the Anglophone novel in an age of globalisation? How are novels modified when they are socio-culturally and geographically removed for transnational consumption? Is the national novel transcended/evaded? How do you invent a language for people with a different world view? What dialogic spaces are assigned to them? Papers are invited exploring aspects of the subject from the fields of literature, cultural studies, translation studies.

b.      Bulgaria and Europe Facing the Challenges of Globalization in the XXth and XXIst Century

Convener: Assoc. Prof. Kostadin Grozev

St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

3. ROUND TABLE

UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH AS A TRANSCULTURAL LANGUAGE

Convener: Prof. Allan James

University of Klagenfurt, Austria

While certain recent studies on language in the context of globalization highlight and positively value the heterogeneous (sub-)cultural and linguistic effects that the spread and adoption of English worldwide can produce (cf. Pennycook 2007 on hip-hop; Dewey 2007 on English as a lingua franca), others critically analyse how language itself functions as a carrier of economic globalization via the use of particular preferred genres and discourses (Fairclough 2006). Both approaches interpret globalization in a generally 'transformationalist' framework (Held, McGrew, Goldblatt and Perraton 1999), which in the most general terms sees cultural globalization as "the intermingling of cultures and peoples as generating cultural hybrids and new global cultural networks" (Held et al. 1999: 327). Participants are invited to discuss the topic from various perspectives.

Please specify which format you want to apply for. Speakers for the panel discussions and round table are selected by the conveners

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: August 30th, 2008
Notification of acceptance: September 10th, 2008
Conference dates: November 7th - 9th, 2008

Abstracts should be in a WORD or PDF file of maximum  300  words.

Submissions can be made at: bsbsconfere...@yahoo.com;         mariageorgi...@rocketmail.com

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maria Georgieva

BSBS President

Chairman of the Conference Organizing Committee

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Zdravei, Maria,
vse oshte smyatam da ti pratya nyakakav panel - izvinyavai za zabavyaneto.
pozdravi i pozhelaniya za hubavo lyato,
Ludmilla