BSBS conference

[Maria Georgieva]

13^th 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

 

Globalization is currently transforming the fundamental parameters of the post-modern world, challenging directly the primacy of the nation-state and national identity in their present form. Powerful forces of integration in all spheres of life are reconstituting the world into a single social space, creating possibilities of  global identifications  and shared identities - such as ‘customers for the same goods or services’,  ‘addressees of the same messages’, or ‘users of the same lingua franca’ -  amongst people far removed from one another in time and space.

The processes of integration are counterbalanced by equally powerful trends of weakening and dislocating national cultures. Many scholars argue that late modern societies no longer represent unified, well-bounded wholes, with a well-defined centre, developing according to a single organizing principle.  They are fractured and de-centred, crosscut by different internal antagonisms and re-composed around new political or socio-cultural pivots conducive to the emergence of new discourses and the forging of a plurality of identities. 

The aim of the conference is to shed light on the impact of global processes on communication. The topic can be approached from different perspectives: meaning construction through new discourses, characteristics of discursive practices; ways of identification and conceptualization of human action; language policies; language manipulation; Global English and foreign 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

 

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: June 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2008
Conference dates: November 7^th – 11th, 2008

 

Abstracts should be in a WORD or PDF file of maximum  500  words.

Submissions can be made at: bsbscon...@yahoo.com

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maria Georgieva

 

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