second call for papers
Maria Georgieva
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: bsbscon...@yahoo.com; mariage...@rocketmail.com
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maria Georgieva
BSBS President
Chairman of the Conference Organizing Committee
