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University of
Silesia
V-DOCS
2017
Various Dimensions of
Contrastive Studies
Różne wymiary studiów
kontrastywnych
Katowice, 23-24 October 2017
First Circular and Call for Papers
Dear Colleagues,
Institute of English at
the University of Silesia, has the pleasure to announce
the 4th
international conference titled
Various Dimensions of Contrastive Studies
(V-DOCS 2017).
The conference aims at focusing on a variety
of possible approaches to contrasting languages. We want to welcome
academics who represent various methodologies and perspectives on
linguistic analysis: formal, functional, cognitive-semantic, pragmatic,
and anthropological.
This year's leading theme is:
Various Dimensions of Place
The role of place in language analysis has traditionally been associated
with sociolinguistic studies into regional variation of languages.
However, it turns out that the category of place plays an important role
in the structures of language, from the place of articulation in
phonetics to the place of elements in word-formation, from the problems
of place-naming to conceptualizations of place in lexicology and
semantics, from the analysis of the places of syntactic constituents in
various structures and constructions to the contextual role of place in
raising implicature in pragmatics and discourse analysis. Thus, the
list of suggested topics for conference presentations may include,
although will not be limited to, the following aspects connected with
the category of place:
·
The role of place(s) in phonetic and phonological analysis
·
Place(s) of articulation
·
Place(s) of morphemes in the word-structure
·
Place and word-formation
·
Place conveyed in the lexicon
·
(Proper) names of places
·
Conceptualization(s) of place(s)
·
Metaphors of place
·
Metonymies of place
·
Talmy’s conception of Figure and Ground in semantics
·
Place as represented by syntax across languages
·
Place(s) of constituents in syntactic structures
·
Place of elements of constructions
·
Place as reflected in the corpora
·
The context of place in linguistic interaction
·
Place and implicature
·
Place in discourse analysis
Each presenter will be given 30 minutes (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for
discussion).
The conference language is English.
We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have expressed
their agreement to present plenary lectures during the conference:
Prof. Annalisa Baicchi (University
of Pavia, Italy)
More information: http://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=134
Dr hab. Grzegorz Szpila (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
More information: http://www.ifa.filg.uj.edu.pl/grzegorz-szpila
Prof. dr hab. Rafał Molencki (University of Silesia, Katowice)
More information:
http://www.ija.us.edu.pl/index.php/pracownicy/33-molencki-rafal
Important dates:
Abstract submission: 31 May 2017
Confirmation of acceptance: 30 June 2017
Early bird payment: 31 July 2017
Regular payment: 15 September 2017
Conference: 23-24 October 2017
Abstract submission:
Abstracts describing the topic of a presentation in up to 300 words,
attached as a doc/docx file should be sent to
vdocs2017@gmail.com
no later than 31 May 2017.
Conference venue:
The conference will be held in
the new building of CINiBA (The
Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library),
located in the University of
Silesia campus, at 11A Bankowa Street in Katowice (http://www.ciniba.edu.pl/).
Conference fee:
The fee will cover the participation costs, conference materials, coffee
breaks during the conference, the conference dinner (optional), and the
costs of publishing a post-conference monograph. Accommodation and meals
are not included in the fee (except for the optional conference dinner).
Fee options:
Early bird payment (paid by 31 July 2017):
- with the
conference dinner included: 350
PLN / 90 Euros
- without the
conference dinner: 300 PLN / 80 Euros
Regular payment (paid by 15 September 2017):
- with the
conference dinner included: 400
PLN / 100 Euros
- without the
conference dinner: 350 PLN / 90
Euros
Optional post-conference trip fee*:
80 PLN / 20 EUR (for details, see below)
(*to be paid together with the
conference fee)
Conference dinner:
The conference dinner is
planned for Monday, 23 October,
at 7 pm in a restaurant located in the vicinity of the university
campus (details to be announced soon).
Social event:
After the conference, on Tuesday
(24 October) afternoon, the organizers are planning
a tour of the “Guido” Mine in
Zabrze, with a visit to the deepest located tourist route in a coal mine in Europe (https://kopalniaguido.pl/index.php/en/).
The price of the post-conference trip will be 80 PLN (20 EUR).
If you would like to take part, please let us know when you register
for the conference. The trip will start at around 1 pm and finish at
around 5 pm.
The price for the post-conference trip includes the cost of the shuttle
bus (Katowice-Zabrze-Katowice), the entrance fee to the ‟Guido” Mine
(level 320) and the cost of an English-speaking guide.
The number of places is limited, but the trip will not be held unless
there are at least 10 participants.
Scientific committee:
Organising committee:
Prof. dr hab.
Andrzej Łyda
Dr hab. Konrad Szcześniak
Dr hab. Bożena Cetnarowska
Dr Paulina Biały
Dr hab. Andrzej Porzuczek
Dr Marcin Kuczok
Dr hab. Adam Wojtaszek
Dr Marcin Zabawa
Contact e-mail:
vdocs2017@gmail.com
More information can be found on the conference website:
http://ija.us.edu.pl/sub/vdocs/
Contact e-mail:
vdocs2016@gmail.com
More information can be found on the
conference website:
http://ija.us.edu.pl/sub/vdocs/
PAYMENT - BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATION
The conference bank account: 74 1050 1214 1000 0007 0000 7909, the beneficiary: Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, ul. Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice, Poland, the title of the payment: VDOCS + your name. The swift code of the bank is INGBPLPW. For payments from abroad it is customary to extend the IBAN number by PL added in front of the account number. It is very important that you mark the payment with the sub-account name VDOCS and your name, because otherwise the financial department will not know where to allocate the money and we will not have your name on the list of those who have paid. To ensure that the money transfer is properly registered, please send us also a fax of the payment document to (0048 32) 3640809 or email theconfirmation to vdocs2016@gmail.com.
IMPORTANT : Everyone who wishes to receive a receipt / invoice (Faktura VAT) issued to the home institution should make sure that the money is transferred by the institution, and not from a private bank account of the participant. It is a policy of our financial department not to issue the bills to a different person/institution than the one who actually made the payment. If, for some reason, it is impossible for the university to transfer the money for conference participation and the staff members are asked to make the payments by themselves, we suggest that in order to ensure that the bill will be issued to the sending institution the transfer should be made by a postal order with the name of the institution as the payer. Bank transfers from private accounts will always be treated as paid by the account holders.
Institute of English
Institute of English, University of Silesia, Grota-Roweckiego 5, 41200 Sosnowiec, Poland +48 32 3640 892