Bibliographie
Language – Culture – Literature : East African Perspective
Short Title : LCL
Date : 23-May-2019 - 24-May-2019
Web Site : http://www.afrykanistyka.uw.edu.pl/conferences/lcl2019-1
Linguistic Field(s) : Cognitive Science ; General Linguistics ; Ling & Literature
Call Deadline : 01-Jan-2019
Meeting Description :
The relation between language and culture has received a lot of attention in academic scholarship of the recent decades with a conclusion that cultural and linguistic experiences are interconnected and mutually affect each other. Cultural practices and values which societies “live by” are reflected in linguistic structures through metaphors and other conceptualizations (e.g. image and event schemas, frames and scripts). They are entrenched in everyday linguistic usage, clichés and frequent expressions, oral and written literature. At the same time, their manifestations in frequent use lead to emergence of “cultural cognition” and provide cultural models to follow and possibly develop in novel ways.
The conference will focus on language-culture relationship in Kiswahili and other languages of East Africa inviting scholars of linguistics, literature and broad areas of cultural studies.
Call for Papers :
Department of African Languages and Cultures, University of Warsaw, invites submission of abstracts for an international conference to be held at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
Suggested topics for presentations may cover cultural conceptualizations in :
Linguistic structures and usage patterns
Discourse and communication strategies
Cultural keywords and values
Grammaticalization processes
Lexical categorization
Expression of emotions
Gestures and sign languages
Idioms, clichés, frequent expressions
Proverbs, riddles, enigmas
Various literary genres
Journalistic texts, comics and caricatures
New media communication (WhatsApp, social media content)
Translation and second language teaching
Each paper will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion.
Please send abstracts (a named version and an anonymous version, preferably in the pdf format) at : conf.orientuw.edu.pl
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words, but a separate page with references may be added. Abstracts and papers should be in English.
Conference webpage : http://www.afrykanistyka.uw.edu.pl/conferences/lcl2019-1