CfP: Metamorphoses and Fluidity: Ever-Changing Shapes in the Stream of Time, ‘Tor Vergata’ University of Rome, 7-8 May, 2024

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Metamorphoses and Fluidity: Ever-Changing Shapes in the Stream of Time Tor Vergata University of Rome 7-8 May, 2024 “Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. Everything changes, nothing perishes” (Ovid, Metamorphoses) “For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, even though he had been living in it for five years” (Kafka, The Metamorphosis) Prominent theoretical issues and practices in contemporary Western intellectual cultures have made metamorphosis a desirable area for scholarly study, as the topic is frequently juxtaposed or linked with something that is not only “other”. Metamorphosis, however, not only questions the distinctions between the subject and its “other” or between language and nonlanguage; it also raises issues of definition. As a result, many studies focused on the concept of metamorphosis emphasize epistemological and ontological issues pertaining to the subject’s interaction with the outside world and other people as well as the subject’s understanding of both the subject and the outside world. Another topic that has received much attention in recent studies is metamorphosis as a tropological issue. One of the most frequently made assertions regarding the tropological status of metamorphosis is that it draws from a variety of trope categories, particularly metaphor and metonymy, and yet, as a representation of a startling and seemingly miraculous change, it is also capable of playing with the line between the literal and figurative. The paradoxical nature of the metamorphosis theme further exacerbates issues with subjectivity, how it is portrayed in literary characters, and the connection between textuality and knowledge. The fourth edition of the biannual conference organized by the Research Group TrAdE (Translation and Adaptation from/into English) seeks to explore how translation and adaptation deal with ever-changing literary and linguistic shapes in the stream of time. TrAdE’s first conference was focused on words as they move from one linguo-cultural system to another, serving as means for connection and contact. The second conference addressed the issue of contamination and contagion resulting from linguo-cultural contact in Anglophone scenarios. For its third conference, the Research Group delved into alterity in the translation and adaptation of Anglophone (con)texts. The fourth transdisciplinary Conference shall be focused on (but not limited to) the following topics: Metamorphosis/Fluidity in Education and (Social) Media; Metamorphosis/Fluidity in Art(s), Music, Movies and TV Series; Metamorphosis/Fluidity in Language, Literature, Linguistics and Translation; Metamorphosis/Fluidity of Style(s) and Genre(s); Panels/Abstracts Submission Proposals for individual presentations (approximately 200 words) should include the name and contact information of the speaker, their affiliation and a 50-word bionote. Proposals for panels (maximum 500 words) should include the name and contact information of the chairperson, the abstract of each presenter (approximately 200 words) and their bionote. Please send panels and/or individual proposals to: segreteria.trade@gmail.com. Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2023 Notification of acceptance: January 7, 2024 Fees Early bird (before February 7, 2024) = € 60 Standard registration (before May 1, 2024) = € 80 On-site registration will NOT be available. Further info on registration and payment will be posted on TrAdE site in October (https://gruppotrade-2019.uniroma2.it/) Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Frederic Chaume Varela (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) Professor Cristiano Furiassi (University of Turin, Italy) Download the pdf Scientific Committee Silvia Antosa, Paolo Bugliani, Mehmet Ali Çelikel, Frederic Chaume Varela, Cristiano Furiassi, Daniela Guardamagna, Giulia Magazzù, Bootheina Majoul, Bruna Mancini, Elisabetta Marino, Theodora Patrona, Eriola Qafzezi, Valentina Rossi, Rossana Sebellin, Angela Sileo, Anikó Sohár, Saverio Tomaiuolo. Metamorphoses and Fluidity (OPEN)

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CfP: Special Issue on “Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility in the Age of Streaming Platforms”, TRANSlation & INTerpretinglity in the Age of Streaming Platforms”

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Guest editors: Sofía Sánchez-Mompeán, University of Murcia, Spain; Serenella Zanotti, Università Roma Tre, Italy Streaming platforms have marked a watershed in today’s film industry, revolutionising mainstream TV distribution systems and reshaping viewers’ consumption habits (Jenner, 2018; Pedersen, 2018). Users are now holding the reins of their own entertainment experience and enjoy relatively more freedom in deciding when, where and how to view media products. The way in which this new reality is impacting audiovisual translation (AVT) and media accessibility (MA) with respect to producers, practitioners, audiences and workflows is worth bringing into focus. The global success of subscription-based services—such as Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Hulu and Disney+—has brought with it a growing demand for localised content, substantially increasing the availability of audiovisual products translated into multiple languages through captioning and revoicing techniques (Chaume, 2019). According to Los Angeles Times, in 2021 Netflix released 5 million minutes of dubbed programming and subtitled 7 million minutes (Lee, 2022). Localisation has thus become a game changer for streaming companies wishing to attract a wider audience and to lead an international market that is no longer dominated by English-language originals (Hayes, 2021). As a matter of fact, many of the latest most-watched on-demand series are non-English shows from South Korea (Squid Game), France (Lupin) or Spain (La Casa de Papel), to name but a few. This new AVT landscape has exerted a dramatic impact on localisation demands and trends such as the rise in the consumption of dubbed material in English-speaking markets (Chaume, 2018; Ranzato & Zanotti, 2019; Hayes, 2021; Sánchez-Mompeán, 2021; Spiteri Miggiani, 2021) or the faster speed at which fan-based translations are being generated to anticipate professionally released versions (Díaz-Cintas, 2018; Dwyer, 2021). The surge in the popularity of AVT and MA practices has favoured the expansion of non-local productions beyond their language barriers, but it has also left translated content increasingly prone to comparisons and criticism due to the relative easiness of access to the different localised versions. Although negative comments are not always justified, especially when disregarding the nature of translation and the constraints attached to it (Orrego-Carmona, 2021), some have served to fight for higher quality levels, up-to-date conventions and better working conditions (Spiteri Miggiani, 2021, 2022), thus turning AVT and MA into hot topics of discussion nowadays. Notwithstanding that the work of translators seems to be gradually raising its visibility in society, the challenges faced by practitioners as well as the dominant trends in the production and consumption of localised content for over-the-top platforms and the current technological developments such as cloud-based localisation services (Bolaños-García-Escribano & Díaz-Cintas, 2020; Chaume & de los Reyes Lozano, 2021; Georgakopoulou, 2021) are still unexplored from the point of view of academic research and practice. We are interested in both theoretical and practical approaches that focus on AVT and MA in the current streaming era. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Dubbing research and practice Voiceover research and practice Subtitling research and practice Subtitling for the d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH) research and practice Audiodescription (AD) research and practice Fan-based translations (e.g., fansubbing, fandubbing, parodic dubbing…) Reception and perception studies (e.g., audiences’ profile, challenges…) New consumption habits (e.g., binge-watching, virtual communities…) Quality parameters and conventions (e.g., use of automatic translation, use of a pivot language…) Creative practices in AVT and MA Cloud-based platforms and workflows and technological trends Production and distribution tools in AVT and MA Training, pedagogical approaches and new professional profiles  Key dates 1 September 2023: abstract submission to the guest editors (300 words; references not included in wordcount). Please email your abstract to both guest editors: sofia.sanchez@um.es and serenella.zanotti@uniroma3.it. 30 September 2023: notification of abstract acceptance/rejection. 31 March 2024: submission of full papers via the journal website. Stylesheet: https://www.trans-int.org/index.php/transint/about/submissions#authorGuidelines. April-October 2024: peer-review and revision period. 1 January 2025: deadline for submission of revised versions. July 2025: publication of special issue. http://www.trans-int.org/index.php/transint/announcement/view/23

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Call for papers – “Back to Africa: Literary Representations of Return in African Literatures”

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Information The French University Sorbonne Paris Nord in collaboration with the Italian University of Bologna, is organising a one-day International Conference on the 25th of October devoted to postgraduate students and early researchers on the topos of return in African literatures.   Context After years spent in the USA as a migrant, Ifemelu, the protagonist of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), realises that her home country, Nigeria, “became where she was supposed to be, the only place she could sink her roots in without the constant urge to tug them out and shake off the soil.” This “gravitational pull,” as Maximilian Feldner (2019) calls it, has been perceptible in African literatures throughout the years so much so as to represent one of its constitutive features. In the still ongoing “age of the refugee, the displaced person, mass migration” (Said 1984), the need to return found in African Literatures seems, at first glance, to be at odds with the postcolonial debates around hybridity, cosmopolitanism, and rootlessness or route-oriented belonging. As Salman Rushdie (1983) declared, “roots […] are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.” On a similar note, drawing from the Igbo knowledge system, Chinua Achebe (1994) employs the concept of rootlessness as a metaphor for writing: “If you’re rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world’s stories should be told — from many different perspectives,” he argued. Thus, how can return be tackled without mooring it to discourses imbued with essentialism, nationalism, and exclusion, all of which could potentially be derived from rootedness? Perhaps, however, it is the very tension between routes and roots that should be overcome. It is what James Clifford (1997) attempted to do in his work Routes: Travels and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. With the return, the homonymic opposition is resolved because coming back to one’s roots involves the act of travelling – routes. But can one ever come back home? As beautifully shown by the novel On Black Sisters’ Street (2011), originally written in Dutch by Nigerian writer Chika Unigwe, migrants, while abroad, might experience a kind of nostalgia. After their return, however, this nostalgia might morph into disillusion and even alienation, as shown by Obi, the protagonist of Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease (1960). Also, it is important to underline that people who come back are not the same as when they left: after having had to adapt to different – and sometimes hostile – environments and socio-cultural systems, returnees might face the same difficulty seen during the initial migration as they are reintegrating into their home country. The eponymous character of Kehinde (1994) by Buchi Emecheta, is precisely an example of such discomfort: once she comes back to Nigeria, she is forced into a polygamous relationship she struggles to accept after her husband decides to marry a second, younger woman in secret. The return can either convey a sense of agency when triggered by the desire or need to escape from the racism and injustices of the host country, as in Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference (2012), or, on the contrary, a failure when it is imposed by the authorities of the host country as in Helon Habila’s Travellers (2019). Drawing on all these issues, the conference aims to analyse how the phenomenon of return migration has been addressed and continues to be addressed in African Literatures. Indeed, while in migration studies, from the 1990s onwards, there has been a growing interest in return migration and the ways in which it shapes individuals in terms of identity changes and cultural shifts (King and Kuschminder 2022), the same cannot be said for literary criticism. While early migration studies conducted on return mobilities tended to offer a simplistic view of such phenomena (i.e., migrants moved from their native country to the place of destination and stayed for good or decided to return back after a while), today’s mobilities paradigm is way more complex and intricate. This complexity is mirrored in the recurrent topos of return in African literatures, which has taken multiple forms: from permanent reverse migration to brief “reconnections”, i.e., provisional returns (Knudsen and Rahbek 2019) or what is perceived as a return to an ancestral land by U.S. descendants of enslaved people, as in Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016). Ideas of return, whether implemented or only intentional, re-emerge in different historical periods and places across the African continent: from Kwamankra, the protagonist of Ethiopia Unbound (1911) by Fante writer J. E. Casely Hayford, which might be the first fictional work dealing with return from the so-called mother-country, to the omnipresent figure of what in the Anglophone post independent period was called the “been-to” i.e. a member of the elite, generally male, who undertook a period of study abroad and returned to contribute to the building of the newly sovereign states. This is the case of Baako, the protagonist of Fragments (1970) by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah. Similar figures can also be observed in the francophone context in works such as Climbié (1956) by Ivorian writer Bernard Binlin Dadié or L’Aventure ambiguë (1971) by Senegalese writer Cheikh Hamidou Kane. Today, more than ever, characters who return abound in African literatures: Nina in Loin de mon père (2010) by Franco-Ivorian writer Véronique Tadjo, Ike, the anti-hero of Foreign Gods, Inc. (2014) by Nigerian writer Okey Ndibe and Christine, one of the characters of Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe (2006) by Ugandan writer Doreen Baingana, to cite only a few examples. Like their authors, these returnees are part of a transnational context and straddle multiple nations in a way that not only makes them overcome the dichotomy between home and host country but also negotiate and redefine the meaning of “home”.   Aim This one-day conference aims to investigate how the different forms of return to the African continent are represented in African literatures. We hope to welcome a

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CfP: «Cross-Media Languages. Applied Research, Digital Tools and Methodologies», 2 (2024)

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Call for papers È aperta la call per il numero 2 (2024) di «Cross-Media Languages. Applied Research, Digital Tools and Methodologies».  Le proposte, in forma di abstract (max. 500 caratteri, spazi inclusi), dovranno pervenire all’indirizzo cml.journal@uniba.it, entro il 15 luglio 2023. Notifica per l’accettazione dei contributi: 30 luglio 2023. La scadenza per la consegna dei contributi è fissata al 5 marzo 2024. I saggi dovranno essere inediti e non superare i 35.000 caratteri (spazi inclusi). La pubblicazione è prevista per maggio 2024. Per altre informazioni si consulti la pagina Proposte.  Deadlines for the second issue (2024) of «Cross-Media Languages. Applied Research, Digital Tools and Methodologies». Abstract submission deadline (500 characters max.): 15th July 2023; send to cml.journal@uniba.it. Notification of acceptance: 30th July 2023 Paper submission: 5th March 2024 Word count: 35.000 characters max (The character limit includes spaces) Publication: May 2024 For more information, see the web page Proposte. Trovate la call for papers al seguente link: https://ojs.cimedoc.uniba.it/index.php/cml/pages/view/callpapers  

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Seminar: Prof. Sonia Massai,”The Operation of Individual Judgement: In Praise of Critical Editing”, 25 May 2023, University of Verona

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On 25th May Prof. Sonia Massai (King’s College, London) will deliver the first “Alessandro Serpieri Lecture”, entitled: The Operation of Individual Judgement: In Praise of Critical Editing The event will take place at 11 a.m. at the University of Verona (Polo Santa Marta – STC). The Lectures intend to render homage to the memory of Prof. Alessandro Serpieri, eminent Shakespeare scholar and inspirer and co-founder of the Skenè publications since 2014. The Lectures will be held annually at the Skenè Centre as part of the Skenè activities promoted by the General Editors of the new Skenè. Shakespeare series, Silvia Bigliazzi, Fernando Cioni, Rocco Coronato, and Keir Elam. By this initiative, the Editors wish to express their gratitude to the late Alessandro Serpieri for his generous teaching and friendship also by annually programming meetings and discussions dedicated to some of the topics he especially cherished. Please write to skene@ateneo.univr.it to confirm your in-person attendance by 20 May, or  to be sent the Zoom link if you wish to attend online. Alessandro Serpieri Lecture – The Operation of Individual Judgement: In Praise of Critical Editing – Skenè (univr.it)

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Spring Seminars on Romanticism 2023, Università degli Studi di Bari, 18-19 maggio 2023

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Spring Seminars on Romanticism 2023 – Università degli Studi di Bari, 18-19 maggio 2023   Gli “Spring Seminars on Romanticism 2023” sono organizzati dal Centro Interuniversitario per lo Studio del Romanticismo, sede di Bari, con il patrocinio e dell’Associazione Italiana di Anglistica e del Centro Interdipartimentale Ricerche sulla Pace “Giuseppe Nardulli” (UniBa). Le giornate rinnovano una ventennale tradizione di incontro e scambio tra numerosi membri della comunità scientifica internazionale dedita allo studio del Romanticismo britannico.    “Wars and Peace” è il titolo, di tragica attualità, dell’edizione 2023, che esplora l’argomento da diverse prospettive e presenta importanti attraversamenti disciplinari, coinvolgendo gli studi letterari, linguistici e storico-culturali. Una “Special Session” in memoria dell’illustre romanticista Frederick Burwick, recentemente scomparso, si svolgerà presso la Pinacoteca Metropolitana “Corrado Giaquinto”. La sessione culmina con la performance musicale (prima esecuzione in tempi moderni), di brani per voci soliste e in ensemble tratti dalla versione teatrale del Manfred di Byron (Covent Garden, 29.10.1834) con musica di Henry Bishop su libretto di Alfred Bunn.  

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CfP: “Im/politeness on the Big Screen”, 1st December 2023, University of Naples “L’Orientale” 

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Call For Papers   Im/politeness on the Big Screen  Friday 1st December 2023, University of Naples L’Orientale  Im/politeness is an integral part of the language, aesthetic value and cultural significance of  cinema. The conference seeks to analyse the languages of im/politeness in a variety of  cinematic texts (shorts, featurettes and feature films). Pragmatics, stylistics, multimodal  analysis, characterization, and conversation analysis are particularly relevant for investigating  im/politeness as conversational behaviour in cinematic discourse. With a focus on areas such  as banter, mock-politeness, irony, humour, and related phenomena, the conference will  explore the interconnections between these linguistic and social practices across cinematic  texts.  We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers (in Italian or English) on a broad range of topics  related to im/politeness in cinematic discourse. While we encourage submissions on the  following themes, we also welcome related contributions:  Im/politeness and characterization in cinema;  Innovative approaches to analysing linguistic and multimodal im/politeness;  Banter, pseudo/mock-politeness and similar phenomena (irony, humour, etc.);  Impoliteness and storytelling in cinema;  Further methodological considerations regarding analysis of film dialogues;  Taboo language;  Audio-visual translation and Im/politeness Theory.  Overall, this conference aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussion on  im/politeness strategies in cinema. We welcome contributions from scholars across various  disciplines, including, among others: linguistic pragmatics, stylistics, film and media studies,  and sociolinguistics.  Abstracts (250 words max.) should be sent as email attachments in .doc or .docx format to  abeville@unior.it and emma.pasquali@uniecampus.it by 16/06/2023.  Abstracts should include:  ➔ full name;  ➔ academic position;  ➔ affiliation;  ➔ contact information (email);  ➔ up to 5 keywords;  ➔ up to 5 key references. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 31/07/2023.  A selection of papers will be proposed for publication in a collection of essays.  Organising and Scientific Committee  Aoife Beville (University of Naples L’Orientale)  Emma Pasquali (eCampus University)  Selected bibliography  Androutsopoulos, Jannis. 2012. “Introduction: Language and Society in Cinematic  Discourse”. Multilingua 31 (2–3): 139–54.  Bousfield, Derek. 2007. “‘Never a Truer Word Said in Jest’: A Pragmastylistic Analysis of  Impoliteness as Banter in Henry IV, Part I”. Pp. 209–20 in Contemporary Stylistics,  edited by M. Lambrou and P. Stockwell. London; New York: Continuum.  Brown, Penelope, and Stephen C. Levinson. 1987. Politeness: Some Universals in  Language Usage. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press  Chepinchikj, Neda and Thompson, Celia. 2016. “Analysing cinematic discourse using  conversation analysis”, Discourse, Context & Media, 14:40-53.  Culpeper, Jonathan. 1996. “Towards an Anatomy of Impoliteness”. Journal of Pragmatics 25(3):349–67.  Culpeper, Jonathan. 2001. Language and Characterisation: People in Plays and Other  Texts. Harlow England, New York: Longman.  Culpeper, Jonathan. 2011. Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence. Cambridge  University Press.  Dynel, Marta. 2011. “‘I’ll Be There for You!’ On Participation-Based Sitcom Humour”. Pp.  311–34 in The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, edited by M.  Dynel. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.  Dynel, Marta. 2016. “Conceptualizing Conversational Humour as (Im)Politeness: The  Case of Film Talk”. Journal of Politeness Research 12 (1): 117–47.  Dynel, Marta. 2017. “(Im)Politeness and Telecinematic Discourse”. In Pragmatics of  Fiction, edited by Miriam A. Locher and Andreas H. Jucker, 455–88. Berlin: De  Gruyter Mouton.  Janney, Richard. 2012. “Pragmatics and Cinematic Discourse”. In Lodz Papers in  Pragmatics 8.   Kádár, Dániel Z., and Michael Haugh. 2013. Understanding Politeness. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.  Kress, Gunther, and Theo van Leeuwen. 2006. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual  Design. Second Edition. London: Routledge.  Leech, Geoffrey. 1983. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman.  McIntyre, Dan. 2008. “Integrating Multimodal analysis and the stylistics of drama: a  multimodal perspective on Ian McKellen’s Richard III”. In Language and Literature 17(4): 309-334. Nørgaard, Nina. 2010. “Multimodal Stylistics: the Happy Marriage of Stylistics and  Semiotics”. In Semiotics: Theory and Applications, edited by S. C. Hamel, 255-260.  Nova Science Publishers.   — . 2014. “Multimodality and Stylistics”. In The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics, edited  by Michael Burke, 471-485. Oxon: Routledge.  Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek, and Fabio Rossi. 2011. Telecinematic Discourse:  Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series. Amsterdam: John  Benjamins Publishing Company.  Toolan, Michael. 2014. “Stylistics and Film”. In The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics,  edited by Michael Burke, 455–69. Routledge.

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CfP: “Figurative Thought and Language (FTL 7).Cognitive, bodily, and cultural processes in Figurative Thought and Language”,University of Genova,20-22 September 2023

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CALL FOR PAPERS Figurative Thought and Language (FTL 7) Cognitive, bodily, and cultural processes in Figurative Thought and Language University of Genova, Dipartimento di Lingue e Culture Moderne 20-22 September 2023 https://sites.google.com/view/ftl7symposium/home-page The 7th International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL 7) will be organised by the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Genoa. Following the previous biannual meetings, which have gathered scholars working on the broad spectrum of figuration, the theme of this year’s meeting is Cognitive, bodily, and cultural processes in Figurative Thought and Language. We invite contributions from different theoretical (cognitive linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology), methodological (experimental protocols, cross-linguistic comparison, synchronic and diachronic analyses, corpus studies, quantitative and qualitative analyses), and applied perspectives dealing with the role of figuration in motivating linguistic phenomena and conceptual processes. Suggested topics include (but are not restricted to): – role of figuration in morphology, syntax, lexis, semantics, pragmatics; – role of figuration in grammar (grammatical constructions, grammatical categories, parts-of-speech); – role of figuration in grammaticalization; – role of figuration in synchronic and diachronic language change and variation; – figurative elaboration of perceptual stimuli; – figuration in different types of discourse (e.g., business, media, literature, law, politics, science, sports, religion, psychotherapy, etc.); – cognitive stylistics; – corpus-based approaches to figuration; – experimental protocols, quantitative and statistical analyses of figurative mechanisms; – cultural variation of figurative mechanisms; – emotional aspects of figurative language; – development of figurative language in first and second language acquisition; – figuration in artificial intelligence; – figuration in gestures and sign languages; – multimodal figuration in images, music, cultural artifacts and practices; – humour, irony, sarcasm; Invited Speakers: Anna Borghi, Sapienza Università di Roma, IT Laura Hidalgo Downing, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, SP Chloe Harrison, Aston University, UK Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibañez, Universidad de La Rioja, SP SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT has been extended to 30th May 2023. – The abstract, both in a .pdf and a .doc(x) format, should be sent to the following address: ftl7symposium@gmail.com – Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (including examples, and excluding figures and references), and should include 5 keywords and state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. – Abstracts should be written using Times New Roman 12, single spaced, with a minimal use of special fonts, a minimum of figures and tables, and no footnotes. – All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by two referees, members of the Scientific Committee. – Please, do not mention the author’s name, institution or address in the abstract. – The subject header of your email should include: FTL7 submission – name(s). – Please include the following information in the main body of your email: (1) name of author(s), (2) affiliation, (3) title of the presentation, (4) email address(es). – SUBMITTING MULTIPLE PAPERS. In order to guarantee diversity, nobody is allowed to present or co-present more than two papers (EITHER one as first author and one as co-author OR two as co-author).

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CfP: “CLAVIER 2023. Framing nature: discourses past and present of nature and the environment.A sustainability perspective”, University of Milan, 23-24 November 2023

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CLAVIER 2023 Framing nature: discourses past and present of nature and the environment A sustainability perspective 23-24 November 2023 Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Languages, literatures, cultures and mediations Piazza Indro Montanelli 1 Sesto San Giovanni, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy Among the problems troubling the 21st century, particularly salient are those concerning the environment. In what is commonly referred to as the Age of the Anthropocene, the relationship between human beings and the natural world is at the heart not only of extensively debated problems such as climate change and the depletion of natural resources, (micro-)plastic pollution and the consequences of nuclear disasters, but also of issues such as the management of the global economy and the likelihood of the emergence of novel diseases, of which Covid-19 is only the latest. The very concept of environmental sustainability – quite possibly one of the defining concepts of 21st century policy thinking – revolves around this relationship, and it is on the way we understand it that our approaches to addressing environmental issues depend. This understanding is shaped by a broad array of beliefs, assumptions and convictions which vary, evolve, stratify and cross-fertilize across times and cultures, all of which come to bear – at least potentially – on contemporary environmental discourse. Indeed, the plethora of issues which fall within such discourse make for a complex scenario riddled with tensions, many of which originate from the different ways in which environmental problems are “framed,” i.e. how specific aspects of such problems are selected and given salience in discourse so as “to promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation for the item described” (Entman 1993: 52). The multiple framings that can be identified differ in terms of values, priorities, perspectives and predictions – and therefore, following Entman, the remedies they suggest and the recommendations they put forth to avoid what is increasingly recognised as impending disaster. Identifying and analysing the frames deployed in environmental discourse, as well as their historical, cultural and philosophical roots, is therefore crucial not only to understand underlying assumptions about the relationship between human beings and the environment, but also to explore the way in which the need for behavioural change (or lack thereof) both on a collective and an individual level can be convincingly argued. Moreover, since framing is a decisive step in the construction of arguments which affect the outcome of a debate (van Eemeren and Houtlosser 1999), it is all the more essential to analyse its role in a form of discourse which is inevitably mobilised in the service of action (or inaction). This call for papers invites contributions on the above-mentioned topics. We are seeking research papers, case studies, and theoretical contributions that address the framings and understandings of nature and the environment across time, space, media and discourses. Potential topics for submission may include, but are not limited to:  Framing (of) nature across time and space  Cultural differences in framing environmental problems  The role of media in shaping environmental discourse  Framing climate change  The politics of framing  The framing of sustainability  Framing environmental activism  The ethics of framing with respect to nature and the environment  The role of science and ideology in environmental discourse  The future of environmental discourse We welcome submissions (max 300 words plus five references) from scholars and researchers in the fields of linguistics, translation, and interpreting, discourse analysis, argumentation theory, rhetoric and related disciplines, as well as from other associated fields. Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome. As part of the Clavier event series, the conference will feature a special strand on corpus linguistics approaches. Proposals can be submitted for individual papers (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion), posters and panels. Proposals for panels for up to 5 papers (for a 2-hour session) should include a short description of the panel (150 words max) and the titles of the individual papers included in the panel. Panel organizers should pre-select panel contributions. Panels featuring more than five participants may be arranged upon request subject to space and time availability. Panel participants should also submit their proposals individually, following the Submission Guidelines and clearly indicating the title of the panel they will be presenting on. The language of the conference is English. Submission Guidelines: Proposals should be clearly structured, with theoretical contributions highlighting the innovative aspects of the proposed models, and analyses clearly outlining aim, materials, methodological approach and expected results. Please use the APA citation style for your references. All submissions should be made electronically via email to the conference email-address (Clavier2023@unimi.it), along with a cover letter indicating the author’s name, affiliation, contact information and title of contribution. In their (anonymous) submissions, authors should clearly indicate minimum 3 and maximum 5 keywords, and they should specify their preference for paper delivery or poster presentation. The latter may be especially suited to early-career researchers or to presentations of work-in- progress. Confirmed plenary speakers: Jonathan Charteris-Black, UWE Bristol Giuliana Garzone, Univeristà IULM Martin Reisigl, Universität Wien Arran Stibbe, University of Gloucestershire Conference Chair: Paola Catenaccio Organising committee Lucia Berti, Jekaterina Nikitina, Letizia Paglialunga, Massimo Sturiale Scientific Committee Cinzia Bevitori, Università di Bologna Marina Bondi, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Nicholas Brownlees, Università degli Studi di Firenze Gloria Cappelli, Università degli Studi di Pisa Jonathan Charteris-Black, UWE Bristol Belinda Crawford, Università della Calabria Chiara Degano, Università di Roma 3 Marina Dossena, Università degli Studi di Bergamo Roberta Facchinetti, Università degli Studi di Verona Daniele Franceschi, Università degli Studi di Roma 3 Giuliana Garzone, Università IULM Kim Grego, Università degli Studi di Milano Stefania Maci, Università degli Studi di Bergamo Giovanna Mapelli, Università degli Studi di Milano Denise Milizia, Università degli Studi di Bari Renzo Mocini, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” Bettina Mottura, Università degli Studi di Milano Maria Cristina Paganoni, Università degli Studi di Milano Giuseppe Palumbo, Università degli Studi di Trieste Martin Reisigl, Universität Wien Katherine Elizabeth Russo, Università di Napoli

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