Članice in člani SDUTSJ smo vabljeni na 23. konferenco SZOKOE, ki je Madžarsko društvo učiteljev in raziskovalcev tujega jezika stroke. Konferenca bo potekala v madžarskem mestu peč 1. in 2. decembra 2023. Vse potrebne informacije so na voljo v pripetem dokumentu oziroma tukaj: https://sdutsj.si/files/2023/09/EN_Conference-2023.pdf
Članice in člani SDUTSJ smo vabljeni k udeležbi na letnem svetovnem kongresu FIPLV, ki bo v Aucklandu na Novi Zelandiji potekal med 6. in 9. julijem 2024. Svetovni kongres bo potekal skupaj s konferenco Novozelandskega društva jezikovnih učiteljev. Vse informacije so na voljo tukaj: https://nzalt2024.org/
Hiter razvoj umetne inteligence (UI) bo pomembno zaznamoval prihodnost učenja tujih jezikov stroke (TJS). Posebna številka revije Scripta Manent želi zato raziskati vpliv UI na učenje in poučevanje TJS ter izpostaviti najnovejše raziskave, izzive, inovativne metodologije in izsledke aplikativnih študij na tem področju.
Avtorje vabimo k oddaji izvirnih prispevkov, ki obravnavajo uporabo UI pri učenju in poučevanju TJS, kot so povzemanje besedil, luščenje informacij in terminologije, korpusna analiza, orodja za ustvarjanje vsebin z UI in številne druge.
Predlagane teme izvirnih znanstvenih ali strokovnih člankov lahko vsebujejo, a niso omejene, na naslednje:
1. besedilno rudarjenje in luščenje informacij na specializiranih področjih
2. luščenje in upravljanje terminologije po specializiranih področjih
3. inteligentni tutorski sistemi za učenje TJS
4. orodja UI za strokovno pisanje in izobraževanje na specializiranih področjih
5. strojno prevajanje in večjezična komunikacija na specializiranih področjih
6. prevajanje in tolmačenje s pomočjo UI
7. jezikovne tehnologije za potrebe TJS
8. korpusne študije in TJS
9. uporaba umetne inteligence pri poučevanju TJS.
Povzetek, ki naj ne presega 300 besed in naj vsebuje še pet ključnih besed, pošljete na elektronski naslov scripta.manent@sdutsj.edus.si najpozneje do 15. septembra 2023. Naslovu prispevka naj sledita vaše ime in priimek, e-naslov in ustanova. Prispevke sprejemamo v angleščini, nemščini, slovenščini, francoščini ali italijanščini.
Smernice za oddajo prispevkov najdete na povezavi:
https://scriptamanent.sdutsj.edus.si/ScriptaManent/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
Pomembni datumi: · oddaja povzetka: 15. september 2023 · obvestilo in povabilo k oddaji celotnega prispevka: do 15. oktobra 2023 · oddaja prispevka: 15. december 2023 · izdaja revije: april 2024
Veselimo se vaših prispevkov, ki bodo pomembno prispevali k boljšemu razumevanju povezave med UI in TJS. Vsi prispevki bodo pred dokončnim sprejetjem recenzirani.
Osnutek tega Poziva k oddaji prispevkov je napisal jezikovni model Chat GPT, ki so ga razvili pri OpenAI. Sara Orthaber in Melita Koletnik sta vsebino prevedli, pregledali, uredili in prilagodili za objavo v slovenskem jeziku.
Članice in člani SDUTSJ smo vabljeni k udeležbi na 7. ISLSP/CIBER BL konferenci, ki bo v glavnem mestu ZDA potekala 2. in 3. maja 2024. Rok za oddajo izvlečkov je 15. oktober. Vse potrebne informacije so na voljo tukaj: https://blogs.gwu.edu/islsp-ciberbl-2024/
Članice in člani SDUTSJ smo vabljeni k udeležbi na konferenci društva GERAS, ki bo potekala od 21. – 23. marca 2024. Izvleček prispevka (300 – 500 besed in do 10 bibliografskih referenc) mora biti poslan do 8. decembra 2023. Vse potrebne informacije so na voljo spodaj.
Call for Papers
45th International GERAS Conference
ZHAW Angewandte Linguistik
Winterthur (Switzerland)
21-23 March 2024
Language use in specialized contexts from an ESP perspective
One of the defining characteristics of English for specific purposes (ESP) is a strong, transdisciplinary tradition in the observation of language use in specialized contexts. The expression “language use” has traditionally been employed by scholars in order to emphasize that what people say or write is closely related to the purposes or the functions of communication. Many ESP studies also highlight the fact that the way people actually use a language is somewhat different from the way they think they use it and is even more different from how they think they should use it. As Brown and Yule (1983) claimed, language use is equivalent to “discourse”, a concept based on systemic relations between text and context. The early studies of language use in specialized contexts, genre and register studies in particular, mainly focused on text, context being to a point relegated to the background, as a set of influential factors leading to disciplinary or professionally-based variation patterns. Since those early studies, context has gradually been given a more prominent role in what counts as specialized language use. For example, coherence and cohesion, defined by Halliday and Hasan (1976), have proved powerful concepts helping contemporary scholars provide ample evidence that text and context constitute a unified language system instantiated by text. Triangulated approaches (Angouri 2010), providing thick descriptions of language use through detailed analyses of contextual data, have also evidenced the centrality of context in how we actually use a language. Corpus approaches to language use, although they are fundamentally “textual”, have provided further evidence of context playing a prominent role. For example, the building of small specialized corpora (Koester 2010) sometimes representing extremely specialized discourse varieties, are typically sampled from contextual parameters such as specialized domains or specialized actions and social roles. The latest explorations of specialized milieus and cultures, as well as the epistemological approach to those concepts, are also likely to reinforce the inextricable links between text and context as they are likely to highlight the unified nature of language use in specialized settings.
An increasing number of academic and professional contexts are global, academic, or business organizations where language use is, in reality, multilingual. The phenomenon has led to a myriad of small-scale and large-scale studies showing that English is very often used as a lingua franca (Cogo 2018). Those studies provide us with insights not only into the contextual factors of language choice, but also on the specific nature of English, as illustrated by the “lingua franca core”, a set of key L2 characteristics whether in speech or writing.
Language use is also multimodal. Research into this facet of language use in academic and professional contexts regularly invites scholars to consider language use as part of a more general communication system in which text, images, videos, even gestures, jointly contribute to the achievement of communicative purposes. This stream of studies not only renews what we know about the tenets of effective communication in specialized settings, but also invites us to rethink the way language use, or literacy, is actually transmitted to learners of all kinds, whether they are university students (Dressen-Hammouda and Wigham 2022) or professionals seeking to improve their communicative skills in the global workplace (Whitehouse 2023).
Due to the multifaceted nature of language use in academic and professional contexts, the conference welcomes theoretical approaches, practical approaches, and a combination of both. We invite scholars from all disciplinary fields to address the following issues, among others:
References
Angouri, Jo. 2010. Quantitative, Qualitative or Both? Combining Methods in Linguistic Research. In Litosseliti, Lia (ed.), Research Methods in Linguistics in Linguistics 1. Continuum, 29–45.
Brown, Gillian & George Yule. 1983. Discourse Analysis. Cambridge University Press.
Cogo, Alessia. 2018. ELF and Multilingualism. In Jenkins, Jennifer, Will Baker & Martin Dewey (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca. Routledge, 357–68.
Dressen-Hammouda, Dacia & Ciara Wigham. 2022. Evaluating Multimodal Literacy: Academic and Professional Interactions around Student-Produced Instructional Video Tutorials. System 105, doi: 10.1016/j.system.202.102727.
Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood & Ruqaiya Hasan. 1976. Cohesion in English. Longman.
Koester, Almut. 2010. Building Small Specialised Corpora. In O’Keefe, Anne & Michael McCarthy (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Routledge, 66–79.
Whitehouse, Marlies. 2023. Transdisciplinarity in Financial Communication. Writing for Target Readers. Palgrave Macmillan.
Please send your proposals and abstracts (300–500 words with up to 10 bibliographical references max) to marlies.whitehouse@zhaw.ch, philippe.millot@univ-lyon3.fr and severine.wozniak@univ-lyon2.fr before 8 December 2023.