Call for Papers
CULTURAL CONCEPTUALIZATIONS
IN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND TRANSLATION
1-3 April 2019, Konin, Poland
The Department of Research in Language, Literature and Translation of the Faculty of Philology at the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin is pleased to invite abstracts of papers, posters and theme sessions in areas of research on
contacts, comparisons and contrasts in languages, literatures and cultures, including allied fields in the cognitive, social and communication sciences.
We particularly encourage submissions in English and Polish relevant to the proposed topics, detailed below.
Topics include (but are not restricted to):
- Culture-specific conceptualizations, e.g. metaphor, metonymy, cultural models, frames, grammatical constructions
- Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic variation
- Cognitive, cultural and contrastive linguistics perspectives
- Sociolinguistic and axiological aspects
- Cultural conceptualizations in second language teaching and acquisition
- Processes of translating and interpreting
- Psycholinguistics of cultural conceptualizations
- Intercultural communication and discourse
- Cultural conceptualizations in literature
- Translating and interpreting cultures in literature
- Cross-cultural variations in conceptualizations from the perspective of comparative literature
Presenters will be given 30 minutes for the presentation and question period.
Refereed and accepted papers in English will be published in a collective volume by an international publisher. Refereed and accepted papers in Polish will be published in a collective volume by the State University of Applied Sciences Press in Konin.
The languages of the conference are English and Polish. Abstract submission deadlines are given in the Important dates to the right.