1st International Conference: Discourse Approaches to Functional Linguistics, Translation and Foreig

Organized by Teacher Training College in Włocławek & Department of Pragmatics, University of Łódź; Włocławek, Poland, 24-26 October 2008

The conference will cover the following topics: •Discourse functional and pragmatic analysis of social communication (ideology; language of politics and the media; advertising; misunderstandings; humor, etc.) •Status of functional linguistics in relation to such disciplines as sociolinguistics, anthropology, social psychology, cognitive linguistics and culture studies •Methodology of discourse studies and organization of the parameters of analysis •Corpus selection in large or heterogeneous discourses •Discourse meaning in translation/interpreting from the perspective of cognitive sciences, corpus linguistics, lexicology and semantics •Functional equivalence in translation/interpreting •Pragmatics of the translation/interpretation of the media, legal, political, scientific and business language •General ways of implementation of the pragmatic and discourse functional awareness in FLT, including on-line courses •Instruction in speech act comprehension •Developing teaching materials for function-focused L2 instruction For further information: [url=http://www.pwsz.wloclawek.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118&Itemid=152]http://www.pwsz.wloclawek.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118&Itemid=152[/url] Programme: [url=http://www.pwsz.wloclawek.pl/dokumenty/do_pobrania/da_program.doc]http://www.pwsz.wloclawek.pl/dokumenty/do_pobrania/da_program.doc[/url]