KEYNESS IN TEXT
Certosa di Pontignano,
University of Siena
26th- 30th June 2007
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Some things are more important than others, and one of the most valuable
skills is the ability to evaluate experience along this dimension. For
this conference, the dimension we want to focus on is KEYNESS IN TEXT
applied to documents and speech events. We are equally concerned with
the techniques, methods and criteria that are used to determine keyness
as with the results of the exercise of keyness skills.
There are many different approaches to the concept of keyness. The
conference will focus on three main ones. One is an approach from a
background of cultural studies and the history of ideas, where the
notions that shape the society are studied, such as in Raymond Williams’
seminal work 1976. Another approach is from lexical and lexicographical
studies, both contemporary and historical, where the task of definition
requires the perception and the selection of key concepts. Another is
from the computational examination of texts, in the style of
text-mining, the identification of certain words based on their
frequency distribution and clustering in a document. On the more
practical level, there is a widely established convention on the
internet and in academic publication of requiring the originator of a
document to provide keywords, which are then used in classification and
search strategies. Quite often, however, the identification of aboutness
in a given text requires a phraseological perspective.
Keyness is an essential component in almost all forms of education; the
ability to digest substantial amounts of input material and pick out the
important issues is specifically taught in language classes under
headings like summarisation, in all kinds of subjects. Contributions to
the conference are encouraged that consider all kinds of treatment of
the concept of keyness in theory and applications with particular
emphasis to language teaching for Special Purposes. Particular attention
will also be devoted to the automatic identification of keyness.
Software demonstrations are encouraged.
The conference welcomes submissions on any of these approaches to
keyness, in particular the following themes will be considered:
The concept of keyness in relation to:
* Specialized discourse
* Text and genre analysis
* Multilingualism and contrastive approaches
* Translation
* The cultural dimension
* The cognitive dimension
* Text-mining and data-mining
* Diachronic perspectives
* Spoken/written language
* Pedagogical aspects in EFL, EAP and LSP
* Lexis and Lexicography
* Terminology and Terminography
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Omar Calabrese, University of Siena
François Rastier, CNRS, Paris
Mike Scott, University of Liverpool
Mike Stubbs, University of Trier
Martin Warren, Hong Kong Polytechnic
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Elena Tognini Bonelli, Università di Siena
Anna Lazzari, Università di Siena
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Marina Bondi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Gabriella Del Lungo, Università di Firenze
Julia Bamford, Università di Roma La Sapienza
Marina Dossena, Università di Bergamo
Elena Tognini Bonelli, Università di Siena
For further details please refer to:
http://www.disas.unisi.it/keyness/index.php
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