SILCC

The second series of lectures and workshops within the IP "Language and Culture Data: Methods and Applications", coordinated by the University of Łódź, in collaboration with the University of Savoie, Chemnitz University of Technology, and Ege University, is meant to further explore the multiplicity of interrelations and interfaces within language, culture, and communication, and facilitate the implementation of a modern, integrated teaching curriculum, enhancement of research collaboration and academic/professional mobility, and forging institutional links among partner Universities and other public institutions with culture-constitutive potential (e.g. mass media).

Organized in Chambéry, labelled the ”Art and History Town” for its distinct cultural character, it will use the resources of the Universite de Savoie and its expertise in teaching and evaluating intercultural communication, as well as methodology, translation, and literary studies.

The project is directed at advanced MA and PhD students intending to explore the interface between language and culture in both the EU and non-EU context, and apply this knowledge and skills in their academic and professional setting. The IP will employ a variety of teaching methods and techniques: lectures, workshops, seminars, practical analyses, hands-on sessions, movie screening, student presentations, mini-projects and field trips.

The 2011 IP will be organized with a view to objectives and principles set out in the 2010 IP proposal and will be well integrated into the three-year long IP proposal. While the 2010 IP provided a comprehensive review of research approaches, methodologies, and tools, the 2011 IP will be organized around three main thematic areas:

• contrasting varieties of learner language
• interculturality in literature, the media and the arts
• language, culture and translation

as envisaged in the 2010 IP proposal. The factor behind such thematic delimitation is both the expertise of the Universite de Savoie (cultural aspects of applied linguistics and literature studies) and the intentional focus on selected themes, knowledge and skills, which are of particular relevance to the professional life in the EU (as well as broader cultural, trans-national) context, namely teaching profession, work in the media and cultural institutions, translation and interpreting, and intercultural communication in business and corporate culture.

The themes to be addressed include:

• intercultural competence
• cognitive cultural patterning
• contrastive pragmatics and discourse analysis
• dialectics of mass media communication
• contrasting lexical patterns
• translation
• multilingual corpora
• empirical data

In a series of stimulating lectures, presentations and workshops, a dedicated team of leading experts in pragmatics and discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, translation and cultural studies will provide participants of the programme with solid methodological foundations for analyzing various types of data (corpora with written or spoken texts, data from sociolinguistic interviews, elicited data from fieldwork, etc.) and introduce up-to-date procedures and tools.

The participants, guided and supervised by the tutors, will be encouraged to apply selected methods in a series of individual and group tasks and in the final project, which will then be evaluated by a group of experts.

The following distinguished scholars have already accepted our invitation to deliver a lecture or do a workshop during the summer school in Chambéry:

• Prof. Susanne Berthier-Foglar, University of Savoie (intercultural communication)
• Dr. Monika Kopytowska, University of Łódź (media discourse)
• Dr. Przemysław Krakowian, University of Łódź
• Prof. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Łódź (contrastive analysis)
• Prof. John Osborne, University of Savoie (language teaching and learning)
• Dr. Marie-Odile Salati, University of Savoie
• Prof. Josef Schmied, Technical University of Chemnitz (sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, e-learning)
• Dr. Susanne Wagner, Technical University of Chemnitz
• Dr. Jacek Waliński, University of Łódź (corpus linguistics, e-learning)
• Dr. Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, University of Łódź (legal linguistics, LSP Phraseology)
• Prof. Konca Yumlu, Ege University (media discourse)

• Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (University of Lodz, Poland) - chair
• Mohamed S. Anwar (Cairo, Egypt)
• Ayo Bamgbose (Linguistic Association of Nigeria, University of Ibadan)
• Ellen Bialystok (University of York, Toronto, Canada)
• Douglas Biber (University of Northern Arizona, USA)
• David Bradley (La Trobe University, Australia)
• Piotr Cap (University of Lodz, Poland)
• Bernard Comrie (Max-Planck Institute, Leipzig)
• Juliane House (University of Hamburg, Germany)
• Laura Janda (University of Tromso, Norway)
• Christian Lehmann (University of Erfurt, Germany)
• Thomas Li (University of Beijing, China)
• John Osborne (Universite de Savoie, Chambéry, France)
• Anna Siewierska (University of Lancaster, UK)
• Piet van Sterkenburg (CIPL)
• Suzanne Romaine (University of Oxford, UK)
• Piotr Stalmaszczyk (University of Lodz, Poland)
• Stella Tagnin (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil)
• Benjamin K. T'sou (University of Hong Kong)
• Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
• Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Lodz, Poland)
• Thekla Wiebusch (CNRS - CRLAO, France; COST A31)

The summer school is aimed at individuals who are researching and studying issues related to language and culture. It aims to provide the participants with the opportunity to experience areas beyond their own expertise.

The participation of students from the University of Łódź, Ege University, University of Savoie and Technical University of Chemnitz is fully subsidised by the Lifelong Learning Programme.

Students from other universities will be charged a fee of €300 for the entire summer school period (13 days). This covers tuition, morning and afternoon refreshments, and social programme. The fee does not include accommodation or meals. The deadline for making payments is August 31, 2011.

Tuition fees must be paid by bank transfer before 31 AUGUST 2011. Fees should be transferred to the account below with the reference “SILCC2011 Monika Kopytowska”.

Uniwersytet Łódzki
Bank PKO S.A., II O/Łódź
ul. Piotrkowska 270, 90-959 Łódź, Poland

Acc. no. (IBAN): PL 96 1240 3028 1111 0010 2943 1767
BIC/SWIFT: PKOPPLPW

Please send a message to mkopytowska@uni.lodz.pl indicating the day when the transfer was made. This will help us track your payment in the university account.

Please register for participation by sending an email to registration[at]silcc.pl.

The deadline for registration is August 31, 2011.

On completion of the IP, the students who pass the final test and submit the work required will be granted 6 ECTS.

For more information, please contact prof. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (blt[at]uni.lodz.pl) or dr Monika Kopytowska (Director of Studies) at mkopytowska[at]uni.lodz.pl.