CLAVIER is a research group based in Modena and including a network of Italian universities (Bergamo, Florence, Milan State, Rome “La Sapienza”, Siena and Trieste) with an interest in combining two complementary strands of linguistic investigation - corpus analysis and discourse analysis - for a quantitative and qualitative study of language variation in English in terms of diachronic, geographic and socio-cultural dimensions.
Workshop Rationale - The key-issues of the conference include (but are by no means limited to) the following:
1.LSP teaching & pedagogy: LSP research and language teaching in the university, and in professional and corporate settings; English-medium instruction in the university; choice of varieties (e.g. ELF) to be taught as a second or foreign language in specialised domains; CLIL; Traditional and new media in LSP teaching; Corpus linguistics and LSP teaching.
2.LSP and translation (contrastive, interlinguistic and intercultural perspectives): LSP research, translation and language teaching; Translation practices in institutional, technical, scientific and academic settings; Translation and intercultural mediation in public diplomacy and in transnational corporate communication; Translation and rewriting in popularizing communication; Translation and localization in the new media.