Leading theme:
Word in (Con)text
The main theme of the conference covered a very wide spectrum of problems related to the use of words, in line with the postulate of Wittgenstein (1953) "Do not look for meaning, look for use", in particular: connotations, metaphorical, metonymic and affective meanings as well as issues concerning the modification of word senses in the context of expanding and narrowing their meanings.
We have also initiated a discussion on the broadly conceived word-text relation, the relation covering the interdependence of word and style, word and genre, both in everyday and literary texts, as well as on lexical exponents of syntactic consistency, coherence and lexical corpus research.
In the field of Intercultural Communication the most interesting topics are: cultural scripts in their various definitions, cultural stereotypes, cultural models and postulates, banner words, international and “non-cultural” words as well as semantic borrowings and their functioning in the context of native and target culture.
In the field of Translation Studies we focused on the status of the word in the era of the Internet and information technology, and in particular on its location and role in translation memories, databases and corpora, in multimodal texts (on stage, in film), in translation studies discourse (word in criticism and translation theory, a translated word as a tool of colonialism) and in the sociology of translation (the strategic value of words).
Guest speakers
Mirosław Pawlak, University of Poznań, Kalisz State College
prof. dr. hab. Elżbieta Tabakowska, Jagiellonian University
Ryszard Tokarski, Marie Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin
Bożena Witosz, University of Silesia
Piotr Żmigrodzki. Polish Academy of Sciences
Organisers
Executive Board of Kraków Tertium Society
Władysław Chłopicki, Jagiellonian University – Chairman
Maria Piotrowska, Pedagogical University of Kraków
Joanna Dybiec, Pedagogical University of Kraków
Maria Jodłowiec, Jagiellonian University
Grzegorz Szpila, Jagiellonian University
Anna Tereszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University
- poster designer: Marcin Klag
Conference venue
- Kraków
- opening: 14 March 2012
- closing: 16 March 2012