Convegno: Space, place and the discursive construction of identity

Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"

Space, place and the discursive
construction of identity

Naples, Palazzo Du Mesnil, Via Chiatamone 66

Programme

Monday 4th June

9.00 - Registration

9.30 - Welcome Prof. Salvatore Luongo (Direttore Dipartimento Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati, University of Naplesl’Orientale) and Marina Bondi (Principal Investigator PRIN Research project, Dean Faculty of Letters, University of Modena) Chair Marina Bondi
10.00 - Keynote lecture: Greg Myers (University of Lancaster) ‘What do we do when we talk about a place? Description, categorisation, and stance-taking in research interviews’

11.00 - Coffee break

Chair Marina Dossena
11.30 - 11.50 "Identity depends on who you are: a corpus perspective", Geoffrey Williams (University of Bretagne-Sud)
12.00 - 12.20 “Head home via the wine store next door…: knowledge of place and other representation in American and Italian news articles", Davide Mazzi (University of Modena)
12.30 - 12.50 "Events as spatial constructions: the case of CNN’s live broadcast on 9/11", Charlotte Danino (University of Poitiers, France)
13.00 - 13.20 "The use of the discourse space to talk about space in Langue des Signes Québécoise", Julie Rinfret (University of Québec à Montréal)

13.30 - Lunch

Chair Julia Bamford
15.00 - Keynote lecture: Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo) "Tales of the New World: The linguistic construction of identity between psychological proximity and geographical distance";

16.00 - 16.20 - "Phraseological/lexical representations of space in American and Italian online diaries and travelogues: a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigation"; Silvia Cacchiani, Giuliana Diani, Giuseppe Palumbo, Corrado Seidenari (University of Modena)

16.30 - Coffee break

Chair Franca Poppi
17.00 - 17.20 "The constraints and exploitation of textual space in Early Modern print news"; Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence)
17.30 - 17.50 "Language, Space and Object Identity in Writing on Visual Art"; Paul Tucker (University of Florence)
18.00 - 18.20 “There is drama here…: Narrative spaces in blog theatre reviews"; Anna Stermieri (University of Modena)

Tuesday 5th June

Chair Nicholas Brownlees
9.00 - 9.20 "Museums on the Internet. Phraseological representations of space and identity in description and collection webpages"; Christina Samson (University of Florence)
9.30 - 9.50 "Expressing Temporal and Spacial Relationships on Microblogging Platforms: The Case of Twitter"; Giorgia Riboni (University of Milan)
10.00 - 10.20 "The discursive power of place and space in shaping institutional identity: the case of university websites"; Luisa Caiazzo (University of Naples l’Orientale)
10.30-10.50 At the crossroads between subject and object of research: identity positioning in the discourse of ‘Psych. Doctors’. Federica Ferrari (University of Bologna)

11.00 - Coffee break

Chair Jocelyne Vincent
11.30 Keynote Lecture Dacia Dressen-Hammouda "Place and space as shapers of disciplinary identity: A multimodal analysis of disciplinary becoming"
12.30 - 12.50 "A place to call home: the language of space in diasporic films"; Micol Beseghi (University of Modena)
13.00 - 13.20 "The Social Reconstruction of Space and (Black) Identities in Akomfrah’s Diasporic Representation: a Multimodal Analysis of The Nine Muses"; Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples l’Orientale)

13.30 - Lunch

Chair Giuseppe Balirano
15.00 - 15.20 "Multi-modal, virtual professional space: “unboundedness” and “grounding” in corporate web-casting events"; Janet Bowker (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
15.30 - 15.50 "Space and Corporate Identity: an analysis of the local and global distinctive traits of “Made in Italy”; Donatella Malavasi (University of Modena)
16.00 - 16.20- "The self at home and abroad –maintaining national identity in global advertising"; Gillian Mansfield (University of Parma)

16.30 - Coffee break

17.00 - 17.20 "Managing reputation through the discursive reconstruction of identity: a phraseological approach"; Ersilia Incelli (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
17.30 - 17.50 "Exploring the impact of ‘electronic propinquity’ on the discursive construction of identity"; Franca Poppi (University of Modena)

19.00 Aperitivo Borgo Marinaro

20.00 Conference Dinner at the restaurant ‘Gusto e Gusto’ Via Partenope 31/33 Napoli

Wednesday 6th June

Chair Marina Bondi
9.00 - "Deictics in Borneo"; Antonia Soriente (University of Naples l’Orientale)
9.30 - 9.50 "Domesticating our Space and our Otherness: the Italian Translations of Villa’s Books"; Annalisa Sezzi (University of Modena)
10.00 Keynote lecture: Rosario Caballero, (University of Castilla-La Mancha) “Language, space and body: Construing space through metaphor in architectural and non-architectural texts"

11.00 - Coffee break

11.30 - 11.50 "DAGs and the literary representation of space"; Greg Lessard, Michael Levison (Queens University, Canada)

12.00 - Summing up / Round Table

13.00 - Buffet Lunch

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