23rd of April 2010
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Seminar pictures are available here!
Introduction
Centrum voor vaktaal en Communicatie of Erasmushogeschool Brussel and Centre de recherché en linguistique appliquée of the Institut supérieur de traducteurs et interprètes (Haute École de Bruxelles) have the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on “The dynamics of terms in specialised communication”. The seminar will take place on the 23rd of April 2010 at Free University of Brussels (2 Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels), which is home to the department of Applied Linguistics of Erasmushogeschool Brussel since 2008.
Recent work in cognitive sciences attacks the idea that conceptual knowledge can be stored and retrieved. It has been shown that knowing cannot be separated from context, experience, culture and language. Cognition is believed to be a dynamic and negotiable process in which the creative potential of language plays an important role. The question for the seminar is how the insight concerning the dynamics of cognition has its impact on the study of terminology and special language as observed in multilingual and intercultural special language communication. Contributors to the seminar will be asked to explain how they deal with the dynamic aspects of terminology and special language communication.
- What position do the speakers take towards the dynamics of cognition, the role of representation, embodied understanding, situatedness, cultural context?
- What kinds of research do they undertake concerning cognitive dynamics, special communication and terminology? What methodologies do they apply?
- What types of problems are encountered in a specific communicative setting (e.g. multilingual, intercultural,…)? How are these problems tackled?
Programme
- Pamela Faber (Universidad de Granada): The dynamics of specialized knowledge representation: simulational reconstruction or the perception-action interface (slides)
- Piet Van de Craen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Multilingualism, synergy and emergence or how some kinds of learning influence cognition (slides)
- Eva Radai-Kovacs (European Economic and Social Committee): The new Babel construction: the dynamic and static aspects of the EU terminology
- Rita Temmerman & Koen Kerremans (CVC, Erasmushogeschool Brussel): Eva Radai-Kovacs: “The new Babel construction: the dynamic and static aspects of the EU terminology” Ad hoc comments and suggestions for research topics (slides)
- Marita Kristiansen (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration): How does external pressure affect domain dynamics in scholarly areas? (slides)
- Paul Sambre (Lessius University College Antwerp): Shaping the future in dynamic cognitive terminology. Rethinking nanotech concepts beyond Wüsterian omnipresence (slides)
- Gabriella Klein (Università degli Studi di Perugia): Dealing with bureaucratic terminology: two case studies (slides)
- Koen Lemmens (Erasmushogeschool Brussel & Vrije Universiteit Brussel): The slow dynamic of legal terminology
- Cédric Fairon, Hubert Naets & Kévin Macé (Université Catholique de Louvain): GlossaNet and the development of RSS-based specialized corpora (slides)
- Nathalie Lemaire & Paul Muraille (Termisti, Institut supérieur de traducteurs et interprètes): La variabilité des usages dans la création de sigles et acronymes en langue spécialisée, source de difficulté pour des communautés situées? (slides)
Venue
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2 Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels (cf. Google maps)
Building D - room 'Promotiezaal (D2.01) "Aloïs Gerlo"' (second floor)
From any of the three big railway stations in Brussels (South, Centre, North) one can take an 'L' or 'IR' train (direction: Louvain-La-Neuve) to the university campus (10 to 15 minutes). One has to get off at Etterbeek station which is adjacent to the campus.
Call for Papers - Special Issue of Terminology 17 (1)
The periodical Terminology. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication (ISSN: 0929-9971; E-ISSN: 1569-9994) will devote a special issue in 2011 to the theme of the seminar. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: IBR/IBZ, INIST, INSPEC, Language Abstracts, Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique, LLBA, MLA Bibliography, European Reference Index for the Humanities, and in the following Thomson Scientific (ISI) services: Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Social Scisearch; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences; Current Contents/Arts & Humanities.
The deadline for submissions of articles is 15 June 2010. Click here for more information on the call for papers.
The seminar is funded by:
