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FOURTH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION STYLES CONFERENCE (ICS4) 12-13 November 2019

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION STYLES CONFERENCE (ICS4) 12-13 November 2019, Krosno, Poland

CONFERENCE PROFILE

Communication Styles conference is the fourth in the series of biannual conferences which were initiated in 2013 and took place in Krosno in Poland. So far  the conferences have a publication record with a collection of articles entitled Culture’s Software: Communication Styles (Cambridge Scholars 2015), a special issue of the Styles of Communication journal (9:1; 2017) and an issue of Tertium Linguistic Journal (3.1; 2018).

This time we would like to invite international scholars to a themed conference, the focus of which will be

Communication Styles 4 – Radical Thought – Radical Language - Radical Communication Style   

The conference aims at shedding light on the trend to radicalize language in connection with radical political, social or religious ideas/ideologies across discourses genres and media, between individuals and groups, between the present and the past, between the culture specific and the universal, in conflict and dialogue as well as in the following spheres:

• public and private discourse
• political language 
• intercultural and cross-cultural communication
• aggressive and polite communication (netiquette)
• vulgarisms and taboos
• political correctness as a means to alleviate radicalism
• persuasion
• folklore
• creativity, metaphor and art
• humour – corrective and benevolent- satire, parody, irony 
• family and between genders
• business communication
• translating radical texts

Conference language: English

Special, organized thematic sessions are invited too.

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Professor Piotr Chruszczewski, University of Wrocław, and Dr Aleksandra Knapik, Committee of Philology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch, Poland

Professor Helga Kotthoff, University of Freiburg, Germany

Professor Giselinde Kuipers, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 

BOARD OF ORGANISERS

Professor Dorota Brzozowska, Opole University, Poland 

Dr Władysław Chłopicki, Jagiellonian University, Kraków and Krosno State College, Poland

Professor Jan Chovanec, University of Brno, Czechia

Professor Delia Chiaro, University of Bologna, Italy

Professor Piotr Chruszczewski, University of Wrocław, Poland

Dr Liisi Laineste, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia

Professor Villy Tsakona, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

CONFERENCE SECRETARY AND CONTACT

Anna Rewiś-Łętkowska: [email protected]

http://archiwum.pwsz.krosno.pl/ics-4-2019/