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Commonality and Individuality in English Academic Discourse
Hosted by CERLIS, University of Bergamo, Italy
19-21 June 2008
The aim of this conference, linked to a national project on Identity and Culture in English Domain-Specific Discourse, is to explore the relationship between shared disciplinary norms and individual traits in academic speech and writing. Identity is indeed a matter of individuality as well as sameness: it defines what makes individuals similar to their peers but also what makes them to a certain extent unique. Despite the standardizing pressure of cultural and language-related factors, academic communication remains in many ways a highly personal affair, with active participation in a disciplinary community requiring a multidimensional discourse that combines the professional, institutional, social and individual identities of its members.
Within the bounds of this perspective, paper proposals are invited on the following themes:
Tensions involving individual/collective values in academic discourse
Corpus analyses of collective vs. individual discoursal features
Longitudinal investigations of the output of individual scholars
Ethnographic investigations of ‘new disciplinary voices’
Generic norms and their violation by junior/senior researchers
Invited Keynote speakers
Ken Hyland (University of London)
Keith Richards (University of Warwick)
Paul Thompson (University of Reading)
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