CfP: “CONTAct, CONTAmination, CONTAgion in English linguistic, literary and cultural communication”, Rome, 27-28 April 2021

CONTAct, CONTAmination, CONTAgion in English linguistic, literary and cultural communication

Rome, 27th-28th April 2021

The second edition of the annual conference organized by Research Group TrAdE draws inspiration from current events, in order to explore how translation and adaptation deal with such topics/themes as contact, contamination and contagion.

Despite undisputable negative aspects, dramatic events in history have also offered stimulating occasions to experiment new translational/adaptational scenarios and scientific issues (e.g. translating and/or adapting lockdown literature, the risks of translating/adapting news and information from one language into another without expert medical validation, the role of Knowledge Translation platforms in time of pandemic, etc.).

All the above things considered, the transdisciplinary conference shall be focused on (but not limited to) the following topics:

Contact linguistics and language contact: explore the means and consequences of contact between the two languages, especially in times of media expansion (e.g. discourse analysis; story-telling, etc.);

Contamination of genres both in diachronic and synchronic perspective, including literature, art, and culture as a whole (adaptations; translations; hybrid texts; multimodality);