Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads III: Impact: Making a Difference in Intercultural Communication Wednesday 26 – Friday 28 June 2013

The conference builds on the success of two prior Cross-cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads conferences at the UEA - Speech Frames and Cultural Perceptions in 2006, and its larger-scale follow-up Linguistic and Cultural Representations across Media in 2011 -, this time with an even more ambitious agenda.

Like its forerunners, CCP III will be interdisciplinary, and aims to bring together, under the umbrella of cross-cultural pragmatics, researchers from domains which are particularly sensitive to cross-cultural issues, to promote the cross-fertilization of practises, ideas and theoretical approaches, and explore key concerns associated with communication across language and culture boundaries, in practice and theory.

Making a difference, the impact theme of this third meeting, will tap into, and confront, two closely related spheres of research activity in intercultural communication:

  • Research in its value and contribution to wider society, i.e. the pursuit of research that makes a difference and ways of making it applicable and available to those for whom it can make a difference
  • Research in its investigation of factors that impede or promote communication, understanding and respect for otherness in multicultural/globalised settings

Further details are available on the conference pages.

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads II: Linguistic and Cultural Representations across Media 29 June – 1 July 2011

In the summer 2011, the School hosted its second interdisciplinary cross-cultural pragmatics conference – ‘Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads II: Linguistic and Cultural Representations across Media' - as a follow up to a 2006 very successful event (details below).

The conference is the fourth in a sequence of related events that also include "Les enjeux de la communication interculturelle" in Montpellier (France) (Université Paul Valéry, Christine Béal et al.) in 2007 and "Cross-culturally speaking, speaking cross-culturally" in Sydney (Australia) in 2009 (Macquarie University, Bert Peeters et al.).

Further details are available on the conference pages.

Other main past events:

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics conference on speech frames and cultural perceptions (Nov 2006) (resulting publication - special Cross-cultural Pragmatics issue of the Journal of French Language Studies (20.1), guest editor M.-N. Guillot, Cambridge University Press, 2010) Conference on Stage Translation (July 2007) (resulting publication – volume of selected papers Staging Translation: Text and Theatre Practice, eds Roger Baines, Cristina Marinetti and Manuela Perteghella, Manchester: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).