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WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN SYDNEY!

Concurrent events: see overleaf 

Conference Title: “Cross-culturally speaking, speaking cross-culturally”

Conference Website: http://www.eurolang.mq.edu.au/CSSC

Dates: 6-8 July 2009

Location: Macquarie University, Sydney

Organised by the Department of International Studies, Macquarie
University
in cooperation with
the Département des Sciences du Langage, Université Montpellier 3


Organisational board
Bert Peeters (Chair), Brigitte Jandey, Marika Kalyuga, Martina
Möllering, Karin Speedy (all of Macquarie University); Christine Béal
(Université Montpellier 3)

Scientific board
Nathalie Auger (Université Montpellier 3), Astrid Berrier (Université du
Québec à Montréal), Christopher Candlin (Macquarie University),
Françoise Demougin (IUFM Montpellier), Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck
College, University of London), Cliff Goddard (University of New
England), Marie-Noëlle Guillot (University of East Anglia), Barbara
Hanna (Queensland University of Technology), Tony Liddicoat (University
of South Australia), Miranda Stewart (University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow), Véronique Traverso (Université Lyon 2), Jock Onn Wong
(National University of Singapore)

Guest speakers
Christine Béal (Université Montpellier 3)
Anna Wierzbicka (Australian National University)
Helga Kotthoff (Universität Freiburg)

Conference blurb
Issues in cross-cultural communication have exercised the minds of
thousands of scholars world-wide and will no doubt continue to do so in
the foreseeable future. Cross-cultural communication is often relatively
unproblematic (as relatively unproblematic, that is, as communication
within cultures), but it is a well-known fact that problems do develop
from time to time and warrant the attention of linguists and applied
linguists alike. Cross-cultural pragmatic failure, as it has been
called, occurs because of insufficient knowledge, either of the formal
rules of the language in which an interaction takes place (rules that
relate to its lexicon, its phonetics, its syntax), or of more elusive
aspects related to implicit cultural norms and values, often not
adequately taught in foreign language classrooms. In the absence of
appropriate cross-cultural savoir-faire, it can have disastrous
repercussions for interpersonal relationships and lead to unhelpful
stereotyping. 

Like its predecessor, the July 2007 Montpellier conference on which it
seeks to build,  the present gathering is part of an ongoing cooperative
agreement between our two institutions and will bring together a number
of scholars interested in gaining a better understanding, through the
study of actual communicative behaviour or otherwise, of the various
linguistic and pragmatic aspects of cross-cultural competence which are
required for communication across cultural boundaries to be successful. 

Registration fees
The following registration fees apply:

	Early bird (academic)					AUD 200
	Early bird (students / developing countries)		AUD 100
	Regular (academic)					AUD 250
	Regular (students / developing countries)		AUD 125

Early bird rates will be available until April 30. Fees include morning
and afternoon tea, as well as lunch on each of the three conference
days.  

A preliminary program and information about accommodation are available
on the conference website: 

http://www.eurolang.mq.edu.au/CSSC


Concurrent events
This conference takes place at about the same time as a series of other
events of international significance, organised in Sydney and Melbourne:
1.	July 8-10: 3rd Conference of the International Association for
Translation and Intercultural Studies (held at Monash University,
Melbourne)
2.	July 9-11: Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics
Society (held at the Ibis Hotel, Melbourne) 
3.	July 10-12: Ethnography symposium (held at Macquarie University,
Sydney; organised by Christopher Candlin)
4.	July 12-17: 11th International Pragmatics Conference (held at
the University of Melbourne)
 

Dr Bert Peeters
Head of French Studies
Department of International Studies
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY NSW 2109
Australia

Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 7007
Fax: +61 (0)2 9850 7054
www.eurolang.mq.edu.au/

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