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5th International Conference
Foreign Languages and Tourism
12th-13th November, 2021 – Online Conference
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Call for Papers
Conferences jointly organized by the four universities biannually aim to bring together teachers and researchers of languages for tourism and tourism discourse, and open up space for dialogue with colleagues, exchange of research findings and teaching practices and discussions of the future of our discipline and its contribution to the world around us.
Last year’s conference, which was organized by the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Austria, was impossible to hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has severely altered our professional and individual lives. In light of the ongoing uncertainties of these turbulent and challenging times and the likely travel difficulties they may cause, the representatives of the four universities have decided to organize their next conference fully online. We feel that running a virtual conference has many positive aspects to it: it is safe and more affordable, it is ecologically beneficial in terms of carbon footprints, innovative, and it will give us all some much-needed peace of mind looking ahead to autumn 2021. With our distinguished plenary speakers and with your active participation and contribution, we are confident that the Foreign Languages and Tourism 2021 online conference is going to be an interesting and stimulating experience.
We invite contributions on the following conference topics:
- Languages for tourism and curriculum design,
- Languages for tourism and language skills (speaking, writing, reading, listening, vocabulary),
- Languages for tourism and assessment,
- Languages for tourism and materials design,
- Online/Blended learning and teaching of languages for tourism,
- Academic languages for tourism studies,
- Tourism genres and teaching/learning languages for tourism,
- Interdisciplinary teaching of languages for tourism,
- Intercultural pragmatics in tourism settings,
- Translation and interpretation in tourism,
- Other topics concerning languages for tourism.
Keynote Speakers
Stefania M. Maci is Full Professor of English Language and Translation and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Student Affairs at the University of Bergamo, Italy. She is also Director of CERLIS, Centro di Ricerca sui Linguaggi Specialistici. Her research interests include medical academic discourse, legal discourse, advertising and business discourse. She is author of numerous papers published in international journals and collected volumes as well as editor or co-editor of a number of collected volumes. Prof. Maci is also known for her academic research in the field of tourism discourse. Her research deals with tourist destination representations, in-flight magazines, virtual touring, digital tourism discourse, etc. She is author of three monographs on tourism discourse: The Language of Tourism (2010), Tourism Discourse: Professional, Promotional and Digital voices (2013) and most recently English Tourism Discourse. Insights into the professional, promotional and digital language of tourism (2020). She also co-edited the collected volume Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being. Representing the Voices of Tourism (2017). Prof. Maci is currently involved in national and international research projects on academic English and ESP, with particular regard to medical and tourism discourse, metadiscursive and argumentative strategies of traditional and new forms of communication.
Sabrina Francesconi works at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento as Associate Professor of English Linguistics and as Department’s delegate for international affairs. She is also a member of the Italian Association for Canadian Studies’ Scientific Board. Her main research interests are: tourism and heritage discourses, adaptation studies, multimodal genre analysis, systemic-functional stylistics, multimodal stylistics. On tourism discourse, she has published four monographic works: Heritage Discourse in Digital Travel Video Diaries (Tangram, 2018), Reading Tourism Texts: A Multimodal Analysis (Channel View Publications, 2014), Generic Integrity and Innovation in Tourism Texts in English (Tangram, 2012) and Language for Tourism Promotion: Italy in British Texts (Hoepli, 2007). Sabrina Francesconi is also the author of many articles, published in Italy and abroad, including: “Dynamic Intersemiosis as a Humour-enacting Trigger in a Tourist Video” (Visual Communication, 2017), “The Semiotics of Inter-Panel Transition in Comic-strip Postcards” (Text & Talk, 2013), and “Images and Writing in Tourist Brochures” (Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2011). She is currently working on a monographic book on film and television adaptations of Munro’s short stories, to be published by Routledge.
Submissions
The conference has three working languages: English, German and Italian. Submissions are limited to one contribution per author/co-author.
Extended deadline for submission of abstracts: 8th September, 2021
Maximum abstract length: 300 words
Notifications of abstract acceptance: 27th September, 2021
Submit your abstract here: https://1ka.arnes.si/a/18349.
Conference Fees
Participation at the conference will be free of charge.
Publication Opportunities
- A selected selection of papers will be published in Scripta Manent, the peer-reviewed journal of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers. The journal is indexed in MLA, Erih+, DOAJ, and LLBA.
- Conference proceedings.
Further Information
For further information please write to foreign.languages.and.tourism@gmail.com.
Programme Committee
- Brigita Bosnar Valković, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management Opatija, Croatia
- Šarolta Godnič Vičič, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Nina Lovec, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Tina Orel Frank, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Ljudmila Sinkovič, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Vlado Sušac, University of Zadar, Department of Tourism and Communication Studies, Zadar, Croatia
- Irena Zavrl, University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Eisenstadt, Austria
Organizing Committee
- Šarolta Godnič Vičič, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Nina Lovec, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Tina Orel Frank, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Ljudmila Sinkovič, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia