Last updated by kagniesz on 2009-02-19. Originally submitted by mmurawska on 2009-02-13.
Department of Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Pragmatics (IFA) invites everyone to a guest lecture by
prof. Kjersti Fløttum, University of Bergen
Cultural identities and academic voices in a cross-disciplinary and cross-linguistic perspective
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 9.45, room 601A
Cultural identities and academic voices in a cross-disciplinary and cross-linguistic perspective
In this presentation, which will be related to the research project "Cultural Identity in Academic Prose", abbreviated by the Norwegian acronym KIAP, I will address some questions related to cultural identities in research articles, written within different disciplines (economics, linguistics, medicine) and different languages (English, French, Norwegian), through a selection of various types of linguistic manifestations. The main focus will be on person presence as realized through different academic voices, representing what I call the self- and the other-dimensions. By self I refer to the author and by other to the reader and other persons related in one way or another to the community in question. This approach is linked to a rhetorical view of scientific discourse as something which is created in a particular multivoiced communicative situation. In order to determine the complex constellations of academic voices present "behind" various obvious person manifestations, it is necessary to take into account both linguistic cotext and extralinguistic context. The choice of contextual dimensions to consider constitutes an issue closely related to our conception of cultural identity in the discipline and language perspectives.
