Convegno SLIN15-Dialogic forms in 1000 years of english texts from Old English to late Modern English

Cagliari: Giovedì 26/ Sabato 28 Maggio 2011
 

Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Dipartimento di Linguistica e Stilistica - Centro Linguistico d'Ateneo 
 

La Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Linguistica e Stilistica, con il Centro Linguistico di Ateneo e con la Facoltà di Economia organizza il XV Convegno SLIN (Associazione di Storia della Lingua Inglese), in programma a Cagliari dal 26 al 28 maggio.

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
 

THURSDAY 26 MAY
Aula 7 - Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
 

09.00 Registration

10.00 Welcome Addresses

10.30 Plenary 1: chair: L. Fodde

 - Irma Taavitsainen: Dialogue in textbooks 1500-1800

12.00 chair: G. Iamartino

- Laura Pinnavaia: Teaching Italian (and English) through proverbs in conversation: A case study of  Pietro Paravicino’s “Choice Proverbs and Dialogues in Italian and English” (1660)

- Elisabetta Cecconi: Disagreement and relational work in 17^th century didactic dialogues

 

15.00 chair: G. Di Martino

- Maurizio Gotti: Conversation and argumentation in Boyle´s scientific dialogue

- Elisabetta Lonati & Kim Grego: Scientific Discourse in Early Modern English: Reasoning, Rhetoric and the Mimesis of Dialogue

- Alessandra Vicentini: The dissemination of science through dialogic text forms: Francesco Algarotti’s 18^th-c.Neutonianismo per le dame

 

17.00 chair: N. Pantaleo

- Elena Olivari – Paola Tornaghi: Dialogue and scientific writings in the 16th century: Cyprian Lucar's translation of Niccolò Tartaglia

-  Geoffrey Gray: ‘The Sun and Stars, the remotest Objects as well as the nearer wou’d all seem to be in his Eye, or rather in his Mind’: contextualising and evidencing solutions to Molyneux’s problem

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FRIDAY 27 MAY
Aula 7 - Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
 

09.30 chair: G. Del Lungo

Plenary 2: Jonathan Culpeper: The dialogue of plays in a historical pragmatics perspective.

11.00 chair: A. Bertacca

- Marcella Bertuccelli Papi: From rhetoric to pragmatics: a contextualized Gricean analysis of some dialogues in Shakespeare’s plays

- Iolanda Plescia: The Dialogue of the Future: Semantic and Pragmatic values of Will and Shall in Shakespeare’s "Macbeth"

-  Roberta Mullini: “Was ever woman in this humour won?”: the power of pronouns and of politeness strategies in Richard III’s wooing of Lady Anne

 

14.30 chair: M. Gotti

- Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti: Dialogic construction of the authorial voice in Remedies against temptations by William Flete

-  John Denton: Dialogic Address Forms in the Book(s) of Common Prayer: the problem of thou-you switching

 

16.00 chair: N. Brownlees

- Olga Denti: “Garrow’s Law”: The dialogic dimension in the Old Bailey’s cross-examinations

-  Michela Giordano: The Old Bailey Proceedings: quoted dialogue and speaker commitment in witness testimony

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SATURDAY 28 MAY

Aula Magna - Facoltà di Economia - Viale S. Ignazio da Laconi 74, Cagliari
 

10.00 chair: G.  Mazzon

Plenary 3: Andreas Jucker: Politeness in early modern English dialogues

 

11.30 chair: M. Sturiale

- Patricia Kennan: The use of  dialogue  in Sidney's Arcadias

- Daniela Francesca Virdis: Interactive Dialogue Sequences in "The Romance of Lust" (1873-1876)

Il programma completo dell'evento è consultabile al seguente Link: http://www.slin15.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=58&lang=it