Language Management Workshop: Probing the Concept of Noting
Dates: 22-23 August, 2008
Venue: Monash University, Clayton (Melbourne), Australia
Registration: No conference registration fee
- Program (including links to papers and Powerpoint presentations)
- Abstracts (pdf format)
- Papers and Powerpoint presentations are available to workshop participants, and can be downloaded by clicking the links in the Program.
Purpose:
This workshop aims to bring together scholars working within the Language Management Theory (LMT) in order to advance research theoretically and methodologically. The focus of the workshop will be upon ‘noting’ as found in the LMT.
The LMT had its origin in Neustupny’s (1978) notion of “language correction”, but was more fully developed into “language management” in 1987 (Jernudd and Neustupny 1987) and applied by Neustupny and other scholars. Central to the LMT at either macro or micro levels are the processes of norm deviations and subsequent noting, evaluations, formulation of an adjustment plan and implementation of adjustment. Whereas other frameworks or theories pay much attention to outcomes or products of correction or planning, processes such as noting, evaluation or planning of adjustment have received insufficient explication in (applied/socio) linguistic studies to date.
For the 2008 workshop, papers are invited on theoretical explications or empirical treatments of noting. Issues could relate to the object(s) of noting activity, levels of noting, omission of noting, interactive aspects of noting, measuring noting, relationships of noting and the subsequent phases of language management or other relevant concerns.
Researchers working with similar concepts, such as ‘noticing’ found within other conceptual or theoretical frameworks, are also invited to participate.
Format:
Final workshop papers (5,000-7,000 words) will be due one month prior to the workshop WITHOUT FAIL OR EXTENSIONS. These papers will then be circulated to participants so that in-depth debate and discussion can take place during the workshop.
Following the workshop, revised papers can submitted for possible inclusion in an edited volume of papers on this theme.
Organizing Committee:
Helen Marriott (Monash University, Australia)
Kuniko Yoshimitsu (Monash University, Australia)
Jiri Nekvapil (Charles University, Prague)
Hidehiro Muraoka (Chiba University, Japan)
Enquiries to Helen Marriott (Helen.Marriott@arts.monash.edu.au)