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Challenges for LSP Research” 21st Conference on Language for Specific Purposes 2017 Specific Purposes for on Language Conference 21st 21st Conference on Language for Specific Purposes 2017 NORGESNORGES HANDELSHØYSKOLE HANDELSHØYSKOLE Interdisciplinary knowledge-making: NorwegianNorwegian School School of Economics of Economics HelleveienHelleveien 30 30 5045 5045Bergen Bergen CHALLENGES FOR T (+47)T 55(+47) 95 5590 95 00 90 00 W nhh.noW nhh.no LSP RESEARCH 28-30 June 2017 UniversitetetUniversitetet i Bergen i Bergen PostboksPostboks 7800 7800 50205020 Bergen Bergen T (+47)T 55(+47) 58 5500 58 00 00 00 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS W uib.noW uib.no Dear participants On behalf of the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and more specifically the Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication, we are pleased to welcome you to Bergen (which also hosted the LSP conference in 1993), and to the 21st Conference on Language for Specific Purposes. The theme of the conference this time is “Interdisciplinary Knowledge-making: Challenges for LSP Research”. Based on the submitted abstracts, the programme this time comprises six thematic tracks and eight workshops. The tracks deal with the following themes: Terminology, Legal discourse, LSP teaching, Specialized translation, Specialized discourse & Knowledge communication, Multilingualism & Language planning. We would like to thank the convenors of the workshops for their efforts to enable more focused discussions of key topics. One of the workshops, the ‘Fachsprache Forum for Early-Stage Researchers in LSP’, provides junior members of the LSP community with an excellent opportunity to introduce their research plans, address their methodology or discuss other relevant issues of their research with senior researchers in the field. We thank our institution, NHH, as well as the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, for financial support. We are grateful to Tomoe Sakamoto at the Department of Finance, NHH, for helping us with producing this book of abstracts. We also wish to thank the Municipality of Bergen for hosting a reception for the conference participants in Håkonshallen. LSP research and teaching are currently facing challenging conditions in academic environments in several countries. It is our hope that the 21st Conference on Language for Specific Purposes – with a theme encouraging collaboration across disciplines – will provide an opportunity for fruitful academic exchanges as well as enjoyable social interaction. We are convinced that this will contribute to keeping up and further developing research within this important field. Regards The Organizing Committee: Gisle Andersen, Trine Dahl, Marita Kristiansen and Maja Dame (NHH) Øivin Andersen (University of Bergen) Contents 1. Keynote Speakers 2. Session Papers 3. Posters 4. Workshops 1. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS The role of language in the climate change issue – a cross-disciplinary initiative Kjersti Fløttum University of Bergen Tackling climate change and transitioning towards a low carbon and sustainable society constitute one of the most pressing issues facing humanity today. Opinions and attitudes on important questions in this context are represented in multiple contemporary discourses. These discourses take many forms and are characterised by intricate multivoicedness. Divergent and convergent voices (scholars from different fields, politicians, NGOs, media, citizens) are variously represented, explicitly or implicitly. Accounting for such discourses, their role in societal and individual interactions and their influence on opinions and actions presents a major challenge for linguistic and discursive analysis. Current research shows that the meaning people ascribe to climate change (e.g. their understanding of the phenomenon, their perception of risks involved, the corresponding value judgments and emotional reactions) is closely related to how climate change is portrayed in the communication. One reason for the crucial role of language in this context is that climate change has in recent years moved from being predominantly a physical and scientific phenomenon to being simultaneously a political, social, ethical, cultural and communicational phenomenon. Thus, there is a need to know more about to what extent and in what way language matters. This was the point of departure for establishing the cross- disciplinary project LINGCLIM, short for Linguistic representations of climate change discourse and their individual and collective interpretation. LINGCLIM’s overarching research question was formulated as follows: to what extent and in what way does language matter? In order to investigate some of the many issues related to this question, we established a cross-disciplinary collaboration including researchers from climate science, political science, psychology and expertise from computational science for analysing large volumes of text. In the first part of this talk I will present some of the main components of the LINGCLIM project, discuss reasons for developing the cross- disciplinary collaboration and introduce some general thoughts about challenges and opportunities in this kind of collaboration. In the second part I will present some results from the project, with a focus on two areas: first, an introduction to what we have called “climate change narratives”, mostly limited to the textual level of analysis; and second, a discussion of the notion “survey discourse”, corresponding to citizens’ freely formulated answers to open-ended survey questions related to the issue of climate change. Banking on text: Interdisciplinary perspectives on communication in economics and finance Maria Teresa Musacchio University of Padova Since the 1980s investigations into communication in economics and finance have generated considerable interest as economists and financiers have increasingly recognized the importance of an awareness of their use of language (McCloskey 1985). In the early 1990s the concern still existed that raising awareness had been achieved at the cost of concealing the features that distinguish economics and finance from other disciplines (Henderson et al. 1993). The call for a methodology in a dialogic relationship with other theories and methods in an interdisciplinary way was grounded on the idea that language is central to any science since knowledge claims are largely dependent on language. Still, studies focusing on language had an influence on many of the humanities and social sciences, while economics and finance were largely unaffected because of developments that have taken them away from other social sciences. Indeed, they have become increasingly formal and mathematical, while their need for sophistication and rigour outweighed concerns with meaning and interpretation. These trends have been bolstered by changes in the essence of government, calling for wide deployment of normative economics, regulatory finance and large-scale economic and financial statistics to support policy measures. Focusing on economics and finance in research settings on the one hand and on business communication on the other, applied linguistic investigations have provided information about economics and finance as part of a broader academic culture, and about business as part of professional and organizational culture (cf. Dahl 2008; Crawford Camiciottoli 2010; Garzone 2012). In my talk, I will build on these lines of research to sketch an integrated, interdisciplinary methodology for the analysis of communication in economics and finance. Following a discussion of contributions from other disciplines, I will focus on major changes in the recent history of economics and finance to highlight shifting articulations between genres, discourses and styles. The range of variation will be considered to capture the multiple dimensions of dynamic patterns between stability and change, using qualitative and quantitative analysis of texts about the latest economic and financial crisis and the international banking system. At observational level , economic and financial genres will be regarded as dynamic patterns or “sites of contention between stability and change” (Berkenkotter and Huckin 1995: 6). At descriptive level, text grammar will be combined with lexico-grammar to outline crucial points in the discourse of economics and finance. At explanatory level, economic and financial theory (Geraats 2014, Appadurai 2015), the history of economics (Cendron and Tusset 2014), the rhetoric and sociology of science will be considered to account for emerging patterns. Discourse by experts addressing multiple stakeholders in society will be analysed and implications for multilingual, multicultural communication and translation will be drawn. References Appadurai A. (2015) Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance, Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Berkenkotter C. and Huckin T. N. (1995) Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication: Cognition/Culture/Power, Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Cendron F. and Tusset G. (2014) “Central banks’ transparency: words as signals”, History of Economic Thought and Policy, 3(2) 2014, 49-76 Viewing interdisciplinary research discourses about environmental change through corpus analysis Paul Thompson University of Birmingham, UK While the notion of ‘discipline’ itself is increasingly under threat as problem-focused research activity pushes towards greater crossing of what were once considered boundaries (Trowler , Saunders and Bamber 2012), we still hold
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