Wednesday, May 16th
13:30 - 14:00 | Registration/Check-in. Parallel Sessions: |
SPECIAL SESSION A – Green Room – Phonetics & Phonology | |
14:00 - 15:15 |
Revisiting the Role of Phonology in Teacher Training and Translation Programmes
ZABALA, Francisco (ISP “Joaquín V. González”/IES LV “Juan Ramón Fernández”/UBA)
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Polysyllabic Words: Un-academic Activities for an Academic Matter
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15:15 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
SPECIAL SESSION B – Green Room – Discourse Analysis | |
15:30 - 16:30 |
Lexical Relations and Meaning as Context
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Analysis of the Phraseology of Online Newspaper Articles: A Brief Corpus-based Study on Online Newspaper Articles about Robin Williams’ Passing
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Condolences on Online Social Networks: A Pragmatic Study Based on the Speech Act Theory
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16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break |
SPECIAL SESSION A – Red Room – Interpreting | |
14:00 - 15:15 |
At Home and Beyond: Interpreter Practice in International Organisations
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An Essential Element in Interpreting Training
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15:15 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
SPECIAL SESSION B – Red Room – Translation | |
15:30 - 16:30 |
Total Quality in Translations
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The Use of the Modal Verb Shall in Legal Texts
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Contrastive Analysis of Actualized Forms of Nominal Infinitives in Spanish and their Alternating Forms in English within the Scope of a Translation
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16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break |
SPECIAL SESSION C – Red Room – Translation | |
17:00 - 18:15 |
Fidelity in Translation
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No wonder she’s called “Dolores”: Censorship, retranslation and invisibility in the Spanish edition of Nabokov’s Lolita
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The literary translator’s discourse and voice in Chimamanda N. Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
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Reading processes in literary translation. How specific are they? What challenges do they impose to the student translator?
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Thursday, May 17th
Morning:
8:30 - 9:00 | Registration/Check-in. Plenary Sessions: |
9:00 - 9:30 |
Round-table talk:
60th Anniversary Commemoration of the School of Modern Languages Talking points will be focused on the history of the School of Modern Languages and the development of the degree programmes within each language department. Panelists: Héctor VALENCIA, degree programmes in the English department. Néstor SAPORITI, degree programmes in the Italian department. Santiago URE, degree programmes in the Portuguese department. |
Irish Studies Chair | |
9:30 - 10:30 |
Memorias de los viajeros británicos en el Río de la Plata durante las invasions inglesas
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IGLESIAS, Carlos (Fundación Rumbo Sur)
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The Anglo – Irish immigration, the Argentine Transformation Process between 1850 and 1950 and its Extension to 1960, Analyzed through the Situation of Railways in the Period
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10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
Parallel Activities: | |
11:00 - 12:30 | SPECIAL SESSION – Green Room |
Shakespeare Workshop: Ecocritical Shakespeare in Buenos Aires: The Non Human as a Character in The Hollow Crown (BBC, 2015)
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SPECIAL SESSION – Red Room | |
Q&A with Dr Paul TENCH Dr Tench will be answering questions from the audience about his career and works. Moderator: Francisco ZABALA |
13:30 - 14:00 | Registration/Check-in. Parallel Sessions: |
SPECIAL SESSION A – Green Room – Literature | |
14:00 - 16:15 |
Resisting Patriarchy and Petrarchy: Shakespeare, Ovid and a Rhetoric of the Assaulted Female Body
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“Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we’ve all been there.” – The War Novel and the Experience of Vietnam
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More than Meets the Naked Eye in the World of Literature
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16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
SPECIAL SESSION A – Red Room – Applied Linguistics | |
14:00 - 15:15 |
How to Improve and Enhance Reading Skills
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Teaching Writing for Publishing Practices to Language Teacher Trainees: A Classroom Experience
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A View of Grammar from its Teaching Perspective
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Teaching Essay-Writing from an ‘Appliable’ Linguistics Model
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SPECIAL SESSION B – Red Room – Applied Linguistics | |
15:15 - 16:15 |
Will Technology Ever Replace Teachers?
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Beyond the Limits
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World Englishes and the Challenge of Teaching Phonetics and Phonology at Higher Education Level
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16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
SPECIAL SESSION C – Red Room – Applied Linguistics | |
16:30 - 17:15 |
Teachers’ Perceptions on Frequent and Serious Mistakes in Students’ Writings. The Case of the Course of Sworn Translation Studies
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Common Errors in Writing: The Case of Language I Students in the Course of Sworn Translation Studies
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San Ignacio de Loyola Auditorium - Tucumán 1845, CABA
17:45 - 18:00 | Plenary Session: Conclusion and final remarks. |
18:00 - 18:30 | Award Ceremony 16th USAL English Language Literary Contest |
18:30 - 19:30 |
Theatre production:
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward Debut performance by the members of the School of Modern Languages Drama Club. Coordinator/Director: Prof. Tiggie DONATI Narrators: Prof. Nuria GÓMEZ BELART & Prof. Cecilia ZUNINO. Student Cast: Agustina BARTOCCI; María Sol BASSARA; María Belén CARBALLA; Matías BORICH; Camila DE BRITO SÁNCHEZ; Luz MICELI & Leila ROSSI. Sound Operator: PERRINO, Giuliana. |
10:00 - 13:00
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Analysis of English Intonation for Specialists:
How to Analyse Intonation
Dr Paul TENCH
Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University
Dr Tench will provide important insights into the analysis of English intonation by examining different pieces of genuine discourse.
This seminar is tailored to specialists in Phonetics and Phonology.
Certificates of attendance will be issued.
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