Incontri con il prof. István Kecskés (Albany, State University of New York)

Il Prof. István Kecskés (Albany, State University of New York) terrà all'Università di Pisa due conferenze su linguistica e comunicazione. Gli incontri, presentati della Prof. M. Bertuccelli, sono ospitate congiuntamente dal Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica, dal Dottorato in Linguistica, e dal Centro Linguistico.

Programma

Lunedì 27 maggio, ore 10.30
"Tell me about it": Formulaic language in English Lingua Franca
Aula Magna Palazzo Boilleau

Martedì 28 maggio, ore 10.30
Interculturality and intercultural pragmatics
Aula Magna Palazzo Boilleau

Il Prof. Kecskes è una personalità di rilievo internazionale,  e le conferenze, presentate della Prof. M. Bertuccelli,  sono ospitate congiuntamente dal Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica, dal Dottorato in Linguistica, e dal Centro Linguistico.

ISTVAN KECSKES is Professor of Linguistics and Communication at the State University of New York, Albany, USA where he teaches graduate courses in pragmatics, second language acquisition and bilingualism and directs the English as a Second Language PhD and MA programs. Professor Kecskes is the President of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA).

Some of his books and papers have been very influential in the fields of pragmatics and bilingualism. 'Foreign language and mother tongue" published by Erlbaum in 2000 was the first book that described the effect of the second language on the first language. His paper on dueling contexts published in the Journal of Pragmatics in 2008 is one of the most quoted papers according to the journal's website. His latest books are an edited volume titled "Research in Chinese as a Second Language" published by De Gruyter in 2013 and "Intercultural Pragmatics" that will be published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Kecskes is the founding editor of the linguistics journal Intercultural Pragmatics and the Mouton Series in Pragmatics published by Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York, as well as the new bilingual (Chinese-English) journal CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research) and the "Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict" published by John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia. He sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier) Pragmatics & Society (Benjamins), International Journal of Multilingualism (Taylor & Francis), Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (De Gruyter), International Journal of Language and Culture (Benjamins) and the Journal of Foreign Languages (Waiguoyu) published in China. Dr. Kecskes is also on the editorial board of four book series: Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology (Springer), Series in Pragmatics (Cambridge Scholarly Publishing), Pragmatic Interfaces (Equinox), and Studies in General Linguistics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). He is a board member at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Dr. Kecskes received a senior fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in the Rockefeller Research Center in Bellagio, Italy in 2004, a senior fellowship from the Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano, Italy in 2005, and a Yunshan Chair Professorship from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China in 2011. He is the co-director of the Barcelona Summer School on Bi-and Multilingualism and chairman of CASLAR and also the director of the bi-annual conference in intercultural pragmatics.