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THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION STYLES

KROSNO, POLAND, 12-14 OCTOBER 2015

ORGANISED BY

KROSNO STATE COLLEGE

BOARD OF ORGANISERS

Professor Dorota Brzozowska, Opole University, Poland 

Dr Władysław Chłopicki, Jagiellonian University, Kraków and Krosno State College, Poland

Dr Liisi Laineste, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia

Dr Villy Tsakona, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

CONFERENCE SECRETARY

Anna Rewiś-Łętkowska: krosno.conference.2013@gmail.com

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Prof. Charles Forceville, University of Amsterdam 

Prof. Elżbieta Tabakowska, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

CONFERENCE PROFILE

This is the second conference on the subject. The first one was held in 2013 and was highly successful in terms of cross-cultural and artistic achievement (see the moving slides show at the conference website). The monographic publication entitled Culture’s Software is due to appear with Cambridge Scholars publishing house in the first half of 2015. The participants are encouraged to become familiar with the contributions to the volume before arriving at the conference.

The conference aims at:

1)      describing changes and development of established communication styles through the means provided by cultural theorists

2)      defining major culture-specific communication-related concepts as seen from the contrastive perspective

3)      pursuing cross-cultural research that acknowledges the similarities and differences between cultural communication styles

4)      exploring the variety of communication styles and their representation in mass culture and other contexts

5)      investigating the (often covert) ideological dimension of different communication styles.

      Specifically, conference presenters are encouraged to focus on the following areas of research:

·        dimensions of culture

·        narrative and religious aspects of folklore         

·        pragmatics of intercultural communication

·        creativity and tradition in cultural communication

·        artistic communication 

·        humour in culture and society,

·        communication in families and across age groups

·         gender communication styles

·         communication in education  

·         media communication styles

·         business and workplace communication

·         communication and ideology

·         cross-cultural aspects of translation

·         cultural and linguistic globalization

·         communication problems and conflicts

 Conference language: English

CONFERENCE VENUE

The College is a small but vibrant academic institution, with excellent conference facilities and enthusiastic staff, located in a picturesque Renaissance town in south-eastern Poland (see a video clip: http://www.krosno.pl/en/about-town/multimedia/video/art10.html). The college is a partner institution of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, which is the oldest Polish university also ranked as the best one in the country.

Conference sessions will take place at Kazimierza Wielkiego 4, Krosno.

Krosno Google map link