Workshop 2000: Language, Text and Culture in the Global Context

DRAFT 20.12.1999

Please note that titles with an asterisk are provisional.

Place: Education Building, faculty of Education, University of Sydney (a workshop room to be announced)

Date: Thursday and Friday, 3-4 February 2000

Programme

Day 1: Wordview, Text, Culture and Education

10:00 - Registration and Coffee

10:30-10:50 Opening

Hugh Clarke

Head of the School of Asian Studies, University of Sydney

11:00-12:30 Language and world view: some evidence from Japanese

Nerida Jarkey

Department of Japanese & Korean Studies, University of Sydney

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Text and Culture

Alice Cafferel

Department of French Studies, University of Sydney

Keizo Nanri

Department of Japanese & Korean Studies, University of Sydney

3:00-3:20 Coffee Break

3:20-4:20 Cultural Differences and Language Education

Nilwan Jiraratwatana

Department of East Asian Studies, University of Sydney

Day 2: Sentential Functions, Textual Identities and Semiotics

9:00-9:50 (Under Negotiation)

10:00-10:50 What is Pragmatics?*

Mami Iwashita

Department of Japanese & Korean Studies, University of Sydney

11:00-11:50 Applying Systemic Functional Grammar to Evaluating the Writing of

EFL

Makoto Sasaki

Aichi Gakuin University, Aichi, Japan

1:50-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:50 Translating from the Interstices

Poalo Bartoloni

Department of Italian Studies, University of Sydney

2:00-2:50 Postcolonial criticism and modern Indonesian literature

Keith Foulcher

Department of South East Asian Studies, University of Sydney

2:50-3:10 Coffee Break

3:10-4:00 Semiotics meets Sinology

John X. Keenan

Department of Chinese Studies, University of Sydney

4:00-4:30 Evaluation and Closing

Hugh Clarke

7:30- Dinner

If you have any inquiry about the workshop,

please call Keizo Nanri on

Sydney 02-9351-6766

Or

Mami Iwashita on

Sydney 02-9351-6765