7th ESTIDIA Conference Exploring Real-life, Fictional and Virtual Dialogue: Similarities, Differences and Complementarities

Date: 12-Jun-2024 – 14-Jun-2024
Location: Vilnius, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Contact Person: Viktorija Mazeikiene
Meeting Email: vmazeikiene@mruni.eu

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 05-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

Like previous ESTIDIA conferences, the forthcoming 2024 ESTIDIA conference puts dialogue and dialogic forms of communication in the spotlight, as front and centre of all forms of human communication. This time the focus is on exploring real-life, fictional and virtual dialogues in terms of similarities and differences, overlaps and complementarities, constancy and change. To understand the context-driven, situation-based and culture-specific impact of dialogic communication patterns, it is essential to examine in situ instantiations of dialogue as social interaction practice, as jointly steered activity, as philosophical or scientific method of inquiry, as rhetorical process of co-reflection, as pedagogical approach, as problem-solving tool, as mechanism of ethical and political scrutiny (Ilie 2022).
Within the broad theme of the conference, participants are invited to explore a range of questions concerning dialogue genres, dialogue practices and/or dialogue strategies, in relation to roles and goals of dialogue participants, to convergent or divergent speech acts, to common ground and shared knowledge.
The questions participants are called upon to consider, analyse and debate include, but are not limited to, the following:
• In what ways and according to which discursive and/or rhetorical dimensions do various types of dialogue vary across languages and cultures?
• To what extent are the structural and functional patterns of various types of dialogues intertwined in specific dialogic genres (e.g., media dialogue, drama dialogue, educational dialogue)?
• How can real-life, fictional and virtual dialogues be distinguished from each other in terms of linguistic design, dialogic cues, key words and/or discourse markers?
• Is television dialogue expected to sound like naturally occurring conversation, or to purposefully diverge from spontaneous talk, or both?
• What theoretical and methodological approaches are best suited for researching the interfaces of real-life, fictional, and/or virtual dialogue?
• In what ways are particular keywords and speech acts used in particular dialogic interactions to manipulate and/or reproduce otherness?
• What is the role of (social) media, films, literature, and popular culture in shaping both concepts (imaginaries) and experiences of dialogue?
• In what ways is mutual trust perceived in face-to-face interaction? How is mutual trust affected by the conditions of virtual interaction?
• How much do cross-European dialogues reveal about interaction paradigms in individual European cultures?
• How is ChatGPT going to change the way we think, communicate and interact with each other?
• To what extent have the dialogic patterns between humans and machines been foreshadowed in fictional and/or film dialogue? How do they confirm or disconfirm the predictions?
• How does knowledge (a)symmetry influence terminology preferences of different user groups in specialised communication and specialised discourse?
• What challenges does translation (as a cultural phenomenon, industry, profession) face in cross-cultural dialogue under the conditions of globalisation? How do technological developments affect translation industry and translator education? What is the future of translation as a field of practice conditioned by the rapid advancement of AI?

Please visit the conference website for more information https://estidia2024.mruni.eu/