The 12th Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education – CLIE-2023

Special theme: From political correctness to cancel culture: Linguistic reflections

Political correctness as a concept emerged in the US most probably in the 1960’s in the liberals’ discourses against government propaganda, but gained momentum in the 1990’s when it started to be used by conservatives against liberal legislation. Basically, it is grounded on the axiom that any form of speech or behaviour considered offensive by different groups’ sensitivities should be eradicated, by whatever means necessary. On the other hand, according to Merriam Webster, “Cancelling and cancel culture have to do with the removing of support for public figures in response to their objectionable behaviour or opinions. This can include boycotts or refusal to promote their work.”

The aim of CLIE-2023 is to unveil the extent to which these two pervasive concepts, situated at opposite ends of a continuum, may influence linguistic manifestations in public discourse, political decisions or everyday life.

Submission Guidelines

• All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
• Only extended abstracts (500 words), containing  problem statement and research objectives, research methods and instruments, key results and conclusion will be accepted.   
• Short abstracts will be rejected without review.   
• Submitted full papers that are accepted through the review process may be forwarded for Scopus-indexed JoLIE publication.   
• Papers NOT selected for JoLIE publication will be published in futher monographs (with a reputed publisher).

List of Topics

• Foreign/Second Language Teaching and Teacher Education;
• Intercultural pragmatics and Cultural linguistics;
• Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric and Pragmatics;
• Semantics and Stylistics;
• Corpus and Computational linguistics;
• Second Language Acquisition;
• Sociolinguistics;
• Contrastive Linguistics;
• Translating, Interpreting and Mediation;
• Intercultural Business Communication.

Committees

Program Committee

• Professor Teodora POPESCU, Director of CIEL Centre
• Associate Professor Crina HERȚEG, CIEL Centre
• Associate Professor Grigore-Dan Iordăchescu, University of Alba Iulia, Romania
• Professor Mario BRDAR, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek
• Professor Vladimir ŽEGARAC, University of Madeira, Portugal
• Professor Ștefan OLTEAN, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Professor Felix NICOLAU, Lund University, Sweden
• Professor Azamat AKBAROV, Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
• Professor Giacomo FERRARI, Amedeo Avogadro University, Italy
• Professor Igor LAKIĆ, University of Montenegro
• Professor Mariana NEAGU, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati, Romania
• Assoc. Professor Jelena PRTLJAGA, College of Applied Studies for Preschool Teachers “Mihailo Palov” in Vrsac, Serbia
• Assoc. Professor Mădălina CERBAN, University of Craiova
• Assoc. Professor Senad BECIROVIĆ, Burch International University, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Dr. Vildana DUBRAVAC, Burch International University, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Dr. Žana GAVRILOVIĆ, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Dr. Aleksandra GOJKOV RAJIĆ, College of Applied Studies for Preschool Teachers “Mihailo Palov” in Vrsac, Serbia
• Dr. Eufrozina GREONJANC, College of Applied Studies for Preschool Teachers “Mihailo Palov” in Vrsac, Serbia
• Dr. Monika KOPYTOWSKA, University of Lodz, Poland
• Dr. Svetlana KURTEŠ, University of Madeira, Portugal
• Dr. Anabella Gloria NICULESCU-GORPIN, “Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy
• Dr. Alcina SOUSA, University of Madeira, Portugal
• Dr. Branduša ŽUJKA, College of Applied Studies for Preschool Teachers “Mihailo Palov” in Vrsac, Serbia

Organizing committee

• Professor Teodora POPESCU, Ph.Ed., Director of CIEL Centre, tpopescu@uab.ro
• Associate Professor Crina HERȚEG, CIEL Centre, crina.herteg@uab.ro
• Ph.D. student Adina BOTAȘ, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
• Ph.D. student Andreea LAURENȚIU, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
• Ph.D. student Gabriela CÂMPEAN, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
• Ph.D. student Francisc HORVATH, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
• Ph.D. student Diana AVRAM, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

Invited Speakers

Confirmed keynote speakers:

• Professor Giacomo FERRARI, Amedeo Avogadro University, Italy
• Dr. Alcina SOUSA, University of Madeira, Portugal
• Professor Andra VASILESCU, Bucharest University, Romania
• Professor Dana PERCEC, West University of Timisoara, Romania

Publication

• A selection of (extended) papers (5000-9000 words) will be published in the Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education - JoLIE 2024, which is indexed by Scopus, ERIH Plus, EBSCO, ProQuest, MLA Directory of Periodicals, Cabell’s Directories, Ulrichs Web, The Linguist List. (Please see http://jolie.uab.ro/)
• Additionally, a peer-reviewed selection of conference papers will be published in a monographic collection produced by a reputable international publisher and in the Conference Proceedings.

Venue

The conference will be held at University of Alba Iulia, Romania (on-site).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to clie@uab.ro.

WhatApp: +40-747676797

Sponsors

County Council of Alba, Romania