CALL FOR PAPERS
Chinese News Discourse in the Digital Era
University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 13-14 June 2024
We are pleased to announce the conference under the theme “Chinese News Discourse in the Digital Era” will take place on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 June 2024 at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, co-organised with Department of Literary and Translation Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
News Discourse in the Digital Era
Following the first conference in June 2019 under the theme News Discourse and Translation (culminating the edited volume published by Routledge Chinese News Discourse | From Perspectives of Communication, Linguisti (taylorfrancis.com), this second session happens at a time when the world is faced with unprecedented new challenges and opportunities after the COVID-19 pandemic and digitalization at various fronts. Technologically, with AI and VR technology becoming ubiquitous and omnipresent, dissemination of news has embarked on another era with digitalization as the key. Politically, in contexts of borderless news or globalization (or de-globalization), news discourse plays an indispensable role by disseminating meaning that is manufactured, constructed, or negotiated by news workers plus the general public over the course of presentation or representation. This new era characterized by highly interactive and customized news stories further reinforces changes in the way news discourse to be perceived and consumed. Furthermore, machine translation or various AI tools have facilitated the instantaneity of news flow around the world by simultaneously addressing members of different linguistic and cultural communities through the Internet and mobile apps or gadgets invisible. It will undoubtedly serve to intensify, reduce or mediate the opposition and interaction between the global and the local. Against this backdrop, news dissemination manifested in news discourse calls for investigations from the academia from more perspectives with more interdisciplinary approaches.
Call for papers
We invite contributions from researchers working within any theoretical and methodological or practical perspectives who are interested in the intersection between news media, discourse, language, culture and communication, as well as translation to this conference. You will have 20-minute oral presentations that report original research related to the following themes of the conference that include, but are not limited to:
- Globalization or localization of news discourse
- News discourse and interaction
- Multi-disciplinary approaches to news language
- News dissemination through social media
- Discourse analysis of news story
- News discourse and context
- News discourse and intercultural communication
- News discourse and translation
- News reporting and pedagogy
- News reporting and technology
Keynote speakers:
Professor Binhua Wang, Chair/Professor of Interpreting and Translation Studies, University of Leeds
Professor Pan Li, Professor in Media Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Dr Xianwen Kuang, Associate Professor in Journalism, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Dr Wan Hu, Associate Professor in Translation Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Submission of Abstracts
Anonymous abstracts not exceeding 300 words (excluding references) should be sent to Chinese News Discourse <NewsDiscourse@nottingham.edu.cn> as attachment in Word or PDF format. Names, affiliation of the author(s) together with a bio (80 words) should be included in the accompanying email.
Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 March 2024
Notification sent to applicants: 15 April 2024
Registration for conference opens: 31 March 2024
Conference fee: 400RMB, 200RMB for students
Note: Selected works will be invited to submit full paper for publication in edited volume or special issue of peer-reviewed journal after the conference.
Organising Committee
Dr Nancy Liu, Associate Professor, School of Education and English, UNNC
Dr Ivy Zhang, Associate Professor, School of International Communications, UNNC
Dr Troy Chen, Associate Professor, City, University of London
Dr Wan Hu, Associate Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Mr Weijian Huang, PhD candidate, School of Education and English, UNNC
Note: English will be the working language of the conference. Student interpreters are available to help with Chinese presenters if needed.