Faculty of Humanities,
115 Universitetska Str.
9712 Shumen, Bulgaria
First International Scientific Conference “Language in the Coordinates of the Mass Media”
SEPTEMBER 6-9, 2016 VARNA, BULGARIA
The First International Scientific Conference “Language in the Coordinates of the Mass Media” will take place in the early autumn of 2016, in the period Sept. 6 – 9, in Varna – the sea capital of Bulgaria. The event is organized by Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, the Higher School of Journalism and Mass Communication Institute at St. Petersburg State University and the Medialinguistic Commission under the International Committee of Slavists. The focus of the conference is on the current state and future developments of research on the function of Slavic languages in the mass media.
Main thematic fields of the Conference:
The state of Media Linguistics in the field of Linguistics
Mass media’s influence on the Slavic literary language
Thematic speech areas in the Slavic mass media: political, economic, cultural and educational, sports, etc.
Public Relations in the mass media
Advertising as speech and visual communication
Terms, categories, and methods of analysis in Media Stylistics
Media speech typology
Media text: structure, composition, innovative trends
Language means’ function in the media
Panel discussions will be organized based on the topics outlined above. The organizing committee welcomes suggestions by leading scientists for additional topics and the issues to be discussed within their framework.
Conference languages: English, Russian, and Bulgarian
It is planned that the conference proceedings will be published in a special issue of Media Linguistics – a scientific journal of the International Media Linguistics Commission and the International Congress of Slavists (under the auspices of UNESCO) which is registered in the Russian Scientific Citation Index (РИНЦ). The paper formatting and publication requirements can be found in the official website of the journal: http://medialing.spbu.ru/part10/57.html.