CADERNO DE RESUMOS II Congresso Internacional da ... - Unesp

Programação & Caderno de Resumos· The producer, the consumer, and the analyst—What can welearn from each?· Problems (and some solutions) in comparing corpora· “What’s interesting?” And how can we reveal it? The caseof scare-quotes.· The alignment of texts and tasks—a multilingual demonstration· The wider picture: Genre analysis, genre awareness, andgenre acquisitionWorld EnglishProf. Dr. Kanavillil Rajagopalan (UNICAMP)This workshop will take a close look at the interesting phenomenoncalled “World English” which is not simply the English languagethat has spread across the world. In fact, even to call it Englishwould be to stretch the imagination rather generously. I willlook at some of the divergent views in the literature and makesome speculations about possible implications for languageteaching.What Makes a Good Story?: A Mini-course on NarrativeStylisticsProf. Dr. Paul Simpson (Queen’s University)This mini-course on narrative stylistics develops a range ofpractical activities around the central idea of narrative structureand function. A model for narrative analysis is developed in thefirst part of the workshop, where a range of key categories innarratology are introduced. The main structures and functionsof narrative are illustrated with data and examples taken fromboth everyday and literary narratives. It is hoped that film narrativeillustrations can also be used.The second part of the mini-course is devoted to a practicalactivity, where a jumbled version of a short story is presentedto a group of participants who are asked to ‘reassemble’ thestory. In parallel with this, another group of participants areasked to engage a creative-writing-style exercise. The results ofall the activities are gathered and reported back to the group aswhole.56