This conference focuses on scientific and technical discourse and the ways in which it appears in or is shaped by multimedia products. The key-issues of the conference include (but are by no means limited to) the following:

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• New multimodal or multimedia forms of specialised discourse (in institutional, academic, technical, scientific, social or popular settings)

• Linguistic features of specialised discourse in multimodal or multimedia genres

• The popularisation of specialised knowledge in multimodal or multimedia genres

• The impact of multimodality and multimediality on the construction of scientific and technical discourse

• The impact of multimodality/multimediality in the practice and teaching of interpreting

• The impact of multimodality/multimediality in the practice and teaching of translation

• New multimedia modes of knowledge dissemination

• The translation/adaptation of scientific discourse in multimedia products: challenges and solutions

• Diatechnical transpositions of specialized discourse.

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Analytical approaches based on synchronic, diachronic and/or contrastive, intralinguistic, interlinguistic and intercultural perspectives (including: translation; transcreation; simplification) are all equally welcome. Studies on one or more of the working languages of the conference are particularly appreciated.

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The working languages of the conference are English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese.

Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.

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