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Date Posted: 13:39:02 08/29/10 Sun Hey everybody, what's up with you all? Well, I'm placing here my ideas and notes about what I've found relating to the keynote speaker; Professor Pratt. I'm waiting for your replies and suggestions. This written proposal is intended to be proclaimed at AAAL 2011, and it is the authors’ desire that Professor Mary Louise Pratt will be the one to lecture about the work. Pratt is a Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literature at New York University. She received her B.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto in 1970, her M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois in 1971, and her Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 1975. During all those years of her collaboration to the Linguistic and Literature field, she has accomplished a lot and received numerous awards. Her work also extended through feminist and gender studies, anthropology and cultural studies. Professor Pratt’s publications include: “Imperial Eyes: travel writing and transculturation”, 1992; the articles “Humanities for the Future: Reflections on the Stanford Western Culture Debate”, and “Arts of the Contact Zone”, which had been considered a classical in the field; “Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse”, 1977. This last work mentioned, was the publication that made Pratt very well known in the field of culture criticism, there she demonstrated that the bases of written literary narrative is visible in the structure of Oral Narrative. The book also mentions that all narratives have similar structures, that is to say, literary has elements from oral narratives and oral narratives elements that are acquired through literature. Professor Pratt’s more recent study discuss about what she calls “contact zones”, that according to her are areas where the blending of many cultures are acceptable. In the article “Building a New Public Idea about Language”, published in the ADFL Bulletin (2003), Professor Pratt breaks some of the language misconceptions and stereotype that are normally conceived by many and according to her: Americans have mixed feelings when comes to learn a foreign language, monolingualism is a restriction to a human being, language advanced competence is one of the goals of education, there is a need to motivate gifted students into language careers and more. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Re: part 3 | Vivi | 18:38:21 08/29/10 Sun |