The first stage was to have the UK-based scholars meet together at the University of Nottingham, in March 2012, for one day to discuss and explore the research that has been carried out in the relevant fields and those which need further investigation. The interdisciplinary aspects of the theme inductive to forging collaborative opportunities and joint funding bids will also be discussed.
Meeting Participants
Prof. Lesley Jeffries
- Professor of Stylistics; Director of the Stylistics Research Centre
- School of Music, Humanities and Media
- University of Huddersfield
Research Interests:
The style of contemporary poetry and ideology in news reporting and political discourse, literary interpretation, language in conflict; a corpus study of poetic language.
Prof. Elizabeth Stokes
- Professor of Social Interaction
- The Department of Social Sciences
- Loughborough University
Research interests:
Social interaction across a variety of everyday and institutional settings, using conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis; how categorial formulations are organized within sequences of action; pushing for the systematic analysis of categories to develop membership categorization studies; current projects in role-play and simulation: 1) CARM for mediation and communication skills training, 2) simulated interaction versus ‘the real thing’.
Dr. Mary Fischer
- Reader in languages
- School of Marketing, Tourism & Languages
- Edinburgh Napier University
Research Interests:
Company language policies; language and intercultural issues as factors in international business success.
Dr. Frances Rock
- Senior Lecturer
- Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy
- Cardiff University
Research Interests:
Police language; forensic linguistics; media representations of the law; workplace language; information design; document design; ‘difficult’ language; expert-lay communication; discourse; literacies; ethnography; interactional sociolinguistics; recontextualisation; research methods.
Dr. Pierre-Alexis Mevel
- Lecturer in Translation Studies
- School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
- The University of Nottingham
Research Interests:
The intersection of translation studies, sociolinguistics and film studies; media studies and translation studies by analysing the nexus between cultural identity, globalisation, borders and mobility in a discrete corpus of multilingual films and of their translations.
Dr. Vallerie Pellatt
- Lecturer in Chinese Interpreting and Translating
- School of Modern Languages
- Newcastle University
Research Interests:
Language testing and testing of interpreting and translating, The interpretation of numerical values. Chinese numbers and numerology; numbers in Chinese culture, education and environment; Translation theory and practice, including transcreation, re-writing, and paratext.
Dr. Xiaohui Yuan
- Lecturer in interpreting and Translation Studies
- School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
- The University of Nottingham
Research Interests:
Intercultural pragmatics; politeness; translation and interpreting.
The second stage constituted a two-day symposium, in August 2012, where the UK scholars will be joined by researchers from China, the US and other countries, and international mediators from CEDR. Each participant will make a 30 minute presentation on a topic of his/her expertise. Professional mediators will present their mediation experience in intercultural and cross-cultural contexts, and the language, cultural and translational issues that they encounter in those contexts. This will be followed by a round-table discussion between the academics and professionals to identify research gaps and how research could contribute to improving the understanding of language use, interpersonal, intercultural and translational aspects of mediation practice.
This event will take place at the University of Nottingham (University Park Campus) in the UK. The specific venue will be finalised and given from the 20th July 2012 onwards. Please watch this space.
Confirmed speakers
Professional Mediators:
- CEO of CEDR; CBE
- Honorary Professorship, The University of Birmingham
- Visiting Professor, The University of Westminster
Profile:
Karl Mackie has mediated and facilitated cases across a rich variety of sectors of dispute with experience of parties from over 20 different countries. He has successfully mediated cases regarded by the parties as 'impossible' to settle, and was approached to facilitate settlement of two of the most complex cases to go through the English legal system (both cases settled after 18 months facilitation work). He mediated the first substantial Court of Appeal commercial case to go to mediation, the NRG case, and co-mediated the first UK health service group action to go to mediation, the Alder Hey retained organs litigation.
Mr Danny McFadden
- CEDR Director for Asia
- Arbitrator, Lawyer, Mediator and Trainer
Profile:
Danny McFadden is a CEDR Director having joined CEDR in 2004. He is dually qualified as a lawyer both in Australia and the UK and has been involved in negotiation, conflict resolution training, mediation and international business for over 20 years. He mediates regularly in the commercial, workplace and property sectors with a particular expertise in cross-cultural and multinational trade dispute.
Mr Duncan Campbell
- Senior Mediator at CEDR
- Legal Adviser of the CBI (Confederation of British Industry)
Profile:
Duncan Campbell is a commercial lawyer and Legal Adviser at the CBI with many years’ experience of dispute resolution in industry and as a practising mediator since 2000. His experience in mediation and expert determination covers IT, technology, commercial, IP and international disputes. Mediations have included many high-value projects in the public and private sectors including banking, insurance, construction, professional services and media.
Academics:
Prof. Guo-Ming Chen
- Professor in Intercultural Communication
- The Department of Communication Studies
- The University of Rhode Island
Research Interests:
His primary research interests are in intercultural/organizational communication, including the areas of global communication, intercultural communication competence, Chinese communication behaviors, and conflict management and negotiations.
Prof. Elizabeth Stokes
- Professor of Social Interaction
- The Department of Social Sciences
- Loughborough University
Research Interests:
Social interaction across a variety of everyday and institutional settings, using conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis; how categorial formulations are organized within sequences of action; pushing for the systematic analysis of categories to develop membership categorization studies; current projects in role-play and simulation: 1) CARM for mediation and communication skills training, 2) simulated interaction versus ‘the real thing’.
Prof. Dean Tjosvold
- The Henry Y. W. Fong Chair Professor; Academic Dean Business
- Management Department
- Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Research Interests:
Dean Tjosvold has published over 200 articles, 20 books, 30 book chapters, and 100 conference papers. His research interests mainly lie in cooperation and competition, managing conflict, and leadership and power.
Dr. Mary Fischer
- Reader in languages
- School of Marketing, Tourism & Languages
- Edinburgh Napier University
Research Interests:
Company language policies; language and intercultural issues as factors in international business success.
Dr. Jim O’Driscoll
- Senior lecturer in English
- School of Music, Humanities & Media
- University of Huddersfield
Research Interests:
His research interests are informed by his first-hand experience of the use of many different languages and environments, an awareness of the variety which exists and the need for us all to understand each other better in a globalised world. His present foci include language ideology, English as a global language, the concept of face and the application of linguistic insights and methodologies to conflict resolution.
Dr. Valerie Pallett
- Lecturer in Chinese Interpreting and Translating
- School of Modern Languages
- Newcastle University
Research Interests:
Language testing and testing of interpreting and translating, The interpretation of numerical values. Chinese numbers and numerology; numbers in Chinese culture, education and environment; Translation theory and practice, including transcreation, re-writing, and paratext.
Dr. Xiaohui Yuan
- Lecturer in interpreting and Translation Studies
- School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
- The University of Nottingham
Research Interests:
Intercultural pragmatics; politeness; translation and interpreting.