The Oita Text Forum

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Theme: Text, Function, and Context
Date: Sunday 5th December 2010
Venue: Compal Hall, Oita, Japan
Registration: Free
The Oita Text Forum (OTF) is pleased to invite you to participate in the OTF Workshop Round 2.
OTF Workshop Round 2 focuses on fundamental elements in understanding the relationship between text, context, beliefs (including ideology and semiotic or knowledge base), and material situational setting.
Specifically, we may explore questions such as:

What is the relation between text and the context of situation?

What can we say about (the context of) culture in relation to text generation? And how does the former affect the latter?

What is the relationship between the context of situation and material situational setting?

To what extent, if any, do extra-linguistic features play in formulating descriptions of texts?