Affiliated with 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Romania, situated in Central Europe, at the crossroads between Romance, Slavic, German and Hungarian cultures and languages, the CIEL Centre has been long activating in the field of language education, intercultural awareness-raising and active citizenship promotion. Its members, academics, practitioners and researchers alike,understand linguistic and intercultural education as paramount to constructing a global citizenship of culturally competent and aware individuals who display cultural insights and a sense of belonging to the humanity at large.

CLIE-2017 aims at investigating the mental lexicon of individual language users reflected in communication exchanges, seen from an intercultural perspective Such issues as linguistic creativity in L1 and L2, degrees of metaphoricity in L1 and L2, context-based meaning creation are key aspects that need to be addressed in the nowadays intercultural dialogue.

Conference topics:

1. Intercultural Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Rhetoric;
2. Second Language Acquisition;
3. Semantics and Stylistics;
4. Contrastive Linguistics;
5. Foreign/Second Language Teaching and Teacher Education;
6. Sociolinguistics;
7. Translating, Interpreting and Mediation;
8. Business Communication;
9. Intercultural Communication.

Other topics may include more specialised issues:

1. the importance of languages in integrating an international and intercultural dimension in the design and content of university curricula, as well as in the teaching/learning processes;
2. the role and status of translation and the translator/transcommunicator in nowadays globalised and technologised societies and cultures;
3. the influence of language contact on shaping social, political, economic and cultural discourses and identities, etc.