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Downscaling Culture: Revisiting Intercultural Communication

In this two-day conference we would like to address culture and intercultural communication from a micro-perspective. Commonly the linguistic study of intercultural communication is concerned with analysing miscommunication between speakers from two or more different ‘cultures’, defined predominantly as large-scale nation and language communities.

Job announcement: two permanent Assistant Professors Applied Linguistics

-With apologies for cross postings -

Dear Colleagues

Due to expansion of our programmes, we are currently advertising two permanent Assistant Professor posts at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK. They will be of interest to ambitious academics with expertise in two or more of the following areas: pragmatics, sociolinguistics, qualitative research methods, quantitative research methods, linguistics.

colloquium 'Discourse Theory: Ways Forward'

DESIRE, the centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance (http://www.researchcentredesire.eu) is happy to invite you to submit paper proposals for the colloquium 'Discourse Theory: Ways Forward'. The colloquium will take place on 7-8 February 2019 in Brussels. The colloquium starts on Thursday 7 February at 9.00 and ends on Friday 8 February at 17.30.