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10th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Processes, Practices and Performance

Submitted by Tom Keenoy on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 14:49

The biannual Organizational Discourse Conference celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2012. In the past two decades ‘discourse analysis’ has firmly established itself as a topic of interest, an analytical perspective informing a variety of critical theoretical approaches, and a methodology for organizational research. A discursive approach has been widely adopted in a variety of subfields.

I Central American Symposium on Discourse Studies: Discourse and Exclusion in Central America

This symposium will be a space for the researchers, professors and students interested in the field to gather
and exchange theoretical and methodological proposals, and research results.
If you would like to request more information about this activity and the subjects to be discussed, please consult
the websites: jocaed2013.blogspot.com.
We cordially invite you to participate in this event, and would be thankful for your help passing this information
along to your contacts.

47th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics - Learning, Working and Communicating in a Global Context

Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics, should be interesting and innovative in some way. They should be scholarly and of academically good quality and indicate clearly objectives, method(s), and results where appropriate. Abstracts which address the conference theme will be particularly welcome.

Individual presentation for parallel sessions Individual papers have 25 minutes:
• 20 minutes for the presentation
• 5 minutes for questions

Developments in professional/academic communication and implications for language education and research

In the context of growing professional and academic mobility, in parallel with the trend towards the internationalization of Higher Education and emerging new channels for academic and research communication, education and research in the field of languages for professional and academic purposes have acquired new roles.

CfP: Language and Health – Workshop at SLE-Meeting 2017 (10th-13th Sep 2017 in Zurich)

Submitted by Yvonne Ilg on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 14:49

CfP Session Language and health
50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 10th - 13th September 2017, Zurich (Switzerland)

Marina Iakushevich (University of Paderborn), Yvonne Ilg (University of Zurich), Daniel Knuchel (University of Zurich), Theresa Schnedermann (Heidelberg University)

X-SCAPES:10th Linguistic Landscape Workshop

In marking the 10th anniversary gathering, the 2018 workshop is being organized under the theme of X-SCAPES as a deliberately and pointedly non-thematic theme. We thereby invite participants (old and new) to reconsider and re-imagine the field’s methodologies and intellectual priorities for the next ten years.

X = the number ten
X = numeric and alphabetic
X = semiotic and embodied
X = ancient and futuristic
X = unknowable and mysterious
X marks the spot

From Text to Political Positions

From Text to Political Positions 2010
9-10 April 2010, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Plenary speakers
- Ken Benoit (Trinity College, Dublin, Dept of Political Science)
- Jan Kleinnijenhuis (Vrije Universiteit/VU Amsterdam, Dept of
Communication Studies and The Network Institute)
- Veronika Koller (Lancaster University, Dept of Linguistics and
English Language) and Paul Davidson (University of Bradford, Dept of
Peace Studies)
- Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh, Dept of Computer Science).