Conference

AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE

1) To bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners from around the globe to contribute to a stimulating and rewarding exchange of ideas and techniques regarding discourse studies;

2) To enhance cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and research innovation in discourse studies;

3) To facilitate the formation of collaborative research networks among conference participants.

THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE

Cultural reflexivity and innovation in discourse studies

Organized by Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity and the Network on Globalization in the Margins

Following up on a very successful workshop in June 2012, Babylon organizes a sequel workshop addressing new forms of authenticity in an age of globalization and superdiversity. The central argument in the workshop is that forms of authenticity today need to be understood in terms of complexity rather than multiplicity, and thus demand a new and creative framework for addressing them.

Studies in language science and communication have shown that in any form of discourse there may be a gap between what is said and what is meant. It is the contents actually intended to be communicated – the meaning we can call implicit, unexpressed, figurative, or indirect – which has to be taken into account to get the speaker’s actual meaning. Fields of study such as pragmatics and rhetoric make it possible to define the various existing implicit forms and, above all, unveil the various strategies used in the production and understanding of this type of form.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 FEBRUARY 2015

-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.

Special theme: "Pragmatics in the real world"

We would like to organize a panel entitled Doing discourse analysis in post-Soviet studies at the conference The Russian Revolution and Its Legacies: Taking Stock a Century Later (Tartu, Estonia, 4-6 June, 2017).

We are organizing the International Conference on Multicultural Democracy. The conference will take place in Fukuoka, Japan on May 11-12, 2018. Now we call for papers and posters for the conference. If you are interested in joining the conference and meeting other scholars and graduate students working on multicultural democracy, please visit the conference website and send an abstract of no more than 500 words via submission form. There’s a limited number of travel grants available too! No registration fee is required. We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts.​

Deadline: 18 Dec 2009

The 9th conference in the ‘Discourse, Power, Resistance’ (DPR) series – whose official journal is Power and Education - will be held at the School of Education and Training, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom, between 30 March and 1 April, 2010.

The venue is part of a world heritage site laid out in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries by Sir Christopher Wren and his successors. The conference will use the King William Building and the Stephen Lawrence Building.

Call for Papers and Participation
THE SOCIETY FOR PEACE STUDIES AND PRACTICE
Holds its’
5th ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
In Collaboration
With
THE INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, IBADAN, NIGERIA
JUNE 27 - 29, 2011

Theme: Towards Sustainable Peace, Security and Development in Nigeria