Conference
International conference on Language, Literature and Culture Dec 10-12, 2012
The academic fraternity world over is preoccupied with various ways of understanding language, literature and culture. In addition to their interrelations and interdependence, the new ideas and approaches pouring from various disciplines like literary theory, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis alongside technological revolution and socio-cultural transformations, have a bearing on our perception of language and literature.
Intercultural communication between China and the rest of the world: Beyond (reverse) essentialism and culturalism?
Deadline for abstract submissions: 15th January 2014
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Plenary speakers:
Anne Cheng, Professor, Intellectual History of China, Collège de France in Paris
Adrian Holliday, Professor of Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK)
Prue Holmes, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Durham (UK)
Discourse Studies in the Social Sciences: Towards a Dialogue between Theory and Analysis <br>13th DiscourseNet meeting
This is an event designed to bring together discourse theorists and discourse analysts.
Confirmed speakers include <b>Jonathan Potter, Wolfgang Teubert and Yannis Stavrakakis</b>.
Within Warwick, there are presenters from Law, Sociology, Warwick Business School and Centre for Applied Linguistics. All presentations will be in plenary format with plenty of opportunity for discussion.
Cfp Panel: FACE REVISITED: A VALID CONCEPT FOR CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY?, 14th PRA conference 2015 (Antwerp, Belgium, July, 26th – 31st, 2015)th
14th IPRA conference 2015 (Antwerp, Belgium, July, 26th – 31st, 2015)
FACE REVISITED: A VALID CONCEPT FOR CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY?
(María Bernal, Thomas Johnen, Bernd Meyer & Ulrike Schröder)
RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL THEORY, HISTORY AND PRACTICE
14th Annual Conference of the
International Social Theory Consortium
Reminder CfP "Discourses from Latin America and the Caribbean: Current Concepts and Challenges"
We invite submission of abstracts for a panel entitled "Discourses from Latin America and the Caribbean: Current Concepts and Challenges", to be proposed as a part of The Sixth International Conference on Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD 2016), which will take place at the University of Catania in Italy, 5-7 September 2016.
The 13th World Congress of Semiotics, June 26-30, 2017
This is the call for papers for the 13th World Congress of Semiotics, to be held on June 26-30, 2017 at the International Semiotics Institute of Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. The congress will take place in the premises of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities of the aforementioned university, in A. Mickevičiaus Street 37, Kaunas. THEME The theme of this edition of the congress is “Cross-Inter-Multi-Trans”, the focus being “relations”, “interactions”, “contaminations” in semiotic theories as well as social and biological processes.
Słowa klucze 2017
Konferencja poświęcona jest słowom-kluczom w dyskursie publicznym oraz metodom ich wybierania. Ta tematyka łączy różne metodologie oraz poziomy analizy języka i dyskursu, w tym:
* statystykę językoznawczą,
* językoznawstwo korpusowe i inżynierię lingwistyczną,
* mediolingwistykę,
* analizę dyskursu,
* lingwistykę kulturową i międzykulturową,
* leksykologię i leksykografię.
Birmingham English Language Postgraduate Conference
This year's theme is Bridging Gaps, and with this in mind, we welcome paper submissions and workshops on research projects that focus on a linguistic inquiry, especially where different branches of linguistics are being brought together. The confirmed plenary speakers are: Prof. Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham) and: Prof. Svenja Adolphs (Nottingham University)