Conference

12th INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE
3-8 July 2011, Manchester, UK

SPECIAL THEME: Pragmatics and its interfaces

This biennial conference, which has constantly been gaining importance since its first occurrence in Barcelone (1990), is open to all scholars and researchers working in the field of textual data analysis; ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from information retrieval to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from text mining to content analysis.

The Third International Conference on Multicultural Discourses
Following the great success of the first two tri-annual International Conference on Multicultural Discourses in 2004 and 2007, respectively, the Third will be held between August 27 and 29, 2010, again in Hangzhou! The organiser is the Institute of Discourse & Cultural Studies of Zhejiang University and the co-sponsor the University’s Centre for Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies.

The world is ever ‘on the move’. The opportunities and challenges of both real and virtual travel are very much at the heart of the emergent interdisciplinary field of ‘mobilities’, which deals with the movement of peoples, objects, capital, information and cultures across an increasingly globalised and apparently borderless world. In the practices, processes and performances of moving – whether for voluntary leisure, forced migration or economic pragmatism – we are faced with the negotiation and re-negotiation of identities and meaning relating to places and pasts.

2nd Call for Papers

The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to explore the potential for collaboration between researchers in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Corpus Linguistics (CL) and Conceptual History (CH), the study of key socio-political concepts in their historical context.

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute to the following panel we will be organising for the IPA Conference in Grenoble. The deadline is 31st of January. Please send your papers to the panel organisers. The details of the IPA 2010 conference can be found in http://www.ipa2010-grenoble.fr

Best wishes,
Aysem Mert & Katja Freistein

The fantasmatic logic as inertia and force: Myths, legends and utopias in policy making

Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2010

The Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malaya is pleased to announce the second University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society (UMDS 2010).

UMDS 2010: 'Interdiscplinary Approaches to Discourse' aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines to exchange ideas as well as offer new and critical perspectives and directions in research on discourse and society.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Ruth Wodak (University of Lancaster)
Prof Theo Van Leuwen (University of Technology Sydney).

CfP deadline: 01 March 2010

With regard to the place of migration in museums, ethics of representation come to the fore. What are the critical/ambivalent relationships between museal space and (clandestine) migrants? How are migration museums, state policy, migrant rights groups and imaginaries of migrants past and present linked?

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).