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Economics and Language Use: The pragmatics of economics experts’ engagement with non-specialists

Call for Papers for Panel on Economics and Language Use: The pragmatics of economics experts’ engagement with non-specialists, 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2017) to be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16-21 July 2017.
Organised by Brendan K. O’Rourke (College of Business, Dublin Institute of Technology) and Jens Maesse ((Institute of Sociology, University of Giessen)

Discourses of the Ukrainian Conflict: Linguistic Creativity in the Time of Crisis

We invite submission of abstracts for a panel entitled “Discourses of the Ukrainian Conflict: Linguistic Creativity in the Time of Crisis”, to be proposed as a part of The Seventh International Conference on Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD 2018), which will take place 4-6 July 2018 and will be hosted by Aalborg University, Denmark.

Glocalisation as catalyst for new discourses and genres

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Call For Papers: ‘Glocalisation as catalyst for new discourses and genres’

If you are interested, then please send an abstract (max 350 words), title and brief bio by November 11, 2011 to the convenors Laura Alba-Juez (UNED, Spain), Dorien Van De Mieroop (University of Leuven, Belgium) and Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK)

I-mean 3, Identity and Language Conference

The third i-mean conference will address the relationship between language and identity.
Following the imean tradition, we seek to explore ways in which researchers can fruitfully work across methodological and disciplinary boundaries. We also welcome scholars from other disciplines who have an interest in the links between language and identity.
The conference aims to explore whether and to what extent bringing together different methodological and theoretical approaches can:
- Enhance understanding of identity attribution in interaction

ICA PRE-CONFERENCE: Qualitative Political Communication Research

At the 2014 International Communication Association Annual Conference
May 22, 2014 – 8:00am-5:00pm
Department of Communication, University of Washington (room TBD)

Website: http://qualpolicomm.wordpress.com/ica-pre-conference/

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DEADLINE FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (500 WORDS) DECEMBER 1

Political Discourse: Multidisciplinary Approaches

Political discourse has long been the domain of critical linguists on the one hand, and political scientists on the other. Critical linguists understand political discourse primarily as language in the context of politics, while political science understands political discourses as ‘big D’ discourse (Gee 2005), as systems of knowledge and ideology.

DN17 Reflexivity and Critique in Discourse (keynote speakers announced)

The 17th DN conference on reflexivity and critique offers a venue for exploring the different ways in which reflexivity and critique can be deployed in order to shape (our understandings of) selves, discourses and societies in meaningful ways. To this end, this conference hopes to bring together researchers interested in (a) the role of reflexivity and critique in the study of discourse and/or in (b) the role of reflexivity and critique play in the social realities we investigate. Prof. Jan Blommaert, Prof. Johannes Angermüller, Prof. Marianne Winther-Jörgensen and Prof.