International conference on the role of language in reflecting, maintaining, enacting and inculcating ideas of and around social class in literary, non-literary and multimodal texts and discourse in all geographical and linguistic areas.
Session: Politicizing Energy Transitions – Transformative Politics and the Popularization of Social Innovations
The Russian Communication Association (RCA) in collaboration with Eurasian Communication Association of North America (ECANA) and the Institute of Philology and Language Communication at Siberian Federal University are happy to announce the forthcoming 6th International RCA Conference: "Communication in a Changing Society".
4th New Zealand Discourse Conference
2-4 December 2013
Deadline for abstracts: 26 July 2013
AUT University, Auckland
New Zealand
Confirmed keynote speakers
Professor Cindy Gallois
Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland.
Professor Adam Jaworski
Professor of Language and Communication, The University of Hong Kong.
Professor Allan Bell
Director, Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication, Auckland University of Technology.
Just a reminder, the NCOBPS Submission deadline is only 4 weeks away. Please take a moment this week to put together a paper or panel proposal for the 2014 annual meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (www.ncobps.org). The 2014 meeting will be held in Wilmington, DE, March 12, 2014 at the Doubletree Hotel – Legal District.
In Central European countries, a tension potentially arises between history education in schools and memory at the level of family, social group or community. Memory as a concept describing a plurality of modes of relating to the past has gained ground both in the humanities and in social sciences. Memory replaces or complements traditional historical narratives. This conference focuses on memory from a didactic perspective.
This is just to remind you that the first deadline for the 14th International Pragmatics Conference (Antwerp, Belgium, July 26-31 2015) is approaching:
- The deadline for panel proposals: 1 June 2014 (unlike on earlier occasions, there is no second round).
- Contributions to accepted panels, and individual submissions for posters and lectures must be sent in by 15 October 2014
Multimodality is one of the most influential semiotic theories for analyzing media artefacts nowadays, and it enjoys growing popularity globally. However, this popularity does not imply universality: the empirical application and even the conceptual anchoring of multimodality often remain nationally and regionally grounded. Definitions of modality and even mediality thus differ from each other in terms of their starting points. From a German national perspective, language remains the main point of description.