This conference aims to put Hong Kong and international postgraduate researchers into a dialogue around their current work on all aspects of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis with a special focus on Multimodality and Mediation. The conference will include plenary lectures and workshops with two leading scholars in the fields of Multimodality and Mediated Discourse Analysis.
All registered participants will have their conference fees waived. All meals on the two days of the conference will be provided free of charge. The organizers cannot offer any funding towards travel or accommodation. For participants from outside of Hong Kong, a limited number of rooms at the HKU Guesthouse (Robert Black College) will be available at preferential rates on first come first served basis.
Keynote Speakers
Professor Rodney Jones, University of Reading, UK
Professor David Machin, Örebro University, Sweden
Corey Fanglei Huang (Conference Secretary)
Prof. Adam Jaworski (Conference Chair)
Jackie Militello
Billy Poon
Vincent Tse
Sydney Jingtian Wang
Kelvin Wong
Jasper Wu
Min Yang