Final Call for Papers:
Submission has been extended to January 20, 2025
Deadline: Jan. 20, 2025, 23.59 a.m.
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion). The conference is held on-site, and the conference language is English.
The deadline for submissions is 20 January 2025. Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair. Each participant may submit up to two abstracts – one as the only or the first author and anoth
Call for Papers:
This workshop will create a forum of discussion for scholars working on minoritised and/or under-researched Romance varieties and their diachrony. Its overarching goal will be to inform diachronic accounts of the Romance family with languages and varieties that are often ignored in comparative studies, therefore revising the methodologies and theories used to approach these varieties to integrate them in the forefront of the Romance diachrony debate.
The aim of the workshop is
The DNC6 congress offers keynotes by Annette Knaut, Alister Miskimmon and Michał Krzyżanowski.
Michał Krzyżanowski is Chair in Media & Communications at Uppsala University, where he is also Deputy Head of School of Informatics & Media and Director of Research at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies of Racism. He is known internationally for his interdisciplinary work on critical discourse studies of communication, media and social change with special focus on discourses and imaginaries of c
The DNC6 congress offers keynotes by Annette Knaut, Alister Miskimmon and Michał Krzyżanowski.
Michał Krzyżanowski is Chair in Media & Communications at Uppsala University, where he is also Deputy Head of School of Informatics & Media and Director of Research at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies of Racism. He is known internationally for his interdisciplinary work on critical discourse studies of communication, media and social change with special focus on discourses and imaginaries of c
Call for Papers:
Topic: Discourse and the imaginaries of past, present and future societies: media and representations of (inter)national (dis)orders)
The 6th DiscourseNet Congress (DNC6) focuses on the discursive construction of social and political imaginaries. It offers a forum to discuss how social actors imagine and articulate past, present and future societies in a world marked by multiple and overlapping crises.
DNC6 welcomes contributions of authors who explore ontological, theoretica
2nd Call for Papers:
We invite submissions for oral presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions and discussion) and poster presentations on the L1 or L2 acquisition of syntactically complex interface phenomena in neurotypical or neurodiverse populations. Abstracts should be anonymous (both in the body of the text and in the filename) and no longer than two pages A4, including references and examples, with 2.5 cm margins, font size 12, single-spaced. Submissions are limited to a maximum
Current undergraduate students are invited to present papers encompassing basic research, methodological development, critical essays, or other scholarly activities they have worked on during their studies. Presentation topics include:
• Applied Language Studies
• AI and Language Technologies
• Language Education (Teaching and Learning)
• Navigating Communication in the Digital World, the Internet, and Social Media
• Next Generation Workplaces, Healthcare, Public Health, and Mult
We invite submissions to the 12th conference on following topics:
* Development of CMC corpora / social media corpora
* Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication
* Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues
* Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata
* Multimodal corpora
* Big data corpora
* Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora
* Sociolinguistic studies of CMC
* Discourse analysis of CMC
* Linguistic characteristics of CMC
* Multimodal (i
Programme
09:00–09:30 | Opening remarks
09:30–10:00 | A guiding map or an ensnaring trap? The role of children’s first language in
learning English

Dr Aretousa Giannakou, University of Nicosia
10:00–10:30 | Current trends in the teaching and learning of nonnative pronunciation

Dr Georgios P. Georgiou, University of Nicosia
10:30–10:45 | Break
10:45–11:15 | Mastering Politeness: Pedagogical recommendations for Boosting Pragmatic Awareness in EFL Learners

Prof. Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis,
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https://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL/programme.php
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We invite contributions from a wide range of linguistic and related disciplines. Possible research areas could include, but are not limited to:
- Critical discourse studies of representa
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We are looking for a passionate teacher and researcher to join the staff of the Department (Research Unit) of Linguistics. This research unit, which comprises 50 senior and 100 junior researchers, has a strong international reputation in synchronic and diachronic linguistic research on a wide range of languages through quantitative and qualitative methods. The research unit is active within the Leuven Interdisciplinary Language Institute, founded in 2024. The members of the research unit on the
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