18.2388, Confs: Discourse Analysis,Pragmatics/Thailand

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Date: 10-Aug-2007
From: Krisadawan Hongladarom < hkesang at yahoo.com >
Subject: Symposium on Discourse, Communication and Modernity

 

	
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Symposium on Discourse, Communication and Modernity 

Date: 07-Sep-2007 - 07-Sep-2007 
Location: Bangkok, Thailand 
Contact: Dr. Krisadawan Hongladarom 
Contact Email: hkesang at yahoo.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

The International Symposium on Discourse, Communication and Modernity will be
held at Chulalongkorn University (Room 105 Mahachulalongkorn Building) on
Friday, 7 September, 2007, from 8:30am to 6:15pm. The meeting will focus on
intercultural communication in a modern society, critical discourse analysis,
and pragmatics. 

Tentative Program
8.30-9.00	Registration
8.50-9.00	Opening Ceremony
8.50-8.55	Report
                Krisadawan Hongladarom (Chair, Organizing Committee;
International Consultation Board, International Pragmatic Association/IPrA)
8.55-9.00	Opening Address
                Dean, Faculty of Arts
9.00-10.00	Keynote Address
                Sachiko Ide (President, IPrA; Japan Women's University)
10.00-10.30	Coffee Break
10.30-12.30	Panel on ''Making Sense of Discourse in Thai Contemporary Culture''
10.30-11.00	Instantaneous enlightenment: Cyberdiscourse about Buddhism in Thai
society
                Krisadawan Hongladarom and Soraj Hongladarom (Chulalongkorn
University)
11.00-11.30	Ideology in Internet-mediated Discourse: A case study of web boards
on Thai politics
		Wirote Aroonmanakun (Chulalongkorn University)
11.30-12.00	Women in politics and prospects for development: A critical analysis
of discourse of Thai politicians
                Savitri Gadavanij (National Institute of Development
Administration) 
12.00-12.30	Tourism discourse in consumerist culture
		Tepee Jaratjarungkiat (Chulalongkorn University)
12.30-13.30	Lunch Break
13.30-15.30	Panel on ''Communication in the Modern World''
13.00-13.45	Cross-cultural differences in advice giving by Japanese and English
speakers
                Keiko Abe (International Consultation Board, IPrA; Kyoritsu
Women's University)
13.45-14.30	What causes differences in the processes of mutual consent?: A
comparison of story co-construction by Japanese and American pairs
                Yoko Fujii (Japan Women's University)
14.30-15.00	Truth-telling and lie-telling behaviors in English and Thai
		Songthama Intachakra (Thammasat University)
15.00-15.30	Communication in the Sky: A Study of language in advanced technology'.
                Paneeta Nitayaphorn (Chulalongkorn University)
15.30-16.00 	Coffee Break
16.00-18.00	Panel on ''Discursive Construction of Knowledge on Health, Beauty
and Disease''
16.00-16.30	''A smart person knows how to consume healthily'': A study of
advertising discourse on health products and services in Thai		
		Siriporn Phakdeephasook (Chulalongkorn University)
16.30-17.00	''Being unattractive is having a disease'': On the advertising
discourse of cosmetic surgery in Thai
		Nattaporn Panpothong (Chulalongkorn University)
17.00-17.30	''Cancer can be cured naturally'': Language strategies in Thai
alternative medicine discourse
		Worawanna Phetchkit (Chulalongkorn University)
17.30-18.00	Language and identity in AIDS discourse: Identity construction of
people with HIV/AIDS''
		Jantima Earmanond (Ubonrajathani University)
18.00-18.15	Concluding remarks






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