27.613, Summer Schools: Language for Communication: Research Perspective/Latvia

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Subject: 27.613, Summer Schools: Language for Communication: Research Perspective/Latvia

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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 13:26:04
From: Yana Kuzmina [postgraduate.school at gmail.com]
Subject: Language for Communication: Research Perspective/Latvia

Language for Communication: Research Perspective/Latvia 

Host Institution: University of Latvia
Coordinating Institution: University of Latvia
Website: http://www.lu.lv/lincs/postgraduate-school/

Dates: 24-May-2016 - 26-May-2016
Location: Riga, Latvia

Focus: The Centre for Applied Linguistics, the University of Latvia is pleased to announce the first postgraduate spring school ‘Language for Communication: Research Perspective’, which is organized within the 3rd Symposium on Language for International Communication.

The Spring School is a three-day event organised by the University of Latvia, Riga in cooperation with the Belarusian State University and the Field Committee of Linguistics of Discourse, International Committee of Slavists.
Minimum Education Level: BA

Description:
Target audience: Doctoral, Master’s students and researchers in the Humanities
and Social Sciences

Language of instruction: English

Scope of the school: The goal of the spring school is to offer training in
conducting research projects in humanities linguistics. The school offers a
comprehensive theoretical overview of major research methods as well as their
practical application depending on the nature of the research questions and
fostering interdisciplinarity. 

Mode: lectures, seminars, a poster session, and consultations

The tentative sessions comprise:

- Qualitative and quantitative research methods and data collection tools
(e.g. case studies, ethnography, interview‘Language for Communication:
Research Perspectives, focus groups, classroom research, mapping)
- Discourse analysis (e.g. descriptive, multi-modal, causal-genetic model)
- Pragmatics (e.g. data collection in pragmatic research, pragmatic transfer
in interaction)
- Genre analysis 
- Building researcher’s scientific capacity: enhancement of writing skills

Poster presentations:
The school will also feature a poster presentation session during which the
participants should present their ongoing research. 
After meeting all the requirements (attendance, completion of seminar tasks
and a poster presentation) 6 ECTS will be granted.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                      Discourse Analysis

Subject Languages: English

Tuition: 75 EUR

Tuition Explanation: - 75 EUR for the school participants (including one symposium plenary)
- 100 EUR for the school participants and symposium attendees (all symposium
plenary sessions and sections) (please see relevant information at
http://www.lu.lv/lincs/).
- 150 EUR for the school participants, participants of the 3rd Symposium on
Language for International Communication and a publication in the conference
proceedings (please see relevant information at http://www.lu.lv/lincs/).

Expenses on accommodation and meals are not included.  The participants are
expected to make their own travel arrangements.
Upon request, an invitation letter can be provided upon having the
participation fee received on the account specified when the registration is
open with the mention of the Spring Doctoral School Language for
Communication: Research Perspective to arrange visa formalities.

Registration: 02-Feb-2016 to 07-Feb-2016

Contact Person: Yana Kuzmina
                Email: postgraduate.school at gmail.com

Apply by Email: postgraduate.school at gmail.com

Registration Instructions:
Please submit electronically a brief CV (1 page) and a short summary (1 page)
of your current research to postgraduate.school at gmail.com.

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