29.3645, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 19:31:04
From: Birgitta Meex [birgitta.meex at kuleuven.be]
Subject: Discourse Perspectives on Technical Communication

 
Full Title: Discourse Perspectives on Technical Communication 

Date: 03-Jun-2019 - 05-Jun-2019
Location: Leuven, Belgium 
Contact Person: Birgitta Meex
Meeting Email: birgitta.meex at kuleuven.be
Web Site: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/dicoen2019 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 08-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

Discourse Perspectives on Technical Communication (panel session of DICOEN
2019)

The overarching aim of this panel session is to advance interdisciplinary
research in the field of technical communication. More specifically, this
session aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and professionals
with an interest in discourse aspects of technical communication, addressing
the role of language-in-use and the way in which language is embedded in
technical communication settings. Unlike other institutional contexts such as
politics, the media, the workplace, healthcare etc. (for other “real-world
contexts”, see e.g. Tannen et al. 2018), the study of technical communication
discourse has so far received little attention. This is somewhat surprising in
view of our highly technologized society and the increasing importance of
communicating effectively about technology in order to bridge the gap between
users and (the functionalities of) technical products.

Discourse analysis encompasses a broad range of theories, topics and
approaches for explaining language-in-use. In line with Bloor and Bloor
(2015), we understand discourse as “symbolic human interaction in its many
forms”, whether through spoken or written language or via non-linguistic
resources such as image, symbol, sound, and gesture. We welcome contributions
that address various discourse aspects in technical communication settings.
Contributions may focus on a range of linguistic (grammatical, semantic,
pragmatic, stylistic, rhetorical, conversational, narrative, intercultural,
critical, cognitive discourse) and non-linguistic phenomena that may be used
to examine the relationship between form and function in any technical
communication genre across the product life cycle (e.g. instructions for use,
technical procedures, warning notices, FAQs, training documents, …). For
example, contributions may focus on how language is used to communicate and
interact in technical communication contexts or on how semiotic modes such as
text, speech, image, symbol, graphics, and sound interact in technical
communication outputs. Given that discourse does not only refer to actual
‘text’ but may also incorporate the whole communicative act involving
production and comprehension, viz. “peoples’ actions, interactions, values,
beliefs, and uses of objects, tools and environments within social or
institutional settings” (Gee 2011: 181), contributions may also address
matters such as context, background information, conventions, or other shared
knowledge between the writer and his (increasingly multicultural or
international) audience (Bloor and Bloor 2015), hence widening the scope from
micro to macro levels of discourse.

Theme session organizers:
Parthena Charalampidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Birgitta
Meex (KU Leuven)

References:
Bloor, Meriel & Bloor, Thomas (2015). The Practice of Critical Discourse
Analysis: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge.
Gee, James P. (2011). How to do Discourse Analysis: A toolkit. London and New
York: Routledge.
Tannen, Deborah, Hamilton, Heidi E. & Schiffrin, Deborah (eds.) (2018). The
Handbook of Discourse Analysis. 2nd edition. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.


Call for Papers:

This panel session aims to advance interdisciplinary research in the field of
technical communication. We invite contributions that address various
discourse aspects in technical communication settings. Contributions may focus
on a range of linguistic and non-linguistic phenomena that may be used to
examine the relationship between form and function in any technical
communication genre across the product life cycle. (see ''General
Description'').

If you are interested in participating, please send a provisional title or
topic proposal by 8 October. Abstracts of 400 words maximum are due by 15
November 2018, if the theme session is accepted.

Full Call for Papers:
https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/dicoen2019/call




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