31.3258, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Text/Corpus Ling/Online

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Subject: 31.3258, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Text/Corpus Ling/Online

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:43:02
From: Tongle Sun [tonglsun at cityu.edu.hk]
Subject: LSPPC6 - Multimodality and Beyond (online conference)

 
Full Title: LSPPC6 - Multimodality and Beyond (online conference) 
Short Title: LSPPC6 

Date: 03-Jun-2021 - 05-Jun-2021
Location: Online, Hong Kong 
Contact Person: Cecilia Chan
Meeting Email: lsppc6.hk at cityu.edu.hk
Web Site: https://www.en.cityu.edu.hk/LSPPC6 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

The deadline for abstract submission to LSPPC6 is October 31, 2020: just
around the corner!

We are pleased to announce our third call for the 6th International Conference
of the Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association on the theme
of “Multimodality and Beyond: Addressing complexity and emerging needs in
LSP”, to be held online from June 3rd to 5th 2021, hosted by the Department of
English at City University of Hong Kong. Given the importance of gesture to
multimodality, this conference is being organised in collaboration with the
regional hub of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS Hong
Kong).

The conference will be held online. 

Confirmed Plenary and Workshop Speakers (abstracts and bios on website):
Professor Diane Belcher, Georgia State University 
Professor Kay O’Halloran, University of Liverpool 
Professor Guangwei Hu, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong 
Professor Jürgen Streeck, University of Texas at Austin
Professor Li Wei, University College London
 
Invited Panels, Convened and Chaired by (confirmed panelists listed on
website): 
Professor Sue Starfield, University of New South Wales 
Dr. Christoph Hafner, City University of Hong Kong 
Dr. Renia Lopez, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong 


Call for Papers: 

We invite paper presentations, poster presentations and thematic panels that
address any aspect of LSP and Professional Communication research including
but not exclusively limited to the following themes of the conference:
- Multimodality/multisensoriality in language, communication and interaction  
- Methods, frameworks, and theories of multimodality in LSP and professional
communication  
- Multimodal transcription / multimodal representation of data  
- Digital genres and practices in LSP and professional communication  
- Research methods in LSP and professional communication  
- Needs analysis in LSP and professional communication  
- Genre pedagogy in LSP and professional communication  
- Digital literacies pedagogy in LSP and professional communication  
- Course/materials design in LSP and professional communication  
- Testing and assessment in LSP and professional communication  
- Teacher training in LSP and professional communication  
- Language as embodied activity: gesture, languaging, and translanguaging  
- Emotion and affect in LSP and Professional Communication  
- English for research publication purposes: Genres, data, resources, and
platforms  
- Academic and professional practices: Language and genre analysis 

Submission of Abstracts Now Open!
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsppc6conference2021)

Important Dates: 
31 October 2020: Submission Deadline 
18 January 2021: Notification of Acceptance & Early Bird Registration Opens 
20 March 2021: Early Bird Registration closes & Regular Registration Opens 
9 May 2021: Regular Registration Closes 
3 – 5 June 2021: Online Conference

The local organising committee at the Department of English, City University
of Hong Kong, looks forward to seeing you online!
Dr Simon Harrison (Chair)
Dr Christoph Hafner (Co-Chair, President of Asia-Pacific LSPPC Association)
Dr Becky Kwan
Dr Jenifer Ho

Conference Secretariat
Ms Hemans Wong
Ms Cecilia Chan

Websites: 
LSPPC6: Multimodality and Beyond: Addressing complexity and emerging needs in
LSP (https://www.en.cityu.edu.hk/LSPPC6)
Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association
(https://www.lsppc.org/)
International Society for Gesture Studies – Hong Kong
(https://isgshkhub.wixsite.com/home)




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