<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px">Dear All,</p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal">See below a call for papers for a book project on genre studies. We will be happy to receive contributions using RST. This will both be interesting and a useful contribution to genre studies and RST since a cross-fertilization of the two fields is almost absent in the literature.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal">Many thanks!</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal">Ike</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">* CALL FOR PAPERS * (Extended Deadline) </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><b>Aspects of Specialized Genres: Research and Applications </b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><i><br></i></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><i>In memory of Professor Stephen Evans </i></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Over the past four decades, research in Language for Specific Purposes has examined genres across languages and in a wide range of institutional and professional contexts such as education, business and industry, law, governance and diplomacy. While much of this research has been driven by Swales’s framework of genre analysis, scholars have extended genre research by drawing on different frameworks and approaches such as corpus linguistics, systemic functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics, critical genre analysis, ethnography and cultural studies, and multimodality. The purpose of this volume is to provide a common platform for original studies on various aspects of specialized genres using different methods and frameworks and the application of genre studies in professional settings. We particularly invite studies with inter-disciplinary perspectives or combining traditional genre analysis with new and innovative methods. We also welcome studies examining new forms or varieties of specialized genres such as those in digital contexts. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">We dedicate the volume to the memory of the late Professor Stephen Evans, who was the Associate Editor of <i>Journal of English for Academic Purposes </i>and Associate Head of the Department of English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">We call for abstracts not exceeding 250 words on one or more of the following specific themes: </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 9.1px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"> </span><i>Lexico-grammatical studies on genres in academic and professional settings </i></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 9.1px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"> Structural and rhetorical studies on genres in academic and professional setting </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 9.1px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"> Multimodal and digital studies of genres </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 9.1px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"> Pedagogy and other applications of genre studies </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 9.1px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"> Diachronic developments of genres </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"> </span><i>Genre processing, acquisition and production in academic and professional contexts </i></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Referencing in abstracts should follow the current APA style. Authors should send their abstracts to one of the following email addresses: <a href="mailto:kathycarly920@gmail.com">kathycarly920@gmail.com</a> <span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">or </span><a href="mailto:kathyll@sjtu.edu.cn">kathyll@sjtu.edu.cn</a> <span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">2 </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b>Please note: The deadline for abstract submissions is December 15, 2017. </b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">The volume will be submitted to Routledge for consideration. Authors will be invited to submit a full-length article after their abstracts have been accepted. </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Abstract submission deadline: <b>December 15, 2017 </b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Full-length paper submission deadline: <b>April 30, 2018 </b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Editors </b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Kathy Ling LIN </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Lecturer, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China</p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Visiting scholar, University of Birmingham, UK </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="mailto:kathycarly920@gmail.com">kathycarly920@gmail.com</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Isaac N. Mwinlaaru </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Lecturer</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">University of Cape Coast, Ghana</p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="mailto:isaac.mwinlaaru@ucc.edu.gh">isaac.mwinlaaru@ucc.edu.gh</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dennis Tay </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Associate Professor</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The Hong Kong Polytechnic University </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11.5px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="mailto:dennis.tay@polyu.edu.hk">dennis.tay@polyu.edu.hk</a> </p></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Isaac N. Mwinlaaru, PhD<div>Department of English</div><div>University of Cape Coast</div><div>Cape Coast, Ghana</div><div><br></div><div><font size="2"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,OpenSans">Webpage:</strong><a href="http://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/people/research-student?staffid=95" target="_blank">http://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/people/research-student?staffid=95</a></font></div><div><font size="2"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,OpenSans">ResearchGate:</strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,OpenSans"> </span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isaac_Mwinlaaru2" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,OpenSans" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isaac_Mwinlaaru2</a></font></div><div><font size="2"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,OpenSans">Academia.edu: </strong><a href="https://polyu.academia.edu/IsaacMwinlaaru" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,OpenSans" target="_blank">https://polyu.academia.edu/IsaacMwinlaaru</a></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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