29.1121, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Lan Acquisition, Translation/Romania

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Subject: 29.1121, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Lan Acquisition, Translation/Romania

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:47:14
From: Razvan Saftoiu [razvansaftoiu at gmail.com]
Subject: 5th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Structure, Use, and Meaning

 
Full Title: 5th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Structure, Use, and Meaning 
Short Title: SUM 

Date: 13-Sep-2018 - 15-Sep-2018
Location: Brasov, Romania 
Contact Person: Razvan Saftoiu
Meeting Email: SUM.brasov at gmail.com
Web Site: http://old.unitbv.ro/arta/Conferences/SUM2018 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Translation 

Call Deadline: 18-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

The conference aims firstly to bring together researchers and practitioners in
a meaningful dialogue, in order to synthesise different strands of existing
academic research and to enable the mapping out of new research directions on
institutional communication, that reflect the needs and requirements of the
labour market, and secondly to provide advice and training/ teaching material
that reflects actual, real-life practices, and not put forward an isolated,
unnatural, at times anecdotal, and predominantly prescriptive perspective. The
organisers invite researchers and practitioners interested in institutional
communication to contribute with their expertise to create the premises for
fairer, more rewarding and better work environments.


Call for Papers:

In a challenging European context characterized by the migration of the work
force, countries are both providers and hosts for various categories of people
(students, unqualified workers, and highly-qualified personnel). All these
categories need language skills, communication and interpersonal skills,
intercultural knowledge, known as soft skills, in order to integrate to their
various workplaces. Given the importance of these skills nowadays and the
relative disregard for their wider acknowledgement and training, scholars,
professionals and research students are invited to share their research and
experience. Institutional talk requires a special type of interdisciplinary
competence (pertaining to the fields of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics,
language acquisition, neurolinguistics, pragmatics, and intercultural
communication). Developing an intercultural competence is useful for raising
awareness upon cultural differences and ideologies which shape communicative
identities of individuals and groups in multinational institutions. Developing
a sociolinguistic competence allows for manifestations of status, power,
gender, education and so on. Pragmatically, such competence brings together
the strategic means of achieving effectiveness and appropriateness in the
communication continuum developing in various institutional settings.

Contributions on the following topics are expected, but they need not limit to
them.

Language teaching: Solely an institutional practice?

- teaching languages to foreign students
- bringing relevant content to the classroom
- innovative curriculum development
- non-native teachers of language
- language policies

Legal language: institutional framework in teaching and investigations

- linguistic and intercultural approaches to legalese
- teaching and translating legal language
- legal language used in professional settings

Doctor-patient interaction

- linguistic research on communication in health/medical practice
- best communication practices in health contexts
- oral and written communication in medical contexts

Mass-media: challenges in the era of virtual communication

- fake news or how to manipulate
- the role of social media in politics
- the perception of foreigners

Political discourse as an institutional practice

- political discourse about migrants and migration
- discourse of national and European Parliament(s)

For more information, including submission and registration instructions,
visit
http://old.unitbv.ro/arta/Conferences/SUM2018/Submissionandregistration.aspx .




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