Conference

The aim of this conference is to provide an open and widely accessible
forum to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate and undergraduate
students, with research issues from all fields of Linguistics and TESOL.

The main feature that distinguishes this conference is its focus on *freedom*:
- Freedom from linguistic sub-field divisions;
- Freedom from an established and rigid theme for presentations;
- Freedom from fees!

Call For Papers

Organizers: Terri Tomsky (University of Alberta), Eddy Kent (University of Alberta), Imre Szeman (University of Alberta)

Keynote Speakers:

Timothy Brennan (University of Minnesota)
Pheng Cheah (University of California, Berkeley)
Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia)
Peter Nyers (McMaster University)

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A conference for those researching in the fields of applied linguistics, TESOL, modern languages, intercultural communication and education

Friday 6th July 2012

Department of English and Language Studies
Canterbury Christ Church University
Canterbury, England

Invited Speakers:

Ben Rampton, King’s College, London
Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church University

Irony, either as a paradigmatic strategy of inquiry and critique or as a trait of character and existential perspective, has deeply informed Western culture and its philosophical and political tradition. The contemporary presence of irony in arts and everyday life – in the use of quotation, appropriation, pastiche, parody, kitsch, etc. – while questioning authenticity and authority, often conceals a lack of commitment that might be seen as a revival of the Jena romantics’ epistemological view, in some cases taken to a solipsistic extreme.

Language and the Law - Bridging the Gaps is the first International Conference to be jointly sponsored by ALIDI (the newly formed Association for Language and Law for Speakers of Portuguese) and the IAFL (the International Association of Forensic Linguists). The official languages of the Conference will be English and Portuguese.

Keynote Speakers:
Arjun Appadurai (New York University, USA),
Inderpal Grewal (Yale University, USA), and
Ravi Sundaram (Center for the Study of Developing Societies, India)

Plenary Speakers: Ramesh Srinivasan (USA); Mohan J. Dutta (Singapore); Shanti Kumar (USA), Ramaswamy Harindranath (Australia); Nitin Govil (USA); John Erni (Hong Kong); Aniko Imre (USA); Radhika Parameswaran (USA); Soyini Madison (USA); Raka Shome (USA); Boulou Ebanda De B’Beri (Canada) (These are confirmed so far; we are awaiting confirmation from other speakers.)

The Standing Group on Political Methodology of the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) organises a section on "The analysis of political discourse: confronting approaches" at the next ECPR General Conference in Montreal, Canada, 26-29 August 2015.

The section welcomes paper or panel proposals on any issue related to the analysis of political discourse, and working with a variety of methodological approaches, from quantitative text analysis to various strands of discourse analysis. Proposals from disciplines other than political science are very welcome.

Submissions are invited for the panel proposal ‘Discourses of European identity at times of ‘Brexit’’ organised by Franco Zappettini, Royal Holloway, University of London, to be presented at the 1st International Conference on “Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders”, Athens, Greece, September 23-25th 2016

The European Conference on Argumentation (ECA) is a pan-European biennial initiative aiming to consolidate and advance various strands of research on argumentation and reasoning by gathering scholars from a range of disciplines. After a successful 1st edition held in Lisbon in 2015, ECA will be hosted in 2017 by the Department of English at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. While based in Europe, ECA involves and encourages participation from argumentation scholars all over the world.

The organising committee of the 2nd International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL) are pleased to invite predoctoral students in English Linguistics programmes, including both PhD and Master's degree students, to participate in our second instantiation, which will be held on September 20, 21 and 22, 2017 at the Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. This conference is organised by the PhD Programme in English Linguistics of UCM, which has consistently maintained an Excellence Distinction by the Spanish Ministry of Education since 2004.