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The UGent research groups Intercomm and Lang+ are pleased to announce they will be co-hosting a conference entitled Multilingual perspectives on professional discourse in Europe, which will take place at Ghent University, Belgium on 10-11 September 2015. The topical and methodological scope of this conference has been kept as wide as possible, though a number of foci of attention have been included. The communicative context will be restricted to Europe and main topics include multilingual internal and external, written or oral communication in organizational and institutional settings (meetings, hearings, e-mails, press releases, annual reports, etc.).
Specific attention will be paid to:
The UGent research groups Intercomm and Lang+ are pleased to announce they will be co-hosting a conference entitled Multilingual perspectives on professional discourse in Europe, which will take place at Ghent University, Belgium on 10-11 September 2015. The topical and methodological scope of this conference has been kept as wide as possible, though a number of foci of attention have been included. The communicative context will be restricted to Europe and main topics include multilingual internal and external, written or oral communication in organizational and institutional settings (meetings, hearings, e-mails, press releases, annual reports, etc.).
Specific attention will be paid to:
- Multilingualism and identity construction in a professional context
- Multilingualism and enactment of power in a professional context
- Speech act realizations in multilingual professional settings
- Change management communication in multilingual professional settings
- Localized financial reporting from a multilingual perspective
- Language policy in international organizations
- Science communication in multilingual professional settings
- (interpreter mediated) service encounters in multilingual settings
- Public service interpreting