[ecrea] Changing Discourses, Changing Workplaces: Postmodern Trends in Institutional Communication

    * Group: Critical Discourse Analysis
    * Subject: Changing Discourses, Changing Workplaces: Postmodern 
Trends in Institutional Communication

Call for papers

Thematic Seminar: Changing Discourses, Changing Workplaces: Postmodern 
Trends in Institutional Communication

12th ESSE conference, Kosice, Slovakia (29 August – 2 September 2014) 
http://www.esse2014kosice.sk

Seminar Convenors:

Cornelia Ilie, Malmö University, Department of Culture and Society 
(Sweden) (cornelia.ilie /at/ gmail.com) & Zayed University, UAE
Giuliana Garzone, University of Milan, Department of Language Mediation 
and Intercultural Communication (Italy) (giuliana.garzone /at/ unimi.it)

This thematic seminar will take place as part of the 12th ESSE 
conference, Kosice, Slovakia (29 August – 2 September 2014).

Seminar Theme

In increasingly multicultural and highly interconnected work 
environments, members of various communities of practice start by 
applying existing discourse-reinforced rules and conventions, while 
gradually adjusting and changing them, which leads to a hybridisation of 
discourse structures, text types, and interactive strategies across 
workplaces and cultures. New challenges, unpredictable expectations and 
competing commitments shape and are being shaped by emerging workplace 
interaction patterns that reflect globally felt tensions and uncertainties.

The seminar aims to explore the manifestations and effects of the 
interplay between discourse styles and workplace practices enacted in 
culture-specific and multicultural institutional or organisational 
contexts (e.g. business, education, media, politics). A special emphasis 
will be on metadiscourse and intertextuality in professional discourses, 
multi-level and multi-purpose dialogue, negotiation of personal and 
group identities, culture-based and cross-cultural enactment of and 
attitudes to management and leadership roles in the workplace, 
stereotypes related to race, gender and class, relevance of 
intercultural communication training.

We invite abstract submissions for individual paper presentations by 28 
February 2014 directly to the conveners ((cornelia.ilie /at/ gmail.com) and 
(giuliana.garzone /at/ unimi.it)). The abstracts (max. 200 words) should 
indicate the main question/s addressed, the data and methodology used 
and, if possible, expected results. The following information should be 
included in the abstracts:
Name & Surname
Affiliation
E-mail
Title of paper
Equipment needed (all seminar rooms will be equipped with a computer and 
a projector)

According to the conference guidelines, presenters will be asked to 
circulate reduced versions of their papers in advance of the seminar, 
and they will have 15 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for 
discussions.
Proponents will be informed about the acceptance of their papers by 31 
March 2014, and conference registration will open on 1 April 2014.
Please do feel free to contact the seminar conveners in case you have 
any queries.
Kind regards,
Cornelia Ilie & Giuliana Garzone
Posted By Majid KhosraviNik





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