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[ecrea] Conference: The Postgraduate Winter School Language for Communication: Research Perspective

Fri May 26 21:45:30 GMT 2017



status: CfP Call for papers
conference
The Postgraduate Winter School Language for Communication: Research Perspective
24.01.2018-27.01.2018
University of Latvia, Riga

The Postgraduate Winter School Language for Communication: Research
Perspective is a three to-five-day event for individuals or groups organised by the University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia) in cooperation with the Field Committee of Linguistics of Discourse of International Committee of Slavists (Belarusian & Polish branch of the Field Committee), and international academic project D-ART
(Germany).
Target audience: Doctoral students and researchers in Humanities
Working language: English
Scope of the school: The goal of the School is to offer training in conducting research projects in linguistics and humanities at large. The school offers a comprehensive theoretical overview of major text and discourse research methods as well as their practical application depending on the nature of the research questions and fostering interdisciplinarity.
Mode: lectures, seminars, a poster session and tutorials.
This year the sessions focus on the development of researcher's writing skills and
will comprise:
· Discourse analysis: descriptive, multi-modal, causal-genetic models, content
theories of discourse in their application to different discourse types
· Pragmatics: data collection in pragmatic research, pragmatic transfer in
interaction
· Genre analysis: move and step analysis of research genres, genre networks,
genre conventionalism, intertextuality and interdiscursivity
· Building researcher’s scientific capacity: enhancement of the skills of research
writing and posing research questions.
76th University of Latvia Conference:
The students are invited to attend 76th University of Latvia Conference Applied Linguistics section and participate in a discussion concerning the most recent
scientific activities in Latvia and Eastern Europe.
Poster presentations:
The school will also feature a poster presentation session during which the
participants should present their ongoing research.
Upon successful completion of the course and meeting all the requirements
(attendance, completion of seminar tasks and a poster presentation) 6 ECTS will be granted. Please submit electronically: (a) for individuals: a brief CV (1 page) and a short summary (1 page) of your current research to j (ana.kuzmina /at/ lu.lv) by September 1,2017; (b) for group application (of 10 participants or more): group application with the field and goal description; individual applications from each group member to (jana.kuzmina /at/ lu.lv) four-five months before actual schooling. The fee is 150 EUR (school materials and coffee breaks) which may be reduced for groups of 10 applicants. The applicants are responsible for their travel and accommodation arrangements.

Contact person: Dr. Yana Kuzmina
email: (jana.kuzmina /at/ lu.lv)


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