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

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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