Events - 5th Nitra Conference on Discourse Studies
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Conference focus
Structural, sociolinguistic, functional, interactional, contextual, etc. aspects of the English language, more specifically covering the fields of:
Text linguistics
(Critical) discourse analysis
• Types of texts and discourse
• Face, facework and discourse
• Discourse coherence, markers and connectives
Style and (types of) stylistics
• Developments in stylistics
• Registers of English
• Language and cognition in text analysis
• Corpus stylistics
Semantics and pragmatics of discourse
• Contexts, references and communicative action
• Sociopragmatics, politeness theory, speech act theory, corpus-based pragmatics, etc.
Aspects of speech
• Relationship between prosody and pragmatics, etc.
Intercultural communication
• Questions of meaning and interpretation in (e.g. in media law and regulation)
• Intellectual property, esp. copyright and trademarks
• Cultural 'keywords' in public debate (e.g. in business, politics and the wider social 'conversation')
Conference leaflet
Conference program
