Registration is now open for the PLIN Linguistic Day 2025 18 April 2025 (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
Genre-based approaches to academic and specialized languages: from analysis to pedagogy https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/plin/plin-linguistic-day-2025 The PLIN Linguistic Day 2025, which will take place in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) on 18 April 2025, aims to provide an overview of various recent approaches based on the concept of genre (also addressed from the perspective of "register studies" in the English linguistic tradition) and to offer researchers, academics and (PhD) students an excellent opportunity to share and discuss recent/cutting-edge genre-related research. The PLIN Linguistic Day is organized around four keynote lectures and poster presentations. Programme https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/plin/program-and-posters 9:00 Welcome 9:30 Bethany Gray (Iowa State University): Genre and register studies: Introduction, key characteristics, and their applications to academic and specialized language varieties 11:00 Charlene Polio (Michigan State University): Promoting genre awareness with diverse student groups 12:00 Short poster presentations 12:30 Lunch and poster session 14:00 Mable Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University): Genre based approaches to the teaching and learning of persuasive business discourse 15:30 Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds): On automatic genre classification: Why linguists have job security 16:30 Closing Ten posters will showcase a wide diversity of current genre- and register-based approaches to academic and specialized languages: https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/plin/program-and-posters Register here: https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/plin/registration-3 Registration deadline: 6 April 2025 We look forward to welcoming you on 18 April! The organizing committee
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