Call for Abstracts

Theme

Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus-based Approaches to Research on Intercultural Rhetoric

Date & Location

Friday, June 11th & Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Georgia State University
Sponsored by the Georgia State University Research Foundation and the Department of Applied Linguistics/ESL

Plenary Speakers

• Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University
• Ulla Connor,Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
• Eric Friginal, Georgia State University
• Guillaume Gentil, Carleton University

Featured Speakers

• Dwight Atkinson, Purdue University
• Paul Kei Matsuda, Arizona StateUniversity

Topics

Individual papers and colloquium proposals are invited on topics including (but not limited to):

• Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
• Cross Cultural Spoken and Written Discourses
• Language- and culture-specific studies
• Practical applications
• Theoretical and empirical investigations
• Writing in school, college, and the professions

Deadline for submission: February 28^th, 2010

Submission Guidelines

Papers should be 20 minutes long with an additional 10 minutes for discussion.

Submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a summary of no more than 50 words, included in the body of an email. In addition, please include your name, address, institutional affiliation, phone and fax numbers, and email address.

Colloquia should be approximately 75 minutes in length with 15 minutes for questions. The 250-word abstract should state the theme and indicate contributions of each participant. Also include a 50-word summary and list of participants. In addition, please include your name, address, institutional affiliation, phone and fax numbers, and email address. Send submissions and general correspondence to:intrhetdisc@gmail.com

Alternately, for more information, please contact:

Diane Belcher 404-413-5194 dbelcher1@gsu.edu
Gayle Nelson 404-413-5190 gaylenelson@gsu.edu