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...
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