Call for posters PLIN Linguistic Day 2025 Genre-based approaches to academic and specialized languages: from analysis to pedagogy Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 18 April 2025

The PLIN Linguistic Dayhttps://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/plin/plin-day.html is a biennial one-day thematic conference organised by the Linguistics Research Unit (PLIN) of the Language and Communication Institute (IL&C) at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). Over the years, the conference has established itself as an international forum for the exchange of ideas among scholars and has brought together researchers from all over the world.

The 2025 PLIN Linguistic Day will take place on 18 April 2025 and will be devoted to “Genre-based approaches to academic and specialized languages: from analysis to pedagogy”. This day 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.

Four experts will deliver keynote lectures on genre-related approaches:

* Bethany Gray (Iowa State University) Introduction to genre and register studies * Charlene Polio (Michigan State University) Genre in writing pedagogy * Mable Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Genre analysis and persuasive business discourse * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) Automatic genre annotation for the web

In addition to the keynote lectures, a poster session will be organised to make it possible for participants to present their most recent genre-related research or work in progress and to interact with the keynote speakers and other participants.

We invite abstracts addressing topics related to the main theme, “Genre-based approaches to academic and specialized languages: from analysis to pedagogy”, and to the following subfields:

* Genre and SLA * Genre and language pedagogy * Genre and academic language * Genre and specialized language / language for specific purposes * Genre and NLP

We welcome contributions about languages other than English and French.

Abstracts (in English, between 300 and 500 words, excluding references) should be sent to the official address of the PLIN Day: plindayucl@uclouvain.bemailto:plindayucl@uclouvain.be. Please submit your abstract as an attached document. The document needs to be anonymised (the name/s of the author/s should feature in the email message).

Important dates and deadlines Deadline for poster abstract submission: 3 February 2025 Notification of acceptance: 1 March 2025 Registration deadline: 25 March 2025 PLIN Linguistic Day: 18 April 2025

Organizing committee Serge Bibauw (Université catholique de Louvain) Sylvie De Cock (Université catholique de Louvain) Lingyun Gao (Université catholique de Louvain) Thomas François (Université catholique de Louvain) Magali Paquot (Université catholique de Louvain) Zhaori Wang (Université catholique de Louvain & KU Leuven)

Chargé de cours en linguistique appliquée Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres Université catholique de Louvain Institut Langage et Communication, PLIN, CENTAL et TeaMM Place Montesquieu, 3 - box L2.06.04 • B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve • Belgium Tél. : +32 (0)10 / 47 37 36