The Changing Landscape of Professional Discourse II / Fachkommunikation im Wandel

Plenary speakers

Geneviève Bordet, Paris Diderot University (UP7), France

UFR d'Études Interculturelles de Langues Appliquées (EILA)

My research focuses on two issues. One addresses the rhetorical and lexicogrammatical devices used by native and non-native writers to build an “academic voice” in PhD abstracts. This includes studies of the cohesive role of referential chains based on the use of “this”, collocational variations and “labeling nouns”. A second research area focuses on the impact of genre, domain and text on decision-making in specialized translation.

gbordet(at)eila.univ-paris-diderot.fr
site: https://www.eila.univ-paris-diderot.fr/user/genevieve_bordet


Laura-Mihaela Muresan, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication

Professor Laura Muresan currently works at the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. Laura does research in Applied Linguistics, with a focus on EAP, English for Research Publishing purposes, refining pedagogical interventions for improving academic literacies and language competences of EAL scholars; the inter-relatedness between Quality enhancement and Teacher Development in language education. Current projects:

  • Pedagogies and Policies for Publishing Research in English: Local Initiatives Supporting International Scholars (Eds. Corcoran, Englander & Muresan);
  • Écologies of genres, ecologies of languages (coordinator: Carmen Perez-Llantada).

muresan.laura(at)gmail.com
site: https://genresandlanguages.org/blog/investigador/laura-mihaela-muresan


Ludwig M. Eichinger, University of Mannheim, Germany

Member of the Board of Directors, the Leibniz Science Campus
Former Director of the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim
Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Mannheim

eichinger(at)ids-mannheim.de
site: http://www1.ids-mannheim.de/zfo/personal/eichinger.html


Klaus-Dieter Baumann, Universität Leipzig, Germany

Faculty of Philology
Institute of Applied Linguistics and Translatology

Klaus-Dieter Baumann holds the chair in Applied Linguistics and LSP Research (English, Russian, German) at the University of Leipzig.

During his academic career Professor Baumann has published over 230 studies on numerous aspects of applied linguistics, as well as editing or co-editing aÿanሴ˵ of volumes and collections.

He is the author of five monographs on professional discourse and language for specific purposes, reflecting his specific areas of research interest:

  • text-linguistic approaches to professional discourse
  • interdisciplinary approaches to text analysis
  • cognitive analysis of professional discourse
  • intercultural description of text types (genres)
  • thinking styles in various fields of professional discourse

His current research focuses on intertextuality as a basis for text-type networks.


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October 15, 2019 - Conference fee deadline

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Geneviève Bordet - Paris Diderot University (UP7), France

Laura-Mihaela Muresan - Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Ludwig M. Eichinger - University of Mannheim, Germany

Klaus-Dieter Baumann - Leipzig Univerzity, Germany