Business and Governance Linguistics

 

Author : Yulia Danyushina

Title : Business and Governance Linguistics

The workshop encompasses a wide range of issues related to linguistic aspects of business and governance communication (including:

• the spheres of business, management, administration, politics and law discourses,
• organizational and strategic, corporate and industrial communication,
• PR, advertising and marketing, GR and BR,
• leadership and managerial discourse,
• business and governance rhetoric and metaphors,
• the sublanguage of business, management, governance,
• its pragmatic, semantic and stylistic peculiarities, the terminology,
• the lingual, verbal and para-verbal specifics of meeting, interviewing, appraisal, negotiations, presentation, documentation, official correspondence,
• media, etc.).

Key speakers and reports expected :

•  Catherine Nickerson (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates) - ‘The impact of English as a lingua franca on international business discourse’.
• Yulia Danyushina (State University of Management, Russia) - ‘Business and Governance Linguistics’,
• Victoria Guillén-Nieto (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) - ‘Anthropomorphism as a selling strategy in the British toy market’,
• Avgustina Zinovieva (State University of Management, Russia) - ‘Linguistic communications in management’.

23.07.2013   10:30-12:30

Title: session 1
Chair: Yulia DANYUSHINA, Catherine NICKERSON

10:30 - 11:00 Yulia DANYUSHINA

Business and Governance Linguistics: an Interdisciplinary Approach
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11:00 - 11:30 Catherine NICKERSON

The impact of English as a lingua franca on international business discourse
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11:30 - 12:00 Victoria GUILLÉN-NIETO

The use and abuse of anthropomorphism in marketing: The case of The British Toymakers Guild
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12:00 - 12:30 Halina WISNIEWSKA

Communicative Competence in Global Business Communication
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23.07.2013   14:00-16:00

Title: session 2
Chair: Yulia DANYUSHINA, Catherine NICKERSON

14:00 - 14:30 Minoru TSUNODA

Le rôle des langues et des communications dans le développement des ressources humaines pour la coopération internationale: défis et stratégies japonais par rapport à la mondialisation et au régionalisme
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14:30 - 15:00 Serhiy POTAPENKO

Rhetoric of Needs: Selling News Stories
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15:00 - 15:30 Kyoko SUGISAKI

Syntactic style in legislative language: A performance-based account
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15:30 - 16:00 Marina KITIK

Business Report: Linguistic Approach
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23.07.2013   16:30-18:30

Title: discussion
Chair: Yulia DANYUSHINA, Catherine NICKERSON

16:30 - 17:00 Louis WEI-LUN LU

Metaphor, ideology and persuasion in political discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis perspective
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