Here are the areas of study we are interested in:

Discourse functional and pragmatic analysis of social communication (ideology; language of politics and the media; persuasive discourses; advertising)
Media, political institutions and corporate communication
Status of functional linguistics in relation to such disciplines as sociolinguistics, anthropology, social psychology, cognitive linguistics and culture studies
Methodology of communication studies and organization of the parameters of analysis
Corpus selection in large or heterogeneous discourses
Translation/interpreting from the perspective of cognitive sciences, corpus linguistics, lexicology and semantics
Functional equivalence in translation/interpreting
Pragmatics of translation/interpretation in media, legal, political, scientific and business language
Instruction in speech act comprehension, theory and application
Developing teaching materials for function-focused L2 instruction
Literature and culture studies

The list is by no means complete.

Participants are invited to prepare 20-minute presentations (each to be followed by 10-minute discussion time).