PLIN Linguistic Day 2025
ilc | Louvain-la-Neuve, Mons
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.
