This book focuses ona hitherto neglected area of research within
the fields of academic and professinal descourse: teh language of
conferencing. The volume represents a reange of perspectives, from
the conference as a whole event to the conferenfe as a system of
potential genres, within a given discourse community. Somne
discourse feataures of conference language are examined in detail,
such as stretegies for politeness and other interpersonal
management dur9ng presentations and discussions. The pedagogical
implications of conference research are also addressed; in indeed
there is a growing need for such a focus. Novice conference
participants need explicit linguistic description fo the training
in, the relevant generes to enable them to become fullyfledged
members of their professional discourse communites. Additionally,
the work in this volume makes a valuable contribution to the
understanding of he intercultura and educational dimensions of the
increasing dominance of English as an international lingua
franca--in conferences and beyond. Contents: Eija Ventola/Celia
Shalom/Susan Thompson: Introduction--Eija Ventola: Why and what
kind of focus on confernce presentations?--Celia Shalom: The
academic confernce: A forum for enacting genere knowledge--Chrisine
Raisanen: The conference forum: A system of interrelated genres and
discursive practices--Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet: Science in
themaking: Scientific conference presentations and the construction
of facts--Anni Heino/Eija Tervonen/Jorma Tommola: Metadiscourse in
academic conference presentations--Susan Thompson" 'As the story
unfolds': The uses of narrative in research presentations--Cassily
Charles/Eija Ventola: A multi-semioticgenre: The conference slide
show--Monique Frobert-Adamo: Humour in oral presentations: what's
the joke?--Pauline Webber: The paper is now open for
discussion--Irena Vassileva: Speaker-audience interaction: the case
of BUlgarians presenting in English--Tatyana Yakhontova: Titles of
conference presentation obstracts: a cross-cultural
perspective-Viktor Slepovitch: English as a conference language for
students and prospects--David banks: The French scientist and
English as a conference language--Eija Ventola: Should I speak
English or German?--Conferencing and language code issues--Eija
Ventola/Celia Shalom/ Susan Thompson: Afterwood.
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