The first symposium of the Lancaster-Ghent partnership takes place on March 23, 2017, at Lancaster University. The topic is “Discourse and Media”; it will feature talks by Lancaster and Ghent staff and students. Participation is free (and includes lunch and coffee break), but registration via Eventbrite is required. Click here to register.

We are grateful to the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) Internationalization Fund for the financial support. For more information on our partnership and on how to get involved, please email Dr Patrick Rebuschat (p.rebuschat@lancaster.ac.uk).

Discourse and Media: Schedule

Date: Thursday, March, 23, 2017
Location: County South C89

Please click here to download the program, including abstracts

9.45 to 10.00: Welcome by Elena Semino, followed by Stef Slembrouk: Brief overview of Ghent Linguistics

10.00 to 10.30: Elena Semino (Lancaster): Metaphors, identities and mutual relationships in online interactions among people with cancer

10.30 to 11.00: Eliza Kowal (Ghent): Keep your mind sober: Addiction as an anti-modern phenomenon – discursive strategies of exclusion

11.00 to 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 to 12.00: Jana Declercq (Ghent): Balancing journalists’ and scientists’ professional practices: Understanding the production of health news in a changing landscape of information and expertise

12.00 to 12.30: Sofie Busschop (Ghent): Keywords and their conceptual metaphors: A cross-sectoral study of discourses of sustainability in Flanders as evidenced in media texts and focus groups

12.30 to 14.00: Lunch break and tour of LAEL

14.00 to 14.30: Geert Jacobs (Ghent): Crafting science news: Backstage perspectives on the language work of university researchers, PR officers and science journalists

14.30 to 15.00: Daniela Ibarra Herrera (Lancaster): Argumentative resources in Chilean political TV show tweets

15.00 to 15.30: Coffee break

15.30 to 16.00: Karin Tusting and David Barton (Lancaster): Marketing the academic self: Academics and social media

16.00 to 16.30: General discussion and closing statements