Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies

Invited speakers

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Caroline Coffin

• Reader in Applied Linguistics and Co-director of the Educational Dialogue Research Unit, Open University, London, UK
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• Plenary paper: The new digital landscape: a challenge for language users, observers and educational designers?

Gail Forey

• Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Polytechnic University Homepage
• Plenary paper: “Express empathy through words”: What does this sound like and how is this achieved in call centre interaction?

James Martin

• Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia
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• Plenary paper: Negotiating shame: exchange and genre structure in youth
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Peter Muntigl

• Assistant Professor of English Linguistics, University of Salzburg, Austria and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• University of Salzburg Homepage
• Plenary paper: Politics and National Identity: Practices of Politicization and Depoliticization