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5th International Symposium Language for International Communication (LINCS)

28–29 Apr 2022
Europe/Riga timezone

Session

Specialised discourse: Law and other

8
28 Apr 2022, 14:00

Conveners

Specialised discourse: Law and other

  • Jekaterina Čerņevska (Faculty of Humanities, Department of English Studies)
  • Ruta Svetina (University of Latvia)

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  1. 66. Place deixis and discourse deixis in mechanical engineering discourse
    Ms Jekaterina Čerņevska (Faculty of Humanities, Department of English Studies)
    28/04/2022, 14:00
    Other
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    With advances in machinery manufacturing and material processing techniques in the recent decades, there is an ongoing necessity to study the pragmatic meaning construction in various genres of mechanical engineering discourse. Deixis is one of the fundamental pragmatic phenomena that explicitly illustrates the inevitable interconnectedness between the linguistically encoded and contextual...

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  2. 44. How to help students write professionally
    Viera Žufková (Comenius University Bratislava)
    28/04/2022, 14:20
    Education
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    Due to the acceptance of a university diploma in other countries, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University Bratislava graduates are demanded professionally, and their language skills and abilities are required. Students often face the requirement to write a professional article and prepare an abstract, poster, or other written scientific paper. At the Department of Languages, we assumed that...

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  3. 85. Cognitive genre and English for Multi- disciplinary Academic Purposes
    Mr Grant Hartley (University of Bristol), Mr Tony Prince (University of Bristol), Mr Kevin Haines (University of Bristol)
    28/04/2022, 14:40
    Other
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    This paper reports an ongoing longitudinal action research cycle investigating the application of cognitive genre (Bruce, 2005) to the existing language element of a pre-sessional English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course at a UK university. This course is followed by students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, hence the need to make explicit the role of cognitive genres in helping...

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  4. 99. Discourse - pragmatic adequacy and cognitive inferences in language production
    Gunta Rozina, Indra Karapetjana (University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities), Marina Losevica (University of Latvia)
    28/04/2022, 15:00
    Other
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    The present time tendencies demonstrate that Latvia has two distinct layers of population as concerns immigration: those who immigrated in the late 90’ or at the beginning of the millennium to satisfy their social, financial needs and requirements and who are repatriating to Latvia presently, and those who having completed their service in the western or eastern countries return to their...

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  5. 102. The system of genres at the European Court of Human Rights: focus on case communication
    Dr Jekaterina Nikitina (UniCamillus - Saint Camillus International Medical University in Rome)
    28/04/2022, 15:20
    Law
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    To talk of legal language in international courts is to talk of “usefully distinguishable” legal genres (Bhatia, 1983: 227), which form a system of genres (Bazerman, 1994), i.e. “the interrelated genres that interact with each other in specific settings” (Bazerman, 1994: 97). This study overviews the system of legal genres at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which are represented...

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  6. 92. The English legal vocabulary of the case-law judgments of the court of justice of the European Union
    Laimdota Ločmele (University of Latvia)
    28/04/2022, 15:40
    Law
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    The present study aims to explore the features of the EU legal vocabulary of the case-law judgments of the CJEU. The research aims to describe the lexis whose mastery is requisite for lawyers of an EU member state to communicate internationally – within the EU. Lawyer’s work often involves reading case-law judgments which are syntactically complex texts and contain remarkably technical...

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