Conveners
Keynote Speech: Assoc.Prof. Vita Kalnbērziņa (University of Latvia). Onsite versus online studies: Student perspective
- Gunta Roziņa (University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities)
Keynote Speech: Prof. Inguna Skadiņa (University of Latvia). Latvian language resources and tools for research, education and technology development
- Gunta Roziņa (University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities)
Keynote Speech: Prof. Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern, Switzerland). No strings attached? Multilingual performance and fleeting conviviality in host-tourist encounters
- Gunta Roziņa (University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities)
Keynote Speech: Prof. Liliana Szczuka-Dorna (Poznan University of Technology, Poland). ESP Quo Vadis?
- Jana Kuzmina (University of Latvia)
Keynote Speech: Prof. Ángel Felíces Lago (University of Granada, Spain). Why is the cultural briefing also necessary among Spanish-speaking countries? Non-verbal cross-cultural differences under scrutiny
- Jana Kuzmina (University of Latvia)
Keynote Speech: Prof. Emer. Anita Naciscione (Latvian Academy of Culture, Latvia). Stylistic use of allusion: A study of verbal and multimodal discourse
- Jana Kuzmina (University of Latvia)
Technologies are part of our professional and private life, they affect almost any field of our activities. Technologies also affect language, its use, methods of teaching and methods of researching. However, not all languages are equality represented in a digital world with respect to content and technologies. There is a significant gap between widely used languages, in particular, English,...
This paper is grounded in my long-standing research on tourism discourse which I have done in close collaboration with my colleague Adam Jaworski (e.g., Jaworski & Thurlow, 2010; Thurlow & Jaworski, 2011). In fact, for this presentation I will focus on a host-tourist interaction which we have always found intriguing but never actually written about. In a transaction between two tourists from...
Teaching languages to students at higher education institutions (HEI) has undergone a major transformation. The contemporary world requires new skills from graduates from different HEI, so the process of change is almost constant. For years teachers have looked for the best solutions in didactics, not only taking into account the required outcomes and students’ expectations, but also...
A widespread fallacy in the business world of Spanish-speaking countries is that speaking or sharing a common language minimizes cultural differences and, consequently, it is not necessary to make effort to learn about these possible differences through expert advice tools such as "cultural briefing" before a negotiation. However, as countless examples have shown, many promising deals have not...
My aim is to explore creative instantiations of allusion to figurative thought in verbal and multimodal discourse. How does allusion interact with other stylistic patterns in conveying an implicit reference to a figurative thought in creative use?
Theoretical conclusions are drawn, applying the tenets of cognitive linguistics about the significance of figurative thought and language...
