EXTENDED DEADLINE JAN 17 2015 DICOEN VIII Eighth International Conference in Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise Naples, ITALY. June 11th – 13th 2015 Call for papers The Eighth International Conference in Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise (DICOEN 2015) will be held on Naples, 11- 13 June 2015 and will be hosted by the University of Naples (Università degli Studi di Na...poli), following the successes of the first seven conferences on the same theme (Lisbon 2001, Vigo 2003, Rio de Janeiro 2005, Nottingham 2007, Milan 2009, Hong Kong 2011 and Bejiing 2013). DICOEN aims to promote interaction and discussion among researchers interested in the relevance of discourse and communication to the world of business, and to expand research networks among scholars working in the area of discourse and communication in organisational settings. Contributions are invited from scholars working in a variety of disciplines including: linguistics, discourse analysis, communication studies, organisation studies, management studies, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, economics, business economics, accountancy, marketing, etc. The conference will be held in Naples, at the Università degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II, at the Monte Sant’Angelo campus. Topic areas. Topics are broadly defined as, but not limited to, the following: Genres in corporate and institutional communication • Genre variation in intercultural communication • Intertextuality, interdiscursivity and hybridisation in business genres • Analytical instruments in genre theory ICT and multimodality in business communication • Multi-modal technologies and corporate/institutional communication • Rhetorical practices and language use in multimodal communication • Communication through social networking sites Corporate communication across languages and cultures • Multidisciplinarity and business communication research across cultures • Ideology, bias and power in mixed-culture interactions • Lingua franca communication: linguistic and discursive strategies • Discursive strategies in multilingual and interpreter-mediated interactions • Translation, re-writing and re-telling in the corporate world • Health narratives and the biotech industry • Food cultures in private and public enterprises • Corporate image building and product promotion in the pharmaceutical industry • Tourism and local/global issues in tourist promotion • Labor issues, product promotion and corporate communication CSR, sponsorship, advertising • The discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility • Language and discourse in corporate sponsorship • Organisational discourses and emerging corporate philosophies • The discourses of advertising • Textual analysis in financial and corporate governance reporting Argumentation, rhetoric, meanings and narrative financial reporting for predictions in financial reporting • Investigating bias in narrative financial disclosure • Critical and normative perspectives on financial rhetoric • Mining of financial texts to improve market price predictions • The predictive value of indicators Persuasive approach in mandatory and voluntary disclosure • The language in international accounting standard setting process. Corporate communication and news management • News management and the enterprise • Discourses in the corporate newsroom • Corporate communication to the media • Corporate image building through the press Call We invite abstracts of no more than 300 words. Abstracts must include affiliation and email addresses of the author(s). Paper sessions will be 20 minute slots with 10 minutes for questions/discussion. Selected papers will be published in a book with a first-rate publisher. Please, send abstracts to [email protected] and [email protected] Deadline: Please submit abstracts by January 17th 2015. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by January 31st 2015. The participant who need to apply for a VISA to Italy (some countries need a 6 months’ notice) will be notified immediately after the deadline. Conference contact line: [email protected] Further information will be sent shortly. Pleanary speakers Marina Bondi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italia), Lisa Evans (University of Stirling. UK), Giuliana Garzone (Università di Milano, Italia), Leena Louihala Salminen (Aalto University, Finland), Shi Xingsong (University of Bejing, China) Scientific committee Alessandra Allini, Marina Bondi, Adele Caldarelli, Paola Catenaccio, Lisa Evans, Giuliana Garzone, Walter Giordano, Riccardo Viganò, Marco Maffei, Donata Mussolino, Girolamo Tessuto, Shi Xingsong, Contacts The Conference is organized by the Dept. of Economics Management and Institutions and by the Dept. of Economics and Statistics of the Università di Napoli Federico II. Via Cintia , 80126 Naples, Italy +390816752a [email protected] [email protected]
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