CfP DiO 2009 Displaying Competence

2nd International Discourse in Organizations Workshop Displaying competence Ghent, Belgium, 16-18 Sept. 2009 | www.dio.ugent.be Dept. of Language and Communication Dept. of International Business Communication Dept. of Applied Linguistics In the wake of our successful 1 st International Workshop on Discourse in Organizations (DiO, Antwerp/Knokke, September 2005), we hope to bring together a number of researchers from discourse analysis, linguistic pragmatics and text studies for our 2 nd International Workshop on Discourse in Organizations, from Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 September 2009. The workshop offers a small-scale, all-plenary interactive forum with a limited number of participants and plenty of time for discussion. It will also include an International PhD colloquium to be organized in co-operation with the Association for Business Communication (ABC). Theme: Displaying competence The workshop explores ways in which individuals or groups in organizations discursively present themselves as competent, i.e. as having the ability and willingness (possibly including generic knowledge, motive, social role, expertise and skills) to perform tasks or functions on a superior level. Competence here might encompass or overlap with notions of efficiency, success, accountability, excellence and self-justification. Papers are welcomed that address the question of how such displays are achieved, how they are temporally projected as well as how they interact with the context in which they are generated. Methodologically, the workshop aims to bring together research that is primarily empirical, for instance within a discourse analytical, linguistic pragmatic, text studies or ethnomethodological framework. Contributions are welcomed on a wide spectrum of organizational settings including leadership/management situations, gate-keeping encounters in a variety of institutions and organizations and through a wide range of media, peer interaction in the workplace, marketing and news discourse, interaction with customers, etc. Keynote speakers Celia Roberts (King’s College London) and Francesca Bargiela Call for papers Submissions are invited for 40-minute slots (including 20 minutes of discussion and question time). The workshop language is English. Please send your abstract of 300 words (detailing research question, method, data and conclusions) to [email protected] before 31 January 2009. Contributors will be informed of the decision of the organizing committee by the end of February. Organizing committee Geert Jacobs and Tom Van Hout (Ghent University) Katja Pelsmaekers, Craig Rollo and Chris Braecke (University of Antwerp) Priscilla Heynderickx and Sylvain Dieltjens (Lessius University College Antwerp).

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CfP DiO 2009 Displaying Competence