The Language of Conferencing

Contents: Eija Ventola/Celia Shalom/Susan Thompson: Introduction - Eija Ventola: Why and what kind of focus on conference presentations? - Celia Shalom: The academic conference: A forum for enacting genre knowledge - Christine Räisänen: The conference forum: A system of interrelated genres and discursive practices - Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet: Science in the making: Scientific conference presentations and the construction of facts - Anni Heino/Eija Tervonen/Jorma Tommola: Metadiscourse in academic conference presentations - Susan Thompson: 'As the story unfolds': The uses of narrative in research presentations - Cassily Charles/Eija Ventola: A multi-semiotic genre: The conference slide show - Monique Frobert-Adamo: Humour in oral presentations: what's the joke? - Pauline Webber: The paper is now open for discussion - Irena Vassileva: Speaker-audience interaction: the case of Bulgarians presenting in English - Tatyana Yakhontova: Titles of conference presentation abstracts: a cross-cultural perspective - Viktor Slepovitch: English as a conference language for students of business in Belarus: Problems, solutions and prospects - David Banks: The French scientist and English as a conference language - Eija Ventola: Should I speak English or German? - Conferencing and language code issues - Eija Ventola/Celia Shalom/Susan Thompson: Afterword.

The Editors: Eija Ventola, Univ.-Prof., The University of Salzburg. Early work on discourse analysis includes studies on casual conversations, chats, and service encounters as well as developing dynamic modelling for the analysis of interactional discourse. Recent research, teaching and publications on academic discourse genres, museum and tourism discourses, language of business functional linguistics, the language of (video)conferencing and 'internetting' and intercultural perspectives; numerous articles on discourse analysis and textlinguistics, language teaching and the language of textbooks, academic/scientific writing, the language of literature and translation.
Celia Shalom, The University of Liverpool. Teaching and research interests in discourse and genre analysis, vocabulary and teacher training. Dr. Shalom teaches on the M.A. courses in Applied linguistics and English Language Teaching and Learning and is co-ordinator of the Pre-sessional Courses in English for Academic Purposes for international students. She has published articles in the field of English for specific purposes.
Susan Thompson, The University of Liverpool. Teaching and research interests in the analysis of spoken discourse, English for Specific Purposes and applications of discourse analysis for language teaching. Dr. Thompson is Course Director for the M.A. course in Applied Linguistics, and teaches courses on Discourse Analysis, and Spoken Discourse and the Teaching of Listening and Speaking Skills. She has published articles in the field of spoken discourse analysis and applications for language teaching.