CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

(A recent selection of Keynote and Plenary presentations)

[2018]: ‘Fake News’ as Interdiscursive Illusion: A Challenge to Law, Social Media, and Free Speech, Plenary Paper at the 5th International Conference on Legal Discourse: Context, Media and Social Power organised by The Centre for Research in Language and Law, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) (Royal Palace, Caserta, Italy: 24-25-26 May 2018)

(2017): Reconceptualising legal communication: Insights from Critical Genre Theory, the International conference on Language & Law, Białystok, Poland, (8-9) June 2017.

(2017): Genre as interdiscursive performance in professional practice, the International Conference on “Faces of English and Teaching and Researching Academic and Professional English” organised by The Centre for Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong (1-3) June 2017.

(2016): Rethinking English for Business Communication, the 12th National Symposium on International Business English, Chongqing, Sichuan International Studies University (28-30 October 2016).

(2016): ‘Genre as interdiscursive performance in professional practice, the International Forum on “Thinking and Language Expressing”, organized by Guizhou University and CELEA (15-16) October 2016.

(2016): Socio-pragmatic constraints in legal construction and interpretation, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University International Conference on Appliable Linguistics and Legal Discourse (14–18 December 2016).

(2016): Interpreting Legislative Provisions across Socio-pragmatic Space, the 4th International Conference on Law, Language and Communication: Negotiating Cultural, Jurisdictional and Disciplinary Boundaries, Centre for Research in Language and Law – CRILL (26-28 May 2016), Caserta, Italy.

(2016): Interdiscursive Construction of Identity in International Arbitration, Public Lecture at the Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece, (18 March 2016).

(2015): Evolution of Critical Discourse and Genre Studies: Implications for Applied Linguistics, the 6th International Conference on New Discourse in Contemporary China, Sun Yat-sen University, (18-20 December 2015).

(2015): Evolution of Critical Discourse and Genre Studies: Implications for Applied Linguistics, the international conference on Language Studies Evolution and Revolution: The Past, Present, Future, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (29-30 September 2015).

(2015): Reconceptualising English for Business Communication, the 2nd English Business Linguistics Conference, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong Province (18-20 September 2015).

(2015): International Commercial Arbitration in Asia, the ICAAD Conference 2015 on Arbitration Discourse and Practices in Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (August 20-21, 2015).