New Zealand Discourse Conference #8 (NZDC8)

One of the world’s major discourse conferences is coming to UC on 10-11 December in John Britten 102 and online via Zoom.

Staff, students and members of the public are warmly welcome to join us.

There’s a discounted one-day registration rate for non-presenters of $75 ($45 for students/unwaged) to cover catering costs.

Keynote speakers: Dr Angela Moewaka Barnes (Massey), Prof Gail Fairhurst (Cincinnati), Prof Monica Heller (Toronto), Dr Majid KhosraviNik (Newcastle, UK).

Plus nearly 100 presentations by scholars from 30 different countries, on a wide range of topics, including political discourse, workplace discourse, media discourse, visual communication, sociolinguistics, language policy, language learning and acquisition and corpus analysis.

Contact Donald Matheson for more info.