Friday 18 September

Venue: Zebrastraat 32/01 B-9000 Gent

 

ABC Europe 2009 International PhD Colloquium

 

Blue Room

Red Room

9.00 Christa Uusi-Rauva (Helsinki School of Economics). True environmental leadership or a failure to rise to the occasion? Discursive representations of the EU energy and climate package .

 

9.00 Kristian Hursti (Helsinki School of Economics). Management Earnings Forecasts: Could an Investor Reliably Detect a Positive Bias Solely on the Basis of the Discursive Strategies Employed?

 

9.45 Giorgia Riboni (University of Milan). The Successful 2008 Presidential Candidate:How political weblogs have contributed in shaping the American electorate’s preferences.

 

9.45 Jasper Vandenberghe (University College Ghent). Self-justification in press releases and its reproduction in newspaper articles:The case of Repsol YPF in Argentina.

 


10.30 COFFEE BREAK


10.50 Sabine Rettinger (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München). Guiding without steering. Self presentation and the display of competence in coaching interactions .           

10.50 Sara Rymenams (Ghent University). " Are you me?": Interaction and dialogism in commercial press advertising .

 

 

11.35 Hana Blazkova (University of Birmingham). Involvement Strategies Used in Short Business Presentations.

11.35 Sophie Limbos (University of Antwerp). “Your future in safe hands”:  the commercial pension saving discourse as a display of banking competence.

 

12.20 Miikka Lehtonen (Helsinki School of Economics). Exploring the role of visualised knowledge in creating innovations in virtual environments.

 

12.20 Cristina Gatti (University of Verona). Displaying competence through corporate history narratives.

 


13.00 LUNCH


 

 

Purple Room

 

WRITTEN CORPORATE COMMUNICATION

 

13.50 Birgitta Meex & Heidi Verplaetse (Lessius/KULeuven). The discursive construal of purpose by means of competence in German and English

corporate mission statements.

14.35 Berna Hendriks & Margot Van Mulken (University of Nijmegen). The language of power – The analysis of a corpus of CEO letters .

 

 

ORAL INTERACTION IN INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS: MEDIA

 

15.20 Martina Temmerman & Els Belsack (Erasmus University College Brussels). (In)competent journalists interviewing (in)competent politicians.

A linguistic-pragmatic discourse analysis of the (self-)representation of journalists and politicians in newspaper interviews during the 2007 government

formation period in federal Belgium.

16.05 Tom Van Hout & Ellen Van Praet (Ghent University). Competence on display: intertextual work during newsroom editorial conferences

 

 


16:50 DRINKS & REFLECTION


 


 
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