Professor Patrice Buzzanell
Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University

Plenary Talk: How Do We Talk About Work, Careers, and Work-Life Intersections Today?

Patrice Buzzanell is Professor in the Department of Communication at Purdue University. Her research centers on gendered constructions of career, leadership, and work-life issues. She has edited Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication From Feminist Perspectives, Gender in Applied Communication Contexts, and Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research (forthcoming). She has published in Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, Communication Theory, Human Relations, and other journals and handbooks.? She has received numerous research, teaching-mentoring, and service awards. She is incoming President of the International Communication Association and of the Council of Communication Associations. She teaches in Purdue’s Engineering Projects in Community Service program.

Professor Christopher N Candlin
Senior Research Professor, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Plenary Talk: "Trading places, creating spaces: aligning research and practice in LSP and Professional Communication"

Research interests include discourse analysis, pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics, text analysis, research-based and theorized studies in applied linguistics, relationships between discursive competence and professional expertise especially in the domains of healthcare, law and social work, critical discourse analysis, disciplinary discourses, site-specific language policy, online learning and teaching.

Professor Gu Yueguo
Research Professor of Linguistics, Head of the Contemporary Linguistics Department, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Plenary Talk: Collective Face, Politeness and Propriety in Chinese Organizational Discourse

His research interest includes pragmatics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, rhetoric, the philosophy of language and online education. He is also Pro-Vice Chancellor of Beijing Foreign Studies University, and Dean of the Institute of Online Education and Special Professor of the University of Nottingham.

Professor Janet Holmes
Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Plenary Talk: Relational talk at work: from the workplace to the classroom and back again

Janet Holmes is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Language in the Workplace Project at Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches sociolinguistics and has published on many aspects of workplace communication, language and gender and New Zealand English. Her most recent books are the Blackwell Handbook of Language and Gender, co-edited with Miriam Meyerhoff, Power and Politeness in the Workplace co-authored with Maria Stubbe, Language Matters, written with Laurie Bauer and Paul Warren, and Gendered Talk at Work published by Blackwell in 2006. The Language in the Workplace Project's current research examines Maori and Pakeha leaders' discourse at work.

Professor Giovanni Parodi
Head of the Postgraduate School of Linguistics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile

Plenary Talk: Academic and professional written genres: abstraction and concreteness in PUCV-2006 Corpus

Dr. GIOVANNI PARODI is Chief Editor of Revista Signos. Estudios de Linguistica. He is also Head of the Reading and Writing UNESCO Chair for Chile. He obtained an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and later he received his Ph.D. in Linguistics. His research efforts have focused on discourse linguistics, discourse psycholinguistics (reading comprehension and written production processes), corpus linguistics, and genre theory. Currently he is conducting research in specialized academic/professional written discourse, press media discourse analysis, and developing computational tools for corpus analysis through three grants funded by major Chilean research foundations and international programs, such as ECOS, FONDECYT, and UNESCO UNITWIN Chairs. His publications include articles in Spanish and English journals and several books published by EUDEBA (2005, 2007) and EUVSA (1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007). He has also edited four other interdisciplinary books. His last edited book published by CONTINUUM in England is: WORKING WITH SPANISH CORPORA.