C&C 2025
OPINIONS IN LANGUAGE, MEDIA & EDUCATION
24 – 26 March 2025
online conference
The Department of Language and Communication of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland is pleased to invite to the scientific conference inspired by COST Action project “CA21129 – What are Opinions?”.
CONFERENCE TOPICS AND THEMES
- What are opinions? What are their linguistic and non-linguistic markers? Related phenomena and the conceptual grounding of opinion research
- Opinion identification and computational methodologies
- Argumentation and legitimization in opinionated discourse
- Cultural differences in opinion expression
- Semantic, syntactic, pragmatic and stylistic aspects of opinionated language
- Opinion and figurative language
- Opinions in Lexicography and Terminology
- Opinions in traditional and online media
- Opinionated texts and discourse analysis
- Expressing opinions and standpoints in educational contexts and practice
- Opinion and evaluation in specialized discourses (legal, technical, scientific, etc.)
- Opinion expression in literature
Languages of the presentations are English, German and Polish.
POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Refereed and accepted papers will be published in collective volumes or journal special issues by international publishers. The language of publications is English.