The international conference “Changes in media discourse: a contrastive and intercultural approach” is jointly organised by the University Grenoble Alpes (France) and the Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (Germany).

The aim of the planned conference is to rethink existing theoretical and methodological approaches in order to develop an analytical model for the contrastive description of media discourses. Although the contrasting of German and French research approaches in particular is at the centre of the conference, further methodological perspectives are welcome to enrich the discussion on the definition of text genres as well as with regard to changes in media discourses.

The international and interdisciplinary conference will give participants the opportunity to relate existing research approaches and nationally or culturally shaped academic traditions in the field of media linguistics. It aims to initiate a dialogue between the disciplines of linguistics, semiotics, communication studies, history, sociology and educational studies.

Due to the pandemic, the conference will be held online. Registration is free of charge but required before 2 June.

For any information, please contact the conference organisers.

Dominique Dias, Dominique.Dias@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Nadine Rentel, Nadine.Rentel@fh-zwickau.de