Conference Title and Aim

Research Meeting on Institutional and Health talk for Social Applications (RMIH)   TOKYO 2019

  Though the value of sociolinguistics as an academic entity in the social sciences and humanities has not been doubted, the task of maintaining its importance has burdened each researcher in this field due to the current inclination toward vocational studies. However, revisiting existing approaches and adopting them to current social requirements can be beneficial, especially now that the analysis of big data influences the construction of public opinion.
  Discourse analysis as a qualitative approach can be used as a potential tool to set the basis for examination when it comes to what should be counted and why it should be counted, especially in the current trend of mass-data.
  In this conference, the approach to analyzing the dementia-related discourse as a genre of institutional discourse will be discussed from the multi-dimensional perspectives in discourse analysis and communicational study, such as in health, genre, organization, education, business, and organizational.

  *The conference’s language will be English and Japanese (An interpreting system will be provided.)
  *The submission of abstract will be closed on April 10th, 2019 (JST)

Venue

The conference will be held in...

PLACE: 
  Hitotsubashi Hall, National Center of Sciences   
  Building 2F,2-1-2 Hitotsubashi,
  Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo 101-8439 
 http://www.hit-u.ac.jp/hall/accessen.html

 DATE: Saturday, August 10th, 2019

List of Topics

  - Medical and Health Discourse 
  - Dementia talk and Discourse in Neo-gerontology
  - Institutional Discourse, Discourse analysis and its social application
  - Role and aims of speech activity, expected in each institutional setting
  - Intervention of participants’ background reflected to discourse
  - Educational application of frameworks in discourse analysis
  - Speaking and listening habits affiliated with each organization

  -Applicability of sociolinguistic frameworks on modern society
 - Cross-cultural* communication affected by epistemic and affectionate stances
                              *The term “Culture” here is not the one restricted to language or national boundary.

Invited Speakers and Titles

• Prof. Yoshiko Matsumura (Kyushu University) "Politeness in institutions"  (Tentative)
• Assistant Prof. Kaoru Amino (Keimyung University) "New scales in dementia talk from the perspective of linguistic, as an replacement of current testing method."                                                             

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

The conference’s language will be English and Japanese (An interpreting system will be provided.) The submission of abstract will be closed on April 10th, 2019 (JST)

   -Abstract submission (250-350 words): April 15th, 2019
       Submittion via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=rmih2019tokyo
       Submittion vis email: researchmeeting.tokyo2019@gmail.com

   -Abstract acceptance notification: April 30th, 2019
   -Online Registration due: May 31th, 2019
   -Submission of Proceeding (700-900words): June 30th, 2019
   -Conference date: Saturday, August 10th, 2019

Publication

RMIH 2019Tokyo proceedings will be published in ...

by Hana Syoin

Contact

        researchmeeting.tokyo2019@gmail.com
        amino.kaoru.544@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp