Specific attention will be paid to:

1. ■Multilingualism and identity construction in a professional context
   

2. ■Multilingualism and enactment of power in a professional context
   

3. ■Speech act realizations in multilingual professional settings
   

4. ■Change management communication in multilingual professional settings
   

5. ■Localized financial reporting from a multilingual perspective
   

6. ■Language policy in international organizations
   

7. ■Science communication in multilingual professional settings
   

8. ■(interpreter mediated) service encounters in multilingual settings
   

9. ■Public service interpreting
   

The conference is open to a variety of theoretical and (multi-)methodological approaches, such as ethnographic, sociolinguistic, (intercultural and cross-cultural) pragmatic and corpus-based approaches.

Conference Website: http://www.mppde.ugent.be/