The general aim of this conference is to bring together researchers of discourse analysis, textual data mining and information retrieval working in different theoretical and methodological frameworks.

Mapping Language Across Cultures: Textual Analysis in Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication is an interdisciplinary conference combining Discourse Analysis approaches, computational linguistics, sequential analysis and contrastive cross-cultural approaches.

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Thematic strands
• Semantic networking in texts: network theory applications
• Meaningful patterns in text
• Automatic recognition of meaningful patterns in text
• Pragmalinguistic and constructional models
• Formal approaches to argumentation, narrative and ideology in texts
• Teaching and learning intercultural competence through text

Plenary speakers already confirmed
• Mick O'Donnell (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
• Pablo Carbonell (Université d'Evry, Genopole, Paris)
• M. Carmen África Vidal (Universidad de Salamanca)
• Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés (Universidad de Salamanca)
• Roberto Valdeón (Universidad de Oviedo)
• Rosario Martín Ruano (Universidad de Salamanca)

Organized by
Ovidi Carbonell and Izaskun Elorza (University of Salamanca)

Secretary
Blanca García Riaza and Reyes Albarrán

More information at mlac@usal.es