plenary speakers already confirmed

click on the title of the talk to read the abstract

• Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk & Marcin Kilarski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
  title: Phonetic descriptions of "primitive" languages: What do we learn from history?
• Alan Cienki (VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
  title: TBC 
• Michal Starke (University of Tromsø, Norway)
  title: TBC
  
• Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
  title: When Silence is not so Golden:
  On the Lack of Dialogue Between Linguistics and Management Studies
• Dennis Preston (Oklahoma State University)
  title: Linguistic Insecurity 40 years later
• Kevin Harvey (The University of Nottingham)
  title: A corpus linguistics approach to online health communication: Using keywords to interrogate issues of emotional distress 
  
  

• Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
  title: Critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics: An exercise in reflexive methodology
• Kevin Harvey (The University of Nottingham)
  title: Introducing Health Communication: Discourse-based approaches

We are happy to announce that a panel devoted to Language and Communication in Media and Political Contexts will take place during YLMP2012. Please see the abstract for more details. 

To be announced late April.