The 12th International Conference on Functional Pragmatics will be held 14-15 July 2016 at Utrecht University, Netherlands. The conference will address the current debate on the internationalisation of education in an academic context and beyond, and its consequences for language policies in schools and universities. What are opportunities and challenges of various national languages of science and education and multilingualism in the context of scholarly communication (‘Wissenskommunikation’) and linguistic diversity in Europe? This focus is building onto the two domains which were also addressed in the Functional Pragmatics conference in Antalya in 2014: ‘Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication’ Text and Discourse’ Continue lendo →