Seminar I Communicating disciplinary knowledge to a wide audience: How students engage with popularisation of science in 3MT presentations
Seminars / Lectures / Workshops
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Date
17 Oct 2022
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Organiser
Department of English and Communication
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Time
17:00 - 18:00
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Venue
Zoom
Speaker
Professor Kevin Jiang
Summary
The rapid development of communication technologies and changing ways of knowledge exchange are bringing up new academic contexts in which students, as future scientists, are exposed to a more unpredictable grouping of audience and diversified forms of interaction. Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations emerged as a new academic genre, which train research postgraduate students to communicate their research within three minutes to a general audience. In this talk, I seek to present the rhetorical language use students draw on to construct a persuasive speech while building an inclusive relationship with the audience. The analysis helps us to see how the particular rhetorical contexts of genre, register and disciplinary knowledge shape students' use of the interactional resources. This also suggests how students understand the connection between their disciplinary knowledge and real-world concerns and the way they adapt their discourse accordingly.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Kevin Jiang
Jilin University, China
Kevin Jiang is Kuang Yaming Distinguished Professor of applied linguistics in the school of foreign language education at Jilin University, China, and gained his PhD under the supervision of Professor Ken Hyland at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests lie in disciplinary discourse, corpus studies and academic writing, and his publications have appeared in most major applied linguistics journals. His recent books include Metadiscursive nouns: Interaction and persuasion in disciplinary writing (2022, Routledge) and Academic discourse and global publishing: Disciplinary persuasion in changing times (with Ken Hyland, 2019, Routledge).