CFP: Fifth International Symposium on Text Genre Studies, Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil, August 11-14, 2009.

The International Symposium on Text Genre Studies – SIGET – gathers together researchers, university, secondary, and primary school teachers and other professionals involved in the study of text genres. Due to the inherent interdisciplinarity of the study object (text genres), this symposium aims at researchers from different areas within both Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (discourse analysts, researchers on text, conversation, and enunciation, teacher trainers), as well as professionals and researchers of other fields, such as pedagogy, psychology, sociology, communication, terminology, translation, an others. Symposium themes; Text genres: epistemology and methodology Text genres and language teaching Text genre and teacher training Text genres and professional areas Text genre and literacy Text genre and media For more information, visit http://www.ucs.br/ucs/extensao/agenda/eventos/vsiget/ingles/apresentacao.