The international and interdisciplinary conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP) aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, especially language and communication research, and professional specialities (e.g. business, organisation studies, education, banking, health care, therapy, journalism, law, social care and welfare, immigration and border control, police work, translation and interpreting). ALAPP is closely linked with Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (JALPP) (Equinox), with a view to bringing seminal research to a wider readership.

Abstract book 

We are proud to announce the keynote speakers for the ALAPP 2020 conference:

Professor Karin Aronsson,

Stockholm University, Sweden

Title: Judges, attorneys and witnesses in courtroom storytelling: Choreographies of heated disputes

Professor Jemina Napier 

Heriot-Watt University, UK

Title: Framing professional practice through the lens of interpreter-mediated talk (The Candlin Lecture)

Professor Daniel Perrin

ZHAW Zurich University, Switzerland

Title: Management by writing: Investigating the communicatively constituted organisation

Real time (English) captioning will be available for all key note presentations. 

ALAPP 2020 Facebook page

Conference portal

The login to the virtual conference portal is available for registered participants from Thursday 10 September (afternoon CET). All registered participants will receive an email with personal login information.

Please contact monica.amundsen@ntnu.no if you have registered for the conference, but not received a login email.