2008年度亚太地区特殊用途语言研讨会（Conference of the Asia-Pacific Rim Languages for Specific Purposes 2008）将于12月8日至10日在香港大学举行。本次会议由香港城市大学英语与传播系与香港理工大学英语系共同承办。本次会议的目的是为亚太地区特殊用途语言研究人员和从业人员提供交换意见、沟通研究实践和培训的平台。亚太地区特殊用途语言交流协会也将在此次会议期间成立，该协会成立的主要目的是促进特殊用途语言在亚太地区的跨学科合作研究和培训，以促进其在亚太地区的研究资源共享。
会议主题
Partnerships in Action: Research, Practice & Training?
会议议题
Research
*Discourse studies of academic, professional institutional and other workplace contexts
*Methodologies used in LSP and professional communication
*Professional writing
*Information and document design
*Empirical studies
*Studies in identity and the construction of the work force
*Organizational and institutional discourse
*Multimodality
*Communication and expertise
Practice
*Language in the workplace
*Curriculum design for professional development
*On-line learning
*Learning at the workplace
*Transdisciplinary practices
Training
*Communication in corporate training
*Assessment and appraisal
*Recruitment and training
*Staff development
*Consultancies
*Quality assurance
主旨发言人
Professor Patrice Buzzanell, Department of Communication, Purdue University, US （How Do We Talk About Work, Careers, and Work-Life Intersections Today?）
Professor Christopher N Candlin, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia （Trading places, creating spaces: aligning research and practice in LSP and Professional Communication）
Professor Gu Yueguo, Head of the Contemporary Linguistics Department, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China （Collective Face, Politeness and Propriety in Chinese Organizational Discourse）
Professor Janet Holmes, Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand （Relational talk at work: from the workplace to the classroom and back again）
Professor Giovanni Parodi, Head of the Postgraduate School of Linguistics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile （Academic and professional written genres: abstraction and concreteness in PUCV-2006 Corpus）
