The conference will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy , Catholic University of Portugal , in Braga (Northern Portugal).

The Conference aims to promote interdisciplinary research into the cognitive, socio-cultural, functional-pragmatic, linguistic and semiotic dimensions of political and economic discourse, organizational and businesses discourse, including their various, new and traditional genres and underlining empirical methodologies. It brings together Critical Discourse Analysis and Communication Studies traditions, the Cognitive Linguistics paradigm and other cognitively and socially oriented approaches to political and economic discourse.