@ARTICLE{Pradela_Jacek_The_2020, author={Pradela, Jacek}, volume={vol. 41}, journal={LINGUISTICA SILESIANA}, pages={249-263}, howpublished={online}, year={2020}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach}, abstract={The present article attempts to discuss whether a medical conference poster intended for a specific English-speaking discourse community shares the properties of discourse colony (Hoey 1986). The author analyses 12 e-posters, which were displayed during an international neurological conference, presenting findings on epilepsy treatment. First, the author characterises the conference poster, which is followed by a description of discourse community and discourse colony. Next, the analysis of the e-posters is carried out and the results of the analysis are presented. On the basis of these results it might be said that the medical conference poster could be considered a discourse colony as it shares some of its properties.}, type={Article}, title={The medical conference poster as an example of discourse colony}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/116435/PDF/2020-01-LINS-14-Pradela.pdf}, doi={10.24425/linsi.2020.133274}, keywords={conference poster, discourse colony, discourse community, specialised discourse}, }