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This chapter provides us with an overview of the role and function of the chairperson, at both CPs and other, agnate, conference speech events. Advice regarding preferred approaches to chair discourse, as well potential problems areas, will be discussed.

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  • Langham, C. S. (2007). English for oral and poster presentations. Tokyo: Ishiyaku.

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Guest, M. (2018). Chairing Discourse. In: Conferencing and Presentation English for Young Academics. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2475-8_23

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