Looking for deeper cultural CPD options

Where are you getting advanced training that treats culture as a communicative system, not decoration? I work ES–EN in community health and arts, and I’m assembling a 12-hour CPD module for 2025 on pragmatics — politeness strategies, honorifics, indirect refusals — and decision frameworks for when to explicate vs. preserve ambiguity. If you’ve taken a course or workshop that used real role-plays or discourse analysis (platform or instructor welcome), I’d love to compare notes.

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Try NCIHC advanced webinars on pragmatics/ambiguity: https://www.ncihc.org — solid for ES–EN; somewhat US-centric. Would 3x4h suit your 12-hour?

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I’ve gotten the most depth from IPrA’s pre-conference courses/summer schools — keep an eye on https://ipra.org for sessions that treat culture as a system rather than ornament. For your 12-hour plan, build a small ES–EN case corpus and run role-play labs that force a choice on “explicate vs. preserve,” then debrief with a simple decision tree; want a one-page template?

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