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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Dear Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>The fourth international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) will take place at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal, 4-6 July 2012.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>The following distinguished scholars have confirmed their participation as plenary speakers:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/Paul-Chilton/">Professor Paul Chilton</a> (Lancaster University)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/Michal-Krzyzanowski/">Dr Michal Krzyzanowski</a> (Lancaster University)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellmml/">Professor Michelle Lazar</a> (National University of Singapore)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.ucm.es/info/fing1/profesores/marin.html">Professor Juana Marín Arrese</a> (Universidad Complutense Madrid)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.discourses.org/">Professor Teun van Dijk</a> (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. We welcome papers dealing with any contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourse/genre. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>(New) Media discourse<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Party political discourse<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Advertising <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Discourses of war and terrorism<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Discourses of discrimination and inequality<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Power, ideology and dominance in institutional discourse<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Identity in discourse<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Education discourses<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Environmental discourses<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Health communication<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-left:38.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Language and the law<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing frameworks for critical discourse research and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences including but without being limited to:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Sociolinguistics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Functional Linguistics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Cognitive Linguistics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Corpus Linguistics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Conversation and Discourse Analysis<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Discursive Psychology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Multimodality<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Media Studies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Communication Studies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Political Science<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Papers will be allocated 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Abstracts of no more than 300 words including references should be sent as MS Word attachment to <a href="mailto:c.j.hart@herts.ac.uk">c.j.hart@herts.ac.uk</a> before<b> 18 December 2011. </b>Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract your name, affiliation and email address. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 1 February 2012.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Further information is available at <a href="http://www.cadaad.net/cadaad_2012">www.cadaad.net/cadaad_2012</a>. For any other inquiries please contact Chris Hart (<a href="mailto:c.j.hart@herts.ac.uk">c.j.hart@herts.ac.uk</a>) or the local organiser, Maria Zara Simões Pinto Coelho (<a href="mailto:zara@ics.uminho.pt">zara@ics.uminho.pt</a>). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dr Christopher Hart<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Senior Lecturer in English Language and Communication<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Hertfordshire<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>go.herts.ac.uk/cjhart<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>