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Dear Colleagues,
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Registration is now open for the international conference 'Critical
Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines', to be held at the
University of East Anglia, Norwich between 29-30 June, 2006. Please
visit the conference website at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://discourse.uea.ac.uk">http://discourse.uea.ac.uk</a> for
further details.<br>
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<p>Thirty years have passed since research began at the University of
East Anglia (UEA) into what would be inaugurated as Critical
Linguistics with the publication of Language and Control in 1979. UEA
has since remained at the forefront of critically applied linguistic
research.</p>
<p>In continuation of this tradition, the School of
Language, Linguistics and Translation Studies (LLT) invites abstracts
to be considered for a conference designed to assess the state of the
art and offer new directions for interdisciplinary critical discourse
research. The conference is organized in cooperation with the Centre
for Applied Research in Education (CARE) and the Centre for Staff and
Educational Development (CSED). </p>
<p>Whilst it is CDA that has
claimed the most attention, papers dealing with any critical approaches
to discourse analysis are invited across a variety of disciplines. </p>
<p>Interdisciplinarity
as a central theme for the conference can be interpreted in two ways.
First, we are interested in critical approaches to discourse analysis
as applied within disciplines including all humanities and sciences but
also applied and professional areas such as medicine, environmental
studies, engineering, social policy, education, law, etc. Second, the
methodological foundations of critical discourse analysis historically
lie with linguistics (from transformational to systemic functional
grammar) and ethnography. However, recently critical approaches
to discourse analysis have benefited from a wider range of
methodologies. We therefore also welcome and encourage papers
reflecting the theoretical advances in linguistics, psychology and
cognitive science amongst other disciplines which offer the opportunity
for critically applied discourse research to expand its methodological
arsenal.</p>
<p>To further underscore CADAAD's theme, the invited
plenary speakers each represent a different approach to
interdisciplinarity and innovation in (critical) discourse analysis. </p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=4441&4441_0=5194">Gunther
Kress</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=christl.delandtsheer">Christ'l
de Landtsheer</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.louisdesaussure.tk/">Louis de Saussure</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/wodak/index.htm">Ruth
Wodak</a> </li>
</ul>
<p>The conference will experiment with a new form of online proceedings
inviting post-conference interaction between presenters, participants
and an external audience. From this process, selected presentations
will be published in print form. CADAAD is pursuing publication
opportunities with the John Benjamins series Discourse Approaches to
Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC).</p>
<p>Abstracts of 300
words plus references should be submitted to <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:discourse@uea.ac.uk">discourse@uea.ac.uk</a>
by 25
February, 2006 in Word format (RTF or plain text are acceptable
alternatives, use of PDF is discouraged). Speakers will be allocated
20 minutes talk-time with 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts for
posters are also invited. Authors should include their name,
affiliation, correspondence details and indicate whether they are
submitting for a session paper or a poster presentation. Successful
applicants will be notified by 31 March.</p>
<p>Organised
by Christopher Hart and Dominik Lukeš with Paul Chilton. All organisers
can be contacted through the conference email on <a
href="mailto:discourse@uea.ac.uk">discourse@uea.ac.uk</a>. </p>
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Christopher Hart
School of Language, Linguistics and Translation Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich
United Kingdom
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://discourse.uea.ac.uk/christopherhart">http://discourse.uea.ac.uk/christopherhart</a>
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