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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear all,<BR><BR>Teun has recently invited me to
join the list, so I thought that I'd introduce myself to you all. <BR><BR>I
currently work at the dept of Socal Sciences, Loughborough University, in the
UK. My principal areas of research interest relate to discourse, journalism and
social inequalities, and the ways that these three areas intersect with and
affect each other. Initially, for my PhD thesis, this was focused on the way
that Islam and Muslims are represented in the British broadsheet press - the
elite section of the print media that had, until that time, escaped a dedicated
book-length analysis of their outputs on any subject. This produced a book as
part of the DAPSAC series for John Benjamins, that I am still quite happy
with. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This interest in anti-Muslim racism has continued
to this day, and recently a group of us in the dept (including Mick Billig)
completed a study on changing notions of 'Britishness' for the CRE, in which I
wrote the section on Islam. The report is available via the CRE site (or from my
website below)<BR>Over the years since I finished my thesis, I have become more
interested in class based inequalities, the ways that class and race intersect
and, in particular, in the ways that the middle class represent themselves and
their role as the managers of capital. This is something I've covered very
briefly in a recent book, but I'd really like to look into in more depth at a
later stage. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>For further details of any and all
my publications (many downloadable!) see:<BR><A
href="http://www.freewebs.com/johnrichardson/index.htm">www.freewebs.com/johnrichardson/index.htm</A>
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>In the meantime, I along with Ian Hargreaves,
Katie Weir and an international cast of the great and good are launching an
online peer reviewed journal, called 'Studies in Language and Capitalism.' The
launch edition is due to come out in the next week or so & we're all really
happy with the range of articles that we've attracted for it. The URL is at the
bottom of this email. Perhaps someone could tell me: Did the call for papers
reach this email list? If not, I will forward it to you all. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>And after all that, here is the real reason for
the email: I thought I'd pass something on to you all.<BR> <BR>Chris Rojek,
of Sage Publications, contacted me by email about a week ago and asked if I
would be interested in writing a book on CDA. I replied saying 'yes, I might be.
What did you have in mind?..' and after a bit of back and forth & a phone
conversation I decided that the project wasn't for me at this stage.
<BR> <BR>It seemed that he (or they) were interested in a kind of 'CDA
social or discourse theory' book, charting the theoretical roots of CDA
(and he mentioned Foucault here a few times), going on to suggest the advantages
& disadvantages of the approach and finishing on outlining some issues that
CDA may want or need to address in the future. All very worthwhile, I am
sure you will agree. But I am currently snowed under with other
commitments, so I couldn't do the research necessary to fill some of the gaps in
my knowledge of Foucault. <BR>But I thought 'someone on the list may be in a
position to write such a book'. Drop Chris a line if you're interested: <A
href="mailto:chris.rojek@sagepub.co.uk">chris.rojek@sagepub.co.uk</A> <BR>Here
are the Sage guidleines for writing a book proposal:<BR><A
href="http://www.sagepub.co.uk/bookAuthEdit.nav">http://www.sagepub.co.uk/bookAuthEdit.nav</A>
<BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There may even be the possibility of convincing him
to start a CDA book series, as he did seem quite keen.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>all the
best<BR>John<BR> <BR>------------------------------------<BR>John E
Richardson<BR>Dept of Social Sciences<BR>Loughborough University<BR>Epinal Way
<BR>Loughborough <BR>Leicestershire LE11 3TU<BR>UK<BR><A
href="http://www.languageandcapitalism.info/">http://www.languageandcapitalism.info/</A>
<BR><A
href="http://www.freewebs.com/johnrichardson/index.htm">www.freewebs.com/johnrichardson/index.htm</A>
<BR>Tel +44 01509 228874</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>