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Hi Tahir (and others), <br>
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I am afraid that the discourse journals I edit for Sage have a standard
editorial requirement that articles should in principle always <i>also
</i>do actual discourse analysis. If one has a really new theoretical
idea, then obviously large part of the paper can be dedicated to
theory, but the condition is that one always has to illustrate the
theory in concrete analyses of actually occurring text or talk. <br>
<br>
In other words, we want authors to remain with their feet on the
empirical ground of actual discourse, even when they have their head in
the theoretical clouds. <br>
<br>
Obviously, the reverse also hold: No article with detailed discourse or
conversation analysis is being accepted without a decent theoretical
framework. <br>
<br>
There have been many reasons for criterion to always also analyze
actual text or talk, mainly to avoid a large amount of very vague,
speculative papers of a more philosophical nature -- even if these are
very interesting for other reasons. <br>
<br>
This means, indeed, that papers by (say) Foucault or Habermas, would
not have been accepted, but then for that kind of fundamental, more
philosophical studies, there are many other journals. <br>
<br>
And I guess that if I receive a brilliant theoretical article on
discourse, we may occasionally make an exception to the editorical
policy. <br>
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Sometimes we publish Discussion Papers (as part of a debate) that are
more theoretical/polemical.<br>
<br>
For the formal theoretical work on discourse (say on anaphora,
presupposition, etc) there are other journals, such as <i>Linguistics
and Philosophy, </i>etc. For theoretical studies on narrative, there
is <i>Narrative Inquiry</i>, and for argumentation there is <i>Argumentation</i>.
For anything remotely related to pragmatics, there is, indeed, the <i>Journals
of Pragmatics, </i>as well as <i>Pragmatics</i>. For theoretical
critical studies there is now <i>Critical Discourse Studies. </i>For
political discourse, there is the <i>Journal of Language and
Politics. </i>Some (more empirical) discourse studies also fit in the
sociolinguistic journals, of course. <br>
<br>
In sum, there are now many more fora for publication than only 10 years
ago...<br>
<br>
Best wishes<br>
<br>
Teun<br>
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Teun A. van Dijk<br>
Universitat Pompeu Fabra<br>
Dept. de Traducció i Filologia<br>
Rambla 30<br>
08002 Barcelona<br>
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E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:teun@discourses.org">teun@discourses.org</a><br>
Internet: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.discourses.org">www.discourses.org</a><br>
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