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Dear Colleagues, I am sending this message bringing bad news to two<BR>
mailing lists which I maintain here at Aalborg University, one for the<BR>
Centre for Discourse Studies and the other for the PlaceME research<BR>
network which I coordinate. The reason is that one of our most frequent<BR>
and warmly welcomed guests at our seminars and workshops, namely Ron<BR>
Scollon, has died. He passed away peacefully on New Year's Day at his home<BR>
in Seattle with his wife Suzie and family. He died from kidney cancer,<BR>
which he had been suffering from for over a year.<BR>
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Many of you have been to our workshops, seminars and summer schools since<BR>
2002, and you may have met him at one of those events. Some of you know<BR>
him very well. Ron was an inspirational scholar and a passionate teacher.<BR>
His research production, often with Suzie Scollon, in the last ten years<BR>
was not only phenomenal, but also from book to book the ideas flowed<BR>
spectacularly in innovative directions. He was never content to cling to<BR>
one idea; he ceaselessly refined it and modified it. For example, he<BR>
developed new approaches to analysing discourse and mediated action<BR>
ranging from mediated discourse analysis to discourses in place to nexus<BR>
analysis to public consultative discourse analysis to the most recent<BR>
geographies of discourse. Too fast for many of us to keep up!<BR>
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I owe a great debt to his work and ideas and friendship. And to his<BR>
political commentaries and sense of social justice. He has undoubtedly<BR>
left a powerful legacy in discourse studies that has yet to be fully<BR>
explored. He was far ahead of his time, but unfortunately time caught up<BR>
with him in the end.<BR>
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Best wishes for this coming year. Let's hope it brightens up from this<BR>
gloomy beginning.<BR>
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paul<BR>
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Prof. Paul B. McIlvenny ! Phone: +45-9940-9169<BR>
Dept of Language & Culture ! Fax: +45-9940-7887<BR>
Kroghstraede 3 ! E-mail: paul@hum.aau.dk<BR>
Aalborg University ! WWW: <a href="http://paul-server.hum.aau.dk">http://paul-server.hum.aau.dk</a> <a href="http://paul-server.hum.aau.dk/"><http://paul-server.hum.aau.dk/></a> <BR>
DK-9220 Aalborg ! Centre for Discourse Studies:<BR>
Denmark ! <a href="http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk">http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk</a> <a href="http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/"><http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/></a> <BR>
<a href="http://www.kultur.aau.dk">http://www.kultur.aau.dk</a> <a href="http://www.kultur.aau.dk/"><http://www.kultur.aau.dk/></a> ! PlaceME Nordic network:<BR>
Room: 2.224, ks. 3 ! <a href="http://www.placeme.hum.aau.dk">http://www.placeme.hum.aau.dk</a> <a href="http://www.placeme.hum.aau.dk/"><http://www.placeme.hum.aau.dk/></a> <BR>
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DeXusChange 2009 coming soon...<BR>
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