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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">FYI – please distribute widely</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"> - a message from Professor Greg Myers, Lancaster
University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">I have just joined Simeon Yates (who is at Sheffield Hallam) as co-editor of the new journal
<b>Discourse, Context & Media</b>, published by Elsevier. If you haven’t heard about it already, you can see more at
<a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/discourse-context-and-media/">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/discourse-context-and-media/</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Simeon and I both think there is a need for a new journal. There has been a lot of exciting work in this area in the last twenty years, as evidenced by seminars,
workshops, conference panels, and special issues of journals. But studies of media discourse often have to be shoehorned into linguistics journals, where they may not be seen as foregrounding linguistic issues, or cut back for communication journals, where
editors and referees may have little patience with the detailed analysis that discourse analysts, conversation analysts, corpus researchers, and sociolinguists bring to media texts. The new journal is planned around the kind of interdisciplinary discourse
analysis now emerging on such topics as new media, mobile media, social networks, viral advertising, changes in journalistic practice, changes in political communication, and new kinds of audiences.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">There are three ways you may be able to help us: contributing, suggesting topics, and/or reviewing. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Contributing: Simeon and I would particularly like to see a broad range of articles in the first issues, in terms of the kinds of media analysed, the languages
studied, the academic approaches, and the disciplines of authors, so that potential contributors to later volumes can see the breadth of the field and the kind of scholarly rigour that it demands. Please pass this message on to anyone you know who is working
on a paper on media discourse that they might want to submit.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Topics: If you are aware of emerging areas or cross-disciplinary intersections that you think have not been sufficiently covered by existing outlets, maybe something
you would like to read about, rather than something you are writing about yourself, please suggest it to Simeon or me and we can follow it up as a possible special issue, review article, or comment and response forum.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Referees: As a new journal, we are still building up our list of referees. We have an excellent Editorial Board, including such CDA luminaries as Lilie Chouliaraki,
Theo van Leeuwen, and Ruth Wodak (see <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/discourse-context-and-media/editorial-board/">
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/discourse-context-and-media/editorial-board/</a>), but please suggest other scholars (or yourselves) as referees so that we can cover the full range of the field, and draw on the broadest geographical and interdisciplinary range.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">I don’t want to contribute to the volume of e-mail by doing another big mailing, but please do forward this to anyone you think might be interested. Thanks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Greg Myers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:g.myers@lancs.ac.uk">g.myers@lancs.ac.uk</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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