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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt"> I am writing on behalf of <b>EDiSo</b> (<i>Estudios sobre Discurso y Sociedad</i>,
Studies on Discourse and Society), a newly established association
founded on the initiative of Professor Teun A. van Dijk, who assembled a
group of researchers to work towards the creation of the now registered
association: Gloria Álvarez Benito, Celso Álvarez Cáccamo, Antonio M.
Bañón Hernández, Olga Cruz Moya, Mohamed El-Madkouri Maataoui, Carmen
Gregori Signes, Clara Keating, Luisa Martín Rojo, Esperanza Morales
López, Luci Nussbaum Capdevilla, Montserrat Ribas Bisbal, Marta
Tordesillas Colado, Teun A. van Dijk, and Julia Williams Camus. On the <b>EDiSo</b> website, <a href="http://www.edisoportal.org" target="_blank">http://www.edisoportal.org</a>, you will find all the necessary information on how to become a member.</span></p>
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The aim of the Association is to promote scientific exchange and
interdisciplinary collaboration among individual researchers and
national and international research groups studying discourse from
different perspectives and with different methodologies and goals. The
Association provides a forum for the circulation of information and the
diffusion of our work, for moving beyond isolation, and for the
promotion of training, collaboration and professional practice in
discourse studies, with special focus on the younger members. As to the
Association's role in society, we aim to contribute to the generation of
discourse and public debate in order to raise awareness concerning the
relationship between discourse, language and society.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt">
The geographical scope of the Association is the Iberian Peninsula.
Internal communication is based on the principle of mutual
understanding, that is, members may express themselves in the language
of their choice at any given time.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt">
The Association has been designed with a dynamic and participative
structure, allowing everyone to find their place according to their
availability and to their own initiative. Currently, several working
committees are being set up and members will be able to join them
shortly. The committees that are now being started include: the Internal
Organisation Committee, the Election Committee, the Committee for
Territorial and Linguistic Cohesion, Discourse and Social Justice, the
Communication Committee, the Funding Committee, and the Committee for
Conferences, Cultural Activities and Publishing. We hope new members
become involved in any of these committees and make contributions to
creating new ones.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt">
Although it is still early days, you can see that we have already
started to work with enthusiasm. We would like to take this opportunity
to encourage all to become members of <b>EDiSo</b>. The
association's annual registration fees are 30, 20, or 10 Euros. Any of
these fees guarantees that a member will participate on equal terms in
the association and will have the same rights and responsibilities.
Please select the fee which best suits your capabilities and your
situation. At the annual renewal period, you may change to any of the
other then-current fees.</span></p>
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At its second foundational meeting, the promoting group decided to name
Teun A. van Dijk as the Association's first Member of Honour, a
recognition which is contemplated in our Statutes.</span></p>
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Until elections are held at an extraordinary general meeting, the
composition of the Association's Directive Board is as follows:</span></p>
<ul style="text-align:justify"><li><span style="font-size:10pt">Luisa Martín Rojo, President</span></li><li><span style="font-size:10pt">Carmen Gregori Signes, Vice President</span></li><li><span style="font-size:10pt">Marta Tordesillas Colado, Secretary</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:10pt">Gloria Álvarez Benito, Vice Secretary</span></li><li><span style="font-size:10pt">Olga Cruz Moya, Treasurer</span></li><li><span style="font-size:10pt">Celso Álvarez Cáccamo</span></li><li>
<span style="font-size:10pt">Antonio M. Bañón Hernández</span></li><li><span style="font-size:10pt">Clara Keating</span></li><li><span style="font-size:10pt">Luci Nussbaum Capdevila</span></li><li><span style="font-size:10pt">Montserrat Ribas Bisbal</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:10pt">Mohamed El-Madkouri Maataoui</span></li></ul>
<p style="text-align:justify"><br><span style="font-size:10pt">Luisa Martín Rojo, on behalf of the promoting group</span><br><span style="font-size:10pt">May 14, 2013</span></p>
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