CFP and Registration: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines

[Christopher Hart]

Dear Colleagues,

Registration is now open for the first international conference 'Critical
Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines', to be held at the
University of East Anglia, Norwich between 29-30 June, 2006. Please visit
the conference website at http://discourse.uea.ac.uk for further details.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Thirty years have passed since research began at the University of East
Anglia (UEA) into what would be inaugurated as Critical Linguistics with the
publication of Language and Control in 1979. UEA has since remained at the
forefront of critically applied linguistic research.

In continuation of this tradition, the School of Language, Linguistics and
Translation Studies (LLT) invites abstracts to be considered for a
conference designed to assess the state of the art and offer new directions
for interdisciplinary critical discourse research. The conference is
organized in cooperation with the Centre for Applied Research in Education
(CARE) and the Centre for Staff and Educational Development (CSED).

Whilst it is CDA that has claimed the most attention, papers dealing with
any critical approaches to discourse analysis are invited across a variety
of disciplines.

Interdisciplinarity as a central theme for the conference can be interpreted
in two ways. First, we are interested in critical approaches to discourse
analysis as applied within disciplines including all humanities and sciences
but also applied and professional areas such as medicine, environmental
studies, engineering, social policy, education, law, etc. Second, the
methodological foundations of critical discourse analysis historically lie
with linguistics (from transformational to systemic functional grammar) and
ethnography. However, recently critical approaches to discourse analysis
have benefited from a wider range of methodologies. We therefore also
welcome and encourage papers reflecting the theoretical advances in
linguistics, psychology and cognitive science amongst other disciplines
which offer the opportunity for critically applied discourse research to
expand its methodological arsenal.

To further underscore CADAAD's theme, the invited plenary speakers each
represent a different approach to interdisciplinarity and innovation in
(critical) discourse analysis. 

    * Gunther Kress
    * Christ'l de Landtsheer
    * Louis de Saussure
    * Ruth Wodak

The conference will experiment with a new form of online proceedings
inviting post-conference interaction between presenters, participants and an
external audience. From this process, selected presentations will be
published in print form. CADAAD is pursuing publication opportunities with
the John Benjamins series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and
Culture (DAPSAC).

Abstracts of 300 words plus references should be submitted to
discourse at uea.ac.uk by 25 February, 2006 in Word format (RTF or plain text
are acceptable alternatives, use of PDF is discouraged).  Speakers will be
allocated 20 minutes talk-time with 10 minutes for questions.  Abstracts for
posters are also invited. Authors should include their name, affiliation,
correspondence details and indicate whether they are submitting for a
session paper or a poster presentation. Successful applicants will be
notified by 31 March.

Organised by Christopher Hart and Dominik Lukeš with Paul Chilton. All
organisers can be contacted through the conference email on
discourse at uea.ac.uk.