Theme Session on Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis

[Christopher Hart]

Hi Veronika,

Great to hear that you're planning to come to CADAAD and especially your 
interest in the theme session.  Regarding 'political text and 
discourse', I guess I am actually thinking of 'political' in its loosest 
sense where anything to do with social interaction of any kind is in 
fact 'political'.  In which case, this umbrella term encompasses social, 
economic, corporate, educational discourse.  All of which, I would want 
to say falls under the bannar of politics.  Perhaps I should have been 
more explicit about this in the announcement.  But your rigth to point 
this out and I will definately ammend this for the second call for 
papers on the session so this broader scope will be made explicit.

Look forward to seeing you in Hertfordshire.

Kind regards,
Chris

Koller, Veronika wrote:
> Dear Chris,
> I am definitely planning to submit a paper for CADAAD, and am particularly intrigued by the panel below. However, why the exclusive focus on *political* discourse? I apprecate that CDA is traditionally linked to the study of political discourse but as you are aware, colleagues are working on a host of areas, including, e.g., educational and corporate discourses. Any chance of broadening the scope of the panel somewhat?
>  
> Best regards,
> Veronika
>
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> Subject: CFP: Theme Session on Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis
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> Dear all,
>
> This call for papers is for a theme session at CADAAD'08. For full
> conference details visit http://cadaad.org/cadaad08
>
> Chair: Christopher Hart (University of Hertfordshire) and Dominik Lukes
> (University of East Anglia)
>
> Critical discourse analysis (CDA) identifies three analytic stages:
> description, interpretation and explanation. Halliday's systemic
> functional linguistics has become synonymous with description-stage
> analysis of representation in text. And at the explanation stage, CDA is
> associated with Marxism and Critical Theory. Very little work, however,
> has been carried out at the interpretation stage, which is concerned
> with discourse processing. Discourse processing, of course, involves
> meaning construction as understood in cognitive linguistics or cognitive
> pragmatics. Cognitive linguistics is a broad paradigm subsuming a number
> of distinct theories and thus offering a range of potential analytical
> tools to CDA. But whilst CDA has made use of conceptual metaphor theory,
> it has not recognised cognitive linguistic approaches to discourse and
> the input they provide at the interpretation-stage. Similarly, cognitive
> approaches to pragmatics have not been recognised in CDA.
>
> This methodologically-oriented session then, invites papers addressing
> meaning construction in political text and discourse from the
> perspectives of cognitive linguistics and cognitive pragmatics. As such,
> papers applying conceptual blending theory, construction grammar,
> discourse space theory, frame negotiation, mental space theory or
> relevance theory, for example, are particularly welcome.
>
> Please send abstracts of no longer than 400 words to
> c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk <mailto:c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk> by *30 November
> 2007*. Authors should include their name, affiliation and email address.
> Successful authors will be notified via email by *15 February 2008*.
>
> Kind regards,
> Christopher Hart
>
>
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> Christopher Hart
> Lecturer in English Language and Communication
> School of Humanities
> University of Hertfordshire
>
> www.hartcda.org.uk
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Christopher Hart
Lecturer in English Language and Communication
School of Humanities
University of Hertfordshire

www.hartcda.org.uk