CfP: Theme Session - Cultural Critical Discourse Analysis

[Christopher Hart]

Call for papers
Theme Session on Cultural Critical Discourse Analysis at CADAAD 2012 -
www.cadaad.net/cadaad_2012
Braga, 4-6 July 2012
Organised by Dalia Gavriely-Nuri
The proposed panel describes a Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse
Analysis (CCDA) which aims at exposing the various ways in which
cultural codes are embedded in discourse, and contribute to the
reproduction of abuses of power. 
The point of departure of this panel is that the connection between
culture/discourse is relatively underdeveloped in a wide range of CDA
and CDS - perhaps because of the complexity and the ambiguity
surrounding the concept 'culture', or more simply, because most CDA
researchers are linguists rather than cultural researchers. 
The panel is an attempt to represent CCDA not only as a theoretical
framework, but also as a practical tool for decoding the cultural
'cargo' contained within verbal and non-verbal discourses of fact and
fiction. 
General principles of a cultural approach to CDA are understood as
follows:
*	No text is independent of its cultural contexts.
*	Rather than the deconstruction of linguistic structures, the
CCDA shall aim to uncover the cultural and cross-cultural codes embedded
in discourse. 
*	The CCDA employs tools and methodologies taken from the
discipline of cultural studies, such as the heuristic of decoding
cultural codes.
*	Cross-cultural or multi-cultural perspectives facilitate the
identification of unique elements belonging to a specific culture code
and thus contribute to the process of decoding cultural codes.  
The panel is organized around five major themes: Culture, Discursive
strategies, Cultural codes, The global market of cultural codes, and
Culture of peace.  Papers are invited which address any of these themes
from the perspective of a cultural approach to CDA.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words including references should be sent
as MS Word attachment to gavriely1 at gmail.com before 18 December 2011.
Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract your
name, affiliation and email address.  Notifications of acceptance will
be communicated by 1 February 2012.

Bibliography
Gavriely-Nuri, Dalia (forthcoming). Cultural Approach to CDA (CCDA).
Journal of Critical Discourse Studies.
Fairclough, Norman (2009/2001). A dialectical-relational approach to
critical discourse analysis in social research'. In:  Ruth Wodak and
Michael Meyer (eds.) Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis 162-186.
London: Sage. 
Katriel, Tamar (1999). Keywords: Patterns of Culture and Communication
in Israel. Haifa: University of Haifa Press & Zmora-Bitan (in Hebrew).
Scollo, Michelle (2011): Cultural approaches to discourse analysis: A
theoretical and methodological conversation with special focus on Donal
Carbaugh's Cultural Discourse Theory, Journal of Multicultural
Discourses, 6 (1): 1-32.
Shi-xu. (2005). A cultural approach to discourse. Basingstoke:
Macmillan.
Swidler, Ann. (1986). Culture in action: symbols and strategies.
American Sociological Review 51 (2): 273-286. 

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