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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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SPECIAL ISSUE OF <i>DISCOURSE & SOCIETY </i>ON "DISCOURSE AND
POVERTY"<br>
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DISCOURSE & SOCIETY has in the past paid attention to many
important social issues, especially those related to power abuse and
inequality in the fields of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, politics and
ideology.<br>
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There is, however, one primary field of social inequality and daily
exploitation, suffering and misery that has received much less
attention from critical discourse scholars, both in DISCOURSE &
SOCIETY as well as in other journals or books: poverty. <br>
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True, poverty is first of all a question of a fundamental lack of basic
resources and human rights (food, housing, work, health care, safety,
education, and so on) due to social and economic domination and less an
issue of discursive discrimination. Yet, as is the case for all forms
of social inequality, also poverty may be discursively ignored (e.g.,
in media or political discourse), mitigated or explained away (e.g., in
bureaucratic or academic discourse), or directly or indirectly
legitimated (e.g., in political, corporate or legal discourse). To
understand poverty, one needs to understand the mechanisms of power
abuse. Power abuse is engaged in by various dominant groups/classes and
their elites. Elites exercise their power mainly through text and talk.
Analyzing such talk, or the dissident discourses that oppose it, may
contribute to our critical understanding of poverty.<br>
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Poverty -- anywhere in the world, also in the rich countries -- should
be placed more prominently on the world agenda -- also of discourse
analysts. With the vast media and political attention for terrorism,
the daily terror of poverty affecting many hundreds of millions of
people is usually forgotten. <br>
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Critical discourse analysts should not tolerate this, and actively
contribute to the study of the discursive foundations of the
reproduction of poverty. DISCOURSE & SOCIETY stimulates and
publishes such critical studies.<br>
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</font><font face="Comic Sans MS">ABSTRACTS/PROPOSALS (max 200 words,
including Title of paper, Names of Authors, Institutional Address and
e-mail as header of the abstract) should be sent <b>before October 1,
2005 </b>to the Editor, Teun A. van Dijk:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:vandijk@discourse-in-society.org">vandijk@discourse-in-society.org</a>.
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First versions of papers whose proposals are accepted are probably due
on May 1, 2006.<br>
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PAPERS are preferred that systematically and explicitly analyze both
the discursive and the social dimensions of a sizable corpus of text
and/or talk related to the topic of poverty. For details about what we
understand by 'discourse analysis' see </font><font
face="Comic Sans MS">the <i>Criteria
for Preferred Papers</i> for DISCOURSE & SOCIETY:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.discourse-in-society.org/pref-das.htm">http://www.discourse-in-society.org/pref-das.htm</a>.<br>
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Teun A. van Dijk<br>
Universitat Pompeu Fabra<br>
Dept. de Traducció i Filologia<br>
Rambla 30<br>
08002 Barcelona<br>
España/Spain<br>
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E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:teun@discourse-in-society.org">teun@discourse-in-society.org</a><br>
Internet: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.discourse-in-society.org">www.discourse-in-society.org</a><br>
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