From laura.filardo at uva.es Tue Dec 2 08:34:22 2025 From: laura.filardo at uva.es (LAURA FILARDO LLAMAS) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 08:34:22 +0000 Subject: [Cadaad] CADAAD 2026 - Final call for abstracts Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The final deadline for abstracts for CADAAD 2026 in Valladolid is MONDAY 15th DECEMBER. Venue: Universidad de Valladolid, Spain Dates: 8-10 July 202 To submit an abstract: https://www.cadaad2026.com/138021/section/59992/cadaad-2026.html The 2026 edition marks the 20th anniversary of CADAAD. Under the theme Beyond Physical and Symbolic Spaces: Methods and Challenges in Critical Discourse Studies, we invite scholars to reflect on the evolution of the field and the ways in which different methodological schools address the quantitative and qualitative bridge. In times of escalating physical and symbolic conflicts, the increasing influence of social media, the rise of fake news and polarizing attitudes, it is also necessary to reflect on how Critical Discourse Scholars can address those challenges. The conference theme approaches these challenges broadly, also encompassing issues such as the construction of identity (us/them), space (in/out), time (past/present), politics (in its multiple forms) or society. It also seeks to move beyond traditional academic spaces by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue between scholars and practitioners, and by acknowledging the role of multilingualism. As on previous CADAAD conferences, we are also happy to see abstracts of discourse analytical work from any field that looks at, among others: * Post/de/anti-Colonialism * Corporate and organisational communication * Culture, cultural studies, and cultural promotion * Education * Environment and environmentalism * Mental or physical health * Gender and sexuality * News and (social) media analysis * Protest and social movements The conference will be in person only and online or hybrid presentations will not be possible. Papers can be individually or co-presented. Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes. Abstracts for presentations should be 300 words (including references). A small selection of posters will also be accepted. For details, please visit: https://www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detail/cadaad-2026.html Kind regards, Laura Dr. Laura Filardo-Llamas Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics Department of English Studies Universidad de Valladolid https://portaldelaciencia.uva.es/investigadores/179963/detalle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2644-975X -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rikitiki at uw.edu Tue Dec 2 20:25:12 2025 From: rikitiki at uw.edu (Riki Thompson) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 20:25:12 +0000 Subject: [Cadaad] CFP - Intersecting Intimacies: Auto-Ethnographic Explorations (Dec 15) Message-ID: Dear CADAAD Colleagues, We are thrilled to invite proposals for an exciting new edited collection that explores the fascinating intersection of personal and professional experiences among researchers who both study and actively use digital platforms for intimacy in their own lives. Editors: Dr. Treena Orchard (Western University), Dr. Riki Thompson (University of Washington), Dr. Caroline Tagg (The Open University) Series: Digital Intimacies Series, Bloomsbury Academic About the Collection: Intersecting Intimacies: Auto-Ethnographic Explorations of Researchers Who Swipe, Share, and Study Digital Intimacy Our relationship with digital technologies has become increasingly complex?reflected in declining dating app usage among younger generations, heightened data security concerns, and the growing influence of AI in online spaces. Yet we continue to navigate these digital landscapes not only as researchers but as users seeking connection, romance, friendship, and community. This cutting-edge volume contributes fresh insights to the interdisciplinary study of digital technologies and intimacies by centering the experiences of researchers who occupy the unique position of both studying and personally engaging with digital platforms. We seek contributions that showcase unique insider perspectives bridging personal experience, methodological innovation, and scholarly analysis to offer deeper understanding of how digital platforms actually function in intimate life. What We're Looking For We invite auto-ethnographic and other creative qualitative explorations from researchers across career stages and geographical locations who critically reflect on what it means to use digital platforms both personally and professionally. Topics may include (but are not limited to): * Dating apps and romantic intimacy * Social media platforms and friendship maintenance * Private messaging apps and family connections * Professional networking and digital relationships * The blurred boundaries between research and personal platform use * Methodological innovations in studying digital intimacy * Intersectional experiences of identity and technology * Cross-cultural perspectives on digital intimacy practices * Ethical considerations in researching platforms you personally use Important Dates * Proposal/Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2025 * Initial Acceptance Notification: February 1, 2026 * Full Chapter Drafts* Due: October 1, 2026 *Chapters should be 4,000-6,000 words (including references) Submission Guidelines We welcome proposals from researchers across disciplines. Please submit via Google Form @ https://forms.gle/orDNnzcNsfAphWV79: * Proposal: Maximum 250 words outlining your chapter's working title, focus, approach, and contribution * Bio: Maximum 50 words including current affiliation * Contact information Questions? We're excited to discuss potential contributions! Please don't hesitate to reach out: * Dr. Treena Orchard: torchar2 at uwo.ca * Dr. Riki Thompson: rikitiki at uw.edu * Dr. Caroline Tagg: caroline.tagg at open.ac.uk We look forward to exploring these intersecting intimacies with you and creating a volume that pushes the boundaries of how we understand the personal-professional dynamics of digital intimacy research. Please share this call with colleagues who might be interested! About Editors Dr. Treena Orchard is an award-winning anthropologist and author of Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture & The Darker Side of Dating Apps who conducts critically oriented feminist research on sexuality, gender, health, and technology. Dr. Riki Thompson is a digital discourse analyst whose research examines language, gender, sexuality, mental health, and digital intimacies to reveal how digital communication connects some while marginalizing others. Dr. Caroline Tagg is an applied linguist who researches how digital communication practices are embedded in individuals' wider social, economic and political lives. Riki Thompson, Ph.D. (she/her) Associate Professor, Writing Studies & Digital Rhetoric, University of Washington Tacoma SHESOURCE Expert - Women's Media Center rikithompson.com | Google Scholar | LinkedIn Check out recent scholarship: Discourse, Digital Intimacies, & Online Dating, Special issue now published in Discourse, Context & Media Bumble?s ticking clock: Dating app temporal design as neoliberal discipline. Discourse, Context, & Media. Dr. Riki Thompson on online dating and normative relationships. Diggit Magazine Video Interview Perfecting Your Dating App Profile with Riki Thompson. Mistakes Were Made Podcast An Academic Perspective on the Online Dating Industry - GDI Podcast Research Methodology with Online Dating Apps NVIVO Podcast: Between the Data What's a polycule? An expert explains - The Conversation Beyond the gender binary: Digital dating, discourse, design, & normativity- (Critical) Discourse Studies and the (new) normal More than the selfie: online dating, non-monogamy, normativity, & linked profiles on OkCupid - Language & Sexuality Reflective Approaches to Analyzing Digital Discourse - Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Puyallup, Duwamish, Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sbennett at amu.edu.pl Fri Dec 19 10:02:51 2025 From: sbennett at amu.edu.pl (Samuel Bennett) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:02:51 +0000 Subject: [Cadaad] Publications from around the CADAAD Network Message-ID: Dear colleagues, As we sign off for winter break here in Europe, here are the latest books from colleagues in the CADAAD network. If you?d like to share details of your own publication and activity (monographs, edited volumes, special issues of journals, project calls, conferences, etc.), please send an email to sbennett at amu.edu.pl Conflict, Discourse and Cognition: Political Discourse in Northern Ireland Laura Filardo-Llamas A comprehensive approach to the study of discourse and conflict, this book explores how opposing communities construe discourse worlds which appear to reflect the existence of ?paradoxical realities?. Adopting a novel method for the study of conflict, framed in the cognitive linguistic tradition within Critical Discourse Studies, the book explains how conflict may be discursively created by relying on the study of four main construal operations. Grounded in examples specific to Northern Ireland, each chapter also highlights how the method used could be applied to other conflictual contexts. In doing so, it demonstrates how language and representation in conflict situations may stem from a combination of different layers in conflictual relations and the existence of both overt and covert conflict. It also provides a comprehensive list of linguistic cues upon which researchers can rely for analysing and explaining the role of discourse in conflictual situations. https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/conflict-discourse-and-cognition-9781350373778/ Hong Kong Studies: The Culture and Politics of Realignment Magdalen Ki and Wayne Wen-chun Liang (eds.) This interdisciplinary volume provides a multifaceted exploration of the kaleidoscopic transformation of Hong Kong. It examines the region's diverse historical developments, the challenges of digital surveillance, the impact of Orientalism, the power of individual agency, minor literature, films, popular culture, and the trajectories of creative writing programs. Featuring contributors from various disciplines, including history, literature, and media studies, this volume offers scholarly insights into the dynamic relationships among domestic helpers, immigrants, refugees, and Hongkongers. It presents an essential overview of the complex evolution of Hong Kong as a continually changing Special Administrative Region of China. https://brill.com/display/title/72040 Unlearning Languages that Control the Mind Vladan Sutanovac (ed) The edited collection Unlearning Languages That Control the Mind (ULCM) is to be read as a continuous multi?voiced work on what takes place when we forget that unlearning is a part of our existence as much as learning. As the world as we know it finds itself at a critical juncture yet again, how we talk about the continuously amassing genocidal invasions and authoritarian occupations of our minds, thoughts, bodies and environments will affect how we experience, process and counter them on a day?to?day basis. Based on this, ULCM offers its readers a singular interdisciplinary blueprint of the inner and outer workings of motivated language use when in service of mind engineering and engineered acting. As such, it is a valuable enabling resource for anyone looking to identify and unlearn the languages that mask belief traps and cognitive distortions set up by various antisocial actors to keep our day?to?day cognition and acting confined to society as engineered laboratory. With its interdisciplinary breadth and engaging multimodal content, this handbook breaks new grounds in actionable application of science as accessible community?enabling tool for seeing through, i.e. dismantling belief traps and mental distortions that turn language use into mindbody abuse. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003393399/unlearning-languages-control-mind-vladan-sutanovac Speech Act Theory: Between Narrow and Broad Pragmatics Stavros Assimakopoulos Speech act theory has been foundational in establishing pragmatics as an independent field of inquiry; yet, recent pragmatic research appears to have drifted away from the theoretical investigation of speech acts. This Element explores the reasons why this is so, focusing on the difference of perspective that emerges when the scope of the discipline is viewed through a narrow versus a broad lens. Following an overview of the initial exposition of speech act theory by Austin, it tracks its evolution, through subsequent Searlean and Gricean elaborations, to the currently received view. This view is then found to have diverged substantially from Austin's original vision, largely due to its alignment with the narrow conception of pragmatics. Against this backdrop, it is suggested that embracing the broad take on the discipline can allow for a reintegration of Austin's vision into the way we theorise about speech acts. https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/speech-act-theory/E29E0869CBABCD7B61536B4AF6A0653B (Free online access until 31 December) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Keiko [cid:3d416357-3d4f-4696-9832-6e2b8aa8f23c] CALL FOR PROPOSALS We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 24th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics (COMET 2026), which will be hosted by Yokohama City University, Japan during 5-7 August, 2026. The conference will be held entirely in person in Yokohama. The COMET conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds involving various healthcare specialties and the human and social sciences. A special emphasis is on the dissemination of ongoing research in language/discourse/ communication studies in relation to healthcare education, patient participation and professional ethics. The proposal submission deadline is 20 December 2025. Extended till 20 January 2026 The Pre-COMET Masterclass is scheduled for 4 August, 2026, and will be delivered by Professor Srikant Sarangi. For more information, see website link. PLENARY SPEAKERS: Prof. Kazue Nakajima (Executive Assistant to the President, Osaka University Hospital, Japan) Prof. Nelya Koteyko (Professor of Language Communication, Queen Mary University of London, UK) Prof. Srikant Sarangi (Professor in Language and Communication and Director of Health Communication Research Centre, Cardiff University, UK ) CONFERENCE THEMES INCLUDE: * client?professional encounters (involving doctors, counsellors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, speech and language therapists, psychotherapists etc.) * communicating risk and uncertainty * communication in chronic disease * communication in palliative care * communication skills training * distributed expertise among professionals and clients * disturbed patient * ethics and communication * evidence in diagnosis and non-diagnosis * health and disability * health, wellbeing and the lifespan * health literacy * health technologies and medical informatics * healthcare services and organisations * interpreter-mediated healthcare delivery * intercultural communication in health * interprofessional communication and hospital management systems * media and health communication * medical education * mental illness * narratives of illness experience * patient centricity * patient empowerment * public understanding of health and illness * quality of life and quality of care * representation of the body * research ethics * simulated patient training * (shared) decision making * tailoring health messages * telemedicine * artificial intelligence in healthcare * values and responsibilities in professional practice SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Proposals include panels, individual presentations (oral or poster) and work-in-progress sessions. 1. PANELS Panels should address a common theme, content or methodological area, and will be scheduled for 90 minutes or multiples of 90 minutes. A 90-minute panel usually includes 3 individual presentations, plus a brief introduction and preferably time allocated for a general discussion.? For panel submissions, please include a) an overview description of no more than 300 words (including references), highlighting the panel?s content and objectives, and including 3-5 key words; b) an abstract of no more than 250 words (including references) for each individual presentation within the panel. Also provide information about the panel members and the coordinator, including full institutional addresses and emails. Please indicate how many 90-minute slots you are requesting. Submit your panel proposal via e-mail with subject header ?COMET 2026 Panel Proposal? to comet2026 at yokohama-cu.ac.jp 2. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS (ORAL OR POSTER) Proposals for individual papers (no more than 250 words, including references) must clearly indicate a preference for oral or poster presentation. Following the peer review process, the organisers will determine whether a proposal is selected for oral or poster presentation. There will be an opportunity for all poster presenters to briefly outline their main argument in a panel session in 2-3 minutes each prior to the poster viewing session. Poster presenters must be physically present both at the panel session and at their poster board to discuss their work during the dedicated sessions. Oral presentations will typically be scheduled in blocks of 90 minutes to contain 3 presentations, with 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for discussion) allocated to each individual presentation. Submit your proposal for individual paper via link 3. WORK-IN-PROGRESS SESSIONS Proposals for work-in-progress should be no more than 250 words (including references), targeted at oral presentation. The presentations will be in blocks of 60 minutes, with individual presentations lasting 20 minutes (15 minutes for presentation + 5 minutes for discussion). This format is particularly suitable for early career researchers pursuing doctoral and postdoctoral studies and for experienced researchers undertaking/planning pilot projects or interested in reporting preliminary findings. Submit your proposal for work-in-progress via link PROPOSAL REVIEW AND SELECTION CRITERIA All proposals, except panel proposals, undergo a double-blind peer-review process. For panels, the reviewers will have access to the names of the panel coordinators and the panellists. Please note that COMET conference policy is one main oral presentation per presenter. You may choose to submit more than one proposal, but normally only one proposal will be accepted for oral presentation. An additional accepted proposal may be presented as poster. Any individual presenter ? even as part of a team ? is limited to one oral presentation and one poster presentation. The policy of ?one oral presentation per participant? is relaxed in the case of a second oral presentation in the invited forum. There is no fixed format for writing proposals, but we suggest the following structure: Background (including findings from and absences in previous literature); Aims/Objectives (including research question); Methodology (research design, type of data, participants, analytical framework); Results/Findings; and Conclusion (including practical relevance). Please note that the following criteria will form the basis for peer review: * originality of the topic and its relevance to the conference * background contextualisation of the study * relationship between title and content * structural organisation * theoretical/methodological appropriateness * clarity of claims and relevance Individual panels are reviewed without anonymisation in their entirety on the above criteria but also on the basis of their relevance to broader issues in communication, medicine, and ethics; the overall coherence of the proposal; and the usefulness of the panel to participants. Decisions about acceptance/rejection will be communicated by early March, 2026. Following formal acceptance, the responsible (presenting) authors must register their participation. The Registration deadlines and the registration fees will be published in early March. Please visit the COMET 2026 website https://www-user.yokohama-cu.ac.jp/~comet/wordpress/ for further details regarding submission guidelines or for additional information about the conference. Keiko Tsuchiya The Chair of the Local Organizing Committee of COMET 2026 Contact: comet2026 at yokohama-cu.ac.jp Website: https://www-user.yokohama-cu.ac.jp/~comet/wordpress/ [cid:6c7a7585-2668-44a7-b56e-16de4399f88b] [cid:e747b7d1-ecf8-4c6a-a13c-1b52cfeb3661] The Local Organizing Committee of COMET 2026 Contact: comet2026 at yokohama-cu.ac.jp Website: https://www-user.yokohama-cu.ac.jp/~comet/wordpress/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: