[CDA-Discuss] What would you like to read in 2005?

[Hala Jawlakh]

I vote for the following (in this order)

1-Media and Terrorism
2-Media
3- POlitical Discourse Analysis
4-Persuation
5-Hate speech.


---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:04:03 -0500
>From: Linnea Micciulla <polyglot at BU.EDU>
>Subject: [CDA-Discuss] What would you like to read in 2005?
>To: CDA-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>Noriko, Eunju and I met yesterday to discuss ideas for CDA
for next
>semester.  One point that came up was the fact that most
subscribers to the
>listserv are actually not in Boston.  We felt that it would
be good to try
>to move all discussion of readings online, so that more
people can
>participate more fully and no one feels excluded.  With this
in mind...
>
>TOPICS: What general topics are of most interest to you?
> Media?
> Hate speech?
> Court interpretation?
> Education?
> Something else?
>
>Teun van Dijk has a number of very comprehensive
bibliographies that cover
>these topics and many more:
>http://www.discourse-in-society.org/Bibliographies.html.
Once we choose a
>topic, the relevant bibliography would be a great source for
readings.
>
>SCHEDULE: Does 'two articles per month' seem like a
reasonable amount of
>reading to get through and discuss?  We were thinking of
discussing one
>article until the 15th of each month, then the next one for
the remainder of
>the month, etc.  Do you agree?  Other suggestions?
>
>Let's plan to select a topic by Jan. 10 (or sooner, if
people are around!)
>and start the first reading by Jan 15.  Please post your
topic preferences
>to the list, and we'll go with whatever is of most interest
to the group as
>a whole.  If there are any specific articles you would like
to propose,
>please send the citation along too.  Hopefully we can
continue to focus on
>articles that are available electronically, so that they are
easily
>accessible to everyone.
>
>Hope to hear from you soon-
>Linnea
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Hala Jawlakh
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign