CALL FOR PAPERS: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines 2008

[Christopher Hart]

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) is an
ongoing project which aims to foster and promote cross-disciplinary
communication in critical discourse research.  Following the success of the
project’s first international conference hosted at the University of East
Anglia in 2006, we are pleased to announce the second international
conference CADAAD’08, to be hosted at the University of Hertfordshire, 10-11
July 2008.

In line with the general aims of the project, we welcome papers both from
CDA and neighbouring disciplines such as communication studies, media
studies, narrative studies, sociology, philosophy and political science. 
Abstracts are invited which assess the state of the art and offer new
directions for critical discourse research.  By new directions we mean i)
theoretical/methodological development and/or ii) analysis of contemporary
discourses. 

Theoretical/methodological frameworks sourced from all areas of the social
and cognitive sciences are welcome.  Papers exploring the following
frameworks in linguistics are particularly welcome:  
 
•       Cognitive Linguistics (Blending, Construction Grammars, Framing,
Metaphor)
•       Corpus Linguistics (Corpus Construction, Data Extraction, Semantic
Prosody) 
•       Pragmatics (Presupposition, Relevance Theory, Speech Acts) 
•       Systemic Functional Linguistics (Cohesion and Coherence, Grammatical
Metaphor)

Analyses of all contemporary discourses are welcome, including those within
applied and professional areas such as education, environmental policy,
health, and law.  Papers applying critical analysis to discourses used in
the construction of 'minority' vs. 'normality' and other dichotomies are
especially welcome.  Areas of particular interest include: 

• Discourse on gender 
• Discourse of International Law 
• Discourse on immigration 
• Discourse of the war on terror 
• European Union discourse
• United Nations and foreign aid discourse

Reflecting our commitment to multiplicity in critical approaches to
discourse analysis, the following plenary speakers have confirmed their
participation: 

• Professor Piotr Cap (University of Łódź, Poland) 
• Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of West England, UK) 
• Professor Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) 
• Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK)

Abstracts of no longer than 400 words plus references should be submitted as
MS Word attachment to discourse at cadaad.org by 30 November 2007.  Authors
should include their name, affiliation and email address.  Successful
authors will be notified via email by 15 February 2008.  Papers will be
allocated twenty minutes plus ten minutes for questions.  

We also invite proposals for theme sessions and satellite events.  A theme
session should consist of four or five thematically related papers. 
Satellite events, such as workshops and tutorials, may take place on 9 July
2008.  Please send proposals to discourse at cadaad.org by 1 October 2007.

Selected proceedings will be published.  Selected papers from CADAAD’06 were
published in the inaugural issue of the journal Critical Approaches to
Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (http://www.cadaad.org/ejournal) and
additional papers from the Cognitive Linguistics theme session were
published by Cambridge Scholars Press as “Cognitive Linguistics in Critical
Discourse Analysis: Application and Theory”  (Hart & Lukes, eds., 2007). 

Please visit http://cadaad.org/cadaad08 for further conference details.