2nd CFP: Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis

[Christopher Hart]

Dear Colleagues,

2nd Call for Papers:   Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis
(Theme session at CADAAD'08)

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) identifies three analytic stages:
description, interpretation and explanation. Halliday's systemic functional
linguistics has become synonymous with description-stage analysis of
representation in text. And at the explanation stage, CDA is associated with
Marxism and Critical Theory. Very little work, however, has been carried out
at the interpretation stage, which is concerned with discourse processing.
Discourse processing, of course, involves meaning construction as understood
in cognitive linguistics or cognitive pragmatics. Cognitive linguistics is a
broad paradigm subsuming a number of distinct theories and thus offering a
range of potential analytical tools to CDA. But whilst CDA has made use of
conceptual metaphor theory, it has not recognised cognitive linguistic
approaches to discourse and the input they provide at the
interpretation-stage. Similarly, cognitive approaches to pragmatics have not
been recognised in CDA.

This methodologically-oriented session then, invites papers addressing
meaning construction in critical discourse analysis from the perspectives of
cognitive linguistics and cognitive pragmatics. As such, papers applying
conceptual blending theory, construction grammar, discourse space theory,
frame negotiation, mental space theory or relevance theory, for example, are
particularly welcome.

Please send abstracts of no longer than 400 words to c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk
<mailto:c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk> by *30 November 2007*. Authors should include
their name, affiliation and email address. Successful authors will be
notified via email by *15 February 2008*.

For details on CADAAD'08 please visit http://cadaad.org/cadaad08