[EDLING:1127] CFP: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines

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Date: 16-Dec-2005
From: Discourse Conference <discourseuea.ac.uk>
Subject: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines


Full Title: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines
Short Title: CADAAD

Date: 29-Jun-2006 - 30-Jun-2006
Location: Norwich, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Christopher Hart Dominik Lukes
Meeting Email: discourseuea.ac.uk
Web Site: http://discourse.uea.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 25-Feb-2006

Meeting Description:

Celebrating more than thirty years of critically applied linguistic 
research at
the University of East Anglia, the School of Language, Linguistics and
Translation Studies is hosting CADAAD, an opportunity for interdisciplinary
application and development in critical approaches to discourse analysis.

Thirty years have passed since research began at the University of East 
Anglia
(UEA) into what would be inaugurated as Critical Linguistics with the
publication of Language and Control in 1979. UEA has since remained at the
forefront of critically applied linguistic research.

In continuation of this tradition, the School of Language, Linguistics and
Translation Studies (LLT) invites abstracts to be considered for a 
conference
designed to assess the state of the art and offer new directions for 
critical
discourse research across disciplines. The conference is organized in
cooperation with the Centre for Applied Research in Education (CARE) and 
the
Centre for Staff and Educational Development (CSED).

Whilst it is CDA that has claimed the most attention, papers dealing 
with any
critical approaches to discourse analysis are invited across a variety of
disciplines.

Interdisciplinarity as a central theme for the conference can be 
interpreted in
two ways. First, we are interested in critical approaches to discourse 
analysis
as applied within disciplines including all humanities and sciences but 
also
applied and professional areas such as medicine, environmental studies,
engineering, social policy, education, law, etc. Second, the methodological
foundations of critical discourse analysis historically lie with 
linguistics
(from transformational to systemic functional grammar) and ethnography. 
However,
recently the critical discourse analysis enterprise has benefited from a 
wider
range of methodlogies. We therefore also welcome and encourage papers 
reflecting
the theoretical advances in linguistics, psychology and cognitive science
amongst other disciplines which offer the opportunity for critically 
applied
discourse research to expand its methodological arsenal.

As of now, CAADAD appears to be the only international forum during 2006
offering the opportunity for scholars to exchange ideas in a conference 
setting.
The conference will experiment with a new form of online proceedings 
inviting
post-conference interaction between presenters, participants and an 
external
audience. From this process selected presentations will be published as 
printed
proceedings. CADAAD is pursuing publication opportunities with the John
Benjamins series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 
(DAPSAC).

Abstracts of 300 words plus references should be submitted to
discourseuea.ac.uk by 25 February, 2006 in Word format (RTF or plain 
text are
acceptable alternatives, use of PDF is discouraged). Successful 
applicants will
be notified by 1 May.

Further details including information on plenary speakers, registration 
dates,
fees, accommodation and travel tips will be available soon on the 
conference
website at http://discourse.uea.ac.uk.