23.1569, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/ Critical Discourse Studies (Jrnl)

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Subject: 23.1569, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/ Critical Discourse Studies (Jrnl)

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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:02:43
From: David Machin [portvale100 at gmail.com]
Subject: Critical Discourse Studies

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Full Title: Critical Discourse Studies 


Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2012 

Critical Discourse Studies

Special Issue on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

David Machin (Cardiff University), Guest Editor

Over the past decade there has been a surge in interest in multimodality with 
its associated innovative approaches to analyzing communication. This 
interest has come from across a range of disciplines, in educational studies, 
business studies, media and cultural studies, etc, and especially from within 
linguistics. Much of this work has reflected the research interests and 
procedures of those fields. However, considering that the work of some of the 
pioneers in multimodality is in the first place critical it is of note that the 
majority of work labelling itself multimodal is not. Much of it is highly 
descriptive of visual communication and often having as its primary aim to 
show how it is much like language and can be best analyzed using linguistic 
terminology.

The proposed special edition would invite authors to analyze the multimodal 
realisation of discourses from a critical point of view. Authors would be 
invited to consider the way that images, drawings, sounds, architecture, 
sculpture, gesture, artifacts, fashion, textures, etc, can be exploited in the 
interests of institutions and ideologies. Just as language based critical 
analysis seeks to reveal not just what texts communicate ideologically but 
how they accomplish this in a way not necessarily immediately obvious to 
the casual reader so authors would be asked to show how multimodal 
discourse analysis can do the same as regards other forms of 
communication.

Papers will include systematic analysis of relevant examples. A 
consideration of the way that different semiotic modes combine is 
encouraged as are papers which place discourses in historical context.

Themes could include but are not restricted to:

Political use of images
Branding
Sculpture
Sound
Postures
Movement
School books
Video games
Art
Architecture
Public Space

Deadlines:

Submission of abstract: July 1, 2012
Submission of manuscript: December 1, 2012

Contacts:

Inquiries specifically about the theme of this special issue can be directed to 
the guest editor:
portvale100 [at sign] gmail [dot] com






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