37.1209, Confs: Diskurs interdisziplinär 14 (Finland)

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Date: 24-Mar-2026
From: Hanna Acke [hanna.acke at abo.fi]
Subject: Diskurs interdisziplinär 14


Diskurs interdisziplinär 14
Short Title: DI 14
Theme: Diskurs – discourse – diskurssi – discours. Bringing discourse
studies into translingual dialogue

Date: 22-Oct-2026 - 23-Oct-2026
Location: Åbo/Turku, Finland
Meeting URL: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/diskurs-interdisziplinaer/

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Submission Deadline: 30-Apr-2026

DI 14: Diskurs – discourse – diskurssi – discours. Bringing discourse
studies into translingual dialogue
14th instalment of the conference series “Diskurs – interdisziplinär”
Åbo Akademi University, Åbo/Turku, Finland, 22nd and 23rd of October
2026 in cooperation with U Bremen, TU Dresden, IDS Mannheim and U
Warsaw
A Foucauldian concept of discourse is and remains widely used in many
disciplines, not least in cultural studies and linguistics. Although
Foucault’s own work is a common denominator and provides a common
theoretical ground for understanding discourse as a socially and
culturally situated practice, partly coinciding and parallel, partly
different traditions have developed in different languages and
disciplines. Anglo-Saxon branches of discourse studies, published in
English and distributed by international, influential publishing
houses naturally belong to the most widely read and therefore
hegemonic traditions in an international academic community in which
English has become the unquestioned lingua franca. In French and
German – both still widely used and comparatively large academic
languages in the humanities – strong and independent traditions have
developed (Keller 2007; Landwehr 2008; Maingueneau 2014; Spitzmüller &
Warnke 2011). But also, in less widely used academic languages like
Finnish (Jokinen, Juhila & Suoninen 2016; Pietikäinen & Mäntynen
2019), Swedish (Boréus & Bergström 2018; Boréus & Seiler Brylla 2018;
Idevall Hagren & Westberg 2024; Seiler Brylla et al. 2018; Svensson
2019) and Danish (Winther Jørgensen & Phillips 1999) discourse studies
were adapted and own branches and understandings were established.
Despite language barriers, these different traditions have always been
interconnected through individuals who have exchanged their thoughts
in person or by reading and writing in more than one language.
In this context, we are interested in discussing which understandings
and methodological applications of discourse are and have become
hegemonic in which linguistic academic communities. Which ideologies
of discourse or which Denkstile (Ludwig Fleck’s thought styles) have
shaped the different linguistic academic communities? How have
research and publication language impacted which understandings and
methodological applications of discourse have become prominent at
which points in time and in which contexts?
The conference organisers wish to invite discourse researchers from
all linguistic traditions and all disciplines of the humanities to
familiarise themselves with and critically discuss each other’s
understandings and methodological applications of discourse. Goals of
the conference are thus:
 - understanding each other’s theoretical positionings and their
historical and linguistic trajectories,
 - discussing how these influence methodological choices and
 - developing new ways of understanding discourse and doing discourse
studies.
We especially invite contributions on
 - theoretical understandings of discourse as well as their
methodological impacts,
 - applications of these understandings in current research projects
and
 - the development and history of these understandings in different
linguistic and disciplinary contexts.
The conference will partly be held in a workshop fashion where
researchers work in interdisciplinary and disciplinary groups within
and beyond linguistic traditions. By bringing together scholars from
both linguistics and all areas of cultural studies and the humanities,
the conference seeks to create a productive space for
interdisciplinary, translingual dialogue and theoretical and
methodological exchange.
How to Apply:
Please send an abstract (max. 300 words + references) to
hanna.acke at abo.fi no later than 30th of April 2026.
The conference proceedings (short papers of max. 10 pages) will be
published Open Access as part of the series “Diskurs –
interdisziplinär” at IDSopen (https://idsopen.de/). Manuscripts should
be submitted by 31st of January 2027.
Due to administrative reasons a small conference fee of 30€ (reduced
fee for students and doctoral students: 20€) covering coffee breaks
will apply.
Organisation Committee of Diskurs – interdisziplinär
 - Hanna Acke (Åbo Akademi University)
 - Silvia Bonacchi (Universität Warschau)
 - Mark Dang-Anh (IDS Mannheim)
 - Simon Meier-Vieracker (TU Dresden)
 - Ingo H. Warnke (Universität Bremen)
References:
Boréus, Kristina & Göran Bergström (eds.). 2018. Textens mening och
makt: Metodbok i samhällsvetenskaplig text- och diskursanalys. 4th
edn. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Boréus, Kristina & Charlotta Seiler Brylla. 2018. Kritisk
diskursanalys. In Kristina Boréus & Göran Bergström (eds.), Textens
mening och makt: Metodbok i samhällsvetenskaplig text- och
diskursanalys, 305–351. 4th edn. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Idevall Hagren, Karin & Gustav Westberg. 2024. Kritisk diskursanalys:
En språkvetenskaplig introduktion. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Jokinen, Arja, Kirsi Juhila & Eero Suoninen. 2016. Diskurssianalyysi:
Teoriat, peruskäsitteet ja käyttö. Tampere: Vasta-paino.
Keller, Reiner (ed.). 2007. Diskursforschung: Eine Einführung für
SozialwissenschaftlerInnen. 3rd edn. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für
Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90567-9.
Landwehr, Achim. 2008. Historische Diskursanalyse. Frankfurt am Main:
Campus.
Maingueneau, Dominique. 2014. Discours et analyse du discours: Une
introduction. Paris: Armand Colin.
Pietikäinen, Sari & Anne Mäntynen. 2019. Uusi kurssi kohti diskurssia.
Tampere: Vastapaino.
Seiler Brylla, Charlotta, Gustav Westberg & Daniel Wojahn. 2018. C som
i kritik: Kritiska perspektiv inom text- och diskursstudier. In Daniel
Wojahn, Charlotta Seiler Brylla & Gustav Westberg (eds.), Kritiska
text- och diskursstudier, 9–36. Huddinge: Södertörns högskola.
Spitzmüller, Jürgen & Ingo H. Warnke. 2011. Diskurslinguistik: Eine
Einführung in Theorien und Methoden der transtextuellen Sprachanalyse.
Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110229967.
Svensson, Peter. 2019. Diskursanalys. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Winther Jørgensen, Marianne & Louise Phillips. 1999. Diskursanalyse
som teori og metode. Roskilde: Roskilde Universitetsforlag.



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