[eccr] DeXus - Discourse Nexus 2.0 - An international discourse studies summer school

DeXus - Discourse Nexus 2.0
   An international discourse studies summer school
  August 16th-21st, 2004
  Location
Centre for Discourse Studies
Aalborg University
Denmark

  Invited guests
Puleng Hanong, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Gunther Kress, The Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Luisa Martín Rojo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Ron Scollon, Georgetown University, USA

DeXus is the name given to the Discourse Nexus alternative summer school 
for discourse studies to be held yearly in the Centre for Discourse Studies 
at Aalborg University. DeXus, which took place very successfully for the 
first time in August 2003. The code 2.0 signifies version 2.0, the second 
actualisation, with progressively refined versions to come. DeXus will 
focus on innovative research in discourse studies and its application to a 
variety of settings and data sets, using a mix of lectures, workshops, 
group work and discussion sessions.

The goal of DeXus is to create a space in which attendees  invited guests, 
students, postgrads and established scholars  can discuss the latest moves 
in discourse studies, apply approaches in discourse studies to real world 
problems, learn hands-on in a positive environment and find new relays 
between academic work and social change.

We invited a number of guests to play the role of wayfinders or 
'midwives'. Their job is to provide a range of resources for learning: to 
give lectures, to hold workshops, to promote discussion and reflection, to 
clarify methods, and to illustrate analysis.

Following the first day of lectures by the invited guests, which will 
establish a common framework, we concentrate over the following three days 
on two or three themes around which the group work will cluster. In the 
mornings, there are workshops, and in the afternoons group work. Each group 
will work on a set of problems over the three days that are to be decided 
by the groups themselves. Furthermore, the wayfinders are assigned in pairs 
to work with a specific thematic group on each of Days 2, 3 and 5. We trust 
that the pairings of wayfinders from different disciplinary backgrounds 
generates novel ideas and fruitful challenges that benefit the 
problem-based learning. On the last day, all groups come together to report 
on their findings, solutions and applications, with commentary and 
discussion from the wayfinders.

More information about DeXus 1.0 can be found online.
http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/english/Dexus/dexus.htm

A poster session on the first day is for those who wish to present their 
research publicly. Posters are displayed at the summer school site, and 
time is allotted for all participants and guests to view the posters and 
talk with the postees. Posters should be no more than 1 metre (horizontal) 
by 1.5 metre (vertical). They will be displayed on pin boards in a room 
dedicated to the posters.

DeXus will interest students and scholars who work in the diverse fields of 
discourse studies, particularly mediated discourse analysis, critical 
discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic 
anthropology, multimodal discourse analysis, educational discourse 
analysis, social semiotics, practice theory, identity and discourse, gender 
and discourse.

If you are fascinated by the relations between language, discursive 
practices, social action, artifacts, cultural tools, multimodal semiosis 
and the reproduction of agency, identity and social ordering/organisation 
you will find our intensive, alternative summer school to be very relevant.

DeXus themes include studies of discursive phenomena in relation to:

  Movement/Mobility/Flow/Scale
  Structure/Ordering/Organisation/Governance
  Change/Intervention/Critique
  Interaction/Technology/Artefact
  Nature/Environment/Habitus/Context
  Globalisation/Localisation
  Belonging/Citizenship/Linking/Relationality
  Mediation/Modality/Action/Practice
  Narrative/Memory/Autobiography
  Identity/Gender/'Race'/Ethnicity/Kinship
  Care/Risk

Wireless LAN facilities are offered during Dexus on campus. Bring your 
laptop computer with an installed wireless 802.11b Wi-Fi card (or MAC 
Airport), and you can be mobile and surf the web, read email, take part in 
web chat, and so on. We integrate Wi-Fi into the DeXus group work by using 
groupware, which enables us to chat, share files and collaborate on 
discussion topics.

The summer school is international and open to all scholars, researchers 
and PhD students.

For more academic information, contact

                Paul McIlvenny or Pirkko Raudaskoski.
                mailto:(paul /at/ hum.aau.dk)
                mailto:(pirkko /at/ hum.aau.dk)

Registration for DeXus 2.0 can be completed online. The registration 
deadline is 15th June 2004. After registration you will immediately be sent 
an invoice with which you can pay the fee using your local banking system. 
Payment of the fee should be received by 1st July at the latest.

   REGISTER HERE:
   http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/english/dexus2/registration/registration.htm

The participation fee is 3000 Danish kroner (approx. 400 Euro),  which 
covers administrative costs, tea/coffee and lunches every working day, and 
one evening drinks reception (Monday) and one evening dinner (Thursday).

Payment of the fee secures your registration. Please contact the Bente 
Vestergaard, if you need further assistance with registration and other 
practicalities.

mailto:(bentev /at/ hum.aau.dk)

Under special circumstances (eg. students or scholars travelling from the 
Global South) a reduced fee can be offered (please apply directly to the 
secretariat).

Location, travel and accommodation information is available on this web 
site. Travel and accommodation is the responsibility of the participant.

A poster (PDF) for DeXus 2.0 is available. Please download, print, post and 
redistribute...
http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/english/dexus2/Dexus2.pdf

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Provisional schedule
The summer school will run daily from 9:00 to 17:00 (Monday to Friday) and 
9:00 to 16:00 on Saturday. The precise schedule may be altered. Unless 
otherwise stated, coffee/tea, lunches and reception drinks on Monday plus 
evening dinner on Thursday are included in the registration fee.

DAY 1
16.8
  8:00-9:00  Registration (+laptop setup)

9:00-9.15  Opening welcome

9:15-10:30  Lecture 1

10:30-10.45  Coffee, tea, fruit etc.

10.45-12.00  Lecture 2

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13.00-14.15  Lecture 3

14.15-14.30  Coffee, tea, fruit etc.

14.30-15.45  Lecture 4

15.45-16.30  Poster session

16.30-18.00  Groupwork preparation

18.15
   Reception (drinks and snacks)

19:30  Dinner (not included in fee)

DAY 2
17.8
  9:00-12.00  Workshops

10.15-10.30  Coffee, tea, fruit etc.

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13.00-17.00  Thematic Groupwork

15.00-15.15  Coffee, tea, fruit etc.

19.00
   Meet for drinks (not included in fee)

19:30  Dinner (not included in fee)

DAY 3
18.8
  9:00-12.00  Workshops

10.15-10.30  Coffee, tea, fruit etc.

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13.00-17.00  Thematic Groupwork

15.00-15.15  Coffee, tea, fruit etc.

19:30  Dinner (not included in fee)

DAY 4
19.8
  Free day  Trip to Lindholm Høj Viking graveyard and museum
  Trip to Aalborg Art Museum designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto

19:30  DeXus Dinner

DAY 5
20.8
  9:00-12.00  Thematic Groupwork
  Individual consultations with guests

10.15-10.30  Coffee, tea, fruit etc.

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13.00-17.00  Thematic Groupwork

15.00-15.15  Coffee, tea, fruit etc.

19:30  Dinner (not included in fee)

DAY 6
21.8
  9:00-12.00  Groupwork retrospective

10.15-10.30  Coffee, tea, fruit etc.

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13.00-16.00  Reflection and Action
  Discussion and evaluation

14.00-14.15  Coffee, tea, fruit etc.

   16:00  Closing of summer school

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Invited Guests
Puleng Hanong


Puleng Hanong is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the 
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where she teaches 
Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics and Discourse
Analysis.

Publications include:

  1995. (with Geoff Thompson). "The sound of one hand clapping: The 
management of interaction in written discourse". TEXT 15(1): 103-127.

  1995. "Writer responsibility in written discourse: A pilot investigation 
into signalling writer commitment to evaluation in academic research 
articles". Liverpool Papers in Applied Linguistics 1(1): 43-73.

  1997. "Evaluated entities and parameters of value in academic research 
articles". English for Specific Purposes 16(2): 101-118.

  1999. "Lexical confusions in L2 written production and their implications 
for Teaching materials for vocabulary development in English for Academic 
Purposes: A case study of Lesotho". BOLESWA Educational Research Journal 
16:1-16.

  1999. "The linguistics of blame in media discourse: Language, ideology 
and point of view in press reports of the 1998 Lesotho political conflict". 
Lesotho Social Science Review 5(2):111-132.

  1999. "The scientist and the construction of scientific knowledge: 
Aspects of evidentiality in negotiating knowledge claims in scientific 
research articles". Review of Southern African Studies 3(2):104-126.

  2001. "Critique discourses and ideology in newspaper reports: A discourse 
analysis of the South African press reports on the 1998 SADC's military 
intervention in Lesotho", Discourse & Society 12(3): 347-370.

  2001. Review of "Simon Cottle (ed.), Ethnic Minorities and the media. 
Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 2000", Discourse & Society 12(5): 
685-690.

  2002. "Sex discourses and gender constructions in Southern Sotho: a case 
study of police interviews of rape/sexual assault victims", Southern 
African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 20, 177-189.

  2002. "English and the bilingual court proceedings in Lesotho courtroom 
discourse: Linguistic or legal disempowerment, or both", in K. Legère and 
S. Fitchat (eds.), Talking Freedom: Language and Democratisation in the 
SADC Region, 125-141, Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan.

  2002. Review of "Thiven Reddy, Hegemony and Resistance: Contesting 
Identities in South Africa. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000", Discourse & Society 
13(1): 148-153.

  2002. Review of "Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen and Heidi E. Hamilton 
(eds) The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000", 
Discourse & Society 13(5): 694 - 699.

  2003. Review of "Discourse, Culture and the Law: The analysis of 
crosstalk in the Southern African Bilingual Courtroom", AILA Review 16: 78-88.

  2003. Review of "John B. Thompson, Political Scandal: Power and 
Visibility in the Media Age. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000", Discourse & 
Society 14(5): 661-663.


Gunther Kress


Gunther Kress is Professor of English at The Institute of Education, 
University of London.

He is Head of the School of Culture, Language and Communication, Director 
of ESRC Research Project 'The production of School English' and Co-Director 
of ESRC Research Project 'Biliteracies'.

His research interests include literacy, social semiotics, multimodality, 
discourse analysis, learning theory and the curriculum (both English and in 
general).

Publications include:

  1979. (with Fowler, Roger, Hodge, Bob & Trew, T.). Language and Control. 
London: Routledge.

  1979. (with Fowler, Roger) Critical Linguistics. In Fowler, Roger, Hodge, 
B., Kress, G. & Trew, T. (Eds.), Language and Control, London: Routledge.

  1988. (with Hodge, Robert). Social Semiotics. Cambridge: Polity Press.

  1993. (with Hodge, Robert). Language as Ideology (second edition). 
London: Routledge.

  1985. Ideological Structures in Discourse. In Dijk, T.A. van (Ed.), 
Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Vol. 4, London: Academic Press.

  1988. (Ed.). Communication and Culture: An Introduction. NSWU Press.

  1988. Linguistic Processes in Sociocultural Practice. Oxford: OUP.

  1993. Against Arbitrariness: The Social Production of the Sign as a 
Foundational Issue in Critical Discourse Analysis. Discourse & Society 
4(2): 169-191.

  1993. Cultural Considerations in Linguistic Description. In Graddol, 
David, Thompson, L. & Byram, M. (Eds.), Language and Culture, Clevedon: 
Multilingual Matters.

  1996. (with Leeuwen, Theo). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. 
London: Routledge.

  1997. Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy. London: Routledge

  2001. (with Leeuwen, Theo). Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of 
Contemporary Communication. London: Arnold.

  2002. (with Leeuwen, Theo). Colour as a Semiotic Mode: Notes for a 
Grammar of Colour. Visual Communication 1(3): 343-368.


Luisa Martín Rojo


Luisa Martín Rojo is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the Universidad 
Autónoma (Madrid, Spain). She has for several years been a visiting scholar 
at the International Pragmatics Association Research Center (University of 
Antwerp, Belgium). Her research draws on sociolinguistic studies of the 
diversity of languages, pragmatic studies of communication and discourse 
analysis.

Her work at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid reflects these interests 
through the subjects she teaches: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics and 
Intercultural Communication, on the Linguistics and Translation and 
Interpretation degree courses, in addition to courses on Discourse Analysis 
on the doctoral program.

Through her work, she attempts to gain a deeper understanding of how 
domination is exercised by means of the control of language use and the 
production of linguistic ideologies (imposition of languages and 
communicational styles, prejudices and linguistic norms), and by means of 
control of the production, circulation and reception of discourse (social 
order of discourse). Her work in this main area of interest has had both 
theoretical and applied dimensions. The theoretical dimension focuses on 
the study of social and epistemological aspects that have contributed to 
the emergence of discourse as the object of a field of knowledge and the 
changes that have occurred in the task of the analyst and how it is 
perceived. Her more applied work, on the other hand, deals with the way 
domination is exercised, focusing on processes such as the imposition of 
languages and communicational styles (communication in organizations and 
gender), the commodification of languages and conversational practices, and 
the construction of social representations in discourse. Dr. Martín Rojos 
work shows how these representations have a key role in domination 
processes: their circulation and imposition have devastating effects on 
certain social groups (criminals, Spanish gypsies, women executives, 
migrants, etc.), particularly when the social representations are 
internalized (and especially in relation to gender).

Likewise, Dr. Martín Rojo has taken a keen interest in phenomena of 
resistance to domination through processes of linguistic variation and 
discourse production (jargon, alternative discourses in new social 
movements). Recently, she has returned to the ethnographic approach 
employed in her early work, now combined with a critical perspective of 
discourse analysis, for studying the management of cultural and linguistic 
diversity in Madrid schools and the ideologies underlying it. The research 
project she headed, "Assimilate or Integrate? Dilemmas of educational 
policies in the face of classroom multilingualism", was awarded a social 
research prize, and she has just embarked on a new project, entitled: "A 
socio-pragmatic analysis of intercultural communication in education: 
towards integration in schools".

These are the research lines and theoretical approaches that form the basis 
of Dr. Martín Rojos work, which in view of its wide-ranging nature has 
always necessarily been interdisciplinary, and in many cases has involved 
collaboration with other researchers. The social commitment underlying this 
research obliges her to combine the academic dimension with social 
intervention, and she has collaborated as an expert with the European 
Observatory on Racism, Xenophobia and Antisemitism (Vienna, Austria), as 
well as working on the setting up of an agreement with the Madrid City 
Council for consultancy and participation in schools.

She is also on the editorial board of several journals and book series, 
including Discourse & Society, Language and Politics, Estudios de 
Sociolinguística, Spanish in Context, Critical Discourse Studies, The Rape 
of Europe, and Political Discourse, edited by Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton.

Publications include:

JARGONS AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY

  1993. "De la excepción al paradigma: análisis de los fenómenos 
lingüísticos de la jerga de los delincuentes españoles". In: M. Torrione 
(ed.), Lengua, libertad vigilada. Toulouse Le Mirail Paris: CRIC Ophrys, 
pp. 159 199.

  1997. "Jargon". In: J. Verschueren, J.O. Östman, J. Blommaert, and Ch. 
Bulcaen, Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 2-19.

  1994. "The jargon of delinquents and the study of conversational 
dynamics", Journal of Pragmatics 21(3): 243-289.

  2004. "Las lenguas y el poder". Barcelona Forum Internacional de las 
culturas. Exposición Voces.


DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: THEORY AND PRACTICES

  1997. "El orden social de los discursos", Discurso 21-22: 1-39.

  1998. (edited with Whittaker, R.). Poder Decir o El poder de los 
discursos. Un perspectiva crítica en el análisis del discurso. Madrid: 
Arrecife - UAM - British Council.

  1999. (with Whittaker, R.). "A dialogue with bureaucracy: register, 
genre, and information management as constraints on interchangeability", 
Journal of Pragmatics 31: 149-189.

  2001. "New developments in Discourse Analysis: discourse as social 
practice; Folia Linguistica. Special Issue, XXXV/1-2: 41-78.

  2002. (with Gabilondo, A.). "Foucault". In: J. Verschueren, J.O. Östman, 
J. Blommaert, and Ch. Bulcaen, Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John 
Benjamins.

  2004. Análisis crítico del discurso. Barcelona: Ariel. (in press)


DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: GENDER STUDIES

  1995. (with

  1995. (with Callejo, J.). "Argumentation and inhibition: sexism in the 
discourse of Spanish executives". Pragmatics 5(4): 455-484.

  1997. The politics of gender: agency and self-reference in womens 
discourse In: J. Blommaert (ed.), Political Linguistics. Amsterdam: John 
Benjamins, pp. 231-254.

  1997. "Intertextuality and the construction of a new female identity". 
In: M. Bengoechea and R. Sola Buil, Intertextuality. Alcalá de Henares: 
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

  2002. (with

  2004. (with Gómez Esteban, C.). El género del poder. El estilo femenino 
en las organizaciones laborales. Vitoria/Gazteiz: EMAKUNDE (Instituto Vasco 
de la Mujer) /Fondo Social Europeo

  2004. (with Gómez Esteban, C.). Lenguaje, identidades de género y 
educación. In: C. Lomas (ed.) Los chicos también lloran. Identidades 
masculinas, igualdad entre los sexos y coeducación. Paidós (colección Temas 
de Educación).

  1999. (with Caldas- Coulthard, C.). Entre nosotras: las revistas 
femeninas y la construcción de la feminidad. Buenos Aires/Barcelona: 
Discurso y Sociedad. Número monográfico. 1(3).

  1999. "Decálogos comunicativos para la nueva mujer: el papel de las 
revistas femeninas en la construcción de la feminidad", Discurso y Sociedad 
1(3): 15-50.


POLITICAL DISCOURSE, DISCOURSE AND RACISM

  1994. Hablar y dejar hablar: (sobre racismo y xenofobia) (edited with A. 
Gabilondo, C. Gómez Esteban and F. Arranz). Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de 
Madrid.

  1995. "Division and rejection: from the personification of the Gulf 
conflict to the demonisation of Saddam Hussein", Discourse & Society 6(1): 
49-79.

  1997. (with van Dijk, T.) "There was a problem and it was solved!" 
legitimating the expulsion of illegal migrants in Spanish Parliamentary 
discourse", Discourse & Society 8(4): 563-606.

  2000. "Spain, outer wall of the European Fortress. Analysis of the 
parliamentary debates on the immigration policy in Spain". In R. Wodak & T. 
van Dijk (eds.) Racism on the top. Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, 
Science and culture., pp.: 169-201.

  2000. "Enfrentamiento y consenso en los debates parlamentarios sobre la 
política de inmigración en España". Madrid: Oralia, vol.1, nº 5.

  2003. "Análisis crítico del discurso. Fronteras y exclusión social en los 
discursos racistas". In L. Íñiguez (Coor.) (2003) Análisis del Discurso. 
Manual para las Ciencias Sociales. Barcelona: EDIUOC.

  2003. (with


INTERCULTURALITY AND EDUCATION

  2003. "Ideological dilemmas in language and cultural policies in Madrid 
schools". In: Donna R. Patrick & Jane Freeland (EDS.) Language Rights And 
Language Survival: A Sociolinguistic Exploration. Manchester: St Jerome 
Publishing, chapter 8. (in press)

  2003. ¿Asimilar o integrar? Dilemas de las políticas educativas ante los 
procesos migratorios. Madrid: CIDE, vol. 124.

  2004. (edited with


Ron Scollon


Professor Ron Scollon is based at the Department of Linguistics, Georgetown 
University, Washington DC, USA.

Publications include:

  1997. Handbills, tissues, and condoms: A Site of Engagement for the 
Construction of Identity in Public Discourse. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 
1(1):39-61.

  1998. Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction: A Study of News 
Discourse. New York: Longman.

  1999. Mediated discourse and social interaction. Research on Language and 
Social Interaction 32(1&2):149-154.

  1999. Official and Unofficial Discourses of National Identity: Questions 
Raised by the Case of Contemporary Hong Kong. In Wodak, Ruth & Ludwig, 
Christoph (Eds.), Challenges in a Changing World: Issues in Critical 
Discourse Analysis, Vienna: Passagen Verlag.

  2000. Methodological Interdiscursivity: An Ethnographic Understanding of 
Unfinalisability. In Sarangi, Srikant & Coulthard, Malcolm (Eds.), 
Discourse and Social Life, London: Longman.

  2001. (with Suzie Wong Scollon). Intercultural Communication: A Discourse 
Approach (second edition). Oxford: Blackwell.

  2001. Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice. London: Routledge.

  2001. Action and text: Toward an integrated understanding of the place of 
text in social (inter)action. In Ruth Wodak and Michael Meyer (eds.), 
Methods in Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Sage, 139183.

  2001. Intercultural Communication and Ethnography: Why? and Why Not? In 
Barron, Colin, Bruce, Nigel & Nunan, David (Eds.), Knowledge & Discourse: 
Towards an Ecology of Language, London: Longman.

  2001. Multilingualism and intellectual property: Visual holophrastic 
discourse and the commodity/sign. Georgetown University Round Table on 
Languages and Linguistics 1999, Washington, DC, May 6-8, 1999.

  2003. (with Suzie Wong Scollon). Discourses in Place: Language in the 
Material World. London: Routledge.

  in press. Intertextuality across communities of practice: Academics, 
journalism, and advertising. In Carol Lynn Moder and Aida Martinovic-Zic 
(eds.) Discourse across Languages and Cultures. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

  in press. (with Suzie Wong Scollon). Nexus Analysis:  Discourse and the 
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