[ecrea] CFP: Critical Discourse Analysis across Disciplines

Call for Papers

The fourth international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse 
Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) will take place at the University 
of Minho in Braga, Portugal, 4-6 July 2012.

The following distinguished scholars have confirmed their participation 
as plenary speakers:

?    Professor Paul Chilton (Lancaster University)
?    Professor Michal Krzyzanowski (Adam Mickiewicz University)
?    Professor Michelle Lazar (National University of Singapore)
?    Professor Juana Marín Arrese (Universidad Complutense Madrid)
?    Professor Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new 
developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research.  We 
welcome papers dealing with any contemporary social, scientific, 
political, economic, or professional discourse/genre.  Possible topics 
include but are not limited to the following:

?    (New) Media discourse
?    Party political discourse
?    Advertising
?    Discourses of war and terrorism
?    Discourses of discrimination and inequality
?    Power, ideology and dominance in institutional discourse
?    Identity in discourse
?    Education discourses
?    Environmental discourses
?    Health communication
?    Language and the law

We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing frameworks for 
critical discourse research and/or which highlight and apply new 
methodologies sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and 
cognitive sciences including but without being limited to:

?    Sociolinguistics
?    Functional Linguistics
?    Cognitive Linguistics
?    Corpus Linguistics
?    Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory
?    Conversation and Discourse Analysis
?    Discursive Psychology
?    Multimodality
?    Media Studies
?    Communication Studies
?    Political Science

Papers will be allocated 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.  The 
language of the conference is English.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words including references should be sent 
as MS Word attachment to (christopher.hart /at/ northumbria.ac.uk) before 18 
December 2011.  Please include in the body of the email but not in the 
abstract your name, affiliation and email address.  Notifications of 
acceptance will be communicated by 1 February 2012.

Further information is available at www.cadaad.net/cadaad_2012.  For any 
other inquiries please contact Chris Hart 
((Christopher.hart /at/ northumbria.ac.uk)) or the local organiser, Maria Zara 
Simões Pinto Coelho ((zara /at/ ics.uminho.pt)).
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