[ecrea] DiscourseNet Congress #2 (DNC 2) - Interdisciplinary Discourse Studies: Theory and Practice

DiscourseNet Congress #2 (DNC 2)
Interdisciplinary Discourse Studies: Theory and Practice
13-15/09/2017
University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom)

While ‘discourse’ has long been an object of investigation in many 
disciplines, the contours of a new field of transdisciplinary research 
are now coming to the fore: Discourse Studies. Known for theoretical 
orientations and methodological tools at the intersection of language 
and society, discourse research usually deals with social phenomena with 
a particular focus on the entanglements of power and language. While 
Discourse Studies has resulted from the exchange between numerous 
strands and approaches which deal with the social production of meaning, 
an increasing need for interdisciplinary exchange can now be observed. 
The Second International DiscourseNet Congress at Warwick aims to 
represent the many strands, schools, and perspectives in Discourse 
Studies, from the humanities to the social sciences, from strictly 
interpretive to quantifying methodologies, from discourse as a situated 
practice to discourse as socially distributed knowledge.

Reflecting the diversity of disciplines in Discourse Studies, the 
following guests have confirmed their participation: Ann Phoenix 
(University College London, Institute of Education, UK) and Michal 
Krzyzanowski (Örebro University, Sweden).

We invite contributions which deal with theoretical and/or 
methodological challenges in Discourse Studies, preferably with a focus 
on the nexus of language and power. We especially welcome papers which 
re-examine existing discourse theoretical frameworks, study social 
phenomena empirically and reflect on the critical potentials of 
Discourse Studies.  Papers are invited to focus on studying discourses 
including but not limited to:
- media discourse
- political discourse
- academic discourse
- educational discourse
- institutional discourse and talk
- economic discourse
- medical discourse
- discourses of law and justice

And which deal with topics such as:
- knowledge and power
- subjectivity in contemporary society
- discursive epistemology
- indexicality
- ideology
- materiality of/and discourse
- critique and reflexivity
- bi-, multi- and translingual communication
- discourse and gender, class, migration
- discourse and discrimination
- formal and informal discourse
- argumentation and rhetorics
- social cognition
- institutional discourse
- workplace communication
- practices and identities in the workplace
- multimodal interaction and discourse analysis
- online media formats
- materialism and discourse
- digital culture and digital humanities
- crosscultural interaction, multilingualism and language policy
- multimodality
- corpus
- conversation and interaction

Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted through the 
application form by 1 March 2017 on http://dnc2.discourseanalysis.net.
The presentations (15 minutes) are normally in English but other 
languages are welcome. Please contact us by mail if you would like to 
present in a language other than English. If you want to suggest a panel 
for the congress, please get in touch with us as early as possible 
((dnc2 /at/ warwick.ac.uk)).

Notifications of acceptance are expected to be communicated by 1 May 
2017. If accepted, applicants will have to register to confirm their 
participation. An early-bird fee of 60£ will apply until 1 June 2017 for 
fully funded researchers and a reduced fee of 30£ for enrolled students 
without access to institutional funding (after 1 June 2017: 80£/40£). 
There is a limited number of places. Registration will be closed when full.

Created in 2007 and funded by DFG, ERC and other institutions, 
DiscourseNet is an interdisciplinary network of discourse researchers in 
the social sciences and humanities. Since its inception, DiscourseNet 
has organized more than 20 meetings, workshops and conferences in Europe 
(http://discoursenet.discourseanalysis.net). During the 2nd DiscourseNet 
Congress, participants will be invited to discuss the possibilities of 
an international association which could be set up by 2019 and would be 
independent of DiscourseNet. Open to discourse researchers from all 
disciplines, schools and strands, such an association would aim to 
represent Discourse Studies as an interdisciplinary field. 

Contact: Eduardo Chávez Herrera; Sixian Hah
(dnc2 /at/ warwick.ac.uk)
Centre for Applied Linguistics
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom


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