[Commlist] call for papers: New Zealand Discourse Conference

Extension to call for abstracts and panel proposals
New deadline: 2 August 2021

Dear colleagues

If you research discourse, please join us at the eighth NZDC in 
Christchurch this December.

8th New Zealand Discourse Conference (NZDC8)
Location: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand 
and virtually via Zoom
Dates: 10-11 December 2021

Call for papers
The New Zealand Discourse Conference is a biennial event which brings 
together scholars working in a range of fields who study some form of 
discourse or use discourse analysis to understand other phenomena. The 
conference welcomes contributions that consider discourse and 
interaction in a variety of contexts, including interpersonal talk, 
institutional settings, organisational communication, mediated 
communication, as well as policy, political and cultural lenses on 
discourse. The conference welcomes diversity in theoretical and 
analytical approaches. Suggested areas of interest include:

Political discourse
Communication in bicultural and multicultural contexts
Discourse and identity
Language, gender and sexuality
Leadership discourse
Corpus approaches to discourse analysis
Multimodal discourse analysis
Narrative, stance and positioning
Life stories
Media discourse
Interpretive discourses
Discursive tensions and conflict
Digitisation and discourse

Plenary speakers include: Prof Monica Heller, University of Toronto
Dr Majid KhosraviNik, Newcastle University

Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: 5pm NZT, 2 August 2021
Decision on acceptance: Monday 12 September 2021

All abstracts will be blind peer-reviewed and must be between 750 and 
1000 words. A selection will be invited to submit full 7000 word papers 
for a special issue of Communication Research and Practice.

Waged, attending in person: NZ$200
Student and unwaged, attending in person: NZ$95
Waged, attending virtually: NZ$110
Student and unwaged, attending virtually: $60

Further information and registration see 
https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/nzdc8/
Email: (nzdc8 /at/ canterbury.ac.nz)

Format
The conference will operate live during Aotearoa New Zealand day time, 
although sessions will be recorded and available afterwards. You can 
participate by attending in Christchurch or from your home town via 
Zoom. Plenary presentations will take place live. Other presentations 
(7-10 minutes long) should be recorded, but at least one presenter of 
each paper should attend their session in person or on Zoom. The 
conference will encourage discussion and provide time in each session 
for face-to-face questions and Zoom chat. At sites with multiple 
participants, we will help you gather and with providing morning and 
afternoon tea (according to what is possible while following good public 
health advice for the region).

Because travel to Aotearoa New Zealand from outside the bubble with 
Australia is uncertain, we recommend international participants plan to 
take part remotely.

In case of New Zealand entering Covid-19 level 3 or 4, the conference 
will move entirely online.

Submission guidelines
Please email abstracts of papers and proposals for panels to 
(nzdc8 /at/ canterbury.ac.nz).
Abstracts should be 750-1000 words in total. Please specify the area of 
your presentation and provide keywords to help us put together the 
sessions. Panel proposals should provide an overall justification of 
300-500 words, name of chair/respondent and also specify how each 
participant will contribute (300 words per presenter). When proposing 
panels, please let us know the format you suggest would work best for 
the panel. Panels may be either face-to-face or Zoom-based. All abstract 
and panel proposals will be reviewed by our conference team and invited 
reviewers.

Conference convenors

Assoc Prof Donald Matheson
(donald.matheson /at/ canterbury.ac.nz)

Prof Colleen Mills (colleen.mills /at/ canterbury.ac.nz)

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