[ecrea] CFP Developments in Critical Discourse Studies, 1: Context and Critique

CFP - Two-day symposium:

Developments in Critical Discourse Studies, 1: Context and Critique

30 June 2015 – 1 July 2015

Nottingham (Harts Hotel, Nottm City Centre)

Hosted by the Department of Media and Communication, Örebro University 
(Sweden) and the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University (UK)



This meeting is free to attend, but spaces will be limited to those 
presenting papers.



Meeting Description:



What do we mean when we refer to context? And what are the relations 
between context and discourse? To what extent can we say that context 
exists ‘out there’, surrounding but separate from discourse? Can we 
argue that social/political/cultural/historical/etc. situations 
influence the structures of text and talk – or, on the other hand, is it 
more accurate to speak of context models, wherein discourse participants 
define the relevant properties of the communicative situation. Should we 
regard inter-textual relations as context? What about co-text? And what 
of collocation – is critical corpus linguistics the ultimate in 
contextualised linguistic analysis or a radically decontextualised 
linguistic analysis? And how does all of this relate to critique? Is 
CDA/CDS as an emancipatory project even possible if social structure is 
reduced to a ‘context model’?

These and other questions will be the focus of our two-day symposium on 
Context and Critique.



We envisage this to be the first in a series of symposia focusing on 
developments in theoretical, analytical and empirical approaches to 
Critical Discourse Studies. The number of papers will be limited as we 
do not agree with holding parallel sessions: We want the symposium to 
act like a conversation that will help to reflect on and shape 
directions within the field. We will, therefore, give priority to papers 
that address one or more of the following themes and approaches to 
examining context and critique:



1. ‘Language’, ‘Text’, ‘Context’

- Theorising text/context; co-text and intertextuality; corpora, 
collocation and keyness



2. Discursive Practices

- Production and reception studies; entextualisation & ethnographic 
studies; organizational discourse studies; encoding/decoding; audience 
interpretations



3. Structures and/or models

- Various levels of context-as-situation (inter alia, social, political, 
economic, historical, cultural); power; ideology; cognition and context 
models



Please submit a Word document containing your paper title, a 250 word 
abstract, which symposium theme your presentation will address, author 
information (full name, institutional affiliation, email address) and a 
50-word bio to (contextandcritique2015 /at/ gmail.com) by 27 March 2015.

Papers will be selected by the symposium committee. We will contact all 
submitting authors by Friday 17 April. 2015



Presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of questions. 
After all the papers on a theme have been delivered, there will be a 30 
minute round table discussion, led by two discussants.

We will also select one of the submitted papers to act as the Plenary 
for the symposium. The Plenary will be a 30 minute presentation, 
followed by 30 minutes of questions and discussion.



We intend to edit a book collecting papers presented at the symposium. 
This book will be proposed to Bloomsbury Academic’s new book series, 
Advances in Critical Discourse Studies.



Symposium Committee:

John E Richardson (Chair), David Machin, Michal Krzyzanowski, Ruth Wodak



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