[ecrea] DiscourseNet 19 Conference Discourse, Knowledge and Practice in Society

status: CfP Call for papers
conference
DiscourseNet 19 Conference Discourse, Knowledge and Practice in Society
07.07.2017-08.07.2017
Bucharest, Romania

Call for papers
Discourse, Knowledge and Practice in Society
DiscourseNet 19 Conference

University of Bucharest,
Central University Library of Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania
July, 7-8 2017


Keynote Speaker: Isabela Fairclough (University of Central Lancashire)
Distinguished Guest: Norman Fairclough (University of Lancaster)

Discourse Studies comprise a growing body of research which focuses on 
meaning making as a key activity in society: from a discourse 
perspective, social phenomena are meaningful phenomena. While discourse 
researchers insist on the role of ‘language’ (i.e. verbal and nonverbal 
signs) for the social production of meaning, they commonly point out the 
social, political, historical contexts in which it is used. Discourse 
Studies have dealt with objects as diverse as public controversies and 
classroom interactions, the social web, bodily gestures and urban 
landscapes. In these studies, discourse is never seen as a pure 
linguistic activity. Rather, it is intertwined with what people know and 
with what they do in society. Discourse, in other words, raises the 
question how language is related to knowledges and practices in society.

While some researchers have put emphasis on the knowledge dimension of 
discourse by asking how knowledge is produced, circulated and 
established in society, others have conceptualized discourse as a 
practice which performs social functions. DiscourseNet 19 welcomes 
contributions which analyse discourses in their epistemic and pragmatic 
entanglements. The participants come from all branches of the social 
sciences and humanities and bring their various theoretical and 
methodological orientations into a productive exchange. The 
presentations will deal with empirical discursive objects in a 
theoretical way and engage in a critical reflection of the nexus of 
language, knowledge and practice in contemporary society. They can be 
either in English or in French.
 Topics of presentation may include but are not limited to:

-	Literary and artistic discourses; -	Media and social media discourses; 
-	Professional, academic and educational discourses; -	Public, 
institutional and political discourses
They can draw from qualitative as well as quantitative methodologies 
such as:

- Argumentation Ethnography - Semiotics - Conversation analysis Corpus 
analysis - Grounded Theory - Semi-structured interviews etc.
Conference languages: The official language of the conference is English 
but we also welcome presentations in French. Please contact us by mail 
if you would like to present in French language.

Abstracts submission: Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be 
submitted by December 15, 2016 on the conference website: 
http://www.discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=DN19::DN19
Please contact us by e-mail if you would like to propose a panel for the 
conference

Registration fees for the conference: Early bird fee will apply until 30 
April 2017 - 25 euro for unfunded full time Ph.D. students and 
researchers without affiliation and 50 euro for researchers with 
institutional affiliation.

Late registration - 50 euros for unfunded full time Ph.D. students and 
researchers without affiliation and 75 euros researchers with 
institutional affiliation.

Important details:

CALENDAR
Deadline for submitting paper proposals: 15/12/2016
Announcement of accepted papers: 01/02/2017
Registration deadline: 30/04/2017

ORGANIZATION TEAM:

For questions please send a mail to the organization team at 
(discoursenet19 /at/ gmail.com)
Dr. Delia Badoi (University of Bucharest)
Dr. Ruxandra Boicu (University of Bucharest)
Dr. Camelia Cmeciu (University of Bucharest)

The DN 19 conference will take place at the Central University Library, 
Fundatia Building - Biblioteca Centrală Universitară „Carol I”, Calea 
Victoriei, no. 88, sector 1.
The venue could be reached by metro - (Metro station Universitatea or 
Piata Romana)


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