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University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society

University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society (UMDS2010)

Theme: Interdisplinary Approaches to Discourse

June 16-18, 2010

Hilton Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Call for papers

UMDS2010 Website: http://umconference.um.edu.my/UMDS2010

The Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malaya is pleased to announce the University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society (UMDS2010) which will be held at Hilton Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines to exchange ideas as well as offer new perspectives and directions in research on discourse and society. We welcome papers from any topic in the field of discourse and especially those that focus on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives of discourse. Areas of interest include:

  • Discourse and Education
  • Discourse and Gender
  • Discourse and Multimodality
  • Discourse and Workplace
  • Discourse and Religion
  • Discourse and Globalisation
  • Discourse and the Environment
  • Discourse and Technology
  • Discourse and Politics
  • Intercultural Discourses
  • Minority Discourses
  • Other related areas of research in discourse and society

Keynote Speakers

  • Professor Emeritus dato' Dr. Asmah Haji Omar (University of Malaya)
  • Professor Ruth Wodak (University of Lancaster)
  • Professor Theo van Leeuwen (University of Sydney)

Submissions are invited for abstracts for oral presentations. All abstracts should be limited to 300 words in either English or Bahasa Malaysia and must be sent to umdsabstracts@gmail.com by 14 February 2010.

Paper presentations will be 20 minutes in duration with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. Papers accepted for presentation will be notified by April 16, 2010.

For more information please contact: umds2010@gmail.com  

 

Published 05/02/2010

Text-mining in the Digital Humanities

  Call for Papers

Text-mining in the Digital Humanities: The Interface between Conceptual History, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics.

Lancaster University     Thu 13 - Fri 14 May 2010

The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to explore the potential for collaboration between researchers in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Corpus Linguistics (CL) and Conceptual History (CH), the study of key socio-political concepts in their historical context (see http://www.concepta-net.org/conceptual_history).

Recent studies by mainly Lancaster-based researchers have suggested the methodological synergy that can result from combining CDA and corpus-linguistic approaches. Meanwhile, the discourse-historical approach in CDA developed by Ruth Wodak (Lancaster) overlaps with CH in its study of the discursive construction of collective identities that can themselves be seen as concepts, each with their own history. Finally, the development of increasingly sophisticated software programs, such as Lancaster's UCREL Semantic Analysis System, opens up exciting new research possibilities for mining the ever-increasing number of historical texts available in digital form. The workshop will provide a unique opportunity for researchers in CH, CDA and CL to discover how they might benefit from mutual collaboration. It should also be of interest to anyone in the Humanities and Social Sciences who works with texts and/or deals with basic socio-political concepts, including collective identities.

Guest speakers will include Jan Ifversen (Head of Institute for History and Area Studies, Aarhus University), Hans-Erich Boedeker (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin), both from the History of Political and Social Concepts Group, and Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economics and Business), who pioneered the use of corpus-linguistic techniques in CDA. The workshop will also include demonstrations of various software programs.

Abstracts (200-300 words)

We invite the submission of proposals for 20-minute papers from scholars working in:

  • Conceptual History (including historical semantics and metaphor history)
  • Critical Discourse Analysis (including critical metaphor analysis and cognitive approaches)
  • Corpus Linguistics (including historical text-mining and keyword extraction)

Possible topic areas for papers include, but are not limited to:

  • Case studies in using historical corpora
  • Concepts, texts and discourses
  • Conceptual history vs historical semantics
  • Conceptual contestation / conceptual innovation
  • Critical metaphor analysis and cognitive approaches
  • Different national approaches
  • Identities as concepts
  • The importance of context(s)
  • Reconstructing semantic fields
  • The role of concepts in the discourse-historical approach
  • What corpus linguistics can and cannot do
  • What makes a key word key?

Deadline for abstracts, to be sent to Prof. Anne Wichmann (a.wichmann@virgin.net).is 26 March 2010.

Further information (accommodation, travel etc) will soon be available at http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/events/chcdacl2010/  

Published 05/02/2010

CFP: From Text to Political Positions 2010

AMSTERDAM WORKSHOP - Political Text Analysis

9-10 April 2010, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

http://www2.let.vu.nl/oz/cltl/t2pp/index.html

 

Plenary speakers:

Kenneth Benoit (Trinity College, Dublin, Dept of Political Science)

Jan Kleinnijenhuis (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dept of Communication Studies and The Network Institute)

Veronika Koller (Lancaster University, Dept of Linguistics and English Language) and Paul Davidson (University of Bradford, Department of Peace Studies)

Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh, Dept of Computer Science).

The workshop ‘From Text to Political Positions´ (T2PP) is intended to provide a meeting place for individual researchers and research groups focussing on the development of methods and techniques for the analysis of political texts. It will allow for dialogue between scholars working on complementary multidisciplinary projects, and so may lead to further collaboration. During these two days, plenty of time will be reserved for social and intellectual exchanges and the event will close with a round-table discussion.

The meeting will focus on comprehensive and precise methods for manual and automated analysis of subjectivity and the presentation of opinions in political texts.  Examples of relevant text-types include, but are not limited to: television news broadcasts, interviews, newspapers, opinion papers, parliamentary debates, manifestos, party websites, blogs, public-opinion polls on the internet and voting polls and election results.  Topic suggestions include:

  • Modelling positions of actors in political texts on issues and dimensions
  • Sociological and linguistic models for deep-structure analysis of political texts
  • Linguistic evidence of popularisation of language in politics
  • Politics in the media: methods of analysis in media discourse on politics
  • Securing quality in quantitative research methods
  • Analysing political discourse from a regional (e.g., European, Asian, African, British, USA) or global perspective
  • Acquisition and representation of subjectivity and modality (emotion, deontic and epistemic modality, urgency) as expressed lexically (e.g. ‘good/bad', ‘for/against', ‘can/will/should/must/shall', ‘say/state/assume/demand', pos./neg. ‘possible/likely') or on a higher discourse level.
  • The automatic annotation of subjective, deontic and modal layers of implications in texts to model complex opinions and positions of actors
  • Applications for political opinion mining and positioning tools
  • ... other suggestions are welcome

We invite 500-1000 word abstracts in English. They should be sent to T2PP@let.vu.nl

-- Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2010

-- Notification of acceptance will be made by February 15th.

-- Participation will be based upon acceptance of refereed abstracts.

-- Only a limited number of papers (12-16) can be accepted to allow for 20 minutes per paper plus discussion time.

-- Deadline for papers from accepted participants: 10 March 2010

-- Accepted papers will be posted on the T2PP web site two weeks in advance as 'working papers' to enhance discussion and debate.

-- We plan to compile a selection of the papers and submit them to a peer-reviewed international journal for publication as a special issue.

Workshop cost: FREE - There will be no registration fee!

Published 13/01/2010

English and German Nationalist and Anti-Semitic Discourse (1871-1945)

The Historical Discourse Working Group and the Leo Baeck Institute, London , with the support of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations would like to announce their first international conference "English and German Nationalist and Anti-Semitic Discourse (1871-1945)" to be held at Queen Mary, University of London on 10-11 November 2010.  

The project website and detailed call for papers can be found at the following link:

http://www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/research/nationalismproject/november_2010_conference.shtml

Stefan Baumgarten  

Published 04/01/2010

Critical Link 6

Dear colleagues

I'd like to inform you of the 6th International Conference Critical Link to be held from 26-30 July 2010 at Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The main theme is 'Interpreting in a Changing Landscape'. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 31 October 2009. Abstract submission and registration can now be done online at http://www.aston.ac.uk/CL2010

Click here for the Call for Papers and a postcard flyer.

Thanks and best wishes
Christina Schäffner

Published 19/10/2009