Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD)

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) is an ongoing project which aims to foster and promote cross-disciplinary communication in critical discourse research. This site is intended as a resource for both students and scholars critically involved with discourse.

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 word abstracts in English. They should be sent to

-- 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

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Thanks and best wishes
Christina Schäffner

Published 19/10/2009

Call for Papers: Feminisms in Discourse

Dear all,

I’m putting together a panel titled ‘Feminisms in Discourse’ at the next Sociolinguistics Symposium, SS18, to be held in Southampton (United Kingdom), 1-4 September 2010.

Description of panel:

The terms ‘feminist’/’feminism’ are viewed in a variety of ways today: with suspicion and antipathy, as outmoded and redundant, or as a rallying self-identity marker for particular purposes, depending on the interactants and the situations.  This panel seeks to explore how notions about ‘feminists’ and/or ‘feminisms’ are construed explicitly in and through discourse i.e. how that gets to be talked about, represented, or acted upon in ways that may be sympathetic, disengaged, hostile, cooptative and so on, in texts and talk of everyday life.  Papers, based on sizeable empirical data, should clearly outline the analytical framework and methodology used in the study, and provide explicit and systematic analysis of the communicative strategies evident in the data.  The panel aims to investigate the myriad ways in which ‘feminists’ and ‘feminisms’ are understood by women and men (and girls and boys) in a variety of communicative settings, and cultural and (inter)national contexts. A variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives is welcome.

If anyone, whose research fits within the concerns of the panel, and would like to participate, please contact me directly and privately at . I’m looking for initial expressions of interest by 26 October, followed by abstracts of 500 words by 4 November.

Best,
Michelle Lazar

Published 18/10/2009

CADAAD'08 Plenary Videos

The plenary presentations delivered at CADAAD 2008 can now be seen by clicking the links below:

Piotr Cap

   

Teun van Dijk

Jonathan Charteris-Black

  

Frans van Eemeren

Jonathan Potter

  

Ruth Wodak

Published 17/08/2009