University of Sussex, Friday 18th
November 2016
Call for papers
The English Language & Linguistics group at the University of Sussex is organizing a one-day colloquium on
'Discourse: Multidisciplinary Perspectives'.
We invite papers from the full range of disciplines that use discourse
analysis, such as media studies, anthropology, history, linguistics,
politics, psychology, gender studies, medicine, education and more. The
sub-topic of the colloquium is ‘Reflections on Representation, Identity and/or (Non)Belonging',
which
we encourage participants to interpret in the broadest sense. As such,
we welcome both illustrative research papers detailing discourse
analyses on the topic/s, as well as position
papers which help show how representation, identity and (non)belonging
are understood from a discourse perspective within your particular
discipline. Various perspectives are encouraged and some themes which
have emerged from discussions with colleagues across
disciplines include:
- representation of public/political figures or groups in the media,
- patients’ self-accounts in medicine/psychology,
- defendants’ self-presentations in criminology/law,
- negotiation of self-identity in the classroom in sociology/education or representation of values in public and/or educational texts
- identity construction in oral/written memories of war veterans and/or historical crucial moments in oral history
and much more.
We
hope that the event will lead to greater understanding of how discourse
is conceptualised and approached across disciplines and reveal
opportunities
for interdisciplinary collaboration. Depending on interest, we also
envisage a selection of papers being published in a special issue of
CADAAD Journal (Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across
Disciplines).
If you are interested in contributing a paper, please send a 300 word abstract to Roberta Piazza (r.piazza@sussex.ac.uk)
by September 30th 2016
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