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Please circulate widely
One day-colloquium on 'Discourse:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives'
University of Sussex, Friday 18th
November 2016 (Please
note the change of date)
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 literature, media
studies, anthropology, history, linguistics, politics, psychology, gender
studies, medicine, education, literature 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).