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DNC3-ALED (Third DiscourseNet ALED Congress): Knowledge and power in a polycentric world. Discourses across languages, cultures and space

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Theme

The legitimacy of "Europe" and "the West" as identifiable territorial and imagined entities is in crisis. The awareness has grown of a world becoming more polycentric. At the same time, the field of Discourse Studies is growing at a dazzling rate across the globe. Discourse Studies is known for theoretical  orientations and methodological tools that account for meaning production as a social practice mobilizing languages, media and technologies.

The GGS Annual Conference 2018 DiscourseNet22: Discourse, Power, Subjectivation

Discourse Studies cover a growing field of interdisciplinary research on meaning making practices, communicative activities and symbolic representations. Cultural studies, linguistics, media analysis, geography, and history, among others, highlight the role of texts, pictures and language in the constitution of truth and reality. Actor-oriented disciplines such as political science, sociology, pedagogy or economics and management studies are interested in the formation of subjectivities, 

DN23: Discourse, power and mind: between reason and emotion

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Topic

Discourse can be addressed as a vehicle for power, a positioning practice which enlightens the role and the relationship among the speakers. Power is a way of defying and measure relationships and interactions between individuals. These relations and interactions lead one part to affirm its will against another part, no matter on what bases this will is grounded (Weber, 1974).

“Did anyone say Power?”: Rethinking Domination and Hegemony in Translation

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
• Professor Christina Schäffner (Aston University, Birmingham, UK)
• Dr Karen Bennett (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES), Portugal)
• Professor Luc van Doorslaer (University of Leuven, Centre for Translation Studies (CETRA), Belgium)
• Professor José Lambert (University of Leuven, Centre for Translation Studies (CETRA), Belgium)

CADAAD 2014

Submitted by Chris Hart on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 14:49

We are glad to announce that the 5th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD) will take place 1-3 September 2014 and will be hosted by ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary.

Warwick International Postgraduate Conference. Centre for Applied Linguistics

The Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce its 17th
Postgraduate Conference on Tuesday, 24th and Wednesday, 25th June 2014. The postgraduate
conference covers a wide range of topics including language teaching, intercultural
communication, and academic or political discourse. The aim of the conference is to provide
postgraduate students with the opportunity to present their research, to attend experts’
keynote presentations, to meet peers who engage in similar research activities and to get

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