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).
In photography, the lens of a camera can be tilted and shifted to create new perspectives. Using discourse analysis as a lens enables us to gain new perspectives on the social world and generate new insights into influences and changes in a range of social phenomena. Discourse analysis encompasses a diverse range of analytical techniques and draws on a variety of theoretical and epistemological perspectives. Through an examination of talk, text and associated social practices, issues of identity, agency, structure, representation, power and practice can be addressed.
ADVANCING CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The 7th Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) will be held at the University of Adelaide on Monday 18th - Wednesday 20th April, 2011.
A series of workshops for postgraduate students and emerging researchers will be held on Sunday 17th April, 2011.
We are delighted to include Professor Raewyn Connell and Associate Professor Pat Dudgeon as keynote speakers. More keynote speakers will be announced soon!
About the conference
[With apologies for cross-posting]
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31, 2011
IGALA 7 (7th International Gender and Language Association Conference)
invites submissions for oral presentations, posters, organized round tables
(aka panels), and workshops on all scientific approaches and disciplines to
analyzing and interpreting the relationships among language, gender and
sexuality.
The special theme of this edition is:
Narrative pragmatics: Culture, cognition, context.
But as always, the conference is open to ALL OTHER PRAGMATICS-RELATED TOPICS as well (where pragmatics is conceived broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication).
Keynote speakers:
- Nicholas Johnson, former FCC Commissioner and Visiting Faculty, University of Iowa College of Law
- Des Freedman, Reader in Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London
The Carsey-Wolf Center’s Media Industries Project [MIP] announces a call for participants in the Dirty, Sexy Policy Conference at UC Santa Barbara.
The goal of the joint conference is to promote both theoretical and
applied research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are
interested in different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical,
linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.).
Three main topics of the conference are as follows:
Conference Panels:
• The Embodied Discourses: Discursive Positioning in Narrations
• Materialities and Boundaries of Discourse
• Counter-Discourses and Cooptation
• Governmentality and Poverty: On the Intricate Relation between Discourses on Economics, Identities, and the Government of the Self
For more detailed information on the panels, as well as a description of the previous conference, please visit: http://daconference2014.wordpress.com/
Timeline:
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Nick Couldry, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
Prof. Peter Dahlgren, Department of Communication and Media, Lund University
We invite submission of abstracts for a panel on “Migration Discourses across Languages, Societies and Discourse Communities” as part of CADAAD 2016 at the University of Catania, 5-7 September 2016.