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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).

Second University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society (UMDS 2010)

The Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malaya is pleased to announce the second University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society (UMDS 2010).

UMDS 2010: 'Interdiscplinary Approaches to Discourse' aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines to exchange ideas as well as offer new and critical perspectives and directions in research on discourse and society.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Ruth Wodak (University of Lancaster)
Prof Theo Van Leuwen (University of Technology Sydney).

Discourse--Communication--Conversation

An ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE to celebrate

25 years of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG)
10 years of the Culture and Media Analysis Research Group (CAMARG)

Plenary speakers include:

Charles Antaki
Michael Billig
David Buckingham
David Deacon
Teun A. Van Dijk
Paul Drew
Derek Edwards
Peter Golding
Jim McGuigan
Angela McRobbie
Graham Murdock
Mike Pickering
Jonathan Potter
Elizabeth Stokoe
Liesbet Van Zoonen

SS19 thematic session "Gender ideologies and Public Discourses" call for papers

We welcome abstract submissions to the following thematic panel at the Sociolinguistic Symposium 19 at Freie Universität Berlin from August 22 to 24, 2012. Please use SS19 submission tool to submit abstracts to us. http://www.sociolinguistics-symposium-2012.de/

PAC @ 10: A Decade of Resistance (10th Public Anthropology Conference)

Deadline August 15

ICA Preconference: Making Sense of Memory & History

Sponsored by the Communication History Division of the International Communication Association
Date: May 22, 2014
Time: 8:30 AM – 5 PM

Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism: Transnational Feminist and Decolonial Approaches

The question of materiality has emerged as a central topic in studies concerned with the body, affect, sexuality, bio-politics and digital culture in recent years. Under the umbrella term “new materialism”, this interdisciplinary and multifaceted academic debate seems to have revived a Marxist vocabulary. Yet, the question of why “materiality” matters in times of crisis capitalism is rather absent in this debate.

Discourses on and of Europe Debates and controversies

European integration goes back over 62 years including the European Coal and Steel Community. For a long time it remained closed to popular concern, and was mainly a matter for the political class and a few professions directly affected such as civil servants, financial and industrial elites and exporters, and specialist lawyers. Everything changed when the political and economic elites decided to transform the common market, with its famous common agricultural policy, into an Economic and Monetary Union.