We are pleased to announce the third international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines. The conference will take place in Lodz, Poland, 13-15 September 2010. The conference has a general theme of "Ideology, identity and interaction".
In line with previous CADAAD conferences, this conference aims to promote new directions in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. We welcome contributions from all areas of critically applied linguistics. We especially encourage papers which assess the state of the art and explore new methodologies in critical discourse research oriented toward the general theme of ideology, identity and interaction. Possible areas of analysis include but are by no means limited to the following:
* · Identities in discourse
* · Political communication
* · Language in the news
* · Language in the new media
* · Discourse of advertising
* · Institutional discourse
* · Language and globalisation
* · Business communication
* · Scientific discourse
* · Health communication
* · Language and ecology
The following plenary speakers, selected for their expertise in different approaches to critical discourse research, have been confirmed:
* Professor Paul Chilton (Lancaster University)
* Professor Seana Coulson (University of California, San Diego)
* Professor Anna Duszak (University of Warsaw)
* Professor Bob Hodge (University of Western Sydney)
* Professor Martin Reisigl (University of Vienna)
Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English. General queries should be sent to the local organiser, Prof. Piotr Cap, at strus_pl@yahoo.com
Abstracts of no more than 350 words (excluding references) should be sent by email as a Word attachment to discourse@cadaad.org by 15 January 2010.
Please include name, affiliation, email address and paper title in the body of the email. All abstracts will be accepted subject to review by an international Scientific Committee. Notification of acceptance decisions will be communicated via email by the end of February 2010.
Presenters will be invited to submit papers based on the general theme for publication in the CADAAD journal.
Conference information can be found at http://cadaad.org/conferences/2010
Mr. Christopher Hart
Lecturer in English Language and Communication
School of Humanities
University of Hertfordshire
www.go.herts.ac.uk/cjhart
Prof. zw. dr hab. Piotr Cap
Chair of Pragmatics (Head)
Institute of English, University of Lodz
Al.Kosciuszki 65
90-514 Lodz, POLAND
tel/fax +48 42 6655220
http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/faculty/pcap