Second Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis (IWoDA’13)
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University of Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
19th-21st June, 2013
Deadline for submission of proposals: April 21st, 2013
http://www.usc.es/congresos/iwoda/EN/home
The main aim is to bring together scholars, researchers and students in order to explore and analyse discourse from multiple perspectives:
• theoretical and applied
• quantitative and qualitative
• linguistic and cognitive
• psycho- and sociolinguistic
• critical and literary
• cultural, filmic and semiotic
We invite submission of abstracts for papers on the following topics with a focus on the analysis of English-language discourse (although contrastive studies with other languages are also welcome).
1. LINGUISTICS PANEL
1.1. Discourse and Grammar
1.2. Discourse and Cognition
1.3. Discourse and Social Interaction: Genres and English for Specific Purposes
1.4. Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
2. LITERARY STUDIES PANEL
2.1. Discourse and/in Literary Criticism
2.2. Discourse and Social Interaction
2.3. Discourse and Gender
2.4. Discourse, Race and Nation
3. CULTURAL/HISTORICAL STUDIES PANEL
3.1. Cross-cultural and Intercultural Communication in the 21st century
3.2. Cross-cultural and Intercultural Communication through History
3.3. Discourse, Culture, Politics and Ideology
3.4. Historiography: Discourse of Inclusion, Exclusion and Hybridization
Instructions for the submission of abstracts (using the online submission system) can be found here:
http://www.usc.es/congresos/iwoda/EN/content/submission-of-proposals
Plenary speakers:
Emmott, Catherine (University of Glasgow): “Foreground and Background in Written Texts: Discourse Strategies and Cognitive Processing”
Fogarty, Anne (University College Dublin): “Reading First-Person Narratives: Trauma and Femininity in Contemporary Irish Fiction”
Knight, Sarah & Lund, Mary Ann (University of Leicester): “Richard III and Elizabethan Drama”
Leech, Geoffrey (University of Lancaster): “English Grammar on the Move”
Pullum, Geoffrey (University of Edinburgh): “Discourse, Usage, and the English Passive Constructions”
Regan, Stephen (University of Durham): “The Politics of Poetry and the Counter-Cultural Discourse of the Sonnet”
Two Pre-Workshop Practical Sessions will take place on Wed 19th June, 2013:
Pre-Workshop Practical Session 1
Martin Hilpert (Université de Neuchâtel): “Statistical Methods in Language and Linguistic Research”
Pre-Workshop Practical Session 2
Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancaster): “Discourse Analysis: Exploring Data with WMatrix”
IWoDA’13 is organized by SCIMITAR and Discourse & Identity, two research groups affiliated to the Department of English and German of the University of Santiago de Compostela, in collaboration with three partner groups from the University of A Coruña, namely AMERGIN, CLIN and MUSTE.
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IWoDA’13
University of Santiago de Compostela
English & German Department
Avda. Castelao s/n
E-15704 Santiago de Compostela. Spain
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