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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).

Glocalisation as catalyst for new discourses and genres

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Call For Papers: ‘Glocalisation as catalyst for new discourses and genres’

If you are interested, then please send an abstract (max 350 words), title and brief bio by November 11, 2011 to the convenors Laura Alba-Juez (UNED, Spain), Dorien Van De Mieroop (University of Leuven, Belgium) and Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK)

I-mean 3, Identity and Language Conference

The third i-mean conference will address the relationship between language and identity.
Following the imean tradition, we seek to explore ways in which researchers can fruitfully work across methodological and disciplinary boundaries. We also welcome scholars from other disciplines who have an interest in the links between language and identity.
The conference aims to explore whether and to what extent bringing together different methodological and theoretical approaches can:
- Enhance understanding of identity attribution in interaction

ICA PRE-CONFERENCE: Qualitative Political Communication Research

At the 2014 International Communication Association Annual Conference
May 22, 2014 – 8:00am-5:00pm
Department of Communication, University of Washington (room TBD)

Website: http://qualpolicomm.wordpress.com/ica-pre-conference/

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DEADLINE FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (500 WORDS) DECEMBER 1

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