The conference 5th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) is looking for papers.
Papers that have a critical-analytical perspective, deal with contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourses and genres, are searched for.
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(New) Media discourses
Party political discourse
Advertising
Institutional discourse
Power and identity in discourse
Discourses of conflict and aggression
Discourses of migration/integration
Language and gender/sexuality
Nationalist discourses
Discourses of education
Discourses of the environment
Discourses of health and mental health
Discourses of business and economics
Language and the law
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Cognitive Linguistics
Conversation and Discourse Analysis
Corpus Linguistics
Discursive Psychology
Ethnography of Communication
Forensic Linguistics
Functional Linguistics
Media and Mass Communication Studies
Multimodality
Political Science
Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory
Sociolinguistics
Sociology
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All papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English.
Abstracts of up to 350 words excluding references should be sent as MS Word attachment to [email protected]. Deadline for abstracts is 14 December 2015. In addition to individual papers, panel proposals may also be submitted.
More information on the call and the conference can be found here.