First International Young Scholars Symposium.
Discourse, Ideology and Society (DIS)
Organised by the Discourse and Culture Academic Society (DISCAS)
Łódź, Poland,18-20 March 2011
First Circular – Call for Papers
We have the pleasure to announce that the first international young scholars symposium on Discourse, Ideology, and Society will take place in Łódź, Poland, on March 18-20, 2011. Our goal is to provide a platform where young researchers can share their expertise, interest, and passion for discourse and its multiple social, political, and cultural contexts.
This inter-disciplinary conference intends to explore the notion of discourse as socially constituted and constitutive, historically shaped, ideologically conditioned, and culturally embedded, and to promote multidisciplinarity and integration across various fields of discourse and representation-related research. Bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative approaches, we want to look for new effective solutions and tools that will allow us to cope with methodological challenges and will make it possible to address the discourse-society dialectics in a novel comprehensive way.
We welcome contributions from all of the following areas: linguistics, sociology, political studies, psychology, journalism and media studies, advertising, culture studies, gender studies, and business communication. Contributions of B.A., M.A., Ph.D. students and young researchers are particularly encouraged. Possible areas of research include, but are by no means limited to, the following:
- perspectives on discourse and communication: pragmatics, Critical Discourse Analysis, rhetoric and argumentation, social semiotics, Conversation Analysis
- qualitative and quantitative methodologies in discourse studies
- myths, metaphors, and frames in discourse
- political discourse and communication
- mass-mediated discourse and the language of New Media
- discursive representations of national, ethnic and religious identities
- stereotypes and discrimination in discourse
- discourse, ideology, and conflict
- persuasion, manipulation, and propaganda
- gender in discourse
- business and corporate communication
- advertising discourse
- visual communication
- localisation and globalization in discourse
Confirmed keynote speakers:
- prof. dr hab. Piotr Stalmaszczyk (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/linguistics/staff/pstalmaszczyk)
- Dr. Christopher Hart (http://www.hartcda.org.uk/)
- prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Fabiszak (http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/fa/Fabiszak_Malgorzata)
- dr hab. Piotr Chruszczewski (http://republika.pl/piotr_p_chruszczewski/teksty/cv.pdf)
Abstract submission
Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 350 words (excluding references) should be sent by email as a Word attachment to discas.poland@gmail.com by February 28, 2011. Please include name, affiliation, email address and paper title in the body of the email. Notification of acceptance decisions will be communicated via email by March 4, 2011.
Proceedings
Presenters will be invited to submit papers based on the general theme for publication in a post-conference volume. A selection of papers will also be published in Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (http://versita.com/lpp), in printed and electronic formats.
Organising Committee
Discourse and Culture Academic Society (DISCAS) (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/discas/) and Chair of Pragmatics, University of Łódź, Poland (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/ )
Anna Rodzoś (Conference Team)
Joanna Jabłońska (Conference Team)
Paulina Królikowska (Conference Team)
Michał Więckowski (Conference Team)
Scientific Supervision
Piotr Cap, Head of the Chair of Pragmatics (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/faculty/pcap)
Monika Kopytowska, DISCAS Supervisor (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/faculty/mkopytowska)
Registration
The registration fee covers a set of conference materials, coffee breaks with refreshments and access to Internet facilities. The regular fee is 70 Euros. Participants from Poland, East European countries and countries with severe currency restrictions (please contact the organizers to check if you qualify) will be offered reduced fees of 40 Euros (160 PLN, conference fee). Fees should be transferred by 11 March, 2011 to the following bank account:
Uniwersytet Łódzki
Bank PKO S.A., II O/Łódź
Piotrkowska 270, 90-959 Łódź, Poland
Account No. (IBAN): PL 96 1240 3028 1111 0010 2943 1767
BIC/SWIFT: PKOPPLPW
Reference: “DIS, Chair of Pragmatics”
Contact
Conference information can be found at http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/discas/dis
Should you have any questions, please contact:
DISCAS
Chair of Pragmatics
Institute of English, University of Lodz
Al. Kosciuszki 65
90-514 Lodz, Poland
tel/fax +48 42 6655220
e-mail: discas.poland@gmail.com
Important dates
· 28 February 2011, abstracts due
· 4 March 2011, notification of acceptance
· 11 March 2011, all conference fees due
· 14 March 2011, second circular and conference program
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