Discourse Analysis Down Under: New Foundations in Professional Discourses
3rd Symposium on Discourse Analysis
9th November 2007
Monash University, Clayton Campus
Menzies Building (Building 11), Room E365
The 3rd Annual Symposium on Discourse Analysis will be held on November 9, 2007 at Monash University, Clayton Campus.
Over the last two years The Symposium has been attracting, academics and students working within DA approaches and methodologies in diverse areas such as education (e.g. group assignments for international students and their reflection on self-identity, storytelling among secondary students), institutional discourse (e.g. police-interviewing, medical and professional discourse), translation and interpreting (e.g. turn taking in interpreting), the discourse of ethic minorities, the language of resistance and blaming, and political discourse, to mention a few.
This year we aim to reflect on how our research has been informed by Australia’s reality in the selection of topics, methodologies, approaches and interpretation of data.
*What new contributions can we bring to the field of discourse analysis?
*Is there anything in particular (topics?, methodologies?, approaches?) that highlights our DA presence in Australia?
This symposium is open to all academics, professionals and students who work within any of the approaches of DA (e.g. Conversational Analysis, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics etc.)
Program (Final version now available)
Call for Papers - 4th Symposium on Discourse Analysis - November 2008
Contributions are welcome in discourse analysis research that investigate how socio-cultural mobility and global networks of communication may impact on the ways discourse is manifested in today’s social exchanges.
Further Details (pdf format)