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Mediated
Discourse Theory and Analysis research seminar, November 27th -
30th, 2002
Location: Kroghstræde
3, Aalborg University, Denmark
Guest:
 | Professor Ron Scollon,
Georgetown University, USA |
The video and slides
of all the lectures and discussion session are available online. Access is
restricted to computers within Aalborg University.
Ron Scollon
led this four-day intensive seminar for scholars and PhD students. Ron Scollon has advanced his sophisticated theory of mediated
discourse in several books and articles. His
innovative approach focuses on the intersection of discourse and social
action in order to explore how the broad discourses of our social life
are engaged and mediated in the situated actions of social actors in
their everyday practices.
The research seminar focused on his theory of mediated discourse and its application
to a variety of settings and data sets, using a mix of lectures,
exercises and discussion sessions. Each day we concentrated on one theme
around which the lectures, exercises and discussions clustered. There
was also time for presentations by some of the attendees.
If you are interested in the relations between discursive practices,
social action, artifacts, cultural tools, multimodal semiosis and the
reproduction of agency, identity and social ordering you will find this
intensive seminar very relevant to your concerns. The seminar will also
interest scholars of discourse who work in the fields of critical
discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic
anthropology, practice theory, activity theory, and intercultural
communication, or who use the textography, discourse community,
communities of practice, or discourse-historical approaches. Scollon
also draws upon the work of Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Wertsch, Bourdieu and
Goffman.
Seminar themes may -- depending on the participants -- include:
| Discourse and identity |
| Discourse and practice |
| Discourse and place |
| Mediated discourse analysis methodology |
Concepts that will be discussed and illustrated include:
| Mediated action |
| Mediational means |
| Sites of engagement |
| Nexus of practice |
| Technologisation |
| Communities of practice |
| Geosemiotics |
Examples will be chosen that illustrate:
| Globalisation and neo-liberalism |
| News media discourse |
| Social identity formation |
| Media reception and use |
| Multimodal discourses |
| Ontogenesis of practices |
| Semiotic aggregates |
The seminar will be restricted to a small group of 20 researchers and
PhD students.
The deadline for registration was 1st October 2002.
The seminar is full, but there is a waiting list. Please contact Paul
McIlvenny
if you wish to be included on the waiting list.
A fee will be charged for participation to cover administrative
costs, tea/coffee and lunches during the seminar. The full fee for
participants is 400 Danish kroner, and the fee for students/low-waged is 200
Danish kroner. The
registration fee can be paid on the first day of the seminar (in Danish
kronor only).
Location, travel
and accommodation information is
available on this web site.
A poster (PDF) for the workshop is
available (1.2 Mb).
Note: PDF files require Acrobat Reader.
Provisional
schedule
The seminar will run daily from 9:30 to 16:00
(Wednesday to Saturday). The precise schedule is not
yet confirmed.
DAY
1 |
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Open Lecture
Exercises
Data Session |
DAY
2 |
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Lectures
Exercises
Data Session
Presentations |
DAY
3 |
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Lectures
Exercises
Data Session
Presentations |
DAY
4 |
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Lectures
Exercises
Data Session
Presentations |
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For more information, contact
Paul
McIlvenny or Pirkko Raudaskoski.
Further information on guest speaker
Professor
Scollon, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University,
Washington, USA.
He maintains a website, the Gutenberg
Dump, full of interesting snippets and discourse projects.
Publications include:
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1997. Handbills, tissues, and condoms: A Site of
Engagement for the Construction of Identity in Public Discourse. Journal
of Sociolinguistics, 1(1):39-61. |
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1998. Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction: A
Study of News Discourse. New York: Longman. |
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1999. Mediated discourse and social interaction. Research
on Language and Social Interaction 32(1&2):149-154. |
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2001. (with Suzie Wong Scollon). Intercultural
Communication: A Discourse Approach (second edition). Oxford: Blackwell. |
| 2001. Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice. London: Routledge. |
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2001. Action and text: Toward an integrated understanding
of the place of text in social (inter)action. In Ruth Wodak and
Michael Meyer (eds.), Methods in Critical Discourse Analysis.
London: Sage, 139–183. |
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2001. Multilingualism and intellectual property: Visual
holophrastic discourse and the commodity/sign. Georgetown
University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999, Washington,
DC, May 6-8, 1999. |
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2002. What's the point? Can mediated discourse analysis
stop the war? <http://www.gutenbergdump.net/mdp/point.htm>. |
| in press. Intertextuality across communities of practice:
Academics, journalism, and advertising. In Carol Lynn Moder and Aida
Martinovic-Zic (eds.) Discourse
across Languages and Cultures. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. |
| forthcoming. (with Suzie Wong Scollon).
Discourses in Place: Language in the Material World. London: Routledge. |
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