Leeuwen seminar

Centre for Discourse Studies PhD seminar
9th - 11th January 2003

Multi-Modal Discourse Analysis

Location: Kroghstræde 3, Aalborg University

Guest:

Professor Theo van Leeuwen, Cardiff University, Wales

The video and slides of all the lectures and discussion session are available online. Access is restricted to computers within Aalborg University.

Professor Theo van Leeuwen is Director of the Language and Global Communication project at the Centre for Language and Communication at Cardiff University, Wales.

Theo van Leeuwen Dip Film/TV (Amsterdam), MA PhD (Sydney) After working as a film and television producer in the Netherlands and Australia, he studied linguistics at Sydney University, and taught communication theory at Macquarie University and the London College of Printing. He has also taught courses at the Universities of Vancouver, Vienna, Madrid, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Auckland.

His research interests include media discourse, critical discourse analysis, and multimodal communication. He is one of the founding editors of the new journal Visual Communication, published by Sage.

	Kress, Gunther & Leeuwen, Theo van (1996). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge.
	Leeuwen, Theo van (1999). Speech, Music, Sound. Basingstoke: MacMillan.
	Leeuwen, Theo Van & Jewitt, Carey (Eds.) (2001). The Handbook of Visual Analysis. London: Sage.
	Kress, Gunther & Leeuwen, Theo van (2001). Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication. London: Arnold.

Provisional schedule

DAY 1		Introductory Lecture Exercises Data analysis
DAY 2		Introductory Lecture Exercises Data analysis Presentations
DAY 3		Introductory Lecture Exercises Data analysis Presentations

In this PhD seminar, we will -- depending on the participants' specific interests -- concentrate on various aspects of multimodal communication, including visual, spatial and aural as well as textual and verbal data.

Possible topics include:

	multimodality in mass/personal media discourse, eg. web pages
	discursive construction of visual space
	globalisation and multimodal communication
	transnational corporations in the global language and communication landscape
	toys as communication
	children’s entertainment, eg. CD-Roms and computer games

The application deadline is 1st December 2002. Please send your details by email a short description (no more than one page) of your PhD project, specifying your particular interest in the seminar and why you would benefit from attending, to the Centre Secretary, Bente Vestergaard <bentev@hum.aau.dk>. Please mark your message clearly with the name of the PhD Seminar.

A fee will be charged for participation to cover administrative costs, tea/coffee and lunches during the seminar. The fee for all participants is 600 Danish kroner, payable on the first day of the seminar in cash (an official receipt will be given).

Travel and accommodation are the responsibility of the participant. Location, travel and accommodation information is available on this web site.

For more information, contact:

Pirkko Raudaskoski or Søren Frimann Trads.

A poster (PDF) for the seminar is available online (1.2 Mb).

Note: PDF files require Acrobat Reader.

Centre for Discourse Studies PhD seminar 9th - 11th January 2003

Multi-Modal Discourse Analysis

Provisional schedule

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Centre for Discourse Studies PhD seminar
9th - 11th January 2003