Scollons Seminar 2006
Humanities Faculty, Aalborg University

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 Mediated Discourse and Nexus Analysis research seminar
 April 5th - 6th, 2006 

Location: Room 2.113, Kroghstræde 3, Aalborg University, Denmark

Guests:

bullet Ron Scollon & Suzie Scollon

        

The video and handout for the keynote lectures are available online. Access is restricted to computers within Aalborg University.

Ron & Suzie Scollon lead this two-day intensive seminar for scholars and PhD students. In a number of books and articles, the Scollons have developed their theory of mediated discourse by examining how the broad discourses of our social life move as specific actions and practices through real spaces and times. Their innovative approach focuses on the intersection of discourse and social action in order to explore how discourse is engaged and mediated in the situated actions of social actors in their everyday practices. In the seminar, there will be an opportunity to engage in field projects to do with discourse in space and time.

The seminar is organised by the Centre for Discourse Studies and supported by the Doctoral School in Human Centred Informatics.

Provisional schedule

DAY 1
5.4
8:00-8.30
bullet Registration (outside Auditorium 1.104)
8:30-10.00
bullet Open Lecture: Discourses in Place:  Social Interaction as bodies and objects in spaces
10.00-10.30
bullet Coffee, tea, fruit etc.
10:30-12:30
bulletWorkshop: Working with discourses in place, the interaction order, and the historical bodies of social actors
12.30-13.30
bullet Lunch (buffet)
13.30-16.00
bulletResearch presentations by participants

19.00
bullet Dinner at a local restaurant (not included in registration fee)

DAY 2
6.4

 8:30-10.00
bulletClosed Lecture: Nexus Analysis: A theoretically grounded methodology for studying discourses in place
10.00-10.30
bullet Coffee, tea, fruit etc
10.30-12.30
bulletWorkshop: Using nexus analysis in the study of discourses in place
12:30-13:30
bullet Lunch (buffet)
13.30-16.00
bulletWorkshop continued
 
bulletClosing of seminar

The seminar will be restricted to a small group of 20 researchers and PhD students on a first-come, first-served basis. Once the workshop is full, a waiting list will be kept. Please inform us as soon as possible if you have registered but cannot attend. Participation in the workshop will earn a student 5 ECTS points. If you wish to give a presentation of your research project on the first day, then please send a title and short abstract to Paul McIlvenny.

A fee will be charged for participation to cover administrative costs, tea/coffee/fruit and lunches during the two-day workshop. The fee for all participants is 1000 Danish kroner (dinner not included), 

The deadline for registration is 10th March 2006. Please register with Bente Vestergaard.

After registering, you will immediately be sent an invoice with which you can pay the fee using your local banking system (IBAN number). Please note that your registration will only be officially confirmed when your fee has been paid. Payment of the fee should be received by 22nd March at the latest, otherwise your registration will be cancelled.

After registering, you will be sent an invoice with which you can pay the fee using your local banking system (IBAN number). However, students from Danish Universities must send the EAN-No. of their institution, then an electronic invoice will be sent to the institution. Please note that your registration will only be officially confirmed when your fee has been paid. Payment of the fee should be received by 22nd March at the latest, otherwise your registration will be cancelled.

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

For more information, contact 

               Paul McIlvenny or Pirkko Raudaskoski.

Further information on seminar leaders

Ron Scollon has recently retired from the Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, USA. He is now a Consultant in geosemiotics. He maintains a website full of interesting snippets and discourse projects.

Suzie Wong Scollon is also a fellow traveller in geosemiotics.

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Their recent publications include:

Books

bullet Scollon, Ron (1998). Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction: An Ethnographic Study of News Discourse. London: Longman.
bullet Scollon, Ronald & Scollon, Suzanne W. (2001). Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach (2nd edition). Oxford: Blackwell.
bullet Scollon, Ron (2001). Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice. London: Routledge.
bullet Pan, Yuling, Scollon, Suzanne Wong & Scollon, Ron (2002). Professional Communication in International Settings. Oxford: Blackwell.
bullet Scollon, Ron and Suzie Wong Scollon (2003). Discourses in Place: Language in the Material World. London: Routledge.
bullet Scollon, Ron and Suzie Wong Scollon (2004). Nexus Analysis: Discourse and the Emerging Internet. London: Routledge.
bullet LeVine, Philip, and Ron Scollon (2004). Discourse and technology: Multimodal discourse analysis. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics: . Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
bullet Scollon, Ron. (forthcoming). Analyzing Public Discourse: Discourse Analysis in the Making of Public Policy. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Articles

bullet Scollon, Ron. 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.
bullet Scollon, Suzanne. 2001. Habitus, consciousness, agency and the problem of intention: How we carry and are carried by political discourses. Folia Linguistica XXXV/1-2:97-129.
bullet Scollon, Ron. 2002. Intercultural Communication as Nexus Analysis. Logos and Language: Journal of General Linguistics and Language Theory III(2):1-17.
bullet Scollon, Suzanne. 2002. Political and somatic alignment: habitus, ideology, and social practice. In Ruth Wodak and Gilbert Weiss (eds.), Theory and interdisciplinarity in critical discourse analysis. London: Palgrave.
bullet Scollon, Ron. 2003. The dialogist in a positivist world: Theory in the social sciences and the humanities at the end of the 20th century. Social Semiotics 13(1):71-88.
bullet Scollon, Ron. 2004. 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.
bullet Scollon, Ron. 2004. (with Philip LeVine). Multimodal discourse analysis as the confluence of discourse and technology. In Philip LeVine and Ron Scollon (eds.) Discourse and technology: Multimodal discourse analysis. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics: Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
bullet Scollon, Ron. 2005. The Rhythmic Integration of Action and Discourse: Work, the Body, and the Earth. In Sigrid Norris and Rodney Jones (eds.) Discourse in Action. London: Routledge.
bullet Scollon, Ron. 2005. The discourses of food in the world system: Toward a nexus analysis of a world problem. Journal of Language and Politics 4(3):467 – 490.
bullet Scollon, Ron and Suzie Wong Scollon. 2005. Fast English, slow food, and intercultural exchanges: Social problems and problems for discourse analysis. In Giuseppina Cortese and Anna Duszak (eds.) Identity, Community, Discourse: English in Intercultural Settings. London: Peter Lang. 1 – 16.
bullet Scollon, Ron and Suzie Wong Scollon. 2005. Lighting the Stove: Why Habitus Isn’t Enough for Critical Discourse Analysis. In: Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton (eds), A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 101-117.
bullet Scollon, Ron. 2006. Food and Behavior: A Burkean motive analysis of a quasi-medical text. Text and Talk 26(1):105-124.
bullet Scollon, Ron. Forthcoming. Cycles of discourse: Nine processes of resemiotization. In Vijay Bhatia, John Flowerdew, and Rodney Jones (eds.), Advances in discourse studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

See also

bullet Li, David C. S. (Ed.) (2002). Discourses in Search of Members: In Honor of Ron Scollon. Lanham, MA: University of America Press.
bullet Norris, Sigrid & Jones, Rodney (Eds.) (2005). Discourse in Action: Introduction to Mediated Discourse Analysis. London: Routledge.

Web editor: [Paul McIlvenny]
Last edited: 19. February 2007