Workshops
Four workshops will be offered by our guests. These will
take place on Days 2 and 3 of DeXus. On each day two workshops will be offered in the
morning, followed by contiguous group work in the afternoon.
Puleng Hanong
Discourse, Gender and Linguistic Repertoires: An African Viewpoint
The theme of the workshop is the analysis of gender in
discourse. I begin with a general overview of current trends in gender
studies, and then move to look at gender studies within gender polarised
societies such as in South Africa. I focus on the interrelatedness of
cultural and gender identity. Using the notions of linguistic (and
interpretative) repertoires and indexicality, I demonstrate how
discourse participants draw from the linguistic (and cultural)
repertoires to construct gender and gendered identities in
talk-in-interaction - and hence my use of the term 'cultural-gender'
identity. A good example is that of the cultural notion of hlonipha
- realised by a specific speech repertoire common in the language of
women (e.g. Finlayson, 1995). For illustrative purposes I use extracts
of multilingual data from court cases on sex crimes to show how language
choices can be seen as cultural-gender indexicals. In the workshop, we
will focus on data collection, methods and tools of analysis,
translation and transcription procedures, as well as a look at
challenges that still lie ahead for studies of gender identity.
Gunther Kress
Discourse and Multimodal Text: Looking at Ideology in the Banal Text
Luisa Martin Rojo
CDA in Practice: Paradoxical Effects of the Iraq war on European Identity
This workshop will introduce a wide range of
analytical tools to reveal the way power works in discourse. We will
look at discursive resources and strategies involved in the
representation of social agents and events; resources used in the
reproduction and legitimatization of ideologies, as well as those used
to challenge such ideologies Beside this, in this workshop we will study
how discourses are produced, transmitted, and received, in specific
contexts, and how the circulation of deviant discourses can be
restricted. The workshop will enable participants to apply these
analytical tools in their own research, developing analytical skills in
different fields.
During this workshop, these tools will be applied to
analyses of discourses on the Iraq war. Material includes data from the
media (news, cartoons), political discourses and unpublished interviews.# The analysis will focus on some paradoxical effects of this
war, results of the tension produced by the expansion of a single power
in the world; effects like the empowerment/ depowerment of different
nation-states and governments. We will also study some effects of this
conflict related to the emergence and reinforcement of a European
identity, as a reaction against other imposed identities.
# Participants are encouraged to bring more material
of their own if they are interested in sharing with the workshop
participants the problems they find.
Ron Scollon
The Discourses of Food in the World System
This workshop is organized around a set of web-essays
which use a nexus analysis approach to address several problems of the
production, distribution, and consumption of food throughout the world
system. Activities will be of three general types:
