This page contains
information about the Centre's meeting and guest lecture schedule. See
also the guest lectures in Danish.
February 2006
 | 13.2.06, 12:15-14:00,
4.128, ks. 3
Professor Paul Thibault
Title: Hypermodal Selves: Agency, Embodiment, and Narrative in
Hypertext
Abstract: In this lecture, I will examine
the question of multimodality in the environment of hypertext. The
specific focus will be on the construction of (auto)biographical
selves and how these relate to networks of actors and actions across
different space-time scales in the environment of hypertext. I will
consider the ways in which hypertext links distant points in
space-time in the making of a hypertextual trajectory and explore
the implication s of this for models of the self, agency and
embodiment in the making of the hypertextual meaning. |
August 2005
October 2004
|
25.10.04, 8:15-10:00,
Auditorium (1.104), ks. 3
Professor Norman Fairclough, Guest
lecture
Title:
Critical Discourse Analysis:
A Theoretical Approach |
| 22.10.04, 13:00-15:00,
Auditorium B (near Fib 15).
Professor Norman Fairclough, Honorary Doctorate
lecture to Humanities and Social Sciences
Title: The Contribution of Discourse Analysis to Research on Social
Change |
| 1.10.04, 8:30-10:00,
Auditorium (1.104), ks. 3
Professor Jens
Normann Jørgensen, Copenhagen University
Title: Bilingual Children and Youth, Language Users or Languagers? |
August 2004
| 16.8.04, 9:00-16:00,
Auditorium (1.104), ks. 3
DeXus 2.0 open keynote lectures
Gunther Kress, Ron Scollon, Puleng Hanong, Luisa Martin Rojo |
June 2004
| 21.6.04, 9:00-10:30,
Auditorium (1.104), ks. 3
Jim Martin, Sydney University, Australia
Title: Genre Systems: Mapping Culture
Abstract: In Australia, one of the distinctive
features of genre analysis has been its development as part of a
dialogue between functional linguistics and language education,
focussing on literacy development across various sectors of
schooling. In this talk I'll review the kind of data which shaped
this dialogue from around 1979, surveying a range of text types
written in primary school. I'll use these texts to exemplify our
understanding of genres as recurrent configurations of meaning, and
illustrate our concern with exploring relations among genres and
asking what these relations tell us about the ideology at play in
literacy programs - a highly contested site as far as education,
media and politics are concerned (as we came to learn). |
April 2004
March 2004
| 26.03.04,
12:30-16:00, 3.117, Kroghstraede 3
A local interdisciplinary workshop on discourse and biotechnology
|
November 2003
| 6.11.03, 8:30-10:00, Auditorium (1.104),
ks. 3
Jonathan Potter, Loughborough University, England
Title: Basic Issues in the Analysis of Talk, Texts and
Interaction: An Illustration with Bill & Diana |
October 2003
| 3.10.03, 12:15-14:00,
4.128, ks. 3
JoannaThornborrow, Cardiff University, Wales
Title: Narrative, Argument and Opinion-giving in
Public Participation Broadcasting
Abstract: The
focus of this talk will be media discourse; specifically, talk and
interaction in radio phone-ins and television talk shows. I propose
to examine the relationship between the discourse genres of
narrative, opinion and argument in these contexts, drawing on some
of the recent accounts of opinion-giving and argumentation in public
participation programmes within the fields of discourse and
conversation analysis.
I will start with an overview of current perspectives on TV talk
shows and radio phone-ins as a realm of the 'public sphere', then
look in more detail at how we can use the analytic frameworks of CA
and DA to account for the way that lay participants' stories of
personal experience come to be produced as public discourse through
mediated interaction with hosts. Argumentation and opinion-giving
are predominant activities in such programmes, and I will also show
how the articulation between narrative discourse, opinions and
arguments functions as a key organising feature in these shows.
Data is taken from both British and American talk shows, and British
talk radio/radio phone-ins. |
| 2.10.03, 13:00-15:30,
4.112, ks. 3
PhD defence: Sofie Emmertsen (in English)
Title: Institutional Argument: A Conversation Analytic
Investigation of the British Broadcast Debate Interview |
September 2003
| 22.9.03, 12:15-14:00, Auditorium (1.104),
ks. 3
Per Linell, Linkoping University, Sweden
Title: Activity type analysis of institutional talk-in-interaction
Abstract: Institutional interactions include professional-client interactions,
and intra- and interprofessional interactions. This lecture will argue that talk activities in general, but especially those in
institutions and professions, need to be analysed as activity types,
in terms of their framing conditions, internal linguistic and discursive constitution, and "external" sociocultural relations to
other activity types. Accordingly, this theory looks at "the interactional order" and "the institutional order" as a dual activity
structure. The lecture will give an outline of the general theory, but also home in on activity types that exhibit complex
hybridities.
Reference: Linell, Per & Persson Thunqvist, Daniel: "Moving in and out of
framings: activity contexts in talks with young unemployed people within a training project",
Journal of Pragmatics 35 (2003): 409-434. |
| 17.9.03, 13:00-15:30,
4.128, ks. 3
PhD defence: Anders Horsbøl (in Danish)
Title: Diskursiveringer af politisk anderledeshed - en diskursanalytisk undersøgelse af offentlig meningsdannelse ud fra et debatforløb i de østrigske medier |
August 2003
| 18.8.03, 9:00-10:30, Auditorium (1.104),
ks. 3
Stef Slembrouck, University of Ghent, Belgium
Title: Situated Discourse Analysis
and Critique in Late Modernity: Categories, Resources and Practices |
| 18.8.03,
10:45-12:00, Auditorium (1.104), ks. 3
Rick Iedema, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Title: Discourse and Organisational
Change |
| 18.8.03,
13:00-14:15, Auditorium (1.104), ks. 3
Jay Lemke, University of Michigan, USA
Title: Travels in Hypermodality |
| 18.8.03,
14:30-15:45, Auditorium (1.104), ks. 3
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Birmingham University
Title: Message in Virtual Bottles:
Personal Web Pages and Identity Construction |
Juni 2003
| 23.6.03,
10:30-12:30, Auditorium (1.104), ks. 3
John Swales, University of Michigan
Title: Arrangements
of Genre: The Case of the Research World
Abstract: Today's research world is less of an "ivory
tower" than it used to be. Relevant factors in this change include creeping
commodification, the rise of electronic communications, increasingly elaborate
academic-administrative genres (such as annual faculty reports), alternative
sources of research funding, and the growing importance of English. Mapping and
understanding the constellations of genres in this research world is thus a
complex business. In the main part of this lecture, I hope to contribute to this
undertaking by trying to disentangle four interrelated -- and often confused --
concepts: Genre hierarchies, genre chains, genre sets, and genre networks. I
then relate the emerging picture to two further issues: The roles and features
of research speech as opposed to research prose; and the choice of English as
opposed to other languages as a vehicle for research communications. |
March 2003
| 28.3.03,
10:15-12:00, Auditorium (1.104), ks. 3
Iris Rittenhofer, Århus University
Title: Interview without a Subject
Abstract: I will present a recent project, introduce two
methodological terms developed in the course of my research, and
discuss their preconditions and consequences. Cultural
interviewing will be at the center of this talk, a research
design rooted in both, a philosophical conception of the postmodern,
and in poststructuralist principles and strategies. Both will be
introduced in the course of a discussion of how my project on
ethnicity, gender and research was designed and how it developed.
This discussion includes autoethnographical elements and will as
well touch upon the term parallel category. Selected
empirical examples will be used to illustrate my points. |
February 2003
| 28.2.03, 10-12, Auditorium
(1.104), ks. 3
Finn Frandsen and Winni Johansen, Århus Business School
Crisis Communication and Discourse Analysis
|
| 21.2.03, 13-16,
1.121, ks. 3
Interaction/Technology data session
 | Ilpo Koskinen - Instruction giving in
usability testing |
| Anne Marie Kanstrup - The role of technology in teaching? |
| Inger Lassen, Pirkko Raudaskoski, Paul
McIlvenny - Scientists and texts in the real world: Sampling
potatoes and mediated action |
|
January 2003
November 2002
| 27.11.02, 9:30-11:00,
Auditorium (1.104), ks. 3
Professor Ron Scollon, Georgetown University
Mediated Discourse Analysis: Engagement,
Navigation, and Change through Nexus Analysis
Discourse analysis has been a productive
line of research for the past four decades or so at both the
micro-social interactional level and at the level of the study of
macro-socio-political forces in our lives. Mediated Discourse
Analysis (MDA) is a form of sociocultural (activity/practice)
analysis that seeks to clarify the many complex relations between
discourse and social action. Nexus analysis, as the methodological
arm of MDA, is a way of opening up the circumference around moments
of human action to begin to see the lines, sometimes visible and
sometimes obscured of historical and social process by which
discourses come together at particular moments of human action as
well as to make visible the ways in which outcomes such as
transformations in those discourses, social actors, and mediational
means emanate from those moments of action. This lecture discusses
how we engage in a nexus of practice by recognizing a zone of
identification, how we navigate the nexus of practice, and how we
change the nexus of practice, taking into consideration the hidden
discourses, the hidden dialogicality, that influence moments and
outcomes of action. |
September 2002
| 25.9.02, 10:15-12:00,
Auditorium (1.104), ks. 3
Professor Ruth Wodak, University of Vienna
'Us' and 'Them': Aspects of Inclusion and Exclusion in European
Union Organizations - A Discourse Historical Approach
|
| 25.9.02, 14:15-16:00,
4.112
Professor Ruth Wodak, University of Vienna
Analyzing Inclusion and Exclusion in European Union Discourses within Media and Politics |
August 2002
June 2002
| 20.6.02, 10:00-12:00, ks.
1.121
Last meeting before the summer (copies in DISKURS box, ks. 3)
|
Scollon, Ron (2001). Mediated
Discourse: The Nexus of Practice. London: Routledge. Pages 1-18
(+ extra 140-158). |
|
Swales, John (1998). Other Floors,
Other Voices: A Textography of a Small University Building.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Pages 1-27 (+ extra
190-207). |
|
| 3.06.02, 10:00-12:00,
ks. 1.121
Preparation for opening
seminar and workshop
|
Chilton, Paul & Schäffner, Christina (1997). Discourse and
Politics. In Dijk, Teun A. van (ed.) Discourse as Social
Interaction, London: Sage. (copy in the DISKURS box at ks. 3)
|
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Paul Chilton's online post 'Notes on 11
September'.
See also George Lakoff's 'Metaphors
of Terror'.
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Torben Bech Dyrberg's short article 'ATTAC
som
antisystem'.
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You may be interested in the new 'Language in New
Capitalism' web site and mailing list, which includes several more
articles on
11th September 2001 and the aftermath.
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May 2002
| 2.05.02, 10:00-12:00, ks.
1.121
Anders Horsboel will present his PhD research |
April 2002
| 4.04.02, 14:00-16:00, ks. 4.257
Presentation of theme projects and data materials.
| Fairclough's article 'Technologisation
of Discourse'. |
| Blommaert's article 'Context is/as Critique'. |
| Copies in the Centre's postbox in ks
3. |
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March 2002
| 7.03.02, 13:15-16:00, ks. 4.257
Discussion and planning.
| Ruth Wodak - The Discourse-Historical Approach. |
| A copy in the
DISKURS postbox in ks
3. |
| Listen to one of Wodak's recent lectures
online. |
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December 2001
| 6.12.01, 13:00-16:00, ks. 4.257
Discussion, thinktank, party!
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Norman Fairclough - Critical Realism and Semiotics. |
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Rick Iedema - Bureaucratic Planning and Semioticisation. |
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October 2001
| 25.10.01, 13:00-16:00,
ks. Auditorium, 1.104
Guest lecture: Louise Phillips, RUC, Denmark.
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"Multiperspective discourse analysis: from metatheoretical
principles to empirical research".
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| 12.10.01, 10:00-11:45, ks 2.113
Guest lecture: Elise Kärkkäinen, Oulu University, Finland.
| "Dialogic Practices of Stance-Taking in Spoken English".
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September 2001
| 28.9.01, 10:15-12:15, ks. 4.257
What is critical about CDA?
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Comparison of Jalbert and Fairclough on
the nature of critical analyses of discourse. |
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The copies to read are in the
DISKURS post box in ks
3. |
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August 2001
| 31.8.01, 13:00-15:00, ks. 4.257
Sacks and Fairclough comparison - analysis of a news media text
using MCA and CDA.
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Copies of articles can be found in the new post box in ks
3. |
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| 6.8.01, 10:00-12:00
Guest lecture: Carolyn Baker, Australia.
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Video analysis of
organisational contexts. |
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Past meetings 2000-2001
| We have met many times over the last year to discuss readings and
to present each others' work in discourse studies, eg. Inger Lassen,
Jens Peter Hovelsø and Torben Vestergaard have all presented their
latest ideas. |
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