Special Events:
2010 Conference Workshops
This year's conference offers two special workshops:
- Analyzing Sexual Identity
in Discourse:
A Critical Approach
with Veronika Koller (Lancaster U, UK) - Data Session for New
Lavender Language Researchers
with Lucy Jones (Edge Hill University, UK)
& Stephen L. Mann (U South Carolina)
Analyzing Sexual Identity in Discourse:
A Critical Approach
Workshop leader: Veronika Koller
v.koller@lancs.ac.uk
This workshop is aimed at graduate students and other researchers in linguistics, anthropology, sociology and related areas who are interested in a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to investigating how sexual identity is constructed in discourse. I will first introduce some general theoretical concepts underpinning CDA and then briefly outline the most prominent approaches, notably the discourse-historical and socio-cognitive ones. Following on from this, I will outline some possible methods of linguistic text analysis from a critical perspective, stressing the deliberately eclectic methodologies employed by CDA researchers. The second part of the workshop will then give participants the opportunity to engage in analysis themselves, first of data samples provided by me and then, in the form of group work, of their own data. The event will be rounded off with a presentation and discussion of the results of that group work.
Requirements
- All participants should have an advance look at some of the references listed below.
- Participants interested in analysing their data in the group work slot should let me review those data by 31 January (v.koller@lancs.ac.uk).
References
Fairclough, N. and R. Wodak (1997): “Critical discourse analysis”, in T. van Dijk (ed.) Discourse as Social Interaction. London: Sage, pp. 258-84.
Koller, V. (2005): “Critical discourse analysis and social cognition: Evidence from business media discourse”. Discourse & Society, 16(2): 199-224.
Koller, V. (2008): Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community. New York: Routledge. (especially chapter 2)
O’Halloran, K.A. (2005): “Causal cognition and socio-cognition in critical discourse analysis: a reply to Rick Iedema”. Linguistics and Education, 16(3): 338-48.
van Dijk, T. (1993): “Principles of critical discourse analysis”. Discourse & Society, 4(2): 249-83.
Wodak, R. and P. Chilton (eds) (2005): A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (especially chapters 2 and 3)
Wodak, R. and M. Meyer (eds) (2009): Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. 2nd ed. London: Sage. (especially chapters 3 and 4)
About the Workshop Leader
Veronika Koller received her PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Vienna (Doktorat 2003). She joined the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University in 2004 and has been Senior Lecturer in English Language there since 2008.
Veronika’s research interests include critical discourse analysis, cognitive semantics and social cognition. She has studied the conceptual structure and discursive function of metaphor in business magazines, as well as the socio-cognitive representations in corporate branding discourse. In addition, she has done research on analysing collective identity in discourse, with a focus on gender and sexuality.
Selected publications:
2004a "Businesswomen and war metaphors: 'Possessive, jealous
and pugnacious'?", Journal of Sociolinguistics 8(1): 3-22.
2004b Metaphor and Gender in Business Media Discourse: a Critical Cognitive Study. Basingstoke: Palgrave. [paperback edition 2008]
2006 “Of critical importance: Using corpora to study metaphor in business media discourse”. In: Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Stefan Th. Griess (eds) Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 172). Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 229-257. [paperback edition 2007]
2007 “‘The world’s local bank’: Glocalisation as a strategy in corporate branding discourse”. Social Semiotics 17(1): 111-130.
2008a Wodak, Ruth and Veronika Koller (eds) Communication in the Public Sphere. Handbook of Applied Linguistics vol. 4. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2008b Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community. New York: Routledge.
Homepage: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/52/
Workshop: Data Session for
New Lavender Language Researchers
This session provides those at the early stages of a research project with opportunities to present data gathered so far to an audience of colleagues interested in queer-related subjects. The audience will include interested conference delegates, who will engage in active discussion of linguistic (quantitative or qualitative) and anthropological (such as early ethnographic findings) data presented by a panel of current researchers. Those with preliminary findings and early research data are invited to give a short presentation of (a selection of) their current findings with a description of the analytical methodology that they either intend to use or are in the early stages of engaging with. Presentations which include preliminary analyses or a range of points to raise about the significance of their data are particularly welcomed.
The session will be informal, and is ideal for grad students, those in the early stages of a research project, and those engaging with new methodologies for the first time. There will be space for discussion and participation of all present. For more information about the plans for this session, or to send a 250 word abstract outlining your research project, the sort of data being presented, and the significance that it has to the Lavender Languages conference focus, please contact the session organizers.
Contact:
Lucy Jones (Edge Hill University)
lucy.jones@edgehill.ac.uk
Stephen L. Mann (U South Carolina)
mannsl@mailbox.sc.edu
