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CFP: CADAAD 2016

Conference Website: http://www.cadaad2016.unict.it

5th-7th September, 2016
Università di Catania, Sicily.

We are glad to announce that the 5th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD) will take place 5-7 September 2016 and will be hosted by the Università di Catania, Sicily.

CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. We welcome papers which, from a critical-analytical perspective, deal with contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourses and genres. Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the following:

• (New) Media discourses
• Party political discourse
• Advertising
• Institutional discourse
• Power and identity in discourse
• Discourses of conflict and aggression
• Discourses of migration/integration
• Language and gender/sexuality
• Nationalist discourses
• Discourses of education
• Discourses of the environment
• Discourses of health and mental health
• Discourses of business and economics
• Language and the law

All papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English.

Abstracts of up to 350 words excluding references should be sent as MS Word attachment to cadaad2016@unict.it before 15 December 2015. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract itself (1) your name, (2) affiliation and (3) email address. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 1 March 2016.

In addition to individual papers, panel proposals may also be submitted. Further details are available at: http://www.cadaad.net/panel_proposals.

Selected papers will be published in a thematically arranged volume to be submitted to an international publisher. Other selected papers will appear in a proceedings issue of the CADAAD journal.

For further information, please visit the conference webpages at http://www.cadaad2016.unict.it or write to the local organising committee at cadaad2016@unict.it.

More information can also be found at http://www.discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=en%3A%3AEvents&id=1652