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Group coordinator: Rakesh Bhatt
Meeting time: 4:00-5:30pm
Meeting Venue: Rooms 4080A (Spanish conference room) or 4100 FLB (Kahane Reading room).

Spring 2005 Schedule

Feb. 4th, Friday, 2005, Norwegian as a Normal Language Trudgill, Peter

Feb. 18th, Friday, 2005, Demythologising language alternation studies: conversational structure vs. social structure in bilingual interaction. Gafaranga, Joseph. Journal of Pragmatics, 37, 281-300.

March 3, 2005, ‘Who was the best ?’: Power, knowledge and rationality in bilingual girls’code choices, Agnes Bolonyai

IPRH Reading Group - Articles for Fall 2004

Laitin, David. 2000. Language conflict and violence: The straw that strengthens the camel’s back’“Language Conflict and Violence. International Conflict Resolution After the Cold War, ed. by Daniel Druckman and Paul Stern. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press

Hall, Stuart. Old and new identities, old and new ethnicities. Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary conditions for the representation of identity, ed. by Anthony D. King. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Koven, Michele. 2004. Transnational perspectives on sociolinguistic capital among Luso-Descendants in France and Portugal. American Ethnologist 31.270-290.

Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen. 2003. Global schemas and local discourses in Cosmopolitan. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7.493-512.

Blommaert, Jon. 2003. Commentary: A sociolinguistics of globalization. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7.607-623.

Schedule for Spring 2003

Date
Book/Paper to be discussed
Discussant
Feb. 21 Van Dijk, T. 2002 (2003). The discourse-knowledge interface. In G. Weiss & R. Wodak (eds.) Theory and Interdisciplinarity in CDA. Palgrave Macmillan. Rakesh Bhatt
Feb. 28 Titscher, S. et al. 2000. Two approaches to critical discourse analysis.In Methods of Texts and Discourse Analysis. Sage. Pp. 144-170. Hala Jawlakh
Mar. 14 Van Dijk, T. 1999 Discourse and the Denial of racism : Discourse and Society, 3 (1) 87-118 Shivali Tukdeo
Mar. 21 Srtaehle C, Weiss G, Wodak R, Muntigal P. 1999 Struggle as metaphor in European Union Discourses on unemployment: Discourse and Society, 10 (1) 67-88 Alice Filmer
Apr. 4 Stamou A. 2001 The representation of non-protesters in a student and teacher protest: A Critical Discourse Analysis of news reporting in a Greek Newspaper: Discourse and Society, 12 (5) 653-681 Jamie Lee
Apr. 18 Teo, P. 2000 Racism in the news: A Critical Discourse Analysis of news reporting in two Australian newspapers:Discourse and
Society,
11(1) 7-50
Christopher Stewart
Apr. 25 Data Analysis TBA

Archive: Schedule for Fall 2002

Study group coordinator: Rakesh Bhatt
Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis

* Meeting time: 4:00-5:30pm every other Friday
* Meeting dates and places:
(a) 9/20, 10/18, 11/8, 11/22, 12/6: Rm 4080A FLB (Spanish conference room)
(b) 10/4, 11/15: Room 4100 FLB (Linguistics Reading Room).

Reading list:
1. van Dijk, T. 1993. Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. Discourse and Society 4(2), 249-283.

2. Fairclough, N. 1992. A social theory of discourse. In N. Fairclough Discourse and Social Change. Polity Press, 62-100.

3. Fairclough, N. 1995. (a). Chapter 4: Discourse, change and hegemony (b). Chapter 8: Discourse and text: linguistic and intertextual analysis within discourse analysis.

4. van Dijk, T. 1993. Analyzing racism through discourse analysis: some methodological reflections. In J. H. Stanfield and R. M. Dennis (eds.) Race and Ethnicity in in Research Methods. Sage Publications. 92-139.

5. Kress, Gunther. 1996. Representational resources and the production of subjectivity: Questions for the theoretical development of critical discourse analysis in a multicultural society. In C. Caldas-Coulthard and M. Coulthard (eds.), Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Routledge. 15-31.

6. Vaughan, C. 1996. A comparative discourse analysis of editorials on the Lebanon 1982 Crisis. In C. Schdffner and A. Wenden (eds.) Language and Peace. Harwood Academic Publishers. 61-74.

7. Huckin, T. 2002. Textual silence and the discourse of homelessness. Discourse and Society, 13 (3), 347-371.

8. Toolan, M. 1997. What is critical discourse analysis and why are people saying such terrible things about it? Language and Literature, 6(2), 83-103

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