2nd Call for Papers
The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to explore the potential for collaboration between researchers in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Corpus Linguistics (CL) and Conceptual History (CH), the study of key socio-political concepts in their historical context.
Recent studies by mainly Lancaster-based researchers have suggested the methodological synergy that can result from combining CDA and corpus-linguistic approaches. Meanwhile, the discourse-historical approach in CDA developed by Ruth Wodak (Lancaster) overlaps with CH in its study of the discursive construction of collective identities that can themselves be seen as concepts, each with their own history. Finally, the development of increasingly sophisticated software programs, such as Lancaster’s UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS) and the variant spelling detector (VARD), opens up exciting new research possibilities for mining the ever-increasing number of historical texts available in digital form. The workshop will provide a unique opportunity for researchers in CH, CDA and CL to discover how they might benefit from mutual collaboration. It should also be of interest to anyone in the Humanities and Social Sciences who works with texts and/or basic socio-political concepts, including collective identities.
Guest speakers:
Hans Erich Boedeker - Formerly Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
Jan Ifversen - Aarhus University
Michal Krzyzanowski - Lancaster University
Michaela Mahlberg - University of Nottingham
Gerlinde Mautner - Vienna University of Economics and Business
The workshop will also include demonstrations of various software programs.
Abstracts (200-300 words)
We invite the submission of proposals for 20-minute papers relating to the general theme of the workshop from scholars working in:
Conceptual History (including historical semantics and metaphor history)
Critical Discourse Analysis (including critical metaphor analysis and cognitive approaches)
Corpus Linguistics (including historical text-mining and keyword extraction)
- and related fields (e.g. history, imagology, politics, sociology)
Possible topic areas for papers include (but are not limited to):
• Case studies in using historical corpora
• Concepts, texts and discourses
• Conceptual history vs historical semantics
• Conceptual contestation / conceptual innovation
• Critical metaphor analysis and cognitive approaches
• Different national approaches
• Identities as concepts
• The importance of context(s)
• Reconstructing semantic fields
• The role of concepts in the discourse-historical approach
• What corpus linguistics can and cannot do
• What makes a key word key?
Please bear in mind the interdisciplinary nature of the workshop when considering a proposal.
Workshop fee
Full delegate rate £40
Postgraduate Researchers £20
(The fees include lunches and morning and afternoon refreshments on both days.
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Optional conference dinner £20
Important dates
26 March 2010 Deadline for abstracts, to be sent to Prof. Anne Wichmann (awichmann@uclan.ac.uk)
1 April 2010 Notification of acceptance
23 April 2010 Deadline for registration and payment of conference fees.
Further information is available at http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/events/chcdacl2010/
Organisers
Neil Foxlee (University of Central Lancashire)
Anne Wichmann (University of Central Lancashire)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University)
Paul Baker (Lancaster University)
Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire)
Acknowledgments
We are very grateful for the support of
• Lancaster University, Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias
• University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston, UK. http://www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/journalism_media_communication/english_ling…