International Conference on Discourse Studies Across Disciplines

We are pleased to announce that the International Conference on Discourse Studies Across Disciplines (ICDSAD) will take place from October 23 to 27, 2022, and will be hosted by Sheikhbahaee University, Isfahan, Iran.ICDSAD seeks to advance current directions and developments in cross-disciplinary areas of discourse studies, including linguistics, translation studies, teaching, and education. We hope to receive extended proposal abstracts addressing rigorous topics dealing with the uncompromising contribution of discourse in grasping a fine-grained understanding of political, social, and cultural issues in shaping identities, regulating the political, promoting translation-based cultural diplomacy, and promoting socio-cultural orientations in language education.

The areas of research proposals and papers include, but are by no means limited to:

Political Discourse

National and/or Pan-ethnicity identities
Resistance and anti-racist discourses
Pre/configuration of the future in political discourses
Legitimization of preemptive policies in political discourses
Political issues in cyberspace discourse

The panel on Political Discourse will be chaired by Dr. Bertie Kaal

Language Education
Discourse and language policymaking
(Political) discourse and policymaking in educational contexts
Discourse and socio-cultural capitals in language teaching
Classroom discourse and language education
Discourse analysis and interlanguage pragmatics
Discourse analysis and language teaching

Translation Studies

Political discourse and translation
Translation and cultural diplomacy through political discourses
Translation evaluation of political discourses
Political ideologies and identity-making manoeuvres in political discourse translations

Keynote Speakers

Professor Teun A. van Dijk
Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Professor Piotr Cap
University of Lodz, Poland

Professor Steve Walsh
University of Newcastle

Professor Piotr Blumczynski
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Conference Calendar

Call for papers: May 6, 2022
Deadline for proposal submissions: June 21, 2022
Notification of acceptance: July 11, 2022
Deadline for full paper submissions: September 16, 2022
Registration: September 22, 2022, to 17 October 2022
Conference days: October 23-28, 2022