Discourse, Communication, Conversation

Conference 2012

Loughborough University

March 21 - March 23, 2012

The Communication Research Centre at Loughborough University invites you to join in our celebrations as our two research groups reach key anniversaries: the Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) celebrates twenty-five years of discursive psychological, rhetorical and conversation analytic research, and the Culture and Media Research Group (CAMARG), celebrates ten years of communication, media and cultural analysis.

CALL FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS

Deadline for Abstracts: 1st November, 2011

We encourage submissions that engage with empirical and theoretical topics in communication studies, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, media studies, social interaction, or cultural studies - especially those that address in original ways the promises and challenges or research in any of these (inter)disciplinary areas.

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

Date: 21st March 2012

Themes: conversation analysis, comparative media methods, discursive psychology, memory & methodology, transcription or visual digital ethnography

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Charles Antaki, Michael Billig, David Buckingham, David Deacon, Teun A. Van Dijk, Paul Drew, Derek Edwards, Peter Golding, Jim McGuigan, Angela McRobbie, Graham Murdock, Mike Pickering, Jonathan Potter, Elizabeth Stokoe e Liesbet Van Zoonen.

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