Pub: Zinn, Jens, ed. RISK AS DISCOURSE. CADAAD JOURNAL 4.2 (2010).

Contents:

• Jens O. Zinn, "Risk as Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" (pp. 106-124)
• Reiner Grundmann and Ramesh Krishnamurthy, "The Discourse of Climate Change: a Corpus-based Approach" (pp. 125-146)
• Georg Marko, "Heart Disease and Cancer, Diet and Exercise, Vitamins and Minerals: the Construction of Lifestyle Risks in Popular Health Discourse" (pp. 147-170)
• Agnes Sandor, "Automatic Detection of Discourse Indicating Emerging Risk" (pp. 171-179
• Catherine F. Smith and Donna J. Kain, "Making Sense of Hurricanes: Public Discourse and Perceived Risk of Extreme Weather" (pp. 180-196)
• Sissel H. Jore and Ove Nja, "Risk of Terrorism: a Scientifically Valid Phenomenon or a Wild Guess? The Impact of Different Approaches to Risk Assessment" (pp. 197-216)

Download the essays here: http://cadaad.net/2010_volume_4_issue_2.

Pub: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ACROSS DISCIPLINES [CADAAD] 4.1 (2010).

• Simon Goodman, “'It’s Not Racist To Impose Limits On Immigration': Constructing The Boundaries Of Racism in the Asylum And Immigration Debate," pp. 1-17;
• Bernhard Forchtner, "Jürgen Habermas’ Language-Philosophy and the Critical Study of Language," pp. 18-37;
• Martin Mölder, "Meanings of Democracy in Estonia: an Analysis of Focus Group Discussions," pp. 38-53;
• Steffi Retzlaff, "The Representation of the European Union in the Canadian Media during the Climate Change Debate 2007," pp. 54-72;
• Jacinta Ndambuki and Hilary Janks, "Political Discourses, Women’s Voices: Mismatches in Representation," pp.73-92;
• Esmat Babaii, "Opting Out or Playing the ‘Academic Game’? Professional Identity Construction by Off-Center Academics," pp. 93-105.

Download the essays here: http://cadaad.org/2010_volume_4_issue_1.

Pub: Jean-Jacques Lecercle and Gregory Elliot, A MARXIST PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE.

Lecercle, Jean-Jacques, and Gregory Elliot. A Marxist Philosophy of Language. Chicago: Haymarket, 2009. The purpose of this book is to give a precise meaning to the formula: English is the language of imperialism. Understanding that statement involves a critique of the dominant views of language, both in the field of linguistics (the book has a chapter criticising Chomsky’s research programme) and of the philosophy of language (the book has a chapter assessing Habermas’s philosophy of communicative action). 
The book aims at constructing a Marxist philosophy of language, embodying a view of language as a social, historical, material and political phenomenon. Since there has never been a strong tradition of thinking about language in Marxism, the book provides an overview of the question of Marxism in language (from Stalin’s pamphlet to Voloshinov's book, taking in an essay by Pasolini), and it seeks to construct a number of concepts for a Marxist philosophy of language. 
The book belongs to the tradition of Marxist critique of dominant ideologies. It should be particularly useful to those who, in the fields of language study, literature and communication studies, have decided that language is not merely an instrument of communication. Further information is here: http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/A-Marxist-Philosophy-of-Language.

"Crises, Corruption, Character and Change," 9th International Conference on Organizational Discourse (ICOD), Amsterdam, July 14-16, 2010.

Contemporary organizing is confronted by seemingly endless ‘crises’ which are routinely projected through apocalyptic metaphor. Over coffee, we can skip-read through today’s ‘ecological catastrophe’, the ‘global financial meltdown’ and ‘the collapse of capitalism’ before ‘getting down to work’. The global financial system appears to be littered with a variety of corrosive mechanisms in the banks, the housing markets and their institutions, the pensions industry and the short-termism of stock-markets. And these ‘crises’ are of such magnitude that we are threatened with recession if not the more ominous possibility of economic depression. Meanwhile, it seems, global warming and its attendant climate change proceed unabated. We are threatened with the inundation of all low-lying land, the collapse of food production across several continents and the fundamental transformation of ocean currents promising flood and drought in equal measure. Fish and bees are disappearing while feel-good eco-friendly products proliferate within a flourishing carbon-offset ‘market’. And the poverty of our political response is breath-taking – the only tangible outcome of the G8 meeting in L'Aquila (July, 2009) was that world leaders were presented with made-to-measure Belstaff parka jackets individually signed by Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Crises? What crises? All of which suggests that the distance between our discursive projections of the future and our inability to confront those possibilities has, perhaps, never been greater. In the post-whatever world we now inhabit, all appears to be simultaneously terminal and – bizarrely – transient. We can frame this apparent dissociation of human action from its consequences through the analyses of ‘flexible capitalism’ (Sennett) or ‘liquid modernity’ (Bauman) which have charted the disorienting and destabilising effects of – in its broadest sense – the emergent ‘post-modern’ social reality. However, the persuasiveness of such abstract analyses apparently remains beyond periphery of policy-makers’ thinking. Hence, the theme for the 9th Conference has a narrative focus on the discursive construction and re-construction of crises, corruption, character and change. At the meta-level, the conference theme is intended to elicit papers which address the discursive construction and re-construction of ‘crises’. In our view, linguistic framing is a fundamental aspect of how ‘crises’ are being manufactured, constituted, projected, perceived and addressed (or finessed) at all levels of organization. Despite the apocalyptic metaphors, it appears that any given ‘crisis’ can re-emerge as a ‘manageable risk’, a ‘market opportunity’ or a case for ‘re-regulation’. Perhaps most problematic is how we have depicted the character of these various crises for their technical and global complexity invariably engenders over-simplified description. In parallel, we appear to be experiencing a persistent growth in corruption. This is manifest in at least two spheres. First, we have seen an increasing prevalence of dissociated institutional practices across organizations which have directly undermined the presumed core processes of those organizations – a phenomenon which has occurred not only in financial institutions but also in the political sphere and across public sector organizing. Secondly, in accounting for and representing such seemingly corrupt behaviour, the first resort is invariably to one or other variety of rhetorical dissimulation – a deeply corrosive process which corrupts the conventional meanings of language. These issues raise further questions regarding the problems of continuity and the scope for change. Is socio-political and institutional change desirable or even feasible? If so, what particular forms of change might be instigated? Should change processes be radical and transformational or orthodox and incremental in nature? What is the role for, and status of, discourse(s) in relation to change (or non-change). How does discourse shape ‘character-formation’ and possible responses to crises and corruption? In keeping with past conferences, we also invite papers which engage with the constructs of character, corruption and change in a more specific sense. Hence, character – corrupt or otherwise – could, for example, be considered as an attribute of individuals ‘getting into character’, of organizations (e.g. culture), or as a loaded social phenomena (i.e. with moral, spiritual and/or ethical overtones). Similarly, we welcome submissions which address corruption in the wider etymological sense of contaminating or altering meaning (e.g. relation to a text). Alternative readings of change which apply to discursive aspects of organizing or organizations are also encouraged (i.e. as socially embedded processes of substitution, conversion, disruption or improvement). Given the Conference theme deliberately constitutes a broad discursive canvas, we expect the precise conference streams to emerge from the papers themselves. However, we also anticipate papers that will organize themselves within the following topics: Sensemaking, Stories and Narrative; Corruption, Disruption and Rhetoric; Discourse, Identity and Temporality; Language, Culture and Ideology; Management Philosophy; Professions, Practices and Ethics; Ethnography and Organizational Life; Crisis, Continuity and Change; Reflexivity in Organizing; Critical Discursive Approaches; Metaphor, Tropes and Symbolism; Text, Talk and Technology; Organizational Identities; Management Discourse; Structures, Networks and Agency; Consumption, Brands and Images; Dramaturgy and Aesthetics; Spirituality and Diversity; Conversation Analytic Approaches Papers are invited on talk and text which address issues of social representation, social construction and social interaction in relation to any aspect of organization or organizing in relation to these themes. Contributions may adopt any epistemological perspective but we are concerned to achieve a balance between empirical studies and conceptual/theoretical contributions. Visit the conference homepage here: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/carbs/conferences/icod10/index.html.

Political Linguistics, Department of Pragmatics, University of Łódź & Institute of Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University, September 17-19, 2009.

PL2009's aim is to convene scholars from a wide range of disciplines, interested, broadly speaking, in the rich and heterogeneous but thus yet to become better demarcated area of intersection of language/discourse and the political sphere (i.e. politics, both in its institutionalized and everyday dimensions). The general purpose is to explore and deepen ways of analyzing language as a political instrument, a political theme, and a political domain. PL2009 will be a forum for presentation of papers addressing the following issues:

• the use of language in political rhetoric, advertising, media discourse, propaganda, persuasion, etc.;
• language and processes of ideological symbolization; including folk linguistic ideologies, normative use of language and language-based reproduction of ideologies;
• language of the state, viz. language policies and language planning at various stages of the information flow, including the art of document design and press releases;
• rhetoric of political systems and political changes;
• language of political institutions;
• linguistic thought (its development and directions) in the light of past and present political transformations;
• politics in language pedagogy;
• societal multilingualism, linguistic pluralism and linguistic minority policies;
• language change and variation in political discourse: transformations at the lexical (terminology, neologisms, semantic shifts), morpho-syntactic, and text/discourse-pragmatic levels;
• language contact in the political domain: borrowing processes, style-shifting, code-mixing;
• globalisation of political discourse: homogenisation of social and linguistic knowledge in the political milieu;
• hybridisation of generic/discursive structures, text types, and interactive strategies across languages and cultures;
• mulitimodality and unification patterns in political communication;
• historical/diachronic transformations in political genres;
• intertextuality and mediation in political communication;
• axiological aspects of political discourses (valuation in political texts);
• language attitude research: social attitudes to political discourse(s);
• literary reflections of political communication;
• translating/interpreting the language of politics;
• directions in language training of politicians.

Plenaries:

The conference will feature between 4 and 6 plenary lectures given by world-leading specialists in political discourse analysis and related disciplines.

Visit the conference webpage here: http://cadaad.org/node/953.

Ideology, Identity & Interaction, 3rd International Conference, Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis, University of Łódź, September 13-15, 2010.

In line with previous CADAAD conferences, this conference aims to promote new directions in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. We welcome contributions from all areas of critically applied linguistics. We especially encourage papers which assess the state of the art and explore new methodologies in critical discourse research oriented toward the general theme of ideology, identity and interaction. Possible areas of analysis include but are by no means limited to the following: Identities in discourse Political communication Language in the news Language in the new media Discourse of advertising Institutional discourse Language and globalisation Business communication Scientific discourse Health communication Language and ecology Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 350 words (excluding references) should be sent by email as a Word attachment to discourse@cadaad.org by 15 January 2010. Please include name, affiliation, email address and paper title in the body of the email. All abstracts will be accepted subject to review by an international Scientific Committee. Notification of acceptance decisions will be communicated via email by the end of February 2010. Plenary Speakers: Professor Paul Chilton (Lancaster University) Professor Seana Coulson (University of California, San Diego) Professor Anna Duszak (University of Warsaw) Professor Bob Hodge (University of Western Sydney) Professor Martin Reisigl (University of Vienna)V isit the conference page here: http://cadaad.org/cadaad2010.

Cfp: "Language, Culture and Mind IV," Abo Akademi University, June 21-23, 2010.

The LCM conference series aims at establishing an interdisciplinary forum for an integration of cognitive, social and cultural perspectives in theoretical and empirical studies of language and communication. LCM will articulate and discuss approaches to human natural language and to diverse genres of language activity which aim to integrate its cultural, social, cognitive, affective and bodily foundations. We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, who wish both to share their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Plenary Speakers: Docent Jukka Hyönä (University of Turku) Professor Peggy Miller (Illinois University) Professor Cornelia Müller (European University Viardina, Frankfurt/Oder) Professor Bradd Shore (Emory University) Professor Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen) Visit the conference webpage here: http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/fin/LCM4/.

"Meaning and Interaction," Department of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. University of the West of England, April 23-25, 2009.

The conference aims to disseminate cutting edge, multi-disciplinary research in the area of meaning in interaction. It is unique in bringing together scholars working on meaning in interaction and others working on the impact of interaction on language structure. The two constituencies share an interest in the manner in which meaning is co-constructed and negotiated between interactants, thus leading to a form/function reconfiguration. The complexities of the interpretation of meaning can be more acute in intercultural encounters. The conference thus extends its scope to include the relatively new sub-discipline of intercultural pragmatics. It is timely in reflecting a rising interest across a number of fields in issues in interpreting meaning. Keynote Speakers: Professor Janet Holmes, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, Professor Elizabeth Traugott, Stanford University, USA, Dr Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini, University of Nottingham Trent, Dr Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick, Dr Véronique Traverso, Université de Lyon Email: Dr Jo Angouri and Dr Kate Beeching Further information may be found here: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/llas/events/0809/i-mean/index.shtml.

Cfp: 2nd Biannual CLASP Conference, Program in Culture, Language and Social Practice, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 2-4, 2009.

2009 Plenary Speakers: H. Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles (Anthropology) Bob Craig, University of Colorado, Boulder (Communication) Kira Hall, University of Colorado, Boulder (Linguistics) Makoto Hayashi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Ling/EALC) The CLASP Conference is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars with interrelated research interests in the sociocultural and sociopolitical analysis of language to present new research and participate in workshops and data sessions with plenaries and local faculty. Both paper and panel submissions should address the relationship of language to culture and society; examples of possible frameworks or analytic traditions may include, but are not limited to: sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, bilingualism and code-switching, language socialization, narrative studies, the sociology of language, verbal art and performance, language and literacy, and language globalization. Panel proposals of up to 250 words should be submitted by April 21, and will be posted to the conference website for those interested in coordinating papers on a particular topic (panel submissions do not need to be accompanied by paper abstracts). Abstracts of 500 words for 20-minute papers may be submitted for an individual panel or independently, and should be submitted before May 7. Submissions should be sent as attachments (DOC or PDF) via email to clasp.conference@gmail.com, and should only contain the title and abstract for the paper. The body of the email should contain the following information: Author name(s) Affiliation(s) Paper Title Proposed panel (if any) For additional information, please visit: http://www.colorado.edu/clasp/conf Or contact: clasp.conference@gmail.com

Pub: STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND CAPITALISM 3-4 (2008).

• Editors’ Note
• Workers’ Life, "The Worker Correspondent" (p.1)
• Salvador Allende, Speech to the First Conference of Left Journalists (p.11)
• Lluis Bassets, "Clandestine Communications: Notes on the Press and Propaganda of the Anti-Franco Resistance" (1939-1975) (p.21)
• Armand Mattelart, "The ‘Mass Line’ of the Bourgeoisie (1970-1973)" (p.41)
• Graham Murdock, "Reconstructing the Ruined Tower: Contemporary Communications and Questions of Class" (p.67)
• Michael Zukosky, "A Semantic Shift from Socialist Land Reform to Neoliberal Pastoral Development in China" (p.93)
• Leon Barkho, "The Discursive and Social Power of News Discourse: the case of Aljazeera in comparison and parallel with the BBC and CNN" (p.111)
• Sean Phelan, "Democracy, the Academic Field and the (New Zealand) Journalistic Habitus" (p.161)
• Emily Turner-Graham, "'Austria First': H.C. Strache, Austrian identity and the current politics of Austria’s Freedom Party" (p.181)

Visit the journal homepage here: http://www.languageandcapitalism.info/.

Mallon, Ron. "Naturalistic Approaches to Social Construction." STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY November 10, 2008.

Social “construction,” “constructionism” and “constructivism” are terms in wide use in the humanities and social sciences, and are applied to a diverse range of objects including the emotions, gender, race, sex, homo- and hetero-sexuality, mental illness, technology, quarks, facts, reality, and truth. This sort of terminology plays a number of different roles in different discourses, only some of which are philosophically interesting, and fewer of which admit of a “naturalistic” approach—an approach that treats science as a central and successful (if sometimes fallible) source of knowledge about the world. If there is any core idea of social constructionism, it is that some object or objects are caused or controlled by social or cultural factors rather than natural factors, and if there is any core motivation of such research, it is the aim of showing that such objects are or were under our control: they could be, or might have been, otherwise. Determination of our representations of the world (including our ideas, concepts, beliefs, and theories of the world) by factors other than the world or our sensory experience may undermine our faith that any independent phenomena are represented or tracked, undermining the idea that there is a fact of the matter about which way of representing is correct. And determination of the non-representational facts of the world by our theories seems to reverse the “direction of fit” between representation and reality presupposed by our idea of successful epistemic activity. For both of these reasons, proponents and opponents of constructionist thought have held it to embody a challenge to the naturalism endemic in contemporary philosophy. But social constructionist themes can be and have been picked up by naturalists who accommodate and appropriate the interesting and important cultural phenomena documented by constructionist authors while attempting to avoid more radical anti-scientific and anti-realist theses widely associated with social constructionism. I begin by discussing social constructionism, and I then discuss some threads of contemporary naturalism. I go on to consider two different sorts of objects of social construction—representations and human traits—and discuss naturalistic, constructionist approaches to them. . . . Read the whole article here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-construction-naturalistic/.

Pub: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ACROSS DISCIPLINES [CADAAD] 2.2 (2008).

Contents:

• Andreas Musolff What can Critical Metaphor Analysis Add to the Understanding of Racist Ideology? Recent Studies of Hitler’s Anti-Semitic Metaphors. pp. 1 – 10 (Download PDF)
• William R. Crawley and Lynnea J. Dehaan The Vocabulary of Quitting. pp. 11 – 30 (Download PDF)
• Antonio Reyes-Rodriguez Hot and Cold War: The Linguistic Representation of a Rational Decision Filter. pp. 31 – 47 (Download PDF)
• John M. Kobia Metaphors on HIV/AIDS Discourse Among Oluluyia Speakers of Western Kenya. pp. 48 – 66 (Download PDF)
• Steffi Retzlaff and Stefan Gänzle Constructing the European Union in Canadian News. pp. 67 – 89 (Download PDF)

Visit the journal homepage here: http://cadaad.org/ejournal/2008/2.

"CADAAD 2008," Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, University of Hertfordshire, July 10-12, 2008.

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) is an ongoing project which aims to foster and promote cross-disciplinary communication in critical discourse research. Following the success of the project’s first international conference hosted at the University of East Anglia in 2006, we are pleased to announce the second international conference CADAAD’08, to be hosted at the University of Hertfordshire, 10-12 July 2008. In line with the general aims of the project, we welcome papers both from CDA and neighbouring disciplines such as communication studies, media studies, narrative studies, sociology, philosophy and political science. Abstracts are invited which assess the state of the art and offer new directions for critical discourse research. By new directions we mean i) theoretical/methodological development and/or ii) analysis of contemporary discourses. Theoretical/methodological frameworks sourced from all areas of the social and cognitive sciences are welcome. Papers exploring the following frameworks in linguistics are particularly welcome:

• Cognitive Linguistics (Blending, Construction Grammars, Framing, Metaphor)
• Corpus Linguistics (Corpus Construction, Data Extraction, Semantic Prosody)
• Pragmatics (Presupposition, Relevance Theory, Speech Acts)
• Systemic Functional Linguistics (Cohesion and Coherence, Grammatical Metaphor)

Analyses of all contemporary discourses are welcome, including those within applied and professional areas such as business, education, environment, health, and law. Papers applying critical analysis to discourses used in the construction of 'minority' vs. 'normality' and other dichotomies are especially welcome. Areas of particular interest include:

• Discourse on gender
• Discourse of International Law
• Discourse on immigration
• Discourse of the war on terror
• European Union discourse
• United Nations and foreign aid discourse

Access the conference website here: http://cadaad.org/cadaad08.

PUB: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ACROSS DISCIPLINES 2.1 (2008).

• Donna L. Lillian "Modality, Persuasion and Manipulation in Canadian Conservative Discourse" pp. 1–16 Download PDF
• Robert De Beaugrande "The Discourse and Counter-Discourse of Hugo Chavez" pp. 17 – 30 Download PDF
• Anna Ewa Wieczorek "Proximisation, Common Ground, and Assertion-Based Patterns for Legitimisation in Political Discourse" pp. 31–48 Download PDF
• Cheng Le and Sin Kui King and Zheng Ying-Long "Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and American Court Judgments" pp. 49–58 Download PDF
• Mei Li Lean "'New Kids on the Block’: the Discursive Construction of two New Premiers by the Mass Media" pp. 59–75 Download PDF
• Joanne Jung-Wook Hong "Changes in McDonald’s Discourse and Ideology: Intertextual Analysis of McDonald’s vs. Criticisms" pp. 76 – 101 Download PDF

Download the issue here: http://cadaad.org/ejournal/2008/1.

CFP: "Space, Interaction, Discourse," Aalborg University, Denmark, November 12-14, 2008.

The aim of this international conference is to bring together researchers who investigate space, mediated discourse and embodied interaction from different perspectives.The conference will highlight interdisciplinary research that explores how embodied and virtual social actors communicate, interact and coordinate their activities in complex multimodal environments, with a special focus on place, mobility and the body. Thus, this conference welcomes contributions by scholars and doctoral students in a range of disciplines and fields of inquiry, including discourse studies, conversation analysis, discursive psychology, critical discourse analysis, interaction analysis, architecture, design, geography, sociology, anthropology, environmental psychology, mobility studies, ubiquitous computing, computer-supported cooperative work and computer-supported cooperative learning. Please see the online call for papers for more details. The conference will take place at Aalborg University, and it will consist of invited keynote lectures, parallel paper sessions and a workshop. Submissions are solicited for paper presentations (30 minutes including question time). Plenary Speakers:

• John A. Dixon, Lancaster University, UK
• Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Elizabeth Keating, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Lorenza Mondada, Université Lumière Lyon2, France
• Ron Scollon, Alaska, USA

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 1, 2008

Please submit an abstract and register on the website. All submissions will be reviewed by the scientific committee. Notification of acceptance by 15th March 2008.

The registration fee is 1500 DKK (approx. 200 euro), which includes participation in the conference, a conference folder, the reception, three lunches and two coffee/tea breaks each day over the three days. The conference is international and open to researchers, doctoral and graduate students. Further details are available here: http://www.placeme.hum.aau.dk/conf2008/.

CFP: 18th Annual Meeting, Society for Text and Discourse, University of Memphis, July 12-15, 2008.

Presentations at the 18th Annual Meeting can be in the form of posters or spoken papers. The deadline for submitting proposals for both presentation formats is February 15, 2008. A Review Committee will review the proposals, and authors will be notified regarding acceptance by the end of March 2008. Please submit proposals in English using our electronic submission system (http://aeon.psyc.memphis.edu/std08) or see http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse08.org/ for further details. Papers will be scheduled for 20 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Posters are scheduled for a poster session on the second night of the conference. Proposals for symposia (sessions with multiple papers) should be discussed with the conference organizers prior to submission and follow the same procedure as proposals for papers. FORMAT Submissions should include a 2-3 page summary of the presentation (max. 1000 words, including bibliographic references) according to the specifications made available on http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse08.org/instructions.html. THE OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARD The Outstanding Student Paper Award (OPSA) recognizes quality in work that is predominantly that of a graduate student. Accordingly, the student must be first author on the paper. THE JASON ALBRECHT OUTSTANDING YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD The Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award (JAOYSA) honors the memory of Jason Albrecht, a promising young text and discourse researcher who passed away in 1996. The award recognizes an outstanding paper based on a doctoral dissertation. The doctoral candidate must be first author on the paper. Recipients of each award receive a commemorative certificate and a $150 award check. Proposals that are eligible for awards undergo two reviews - one by the regular program committee and a second one by the Awards Review Committee. Only proposals that are accepted for presentation as spoken papers will be considered for the awards. The ST&D Conference will be preceded by

• the ST&D Workshop (July 11-12, 2008)
• the Summer Institute (July 5-8, 2008)
• the 11th Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media (July 8-11, 2008).

Deadling for submission: February 15, 2008.