Faculty of Humanities (External organisation)

    Activity: Memberships › Membership of research networks or expert groups

    Description

    Center for Diskursstuder

    The Centre for Discourse Studies is based in the Department of Languages, Culture & Aesthetics in the Faculty of Humanities and supports locally the interdisciplinary research of scholars and students of discourse studies. The Centre was founded in March 2002.


    The broad umbrella term 'discourse studies' includes many approaches to the study of discourse and discursive phenomena. Although there are many traditions originating in different disciplinary as well as national and regional contexts, these approaches are increasingly interdisciplinary, crossing national boundaries. Applied linguists, sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, linguistic anthropologists, communication scholars, and feminists, for example, all find that the concept of discourse and the predominantly qualitative methodologies that have been developed to investigate discourse are powerful tools. They have entered into a productive dialogue in order to investigate phenomena in new ways that encourage interdisciplinarity.

    One fundamental assumption is that language is constitutive of social life. Many approaches have an abiding critical concern with issues of power, inequality and ideology as they are naturalised, negotiated and resisted in discursive practices. Thus, the study of discourse is a crucial element of a democratic society: it can stimulate a critical awareness of language use in a variety of contexts.

    Topics of interest to the members of the Centre for Discourse Studies include: advertising and promotional literature, mass media discourse, racism and (hetero)sexism, intercultural discourse, environmental discourse, digital discourse and the Internet, discourses of immigration and assimilation, language and neo-liberalism, discourse in professional or institutional settings, political discourse, biotechnology discourse, literary discourse.


    Emneord: discourse studies

    Body type: Centre board
    Period1 May 2002 → 31 Dec 2010
    Held atFaculty of Humanities

    Keywords

    • discourse studies