FYI: CDA, Norwegian Corpus, Byzantine Philology
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Teun A. van Dijk
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ANNOUNCEMENT This is to announce a new internet list, CDA-PHD-CLASS, specially created for advanced Ph.D. (doctoral) students who are specializing in any field of critical discourse analysis, and who are writing their doctoral thesis on a CDA-topic. The list will be monitored by Teun A. van Dijk (University of Amsterdam, and --in 1999-2000-- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). This list will be like a virtual 'class' in which a selected group of Ph.D. students from various countries will participate in order to mutually discuss issues in CDA, exchange bibliographical and other information, provide mutual support, and create a global community of PhD students of CDA. CDA research is here understood as the explicit, systematic, theory-based and critical study of text or talk in their socio-political context, with special interest in the role of discourse in the enactment, expression and reproduction of --or the resistance against-- power abuse, domination and social inequality. There are many reasons why this list/class has been set up. Many PhD students of CDA in the world are engaged in such research in an environment in which CDA is marginal or non-existant, or dominated by mainstream research in the various disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. But even when supported and supervised by local professors specialized in CDA, students may often feel isolated and in need to be in contact with other PhD students in the world who are engaged in related projects, or facing similar theoretical, analytical or methodological challenges. Daily communication with academic peers all over the world, and from several disciplines, may significantly contribute to the successful completion of a PhD thesis at an international level. And conversely, specialists in CDA who will be among the yearly 'visiting professors' of the class will thus be able to communicate with probably the best Ph.D. students of CDA in the world, especially with those who are working in the same area of specialization. Subscribers of the CDA-PHD-CLASS list are also expected to actively participate in the general list of the CDA community, CRITICS-L, to which they will automatically be subscribed. One of the joint and ongoing activities of the class will be to contribute to an international bibliography of CDA publications, which will regularly also be published on the CRITICS-L list so as to be of use for other researchers in the field of CDA. Students will primarily communicate among themselves, but will also be able to communicate directly with, and to ask advice from the coordinator of the class as well as yearly appointed 'visiting professors', who are internationally renowned specialists in CDA. More detailed rules of communication and interaction in the class will be (jointly) developed later. ELIGIBILITY The CDA-PHD-CLASS is reserved for those advanced students who *at least* satisfy the following criteria: 1. Preparing a Ph.D. degree, and writing a Ph.D. thesis on a CDA topic. 2. Having worked on the thesis for at least one year. 3. Having a good knowledge of both local and international CDA research. 4. Being able to read and write in English -- since the list/class will be conducted in English. 5. Willing to actively contribute to the list/class by regular contributions. 6. Willing to assist other members of the list in the same area of specialization. 7. Willing to contribute to the international bibliography of CDA publications. 8. Being prepared to inform the list/class once a year about one's own research progress. 9. Having submitted a detailed description of their ongoing Ph.D. research project. The number of students to be admitted will provisionally be limited to a maximum of 50. If more eligible students apply, selection on later to be determined criteria will take place. >From the start, decisions on admission will not only depend on the quality and originality of the research project of a candidate subscriber, but also be influenced by criteria of diversity: At leas half of the class will consist of women, and students will be selected from as many countries/cultures in the world as possible. Students are preferred who are able to read academic literature and/or use discourse data also in another than their own mother tongue. Crucial for admission to the 'class' is that the research project of the applicant *explicitly* deals with the relations between discourse structures and social structures. Participation in the class ends with the completion and successful defense of the PhD thesis, or whenever a participant wants to leave the 'class' before that. Yearly one or two of the best research papers produced by members of the class will be published in the international journal DISCOURSE & SOCIETY. Specialists of CDA are requested to stimulate their best PhD students to apply for membership in this international class if these satisfy the criteria of eligibility. Candidates should apply *personally* by writing to list moderator Teun A. van Dijk (teun@hum.uva.nl). They will then receive a form and forma in which to provide information about their research project. Recommendation by one or more professors specialized in CDA may be useful, but is not required: Essential are the quality and the originality of the CDA research project of the candidate. Suggestions for the improvement of this list and the eligibility criteria are welcome. Further information may be obtained from list moderator Teun A. van Dijk: teun@hum.uva.nl. |
