A
new journal:
DISCOURSE
& COMMUNICATION
An
interdisciplinary journal
Among its collection of
journals in the fields of the studies of communication and discourse,
Sage,
Ltd. (
The new journal, edited
by veteran journal editor Teun A. van Dijk
(Pompeu Fabra
University,
Barcelona), assisted by an international board of prominent experts in
discourse analysis and communication studies, aims to publish high
quality
papers that pay specific attention to the qualitative, discourse
analytical
approach to issues in communication research. Besides the classical
social
scientific methods in communication research, such a content analysis
and frame
analysis, a more explicit study of the structures of discourse (text,
talk,
images or multimedia messages) allows unprecedented empirical insights
into the
many phenomena of communication. And since contemporary discourse study
is not
limited to the account of ‘texts’ or ‘conversation’ alone, but has
extended its
field to the study of the cognitive, societal, cultural, political and
historical ‘contexts’ of discourse, it is also able to be integrated in
the
broader study of these broader dimensions of communication.
Discourse &
Communication
will
publish substantial research papers,
discussion notes as well as reviews and review articles by women and
men from
many countries and cultures. Its diversity will also be apparent in the
variety
of its theories, methods and approaches, thus avoiding the frequent
limitation
to one school, approach or academic sect. The only criterion will be
the
quality, the originality and the analytical sophistication of its
articles.
Moreover, the style of its contributions will avoid unnecessary jargon,
and
thus make the journal eminently accessible to scholars and students
from many
disciplines.
Discourse &
Communication
specifically
addresses readers in any field of communication who are interested in
qualitative, discourse analytical approaches, on the one hand, and
scholars in
discourse studies, linguistics, pragmatics, semiotics and related
fields who
are interested in issues of communication, on the other hand.
Discourse &
Communication
will be published
as from 2007, with 4 issues per year.
For submissions and
information about editorial policy, consult Aims, Instructions
to Authors and Preferred
Articles
of Discourse &
Communication.
For further questions
about editorial policy, please write to the Editor: Teun
A. van Dijk (journals at discourse-in-society dot org).
For subcriptions,
consult the publisher's website of the new journal: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/dcm.
The (provisional) Board of DISCOURSE & COMMUNICATION
Members of the
board (under construction) of the new journal are: David Altheide, Mats Alvesson,
Karen Lee Ashcraft, Francesca Bargiela,
Janet Bavelas, Charles Bazerman,
Allan
Bell, Vijay K. Bhatia, Donal Carbaugh,
Donald J. Cegala, Patrick Charaudeau,
François Cooren, Nik
Coupland, Ling Chen, George
Cheney, Stanley Deetz, John Downing, Frederick
Erickson,
Norman Fairclough,
Gail
Fairhurst, Kristine Fitch, Cynthia Gallois,
William A. Gamson,
Doris Graber, David Grant, Cynthia
Hardy, Susan C. Herring, Janet Holmes, Cheris
Kramarae, Curtis
LeBaron, Jay Lemke,
Tamar Liebes,
Per Linell, Sonia Livingstone, Margaret
McLaughlin,
Ulrike Meinhof, Marcyliena Morgan, Dennis Mumby,
Sik Hung Ng, Anita Pomerantz,
Linda Putnam, Cynthia Stohl, Ron Scollon,
John Swales, Karen Tracy, Gaye Tuchman, Theo van Leeuwen,
Ruth Wodak, Yunxia Zhu.
Further
board members who are experts in this interdisciplinary domain are
searched
especially in Africa,