CADAAD Journal

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines is a free but formal, peer-reviewed electronic journal, intended to provide a publishing platform for cross-disciplinary critical discourse research.


ISSN: 1752-3079

Frequency: bianually, every February and July (Volume 2, Issue 2 release delayed due to CADAAD 08).

 

Aims and Scope

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines is a free but formal, peer-reviewed electronic journal, intended to provide a publishing platform for cross-disciplinary critical discourse research.

Whilst it is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) which has claimed the most attention, Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines aims to expand the scope of critical discourse research beyond the models and applications traditionally offered in mainstream CDA. To this end, we welcome papers from CDA but also neighbouring disciplines, which might include, for example, communication studies, media studies and political science.

We particularly welcome papers which: i) explore new methodologies in critical discourse research; and/or ii) apply critical analysis to new discourses.  Where the methodological foundations of CDA historically lie with linguistics, from transformational grammar to systemic functional grammar, new methodologies might be sourced from cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics or pragmatics, for example.  Possible areas with new discourses where critical analysis might be applied include but are not limited to education, the environment, health, or the European Union.  Papers should contain both theoretical and analytical dimensions but may be weighted one way of the other.  The journal is keen to publish critical discourse research applied in both local and global contexts.


Book reviews

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines will publish book reviews. However, the journal will only publish evaluative rather than summarary reviews. We welcome reviews of any relevant monograph or collected volume.

Editorial Board

Editors:

Christopher Hart (University of Hertfordshire)
Dominik Lukeš (University of East Anglia)

 

International editorial board:

Carmen Caldas-Coulthard (University of Birmingham)

Piotr Cap (University of Lodz)

Paul Chilton (Lancaster University)

Veronika Koller (Lancaster University)

Christ'l De Landtsheer (University of Antwerp)

Louis de Saussure (University of Neuchatel)

Zouhair Maalej (University of Manouba)

Bernard McKenna (University of Queensland)

Andreas Musolff (Durham University)

Kieran O'Halloran (Open University)

John Richardson (Loughborough University)

Gabriella Rundblad (Kings College London)

Christina Schaeffner (Aston University)

Elena Semino (Lancaster University)

Shi-xu (ZheJiang Univresity)

Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University)

 

Contact:

For submissions please email submissions@cadaad.org, putting 'eJournal' in the subject line. For general inquiries please use the contact form.


Correspondence address:

Christopher Hart
School of Humanities
University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
AL10 9AB

Submission Guidelines

Email submissions of between 5000 and 8000 words to discourse@cadaad.org as MS Word attachment (see below on formatting and template). Put 'eJournal' in the subject line of the email.

Article Introduction

Each article should contain the following at the beginning:

Title: Subtitle

Name of the author(s)

Contact information for authors (affiliation and email)

Abstract (no more than 200 words)

Keywords (no more than five)

Formatting and template

We only accept contributions in MS Word, RTF, or plain text. No PDF, please. Authors are encouraged to use the Styles in the Word template attached below.

Otherwise, articles should be single spaced throughout. Leave one line space between paragaphs. Do not use tabs or spaces to indent new paragraphs. Avoid inserting empty paragraphs to format page layout, etc. Do not insert empty lines after section headings.

Structure

Your contribution should be structured following the numerical system which means 1. or 1.1. or 1.1.1.  Only subchapters up to the third level are accepted (hence no 1.2.3.1).

Endnotes

Please use numbered endnotes rather than footnotes.

Figures (including Tables and Images)

All figures should appear in the article and should be captioned and numbered (consecutively throughout the article rather than according to chapters or subchapters).

Quotations and References in the Text

Short quotations should appear in the main text in single quotation marks. Where the author's name is given in brackets do not use commas between author and date. For example:

According to Fowler (1991: 25), 'representation, in the press as in all other kinds of media and discourse, is a constructive practice'.

OR

Metaphors are ideological in so far as they 'can contribute to a situation where they privilege one understanding of reality over others' (Chilton 1996: 74).

Quotations longer than 3 lines should be indented in the text without quotation marks.

References to multiple works should appear as follows:

Racism and ethnic inequality have been a staple focus of CDA (van Dijk 1987, 1991, 1993; Wodak 1996).

References

References appear at the end of the article and should be ordered alphabetically. If you have more than one reference to the same author(s), please list them chronologically (where necessary using YEARa, YEARb etc.).

Examples:

Fowler, R. (1991) Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press. London: Routledge.

Hart, C. (2006) Analysing political discourse: Toward a cognitive approach. Critical Discourse Studies 2 (2): 189-194.

van Dijk, T. (2002) Ideology: Political discourse and cognition. In P. Chilton and C. Schaffner (eds.), Politics as Text and Talk. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp.203-238.

Procedure

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines is a peer reviewed journal and operates a blind review process.

Once an article has been submitted it is distributed to two reviewers who are asked to assess each article on its individual merits according to academic quality, originality and relevance to the aims and scope of this journal. Each article is then classified 1-3 as follows:

1. Suitable for publication without changes to academic content
2. Suitable for publication with some revision
3. Unsuitable for publication

Authors will be notified by email as to whether their article has been accepted for publication. When a submission is classified as 2. or 3., reviewer's comments will be provided. For submissions classified as 2., authors are given the opportunity to attend to reviewer's comments and asked to resubmit a revised version. This version will not re-enter the peer review process but the editors will need to be satisfied that appropriate revisions have been made.

Accepted submissions will be proof-read by the editors. Prior to publication, authors will be sent a prepared version of thier manuscipt and asked to approve its publication in this form. At this stage, authors are kindly requested not to make any changes to the academic content of their manuscipt. Authors will be informed via email of which issue their article will appear in.

Authors agree to all formatting undertaken by the editors.

Copyright remains with the author and is therefore the responsibility of the author.