Irene Vasilachis de Gialdino (Argentina)
ivasilachis@ceil-piette.gov.ar
Irene Vasilachis holds a PhD in Law and a degree in Sociology. She has specialized in Discourse Analysis and Social Representations. She has been a visiting scholar at various universities in Argentina and in different countries. Vasilachis researches in the social field from an interdisciplinary perspective by establishing relations between linguistics, sociology and law. At the moment, she works as main researcher for the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) in Argentina, where she is in charge of three research lines: The poor and urban poverty, Quantitative methodologies, and Social representations.
Publications resulting from her researches and related to the DUO conference include:
• La construcción de representaciones sociales: el discurso político y prensa escrita. Barcelona: Gedisa 1997.
• Pobres, pobreza, identidad y representaciones sociales. Barcelona: Gedisa, 2003.
• La representación discursiva de los conflictos sociales en la prensa escrita. Estudios Sociológicos, XXIII(67), 95-136, 2005.
• Identity, poverty situations and the epistemology of the known subject. Sociology, 40(3), 473-491, 2006.
• El aporte de la epistemología del sujeto conocido al estudio cualitativo de las situaciones de pobreza, de la identidad y de las representaciones sociales. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Vol. 8, 3, septiembre, 2007
http://www.ceil-piette.gov.ar/areasinv/pobres/pobres.html
http://www.ceil-piette.gov.ar/areasinv/metcuali/metcuali.html
http://www.ceil-piette.gov.ar/areasinv/representaciones/representaciones.html
Adriana Bolívar (Venezuela)
abolivar_2000@yahoo.com
Adriana Bolivar holds a PhD in Discourse Analysis. She is Professor of linguistics and discourse analysis at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Her research interests include systemic functional linguistics, the discourse of the media, and political and academic discourse. She founded and was named to be the Honorary President of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso (ALED).
She coordinates the Discourse Studies PhD program and the UNESCO Lecture on Reading and Writing, at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Publications resulting from her researches and related to the DUO conference include:
• El análisis del discurso político venezolano. Un estudio multidisciplinario (con Carlos Kohn). Caracas: Fondo Editorial Trópikos. 1999.
• Changes in Venezuelan Political Dialogue: The role of advertising during electoral campaigns. Discourse & Society, 12, 19, 23-46, 2001
• El insulto como estrategia en el diálogo político venezolano, Oralia 4, 47-73, 2001.
• Dialogue and Confrontation in Venezuelan Political interaction AILA Review 18, 3-17. 2005.
• El análisis del diálogo. Reflexiones y estudios (Editora, con Frances Erlich). Caracas: Fondo Editorial de Humanidades. 2007
Paul Anthony Chilton
Paul Anthony Chilton holds a PhD. in French. BA Modern Languages, (French and German). Professor of Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK. Currently he teaches in MA Pragmatics, MA Introduction to Discourse studies, MA Textual Analysis programs and PhD supervision. At the moment, he works teaching linguistics. All areas at UG, Language and politics, language and literature, Translation and Translation Studies: linguistic approaches to translation; literary translation. Chilton’s researches in the social field perspective include metaphor theory in cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, theory and analysis of discourse, especially political discourse and new theoretical work on discourse based on vector geometry. With Publications in linguistics and discourse studies.
Publications resulting from his researches and related to the DUO conference include:
- Analyzing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice, London, Routledge. 2004
- Discourse and Political Change in Europe, guest editor with Mikhail V. Ilyin, Discourse and Society, 4 (1), special issue, Sage, London (Foreword, pp. 4-6; article listed below, pp. 7-31). 1993
- Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989-91, co-edited with Mikhail V. Ilyin and Jacob L. Mey, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia (includes chapter, pp. 15-24, listed below).1998
- Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic Approaches to Political Discourse, co-edited with Christina Schäffner, John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 2002
- A New Research Agenda in Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Interdisciplinarity, ed. R. Wodak and P. Chilton, John Benjamins. 2005
- ‘Discourse and Politics’, co-authored with Chrstina Schaeffner, in Teun A. van Dijk (ed.), Discourse as Social Interaction. Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction, volume 2, pp. 6-23. 1997
- ‘The Role of Language in Human Conflict: Prolegomena to the Investigation of Language as a Factor in Conflict Causation and Resolution’ in S. Wright (ed.), Language and Conflict: A Neglected Relationship, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters, pp. 2-17. 1998
Jorge Iván Bonilla Vélez
jbonilla@eafit.edu.co
Jorge Ivan Bonilla Vélez, Media Communicator-Journalist and Master in Communication. He is Associated Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad EAFIT Medellin. There, he coordinates the specialization in Politics and Communication. He leads the research group on politics and language studies. His fields of interest include the study of media, journalistic discourse and audiences of the media from political and cultural perspective by privileging democracy, violence and political communication, among others.
Publications resulting from his researches and related to the DUO conference include:
• Violencia, medios y comunicación. Otras pistas en la investigación, México, Trillas, 1995.
• Los discursos del conflicto. Prensa, espacio público y protesta social (con Eugenia García), Bogotá, P.U.J., 1997.
• “Cuando el discurso público no lo explica todo. Una mirada a la comunicación política en contextos de miedo, hostilidad y terror”, en Pereira, José Miguel y Villadiego, Mirla (editores académicos), Entre miedos y goces, Comunicación, vida cotidiana y ciudadanías, Bogotá, P.U.J., 2006
• “De eso no se habla. Claves para re-pensar las relaciones entre comunicación y política”, en Revista Colombiana de Sociología, vol. 29, diciembre 2007.
Lawrence N. Berlin, Ph.D.
L-Berlin@neiu.edu
Lawrence N. Berlin holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching, a M.A. Foreign Languages, and a B.F.A. Drama. His research interests include Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and Language Acquisition. He has worked as Associate Professor of Linguistics, Adjunct Instructor, and as Coordinator of English Language Programs at recognized universities from U.S.A. Moreover, in 2002 and 2007 he received the Faculty Excellence Award in Research at the Northeastern Illinois University.
Publications and conferences resulting from his researches and related to the DUO conference include:
• Theoretical approaches to dialogue analysis. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. Berlin, L. N. (Ed.) (2007).
• Cooperative conflict and evasive language: The case of the 9-11 Commission hearings. In A. Fetzer (Ed.), Context and appropriateness: Micro meets macro (pp. 167-199). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Berlin, L. N. (2007).
• Media manipulation. In A. Betten & M. Dannerer (Eds.), Dialogue analysis IX. Dialogue in literature and the media: Selected papers from the 9th IADA conference, Salzburg 2003 – Part II: Media. (pp. 173-182). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. Berlin, L. N. (2005c).
• Power of language in the media to influence public thought. American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Portland, OR. Berlin, L. N. (May, 2004).
