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Forming networks and facilitating conversations between researchers in different disciplines is essential in a transdisciplinary field such as discourse studies.
The Discourse Studies Research Unit (DiscoStu), which is part of the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics (LCL) reaches across faculties to foster collaboration between researchers, establish dialogue and visibility that will benefit researchers and research students across a range of disciplines. DiscoStu activities include reading group discussions, academic talks and panel discussions.
Discourse studies is a transdisciplinary field aiming to understand meaning as the result of social practices, and therefore it spans research within areas such as politics, geography, various fields of linguistics, and the social sciences. The questions these researchers ask about the intersections of language, semiosis, and society differ, making it a vibrant and inherently multidisciplinary field.
Researchers employing discourse analysis explore a wide range of questions, including how socially constructed and enforced ideologies operate and are maintained at both the micro and macro levels of communication, how technological frameworks shape communication, and how specific linguistic features construct and operate within discourses.
