Titel Deelnemers "News discourses on distant suffering: A critical discourse analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak" "Stijn Joye" "Analyzing equivalalences in discourse: are discourse theory and membership categorization analysis comptatible" "Sigurd D'hondt" "Facing a crucial leap from political philosophy to empirical analysis, the approach to discourse analysis that arose in the aftermath of Laclau and Mouffe (1985), and that is currently known as the Essex school of discourse theory (DT), has in recent years repeatedly been accused of suffering from a methodological deficit. This paper examines to what extent membership categorization analysis (MCA), a branch of ethnomethodology that investigates lay actors' situated descriptions-in-context as practical activity, can play a part in rendering poststructuralist DT notions such as articulation and equivalence analytically tangible in empirically observable discourse. Based on a review of Laclau and Mouffe's foundational text as well as on Glynos and Howarth's recent exposition of the framework (2007), it is argued that MCA empirically substantiates many poststructuralist claims about the indeterminacy of signification. However, MCA consistently falters - and willingly so - at the point where DT would articulate emerging equivalences between identity categories as part of a second-order explanatory concept, such as Glynos and Howarth’s notion of political logic. Nevertheless, MCA also contains the kernel of an ""endogenous"" notion of the political that comes fairly close to DT’s all-pervasive understanding of the concept. To support these arguments, a variety of empirical sources are mobilized, ranging from the transcript of a political talk show, a newspaper report regarding a discrimination case in a dance class, to data drawn from earlier research on the way that minority members are treated by the Belgian criminal justice system." "The interplay between language policy and contemporary scientific discourses : a sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of language ideologies in CLIL research" "Caroline Staquet" "Introduction: Educational research: discourses of change and changes of discourse" "Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe" "Risk conflicts, critical discourse analysis and media discourses on GM crops and food" "Pieter Maeseele" "As techno-environmental controversies increasingly confront us with tremendous democratic challenges, it is imperative to investigate which discursive strategies and processes in media discourses facilitate or impede democratic debate and citizenship. This paper puts forward an approach combining the risk conflicts perspective with the analytical framework of critical discourse analysis to analyse how two Belgian elite newspapers discursively (re-)define and interpret four controversial events in the debate on genetically modified crops and food. The analysis identifies two distinct ideological cultures. Driven by an unproblematized idea of scientific consensus, one ideological culture is found to repeatedly take up the defence of the status quo and to continuously enact processes of de-politicization to impede democratic debate. The other is found to facilitate democratic debate by repeatedly challenging existing power relations, in terms of revealing competing sets of assumptions, values and interests underlying opposing responses to scientific uncertainty." "Educational research: Discourses of change and changes of discourse" "Educational research : discourses of change and changes of discourse" "Studying governance through discourse: Organisational discourses and governmentality in media-organisations." "Frank Boddin" "The research this paper draws upon is situated in Media and Communication Studies. Media studies address a divers range of questions and there is a growing amount of studies dealing with the organisation and production context of media. This paper focuses on the use of marketing within public service broadcasting institutions. In the neo-liberal context of the 1980s public service broadcasting needed to legitimize its existence within a deregulated and commercialized media environment. In order to cope with different critiques, such as the need for accountability and audience-orientation, public service broadcasting introduced a range of new public management techniques, such as the use of marketing. The first part of this paper focuses on this introduction of marketing and examines how marketing disciplines the production process. More specifically, drawing upon the Foucaultian theory of governmentality, the paper concentrates on why and how marketing can be seen as a governmental regime. The second part of the paper draws upon a qualitative study of how marketing is used in the production of TV documentary, in the context of North-Belgian public television. A rhetorical text analysis and a discourse-theoretical analysis of specific production notes was undertaken in this study. The analysis highlights the embodiment of a marketing discourse in the overall rhetorical structures of the production notes. Furthermore, it shows how other alternative public service - repertoires become articulated within these rhetorical structures. It argues that through these discursive mechanisms the governmental regime of marketing discourages potential forms of resistance, as the marketing regime allows for a space of freedom for the media professional." "Communicating religion through polemic discourse: Theological disputes in North African Christianity of the fourth and fifth century – Comunicando el pensamiento religioso a través el discurso polémico: disputas teológicas en la cristiandad norafricana en" "Anthony Dupont" "Deploying Discourse Theory. An introduction to Discourse Theory and Discourse Theoretical Analysis" /