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The Department of Culture and Learning

CLD - The Communication, Language, and Discourse Research Group

The Communication, Language, and Discourse research group (CLD) studies a variety of current and relevant questions, issues, and problems within the broad field of human interaction, in its communicative, linguistic and discursive aspects. As a research group, CLD is open to a wide range of theories, methodological orientations, and philosophical perspectives.

The Department of Culture and Learning

CLD - The Communication, Language, and Discourse Research Group

The Communication, Language, and Discourse research group (CLD) studies a variety of current and relevant questions, issues, and problems within the broad field of human interaction, in its communicative, linguistic and discursive aspects. As a research group, CLD is open to a wide range of theories, methodological orientations, and philosophical perspectives.

We carry out our research in a multitude of settings and/or environments, for example institutions, organizations, communities, documents, and texts. Our goals as a research group are twofold: 1) to create new knowledge within and across our disciplinary fields and 2) to build knowledge that makes a difference within the settings that we investigate.

Because our research interests are both diverse and dynamic, the CLD group currently features three interest groups supporting constellations of CLD researchers who share a set of common interests pertaining to research approach, setting, methodology or the like. The current interest groups are:

  • Health and Humanities
  • Communicating Organizations
  • Language Acquisition and Teaching

While each interest group has a vested interest in certain aspects of what falls within the disciplinary scope of the CLD group, all interest groups are dedicated to participating in and contributing to deepening the conceptual body of knowledge of the group as a whole as well as ensuring that our research has an impact on society.

Members of the CLD research group attend a variety of academic conferences including: the European Group on Organisation Studies (EGOS), International Communication Association (ICA), Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP), European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD), International Congress of Phonetic Sciences; International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) 

Research from members of CLD has been published in a variety of quality journal outlets: International Journal of Strategic Communication; International Journal of Business Communication; Journal of Change Management; Discourse, Context & Media; Narrative Inquiry; Fachsprache – Journal of Specialized Communication; Perspectives – Studies in Translation Theory and Practice; Semiotica; Corporate Communications, Human Relations, Laboratory Phonology, Frontiers in Psychology; Pragmatics & Cognition; Folia Linguistica; Reseach in Language, Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Tidsskrift; Sprogforum, Suvremena Linguistica; Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication; Communication & Medicine – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society; Sign Systems Studies.    

The CLD research group also hosts two international, peer-reviewed, open access journals: Globe and Communication and Language at Work

Globe publishes research on a wide range of themes relating to language, communication and culture. The journal covers areas such as: Language(s) (grammar, lexis, morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, syntax, semantics, etc.), language acquisition, learning and teaching, language policy, language planning and language management, translation studies, socio-onomastics, philosophy of language, discourse studies with a linguistic focus, studies of written genres and stylistics as well as language in conjunction with other areas, e.g. culture and identity. The journal welcomes a variety of approaches, such as, but not restricted to, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics.

Communication and Language at Work invites contributions navigating sociological and philosophical considerations of communication, knowledge, agency, and organization. The journal supports investigations of subjects across diverse research areas, from communication to critical management studies and education, psychology, political science, and intercultural studies. We publish research investigating the phenomenon of work with various foci: theoretical considerations on organizational behavior are as welcome as empirical case studies on agent groups at the workplace, and studies on the embeddedness of work organizations in communicative webs of culture, politics, economics, and other aspects. Work, here, is meant as an umbrella term for work(places) in and related to private and public organizations, NGOs, and bordering phenomena such as networks of volunteers. Explicitly included is the area of research into higher education organizations. We take a special interest in issues of communicative construction of group belonging, cultural othering, and processes of change, such as internationalization or digitalization, but the themes are by no means limited to these fields of study.

CLD Interest Groups

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