This site is mostly about my academic interests and related matters. Most of my current research deals with the use of language in the production and reproduction of management knowledge and practice, so you will find here not only material on CDA itself, but also on other fields of research tackling the social construction of management. I would like to eventually add work and references on other interests of mine (the semiotics of non-linguistic communication, good old-fashioned critical theory and radical sociology), but that isn’t likely to happen soon.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Lischinsky, Alon (2008) “Examples as persuasive argument in Popular Management Literature”. Discourse & Communication, 2(3):243–69. Available online
• Morales, Oscar Alberto & Lischinsky, Alon (2008) “Discriminación a través de las ilustraciones de libros de texto de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria en España”. Discurso & Sociedad, 2(1):115-152. Available online
• Lischinsky, Alon (2007) “Un caso de doble discurso: contraargumentos del gobierno al racismo discursivo de la oposicion parlamentaria”. Discurso & Sociedad, 1(1):3-65. Available online

Chapters in collective works

• Lischinsky, Alon (2010, forthcoming) “Writing the reader in. Titling practices in popular management”. In Lorés-Sanz, Rosa, Mur-Dueñas, María Pilar & Lafuente-Millán, Enrique (eds.) Constructing Interpersonality: Multiple perspectives and applications to written academic discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge Publishing Scholars

Book reviews

• Lischinsky, Alon (2010) “Book review: Grillo, Eric (Ed.) (2005) Power without Domination. Dialogism and the Empowering Property of Communication“. Journal of Language and Politics 9(1):167–171
• Lischinsky, Alon (2009) “Book Review: Ruth Wodak & Michal Krzyzanowski (eds.), Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences“. Discourse & Society 20(6):780-782

Contributed papers and presentations

• Lischinsky, Alon (2010, forthcoming) The struggle over sustainability: a corpus approach to managerial conceptions of sustainable development. Paper to be read at the CADAAD’10 Conference “Ideology, identity and interaction”, Łodz, September 13–15.
• Coromines, Diana, Lischinsky, Alon & Valls, Margalida (2009) La redacció del Treball de Fi de Grau: Proposta didàctica per superar les mancances de la competència escrita acadèmica dels estudiants. Paper read at the Jornades de Docència 2009. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, June 30–July 1.
• Lischinsky, Alon (2009) The Narrative Construction of Managerial Expertise. Storytelling in Popular Management Books. Paper read at the International Conference on Narrative, Birmingham, June 4–6.
• Lischinsky, Alon (2009) Talking like you mean business: Metadiscourse in popular books on management. Paper read at the XXVII International AESLA Conference “Ways and Modes of Human Communication”, Ciudad Real, March 26–28.
• Lischinsky, Alon (2008) Titling practices in popular management books. Paper read at the conference on Interpersonality in Written Academic Discourse: Perspective across Languages and Cultures, Jaca, December 11–13.
• Lischinsky, Alon & Antonini, Carla (2008) Dollars are green too. A discourse-based approach to the analysis of corporate social responsibility report. Paper read at the II European Communication Conference on Communication Policies and Culture in Europe, Barcelona, November 26–28.
• Lischinsky, Alon (2008) Lo que el dinero no puede comprar. Higiene verbal en la recepción de la jerga gerencial. Paper read at the XII Jornadas Nacionales de Investigadores en Comunicación, Rosario, October 16–18.
• Lischinsky, Alon (2008) At the crossroads of language, culture and class: responses to managerial jargon in Spanish. Paper read at the Spanish in Society Conference 2008 on Spanish at Work, Swansea, March 27–29.
• Lischinsky, Alon (2007) Examples as persuasive argument in popular management literature. Paper read at the XIV Suzanne Hübner International Seminar on Linguistics and persuasive communication, Zaragoza, November 14-17.
• Lischinsky, Alon (2007) ‘Show, don’t tell’: Racism in the visual depiction of the other in high school textbooks. Paper read at the II Conference on Language Ideologies and Media Discourse, Leeds, September 3-5.

Dissertations

• Lischinsky, Alon (2008) The construction of expert knowledge in popular management literature. Doctoral dissertation. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Available online