Related papers

Roberts, Lafta, Garfield, Khudhairi and Burnham (published October 29, 2004 in The Lancet) Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey. See also comments by Richard Horton of The Lancet.

John Ralston Saul Democracy and globalization. Canadian author on language, citizenship,globalisation, and democracy.

Colin Lankshear (1997) Language and the New Capitalism The International Journal of Inclusive Education. 1(4): 309-321.

Journals

Critical discourse studies - an interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences

Social Semiotics - Social Semiotics invites papers that carry out textual analyses framed by a rigorous understanding of political economy, processes of production
and/or patterns of consumption, and issues of embodiment, both race and gender.

Resources for paper download

These papers are offered by authors on their personal websites

Robert de Beaugrande - From the website: “The time has come to announce the free distribution of my ‘big’ books to be downloaded gratis from this website. If I advocate ‘freedom of access to knowledge and society’ (see especially my newest book reviewed below), I cannot address people in expensive or hard-to-find  books.”

Norman Fairclough - A handful of papers available for download.

Ongoing Research

EU Discourses of unemployment - A project where European Union (EU) discourses on un/employment are investigated; particularly discourses of EU institutions such as the European Parliament and the European Commission including different genres like policy-papers, resolutions, interaction in meetings and interviews. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Director: Ruth Wodak. Co-researchers: Gilbert Weiss and Peter Muntigl

A research group for critical discourse studies at Zhejiang University in China.

Information Sources

Money, markets & the economy - A website where a range of economists explain what’s “new” about new capitalism. 

Nationmaster -
Worldwide statistics.

Tomdispatch.com - Researched, written and edited by Tom Engelhardt, a fellow at the Nation Institute, for anyone in despair over post-September 11th US mainstream media coverage of our world and ourselves.

Truthout - News, activism and politics.