Social Identification as Situated Processes: a Proposal for Cda from a Micro-discourse Conference Organising Committee Welcome from the Conference Committee on Behalf of the Conference Organising Committee International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis – Theory into Research Keynote Speaker

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher. The publisher is not responsible for the use which might be made of the information contained in this book. A critical analysis of the public consultation process and publications produced by the Xenotransplantation Working Party during the period 2001─2005 (Xenotransplantation─transplanting animal organs or tissue into humans). November is the best month in Tasmania when winter days have already said goodbye to the land and now the summer breeze and crystal sunlights are here to stay with us. This year, November is very special as it brings colleagues from different horizons to Tasmania to strengthen research sharing, intercultural appreciation, and international understanding. This conference has special features which we treasure dearly: • The conference has attracted participants from a wide range of academic and • Students have taken an active and leading role in organising this conference. They are the inspiring spring of the conference. We would like to thank many colleagues in the Faculty of Education and other sections of the University of Tasmania who have given us strong support and encouragement in creating this dynamic interactive research discourse. Special thanks must go to Professor Roslyn Arnold, Dean of the Faculty of Education, who is the pillar of this solid support. She has been a chair and member of Teaching and Learning Committees within universities. She acts as a consultant to education institutions and agencies engaged in developing policies and practices to enhance students' learning and teachers' professionalism. Her theory of 'empathic intelligence' has been developed from her research and scholarship in pedagogy over several decades. Her latest book This paper will explore the nature of inter-subjective and intrasubjective engagements with particular attention paid to the interface between language, thinking, feelings and relationships. The central argument is that educators need to be sensitive to the embodied language experiences of students and imagine how certain discourse experiences can enable or disable students' language development. In developing the argument, reference will be made to the ways students' writing can both reveal and conceal their thinking and feeling. Empathic intelligence will be posited as a model to enable educators to engage with students in articulating silence. Professor Peter Freebody is Professor of Education at the University of Queensland. His research …