Abstracts for talks
- Becoming an Adoptive Parent: A Qualitative Analysis of the Experience of Prospective Intercountry Adopters, Second International Conference on Adoption Research 2006, UEA, UK
- Sharing Experiences of Intercountry Adoption: Multimodality, Embodiment and Affect, Third International Conference on Multimodality 2006, Pavia, Italy
Publications
- Raudaskoski, Pirkko & McIlvenny, Paul (in press 2007). Identity Work and Transnational Adoption: Discursive Representations of the 'Adoptive-Parent-To-Be' in a Danish TV Documentary Series. In Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa & Iedema, Rick (Eds.), Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contestations of Identification, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- McIlvenny, Paul & Raudaskoski, Pirkko (2006). Becoming an Adoptive Parent: A Qualitative Analysis of the Experience of Prospective Intercountry Adopters. Paper presented at the ICAR 2: Second International Conference on Adoption Research, Norwich, 17-21 July 2006. [Online]. Available: <http://www.uea.ac.uk/swk/icar2/pdf's/mcilvenny84.pdf>.
- Raudaskoski, Pirkko & McIlvenny, Paul (2005). Kun lapsi kasvaa sydämessä: kansainvälisestä adoptiosta ja sen diskursseista [When the child grows in the heart: On transnational adoption and its discourses]. Naistutkimus-Kvinnoforskning [Women's Studies], 18(3): 44-46.
- McIlvenny, Paul (2005). Mediating Discourse in a Globalising World: Analysing the Language and Communicative Practices of Transnational Adoption. In Kuure, Leena, Kärkkäinen, Elise & Saarenkunnas, Maarit (Eds.), Finnish Applied Linguistics Association (AFinLA) Yearbook 2005: Language and Social Action - Kieli ja sociaalinen toiminta, Publications de l'Association Finlandaise de Linguistique Appliquée (AFinLA) nr 63: 35-51.
- McIlvenny, Paul & Raudaskoski, Pirkko (2005). Figuring the Transnational 'Child-to-be-adopted': The Web as a Virtual Sociocultural Contact Zone for Intercountry Adoption. In Preisler, Bent, Fabricius, Anne, Haberland, Hartmut, Kjærbeck, Susanne & Risager, Karen (Eds.), The Consequences of Mobility: Linguistic and Sociocultural Contact Zones, Roskilde: Department of Language and Culture, Roskilde University, Denmark: 58-70. [Online]. Available: <http://www.ruc.dk/cuid/publikationer/publikationer/mobility>.
- McIlvenny, Paul & Raudaskoski, Pirkko (2005). Mediating Discourses of Transnational Adoption on the Internet. In Norris, Sigrid & Jones, Rodney (Eds.), Discourse in Action: Introduction to Mediated Discourse Analysis, London: Routledge: 62-72.
News
- Nordjysk adoptionsforum website is launched
- Nordjysk adoptionsforum is announced in Adoption & Samfund
- Our paper is accepted for Multimodality 2006, Pavia, Italy
- Our paper is accepted for ICAR 2006, UEA, UK