Thanks so much to Nicol for setting this Salon for us and I especially like the pictures you have chosen; giving us an atmosphere of the French Salon for public and intellectual discussions on issues of common concern!

Welcome to our new CDA blog!

I would like to WELCOME everyone to our new blog. The idea to set up a blog was sparked off by the supervisor meeting among Dr. Angel Lin, and her PhD students Jason Ho and Nicol Pan on 28 January, 2011.

In the meeting, we talked about lots of concepts and research ideas about language, discourse and power. At the end, we felt we needed an easily accessible platform to carry on good and constructive intellectual conversations as well as a place to share our ideas and work in between the face to face meetings. This was how this blog came about.

Some simple instructions and guidelines:

1. Come to this blog just like you would when you visit other web-sites and blogs. There's no need to log in if you are simply browsing and reading other's stuff.
2. To post your writings, thoughts, ideas and upload pictures or files within your post, you'll need to login the blog. Press the 'Sign in' button on the upper right hand corner. Once you are in, click on the new button 'New Post' which will appear on the same spot. Everything else is pretty much 'what you see is what you get'.
3. You can also contribute by commenting on other's posts. Under the end of each post, there's a button 'comments'. If you are simply commenting on a post, there's no need to sign in.
4. Do remember that our blog is open to the public. If there are things that you don't intend for the public to read or see, then simply don't post it here. We do have control in terms of who can post or comment on our blog, so that's taken care of.

As you can see the rules are pretty simple. And I'm sure you'll find it easy to use after some poking around. So happy blogging, everyone!