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end of the working process regarding practical administrative matters. Thanks also to Ulla Westermark, who worked diligently for several years on the administration of the projects and took care of the financial accounts. We have been fortunate to receive essential financial support from several external and internal institutions. The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) contributed with a generous grant in relation to the Ph.D. course. The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (Kungliga Vitterhetsakademien) and the Letterstedska Association (Letterstedska föreningen) helped in meeting the costs of guest lecturers. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) contributed with substantial funding covering the expenses for meetings and building up the contact network necessary for carrying through this project. Besides the financial support from the Department of Culture and Media Studies regarding some overhead costs, the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Social Sciences, including the Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy, all contributed to covering the costs associated with both the Ph.D. course and the consequent book production. The central administration at Umeå University also catered for some of the essential ‘fika’ breaks during this intellectual endeavour. Many thanks to all. Annika Egan Sjölander, on behalf of the editors
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1 Two such examples are the project ‘Discourse Analysis Network’, which was supported during 2008/2009 by the UK Economic Social Research Council’s National Centre for Research Methods Networks for Methodological Innovation, and a Ph.D. course that was arranged by Roskilde University at the end of 2009 called ‘Applying Discourse Theory and CDA in the study of media, images and film’. Both editors had the advantage of participating in the final closing workshop of the UK network in Essex in April 2009 and to present and discuss our respective discourse analytical research with a diverse group of researchers (Egan Sjölander 2009; Gunnarsson Payne 2009).
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