An interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences. We publish critical research examining how discourse figures in social, historical and political contexts.

Joined November 2013
‘From Fritzl to #metoo’ is the first longitudinal study of the language used by the British press to talk about rape. Author @alessiatranches examines how rape discourse has (or has not) changed over the past decade. bit.ly/3or3BMk
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CIRAF is excited to announce our summer symposium, taking place on 22nd/23rd June 2023, at Cardiff University. We are accepting abstracts for papers exploring the theme of 'Relational Imaginaries of Antifascism and the Far-Right' (max 250 words, to be submitted by 5th May). See👇
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Out now, looks like a fascinating collection of chapters> Social Media and Society Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse Edited by @mkhosravinik benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac…
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iFirst Research Article, another from the SI on discourses of climate change: Xufeng Zhu & Xin Shang: Positioning as discursive struggle for equity: a critical discourse analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of African countries tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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*Calling all early-career linguistics researchers* Would you like to be interviewed about your research in Babel? Our readers want to hear about your work Get in touch at [email protected]
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My special issue on emancipatory discourses in @CritDiscStuds has been republished as an edited volume by @routledgebooks. Many thanks again to @laprofesposito @cperez_10 @IsaacMwinlaaru for their insightful contributions. @uwelingo @RoutledgeLing routledge.com/Voice-Agency-a…
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Looking forward to that 2-day #workshop on #multimodality #multimodal #argumentation #rhetoric #CDS 👉 20-21/04/2023 #Salzburg w/ @neous @ChiaraPollaroli @Lotte_vanPoppel @albert_laar @jeanwagemans and many others - more info: hartmutstoeckl.com/2023/03/2…
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Happy to say that “Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies”, my Cambridge Element written with @GerlindeMautner and @_paulbaker_, has just been released! It’s available to download for free from @CambridgeUP until 4th April, and available in print from late May: doi.org/10.1017/978100916814…
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Book Review> Nana Pang: Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives, edited by Crispin Thurlow et al tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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The ToC and opening chapter of the fascinating 'Languaging Class: Reflecting on the Linguistic Articulations of Structural Inequalities' Edited by Claudia Ortu & Francesco Bachis [pdf] >> vernonpress.com/file/19631/1…
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Online Research Article> Vanessa Tafi et al: Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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A big congratulations to Dr Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera on being awarded the FASS Open Access Publishing Fund for her article 'Hierarchies among intertextual references: reading Reggaeton Ilustrado's digital humour through the colonial matrix of power'.
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