An interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences. We publish critical research examining how discourse figures in social, historical and political contexts.
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Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska: The hybrid discourse of the ‘European Green Deal’: road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly
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‘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
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👇
Free event:
Countering Online Hate: Tactics and Strategies for Media Activism
Wednesday 21st June 2023, Keele University
Eventbrite page, for tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/counterin…
Out now, looks like a fascinating collection of chapters>
Social Media and Society
Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse
Edited by @mkhosravinikbenjamins.com/catalog/dapsac…
iFirst Research Article, another from the SI on discourses of climate change>
Changpeng Huan: Politicized or popularized? News values and news voices in China’s and Australia’s media discourse of climate change
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#OpenAccess Introduction to our forthcoming Special Issue on discourses of #ClimateChange:
Guofeng Wang & Changpeng Huan: Negotiating climate change in public discourse: insights from critical discourse studies
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iFirst Research Article, another from the SI on discourses of climate change:
David Machin & Yueyue Liu
How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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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.…
iFirst Research Article, from a forthcoming Special Issue on discourses of climate change:
Guofeng Wang et al: Linguistic polyphony in UN speeches on climate change: an analysis of implicit argumentation
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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 babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
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…
Book Review>
Nana Pang: Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives, edited by Crispin Thurlow et al
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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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Mario Bisiada: The discursive construction of a new reality in Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech
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Vanessa Tafi et al: Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles
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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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Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera: Hierarchies among intertextual references: reading Reggaeton Ilustrado’s digital humour through the colonial matrix of power
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