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The deadline for abstract submission for our DN35 Conference is getting closer. Make sure you get your abstract in on time to join us in #Opole, Poland!
DN35: Mapping and Countering Authoritarian Discourses
Call for papers ending on
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN35 #Authoritarianism #Discourse #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis #CfP
Call for Abstracts
For the panel: “Official parliamentary transcripts and video recordings as research data in pragmatics” at the 20th International #Pragmatics Conference
27 June–2 July 2027, Helsinki, Finland
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/panel-ipc20-helsinki-official-parliamentary-transcripts-and-video-recordings-research-data #Parliament #PoliticalDiscourse #Transcript #Discourse #DiscourseStudies #Pragmatics
The 2026–2027 programme for the Seminar Series "Discourse and Sustainability" is out.
"Discourse and Sustainability" is an international forum for presenting and discussing new, cutting edge, research on discourse and issues of sustainability, environment, climate change and ecology.
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/discourse-and-sustainability-0 #Discourse #Sustainability #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis #ClimateChange #Ecology
Seminar: The Rhetorical Analysis of Text and Discourse
Weekly sessions from 26 October to 30 November 2026 (6 online sessions)
The Rhetorical Analysis of Text and Discourse has become somewhat neglected in the field of text and discourse studies. The methodological and analytic ideas of Aristotle and Cicero, and many others, are most certainly still useful in the analysis of text and discourse. This seminar will introduce you to these methods and theories with a focus on how they can be applied in your own research.
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/rhetorical-analysis-text-and-discourse-advanced-international-seminars-discourse-studies-aisds #Discourse #DiscourseStudies #RhetoricalAnalysis #WebSeminar
Call for Abstracts
For the panel: “Artificial Others: Bridges or Barriers? Discursive Perspectives on Robots in Polarised Societies” at the 20th International #Pragmatics Conference
27 June–2 July 2027, Helsinki, Finland
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/panel-ipc20-artificial-others-bridges-or-barriers-discursive-perspectives-robots-polarised #robots #discourse #DiscourseStudies
The Call for Papers for our next DiscourseNet Congress in Marburg is now open until October 31, 2026.
Discursive Imaginaries of Change - Heterotopias, Power, Knowledge, and the “Great Transformation”
19–21 July 2027 | Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
You can find all necessary information here: https://discourseanalysis.net/DNC2027 #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #Discourse #Imaginaries #Power #Heterotopias #Change
#SKAD Conference:
The Discursive Construction of Reality VII – Interdisciplinary perspectives on a sociology of knowledge approach to discourse research
Thursday, 18 March 2027 – Friday, 19 March 2027 in Augsburg, Germany
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/discursive-construction-reality-vii-interdisciplinary-perspectives-sociology-knowledge-approach #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #SociologyOfKnowledge
The CfP for our DN35 Conference ”Mapping and Countering Authoritarian Discourses“ in Opole, Poland, 25–26 February 2027, is now open.
During DN35, we want to reflect on (neo)authoritarianism today, its role in public discourse, and its impact on contemporary politics. We want to map the discursive construction of the (neo)authoritarian appeal across the Global North and South, and the ways in which they can be counteracted. We welcome a wide range of methodologies and approaches to researching these issues, including critical political, psychological, and post-structuralist #DiscourseAnalysis, #CorpusLinguistics, and #RhetoricalAnalysis.
For all relevant information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN35
A new video from our Open DiscourseNet Seminar is online now. If your are interested in how Office #Architecture is discursively constructed as sites of #communication, check @perspektivbrocken's talk on Office architecture as a Discourse Machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_xbbVV6XRQ.
For more information on our monthly Open DiscourseNet Seminar, see: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN/seminars/OpenDNLondon #Discourse #DiscourseStudies #Performativity
The deadline of the Critical Policy Discourse Analysis Conference, which will take place on 15–18 June 2026 in #Sheffield, UK, has been extended until 16 April.
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/critical-policy-discourse-analysis-conference
#CriticalDiscourseAnalysis #Policy #PolicyAnalysis #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies
General registration is now open for the II International Symposium: Discourses of #Power, #Resistance and Reaction in the Global Era. This event will take place online, from May 19th to the 21st, 2026. The purpose of the symposium is to offer an interdisciplinary and international platform for dialogue and exchange on the ideological and discursive tensions shaping today’s polarized world.
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/ii-international-symposium-centre-discourse-studies-discourses-power-resistance-and-reaction
#Discourse #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis #Polarization
The CfP for our DN34 International Conference on #Discourse, #Identity and #Polarisation is now open. It will be held 10–12 November 2026 at #Vilnius University and online. The call for papers and panel proposals is open until 15 May 2026. This conference provides an interdisciplinary space for examining how individual and group identities are discursively constructed in today’s increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse both reflects and shapes emerging social divisions.
For more information visit: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN34
You still have a chance to submit an Abstract for our 2026 Congress with ALED in #Puebla, #Mexico, until February 1., 2026.
https://discourseanalysis.net/en/ALED-DN2026 #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #CDA
„How to use critical discourse analysis in your research“
In-person #workshop for PhD students & early career researchers
15 & 16 January 2026, Sheffield, UK
With:
Professor Tom Bartlett, University of Glasgow | Dr Michael Farrelly, Discourse Academy | Dr Michael Kranert, University of Southampton | Dr Jane Mulderrig, University of Sheffield
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/how-use-critical-discourse-analysis-your-research #CDA #DiscourseAnalysis #Discourse #DiscourseStudies
Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026: A reminder that the deadline for abstracts is coming up, on 16 November!
More info on BlueSky or the conference website: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/
Source:
https://bsky.app/profile/corporadiscourse.bsky.social/post/3m52aijonnk2z
Check out the new paper in our Collaborative Working Paper Series:
Thomas Huygens examines the conceptual uses of imaginary temporality by Xi Jinping’s thought to legitimise the CCP’s actions and positions.
You can find this and other working papers from our #DNCWPS here: https://discourseanalysis.net/dncwps
#PoliticalImaginaries #China #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #Castoriadis #propaganda #XiJinping #CCP
Please join us again in 2025/2026 for our monthly Friday lunchtime online English-language Open DiscourseNet Seminar from London, a collaboration of the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK and @DiscourseNet.
Our next session will be on 28 November 2025 with Tom Bartlett (University of Glasgow) on “Positive #Critique as Immanent Critique“.
For more information visit: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/open-discoursenet-seminar-monthly-online-seminar-discourse-studies-0 #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies
Are you interested in #ForensicLinguistics? Then the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics research seminars might be something for you.
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/aston-institute-forensic-linguistics-research-seminars #Linguistics #DiscourseStudies
Our Seminar Series ”#Discourse and #Sustainability“ is an international forum for presenting and discussing new, cutting edge, research on discourse and issues of sustainability, environment, #ClimateChange and #ecology. Please join us again in 2025–2026!
For more information: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/discourse-and-sustainability #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis
#Disability and #Critique: A Critical Discourse Studies Approach
"We invite chapter proposals that critically analyze the discourses that enable and disable disabled people."
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/disability-and-critique-critical-discourse-studies-approach-call-chapter-proposals #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis #CDA #DisabilityStudies #Discourse #CfP
Check out our new Episode of the DiscoursNet Podcast #CriticallyLinked about Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana and 'Serving the White Order' –
with Amandine Kingambo, Lou Paquet, and Dounia Sabrallah.
Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana is a contemporary sociolinguist and a lecturer incultural and #PostcolonialStudies at the Open University of the Netherlands.
In today’s episode, we experiment with a slightly new format. Critically
Linked has 3 wonderful guests – Amandine Kingambo, Lou Paquet, Dounia
Sabrallah – all of them Bachelor students from UCLouvain Saint-Louis
Bruxelles coordinated by Prof. Thomas Jacobs. Amandine, Lou, and Dounia willbe hosting this edition of the podcast with a conversation about Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana’s thesis “Serving the White Order. Making Bilingual Security Workers in #Brussels.
https://funkwhale.it/library/tracks/17987/ #Sociolinguistics #DiscourseStudies
The Corpora and Discourse conference 2026 has a website!
https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/
#CADS
#DiscourseStudies
@DiscourseNet
Our DiscourseNet Congress comes to an end with the DN Open Meeting. We had great presentations, discussions and chats during the social activities. Many thanks to the organisers around Jan Zienkowski, the @ULBruxelles, who hosted our event, and of course all the participants. ♥️ #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #DNC6
Back for the last day of our DiscourseNet Congress in #Brussels on “Discourses and Imaginaries of present and future societies” starting with a keynote from Annette Knaut on the sociology of knowledge approach to #Discourse. #DiscourseStudies #SKAD #DNC6
Marcin Deutschmann analysed J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference as a discursive turning point. #DiscourseStudies #JDVance #DNC6
📢 New article: Artificial Intelligence and Impersonal Authority
AI doesn’t just process data — it speaks the language of power.
This paper traces how synthetic authority operates through impersonal grammar, legitimizing decisions while erasing human agency.
🔗 Read: https://zenodo.org/records/15464766
#AI #Power #DiscourseStudies #AlgorithmicAuthority #OpenAccess
Putting on my #academic book review editor hat…
Any #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies folks here who would like to review either of the following for Discourse Studies? Please get in touch! Daria.Dayter (at) tuni.fi
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/appliable-linguistics-and-social-semiotics-9781350109292/
Hello @DiscourseNet
My name is Edwin Schmitt
I am interested in political discourse in China, Norway and the US. I have previously worked on the rise of environmental ideology in the People's Republic of China. Happy to learn more about discourse studies through friends here on the fediverse.
#DiscourseIntro
#DiscourseStudies
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