Language people use tells you a lot about them. When people write what public figures have said in speeches, use the term "rant," it positions the writer in certain negative ways to me. I love language. Words are more a window into the soul than the eyes, I think.

#Linguistics #DiscourseAnalysis

📣 RedditScraper, already a browser plugin, now also lives as a web app to help you build corpora of Reddit posts for discourse analysis.

https://corpustools.prendrelangue.fr/redditscraper/

#linguistics #discourseanalysis

Letters of Blood and Fire: “Terrorism”, Dispossession, and the Distorted Mirrorings of Domination
https://onceinabluemoon2021.in/2025/12/28/letters-of-blood-and-fire-terrorism-dispossession-and-the-distorted-mirrorings-of-domination/
Beyond labels: examining violence, power, and domination
#StateTerrorism,#PoliticalEconomy,#StructuralDomination,#AntiImperialism,#CapitalistViolence,#DecolonialThought,#CriticalTheory,#SovereignPower,#DiscourseAnalysis,#Resistance,#Alleged_Dawood_Mirchi_Rkw_Dhfl_BjP_Collusion,#Seize_Cronies_Fairplay_for_DHFL_Victims,

„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

Creating certainty where there is none: Artificial intelligence as political concept

Cristóbal Garibay-Petersen Marta Lorimer, and Bayar Menzat

(Big Data & Society)

"Recent developments in research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) have prompted a growing politicisation of AI. In this paper, we critically analyse how AI is being construed in public discourse and with what political implications. Approaching AI as a mobilising political concept, and focusing on the public pronouncements made by influential tech commentators, we identify and subject to technical and critical scrutiny four key themes in contemporary discourses on AI. First, we show how AI discourses endorse anthropological commitments that create false equivalences between human and artificial intelligence, and suggest that all are equally affected by AI. Second, we demonstrate that AI discourses unproblematically indulge in agential constructs, which ascribe agency to AI while obfuscating the role of humans in its development. Third, we explain how the economic assumptions made by these discourses support specific political interests. Finally, we show that discourses on AI endorse a set of temporal assumptions that reduce the space for democratic intervention. We conclude that AI is becoming more than what its ‘technical’ specifications would warrant; however, this is happening in a way that limits the space for democratic engagement with, and control of, the technology itself."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517251396079

#AI #Politics #STS #DiscourseAnalysis

Are you exploring Alternative Food Networks? You should check out the work of Dr. Alissa Overend!

Alissa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at MacEwan University. Their 2021 book Shifting Food Facts (Routledge Press) examined the shifting food truths of contemporary dietary discourse and was featured in a webinar on CAFS YT: “The Many Truths of Food and Nutrition.” Their current work explores alternative food networks in Alberta.

Alissa currently serves on the Canadian Associate for Food Studies Board in the role of Membership Engagement.

https://youtu.be/Zm0iiYqoQ5I

#MeetTheBoard #AlternativeFoodNetworks #FoodStudies #CriticalFoodStudies #DietaryDiscourse #CAFS #Sociology #SocialTheory #IntersectionalFeminism #MediaAnalysis #DiscourseAnalysis

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

📣 After an initial hiccup 😅 it really IS out!

New to #CorpusTools, TruthScraper is a browser extension that lets you build a corpus of posts from Truth Social.

More info & download links 👉 https://fmoncomble.github.io/truthscraper/

Bug reports and feature requests welcome!

@linguistics

#linguistics #discourseanalysis #digitaldiscourse

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

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

#CallForPapers

#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

#Job:

Offre de doctorat à l’Université de Gand en #linguistique française et analyse du discours (2026–2030). Le projet porte sur les #médias francophones contemporains et leurs représentations des #conflits (géo)politiques à venir. #DiscourseAnalysis #AnalyseDuDiscours #géopolitique

Pour plus de détails voir: https://discourseanalysis.net/node/14202

If you are interested in #DiscourseAnalysis and how #AI is impacting the #KnowledgeEcononmy, than join us for our early stage research workshop. Our online workshop aims to bring together researchers from a range of disciplines —including linguistics, sociology, political economy, and computer science— to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about the challenges and transformations brought by the #digitalization of the knowledge economy.

For all necessary information see: https://discourseanalysisa.net/en/cfa-early-stage-research-workshop-digitalization-knowledge-economy #Discourse #DiscourseStudies

Are you interested in the study of discourse? Our online seminar on #truth and #critique is open for graduate students and early-career researchers who want to deepen their theoretical understanding of #discourse and to develop their discourse research projects.

In this new cycle of our discussion, which started in fall 2024, we will focus on the question of #power, truth and critique. The core group consists of Irene Ktori, Michael Schmidlehner, Thiago Augusto Pereira, Adel Tayebi, Johannes Angermuller. Members of the group work on ideas such as the discursive construction of technology (Adel), family policies (Irene) truth and #postTruth discourse (Johannes), environment and psychoanalysis (Michael), right-wing book publishers (Thiago).

For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/discourse-seminar-power-truth-critique?language #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis

The #discourse of #philosophy - a short #journey through the #history of #philosophy

Start

“1st stop - at the old #Greeks in Athens and surroundings”, “2nd stop - at the meditating #Descartes in Ulm”, “3rd stop - in Königsberg at #Kant, who sees the light”, “4th stop - short detour to Nice to the all-negating #Nietzsche” and then finally “5th search for another #station”.

If you want to continue: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/07/29/diskurs-der-philosophie/

#Philosophy #HistoryOfPhilosophy #MichelFoucault #DiscourseAnalysis #Science #Humanities #CriticalThinking #ThinkingAboutTheFuture #SocialChange #Essay #ThinkingAboutChange #Humanities #AcademicThinking #Interdisciplinarity #ResearchAndTeaching

📘 New Article Published: Grammar Without Judgment
Author: Agustín V. Startari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783365
Series: Grammars of Power
Published: July 3, 2025

🔗 Read on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783365
🗂 Mirror on SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5334549
🖥 Author site: https://www.agustinvstartari.com
#AIethics #FormalGrammar #ExecutablePower #HumanitiesCommons #AI #Judgment #LLM #Accountability #PostReferentialAuthority #Linguistics
#AI
#CriticalTheory #agustinvstartari #ArtificialIntelligence #DiscourseAnalysis

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

Karol Franczak the discursive construction of #fear in the face of the Russian #war against Ukraine. #DiscourseAnalysis #DNC6

Adeliya Bissenbayeva presenter on the manulipative rethorical strategies of Vladimir #Putin. #DiscourseAnalysis #DNC6 #war

Interesting presentation from Adel Tayebi from Paris on the representation of AI in AI companies' YouTube channels, for instance the ascription of agency to the AI models. #AI #DiscourseAnalysis #DNC6