I did a lecture yesterday on time conceptualisation in different languages pointing to different axes and orientations of the mental timeline. A student very sensibly asked whether βreversedβ mental timelines exist in any sign languages around the world. Does anybody know of any papers on this?
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βOne week left to submit panel proposals!
ποΈ And then two more to submit abstracts for papers and posters!!
Do not miss the deadline... It's closing soon!
#CADAAD2026
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12ICOM Groningen
12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen
Very excited to be arriving in Groningen for the International Conference on Multimodality. Such an amazing looking program. sites.google.com/rug.nl/12icom
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Autumn colours in one of the many quads on campus.
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... aligning himself with βthe peopleβ while distancing himself from other politicians, presenting himself as a strong and competent leader, mocking his opponents, and appraising current states of affairs as bad.
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The study shows that Trump shrugs in the multimodal performance of several discursive moves associated with right-wing populism, including ...
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The most frequent function is common ground/obviousness where Trump shrugs to signal intersubjective alignment between him and his audience, both in terms of shared knowledge and shared values:
βWe love New York values, do we agree? We love New York valuesβ
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In the affective domain Trump shrugs to express affective distance (βI donβt likeβ) and indifference (βI donβt careβ).
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Functionally, shrugs are used in the multimodal expression of stance in two domains: epistemic and affective. In the epistemic domain, Trump shrugs to express common ground/obviousness (βeverybody knowsβ) and epistemic distance (βI donβt knowβ).
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Trump is shown to use expansive shrugs (Horizontal Outside) more frequently than contracting shrugs with a lateral extended shrug making maximal use of the gesture space and exhibiting a kind of showmanship normally associated with live entertainment rather than politics.
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Shrugs vary in terms of arm orientation (horizontal vs. vertical) and hand position relative to shoulder width (inside vs. outside), as well as extension (extended vs. flexed).
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Drawing on gesture studies in cognitive linguistics, we offer a detailed description of the different forms that Trumpβs shrug gestures take and the functions that such gestures perform in the context of right-wing populism.
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We argue that shrug gestures are one way that Trumpβs performance transgresses the normative bodily standards of political discourse and that they contribute to the kind of βcorporeal presenceβ typically observed of right-wing populist politicians.
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Starting from the view of right-wing populism as both an ideology and a communicative style, we analyse the discursive performance of Donald Trump in the live setting of campaign rallies, focussing on his use of shrug gestures.
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When I sit in such meetings I always wonder why am I short of attention?
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Itβs been a while since I posted a pic of this fabulous boy so here he is today. Milo the cat.
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CADAAD 2026
Welcome to CADAAD 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 2026 edition of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be hosted by the University of Va...
The CfA for the @cadaad2026.bsky.social conference at @uva-es.bsky.social is now open!
The conference theme is "Beyond Physical and Symbolic Spaces: Methods and Challenges in Critical Discourse Studies."
Dates: 8-10 July
For more details on the conference: www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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Thanks to Matthew Voice for this lovely review of Language, Image, Gesture just out in Discourse & Society. Captures perfectly what I was trying to achieve in the book. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Attention young linguists! @BabelZine.bsky.social is running their 11th-annual Young Writerβs Competition! If youβd like to get your writing published in Babel and win a free yearβs subscription, consider submitting your work! Submission details below.
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Labubu with a Labubu and Lakiki with a spiky Labubu
New linguistics meme dropped
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Research Fellow in Linguistics:City Campus
If you're interested in sociolinguistics, mining communities, and can speak German, this will be fascinating and is a great opportunity: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Professor of English Language and Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. Interested in #multimodality, digital / computational humanities and linguistic landscapes. Mitglied bei @werder.de! π
linguist, syntax, semantics, experiments, Charles University, Prague
Professor of English Language and Literature. I research digital fiction (AI, XR, apps, hypertext), cognitive poetics, narratology, empirical methods, preservation.
Professor of journalism & political communication at Cardiff University & night time π for my kids
Set up in 2003, the BAAL Corpus Lingusitics Special Interest Group provides linguists a space to discuss the use of corpora and corpus methodologies in applied linguistics research.
https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/
(Account managed by @linguistlawyer.com)
Official account of the 2026 Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference, 19-22 August (Summer School 17-18 August), Uppsala University, Sweden.
Associate Professor in English Applied Linguistics and Virtual Learning Environments @haup.ac.at | researching political and social media discourse, extramural English and AI in tertiary education
based in Vienna/Austria
The next CADAAD Conference will take place in Valladolid (Spain).
Dates: July 8th-10th 2026.
Location: Universidad de Valladolid.
π official site: https://www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detail/cadaad-2026.html
π other links: https://linktr.ee/CADAAD2026
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines
An open community of researchers who critically engaged with discourse and society
π The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers
π Available in print and digital π₯οΈ
π babelzine.co.uk
AFLiCo est l'Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive.
AFLiCo is the French Association for Cognitive Linguistics.
http://www.aflico.fr/
Bluesky account for the Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026, hosted by Lancaster University.
Researcher in the field of multimodal linguistics, discourse and semiotics at the University of Bremen. Analysing different kinds of multimodal media. Current and past foci: digital games, film, news and educational videos.
Poetics and Linguistics Association
Professor and author.
Sociolinguistics.
Slang, new language, etymology, cultural history. Language Consultant at King's College London.
Research Associate in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University / Researcher for DRAGON at Swansea University.
Research interests: #radicalright, #politicaldiscourse & #onlineharms.
https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical; migration; language, power and social inequalities.
