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Although there are still a few weeks until the booking deadline, places are being taken up quickly for 'How to use critical discourse analysis in your research' - only 7 left!!!

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Violent extremists wield words as weapons. New study reveals 6 tactics they use The language and rhetoric of extremists helps fuel brutal, often deadly, violence. Spotting the strategies can help protect people from radicalisation.

Relational dynamics in terrorist incitement - Language in the negotiation of bonds and obligations. Read my article in The Conversation Australia + NZ:

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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research | Discourse Academy Learn how to apply key CDA theories, concepts and methods to your research project. Sessions on key ideas in CDA and how to apply them to your work. Group discussion and advice tailored to your resear...

Day 2
- Positive discourse analysis
- Genre & social practices
- [Optional] Project presentations & feedback
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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research | Discourse Academy Learn how to apply key CDA theories, concepts and methods to your research project. Sessions on key ideas in CDA and how to apply them to your work. Group discussion and advice tailored to your resear...

Day 1
- Understanding your research project
- Corpus analysis for CDA
- Discourse & context - integrating CDA theories of discourse with your work
- Analysing text & discourse: social actors, intertextuality, meaning relations, metaphor
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Something to look forward to in January...
#cda #PhD #discourse

How to use critical discourse analysis in your research Booking now open!We are running an in-person workshop for PhD students and early career researchers working in any discipline and who are using CDA. Sheffield, UK 15th & 16th January 2026. • Professor...

Two-day workshop on CDA - join us in Sheffield!
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Unless the new data analysis challenges existing theories?

(PDF) Researching national identity and migration discourses in times of polycrisis PDF | On Nov 13, 2025, Tamsin Parnell published Researching national identity and migration discourses in times of polycrisis | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Last year I was supposed to give a presentation titled 'Researching national identity and migration discourses in times of polycrisis'. Unfortunately it didn't go ahead due to illness. I've made the presentation available on Researchgate for anyone interested.

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Today is the last day to safely vote in the FE ballot! If it’s in your bag, your desk, under the bed, fish it out and run to that post box!!! VOTE YES!

Looking forward to this workshop! Join me, @kranertmichael.bsky.social , Tom Bartlett and Jane Mulderrig to work on using CDA in your research!

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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research: 2-day, in-person workshop for PhD students & early career researchers.
15 & 16 January 2026
Sheffield, UK

Details:
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Do you know any PhD/early career researchers who would benefit from a 2-day, in-person workshop on how to apply CDA in their research project? I'm really looking forward to this..!

Billions squandered on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement – Home Affairs Committee report finds - Committees - UK Parliament Flawed contract design and incompetent delivery left the Home Office unable to cope with the surge in demand for asylum accommodation, a report by the Home Affairs Committee has found.

Most of the time we ask the wrong questions in relation to asylum policy. What this new report on asylum accommodation shows, for me, is that we need to be asking all the time "who materially benefits from the current policy approach?"

We have just rejected our first submission where the use of Gen-AI to rewrite the article was acknowledged.
Given the way that they commandeer public water resources and contribute to climate collapse, we do not think that there is an ethical way to use such tools.

Conflict, Discourse and Cognition A comprehensive approach to the study of discourse and conflict, this book explores how opposing communities construe discourse worlds which appear to reflect t…

Happy pre-order book day to @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social !
Conflict, Discourse and Cognition:
Political Discourse in Northern Ireland
Out soon!
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Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...

France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...

My short blog post on social actors in CDA...

Next one on my series of short posts on social actors in CDA - what is a social actor and why should we care as critical discourse analysis's?

It was such a pleasure to take part in the legendary Language and Power podcast!

We had a very interesting chat about climate change discourses on the back of a lively panel at the last SFL Congress in Glasgow.

Thanks @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social and Tom Bartlett for hosting us!

Running every Friday in September, this week recap on last week and look at Identifying and categorising representations of social actors.

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The series is for PhDs or researchers who want a deeper understanding of how to analyse the representation of social actors.

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Had a fantastic first webinar in my free series 'The representation of social actors in text and discourse' last Friday - thanks to all who attended!

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Webinar Series: The representation of social actors in text and discourse — Language/Power Podcast Sign up for the September webinar series on the representation of social actors by Dr Michael Farrelly

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Language and Power Podcast recorded a new episode: with participants in an academic colloquium at ISFC50 in Glasgow this week: Changing Climate, Changing Discourse
with @katherineeruss1.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social John Currie, Cinzia Bevitori, Gerard O'Grady, Daniel Fryer, Paul White

We had a great time talking about the article! Well worth a read and a listen to the podcast!

No time to read my new article, but still curious about climate change policy making in local government? Have a listen to this podcast, where I talk about it with Tom Bartlett and @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social. Many more great insights into language and power in their podcast!

S5 Episode 2: The wickedness of net-zero policy - Michael Kranert — Language/Power Podcast We chat with Dr Michael Kranert about his new research article ‘The wickedness of net-zero policy: scales in policy discourse’. In the article, he examines how international climate change policies ...

New episode of the podcast out now - with @kranertmichael.bsky.social on his work published in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social !

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Analysis of the representation of social actors in 3 media texts on COP 29 — Language/Power Podcast In our last podcast episode, I spoke about an a nalysis of the representation of social actors that I had done of the 3 media texts we focused on in that episode. In this post, I share the results ta...

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Some further discussion and results of the social actor analysis we spoke about in our last episode

Which global media outlets to look at? — Language/Power Podcast We’re working on a new episode which will look at how COP 29 in Azerbaijan was represented in the media - we’re particularly interested in the representation of COP being held in ‘petro-states’. I wan...

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