Critical Discourse Studies

Arguing for peace: in celebration of the journal’s 20th anniversary Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Ahead of Print, 2026)

How to argue for peace and how to evaluate argumentation within peace discourse

-- by Manfred Kienpointner

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We invite all critically thinking applied linguists to submit a book proposal to our CRITAL book series, edited by Netta Avineri.

Visit www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/crital-b/html or contact our senior acquisitions editor Natalie Fecher (natalie.fecher@degruyterbrill.com) for more information.

Happy to see this published! Great co-authorship with @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @discodiscourse.bsky.social for engaging with us on new REF-related uni regulations & the wonderful job as editor! There'll be more from us on Meloni,anti-gender & the far-right in Italy.

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Nice to see a review of my book 'Male Separatism' published in Discourse in Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In this chapter we draw on 410 personal experience narratives to pin down the structural and discursive characteristics of the 'positive migrant storytelling canon' that dominates UK migrant advocacy. The book is free to download!

Peter Lang Verlag - Representing Migration: Discursive and Methodological Perspectives from Triangulated Fields This book delves into how migration is depicted through multilingual discourses, blending corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. Emerging ...

📢New chapter: Emotion talk in UK parliamentary debates on migration

I look at the rhetorical use of explicit references to pride & gratitude, shame & regret, fear & tolerance

Free to download: www.peterlang.com/document/147...

The octopus conference is back! 🐙
"Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language", Nov 19-20, 2026, Tampere University, Finland
#LanguageAndPersuasion #Linguistics #OctoConf

Mainstreaming LGBTQIA+ hate: the far-right’s anti-gender countermovement in Australia Sengul, K., & Shannon, B. (2025). Mainstreaming LGBTQIA+ hate: The far-right’s anti-gender countermovement in Australia. Australian Journal of Political Science. Abstract This paper critically …

I've finally got around to writing a very brief summary of my paper with @kurtsengul.bsky.social on the anti-gender politics of the Australian far-right. 🌈🎓

Zohar Kampf and I contributed a chapter on lapdog interviewers, and how their on-air flattery towards politcal leaders creates an undemocratic model of leadership

Now published: Our analytical paper on strategic, far-right/illiberal reversal of meanings of key social & political concepts: “We put family at the centre of social life”: On Conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of PL populist far-right" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies Edited by Bernhard Forchtner and Franco Zappettini Featuring a series of engaging conversations with key figures in the field, this accessible Handbook outlines the crucial concepts of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). Mapping the existing literature, contributors use qualitative and quantitative research to invite new engagements with CDS and to provide insight into primary debates.

📢 OUT NOW: Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies (2026)

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Here we go: long-term fellowships for international mid-career and senior academics in Europe. These are aimed at colleagues wishing to relocate more permanently as most of these (seem to) lead to permanent positions/are "tenure-track", listed in no particular order by country/research foundation 1/

Polarised Discourse Polarisation, the ideological positioning at extreme ends of a continuum actively combating opposite views, is a major concern these days as it spreads beyond the political sphere and permeates public...

Congratulations to Isabel Alonso-Belmonte, Dolores Porto, and Manuela Romano on their book Polarised Discourse: Language, Cognition and Social Practice - new in 2026!
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(checks to see if this was me...)

My new chapter on "Critical Discursive Psychology in Practice", published in Core Foundations and Contemporary Issues in Forensic Psychology (we also have a paper on IBSA/ deepfake IBSA and the socio-economic conditions in Greece coming soon)
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Join us for #LavLang32 in Edinburgh this September!

'Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain: Mass Mediation, Rhetoric, Interpellation' has now been published as a paperback >>
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Happy New Year to all researchers who continue to believe that reading and thinking (and that writing is itself a process of thinking things through) are vital to critical analysis!

Given the way that they are founded on the theft of intellectual property, commandeer public water resources and contribute to climate collapse, we do not think that there is an ethical way to use AI 'tools'. I will continue to reject work that uses them.

In response to a recent rejection, an author wrote 'The use of AI is out of question. These days if journals insist that authors should not use AI, they will go bankrupt'. I respectfully disagree.

CDS received 584 submissions in 2025; 108 of these were rejected for AI generated or revised content.

(slightly belated) Happy New Year to all. And it is indeed happy, because I have worked through the backlog, and I welcome the first submission of 2026.

Book cover of the collection entitled 'Battlefield Linguistics: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Interventions in Linguistics and Discursive Change', edited by Scott Burnett and Francesca Vigo.

💪 Congratulations to @burscott.bsky.social and Francesca Vigo on the publication of their impressive collection!

👉 Details here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111351568/html#overview

@montreallx.bsky.social @kleonichka.bsky.social @helensauntson.bsky.social @robvoigt.bsky.social

It's a great article, we were very happy to publish.
Look out for a forthcoming special issue on the manosphere in CDS, from the @mantrap.bsky.social group.

It seems that the end of teaching has freed up time for writing - we've received 30 submissions in the last 10 days!
I'm working through the backlog, but there will be break at some point, given the time of year. Hopefully people will be patient.

Qualitative Research Methods in Argumentation Studies Edited By Corina Andone, Marianne Doury, Sara Greco, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Menno Reijven

OUT NOW: Qualitative Research Methods in #Argumentation Studies

Download my co-authored chapter "Political discourse and argumentation" for free:

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

the last 7 editorial decisions for submissions; only one wasn't rejected for AI content.

we've received our 501st submission for 2025 (10 more already than the total received in 2024).
Is the increase in submissions driven by GenAI?? It just might be, dear reader...

Hardback book with a green cover and pink, stencilled writing, reading LANGUAGE AND LGBTQ+ YOUTH: ANALYSING MARGINALISED IDENTITIES THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL LENS by Lucy Jones. The cover picture is an abstract image with shapes in various rainbow-like colours.

It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

3 year AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards at the University of Liverpool. Home and International students can apply; any arts and humanities discipline is eligible.
Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025.
Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Can someone point me towards works that engage reflexively with the analytical process of doing CDA on political discourses and ideology?