Critical Discourse Studies

The Language of Profeminist Men Online: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis | Gender and Language Abstract This article examines the language of r/MensLib, a community dedicated to discussing men's issues in a profeminist manner on the content aggregation site Reddit. The language of profeminist men is relatively under-researched compared to that of antifeminist men, and so this article explores the salient topics of r/MensLib, the specific language used within the community and how r/MensLib orient themselves to feminism. The 50 most upvoted posts of all time and their associated comment threads were collected from r/MensLib, totaling a corpus of 925,153 words, and then a keyword analysis was conducted using Sketch Engine. The study found that r/MensLib explicitly support a range of LGBTQ+ identities, critique socially constructed gender roles, and discuss how they orient to feminism and a variety of other topics, such as the manosphere, sexual violence, abortion, body shaming, and pornography.

My latest article 'The Language of Profeminist Men Online: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis' has now been published in Gender and Language! The paper examines the language of r/MensLib, a community dedicated to discussing men's issues in a profeminist manner on Reddit. utppublishing.com/stoken/autho...

Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like

www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging This paper explores how implicit, discriminatory messages bypass sanctions in the United Kingdom and beyond, despite their potential for significant societal harm. Drawing on linguistic and humour res...

“Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging” by Jennifer Young: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection Humour as a Human Right

🗣️📢 The call for abstracts of #cadaad2026 is out! 🗣️📢

A screenshot showing the last 9 editorial decisions; 8 were rejected for use of GenAI

This is really starting to get out of hand.
A reminder: if you use GenAI to write, or rewrite, your article, it will be rejected from this journal.

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...

This is why we shouldn't laugh at Trump's announcement. Made up categories can have a violent effect, that is how political discourse works. They know what they are doing, these are the mechanisms totalitarian regimes are built on.

We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid.
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies

Verifying something that I intuitively felt was the case. This is one of the reasons why I automatically reject any article submitted to my journal that has used LLMs for text annotation or analysis.

Please consider contributing to our special issue on communicating the climate crisis in an age of rising authoritarian populism. We accept short commentaries and full research papers.

Discourse Theory, Critical Discourse Studies and Corpus Linguistics This book provides a practical guide to combining three diverse traditions within the field of discourse studies and Corpus Linguistics.

Pivot >> Discourse Theory, Critical Discourse Studies and Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide
By Katy Brown @k8ebrown.bsky.social
Free to download
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Robin Lakoff

My Berkeley colleagues & I are saddened by the death of our colleague Robin Lakoff. Her 1972 book Language & Women's Place created the modern field of language & gender. She also wrote articulately, passionately & impactfully about Latin linguistics (Abstract Syntax & Latin Complementation, 1968) 1/

[I was really please to publish this, such an original & interesting reading]

#OpenAccess Research Article
Zhenxing Jiang: The making, anchoring, and reassurance of ‘meaninglessness’: a critical discourse and modal affordance perspective on Chinese dance drama The Eternal Radio Waves
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Challenging waves of memory: intersections of rhetoric, politics, and grassroots narratives in contemporary memory studies The field of memory studies has traditionally been framed through a linear, wave-based model that assumes theoretical and methodological substitution over time. However, this essay challenges the l...

Review Essay
Jake A. Garner: Challenging waves of memory: intersections of rhetoric, politics, and grassroots narratives in contemporary memory studies
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A hostile environment: language, race, politics and the media The first of two reports analysing parliamentary and media debates from 2010-2024, showing how large sections of these debates encouraged widespread hostility to migrants and ethnically minoritised pe...

Interesting corpus assisted discourse analysis from The Runnymede Trust looking at language, race, politics and the media. Worth a read: www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...

for student work, I find that if the plagiarism detector *doesn't* highlight/flag a publication in the bibliography, that's often a clue that it's an AI invention. We need something similar for journal submissions!

On This Gay Day | Author James Baldwin was born Author James Baldwin was born in 1924 James Baldwin was born on this day in 1924 in Harlem New York City. Baldwin would become a celebrated author whose characters often sought acceptance into society. He included gay and bisexual men as characters in many of this works. Baldwin wrote essays, plays, and novels, often embracing themes relating to race, masculinity, sexuality and class. His first novel Go Tell It On The Mountain was released in 1953 and is largely autobiographical focusing on the role of the Pentecostal church in the lives of African Americans. Baldwin’s second novel Giovanni’s Room was released in 1956 and tells the story of an American man living in Paris and exploring the city’s gay bars. It is credited with prompting more widespread discussion about sexuality, and was released several years before the Stonewall riots.  The author continued to feature gay and bisexual characters in his following books including Another Country (1962) and Tell Me How Long The Trains Been Gone (1968). In the 1960’s Baldwin was a prominent contributor to the civil rights movement and later wrote about his book length essay No Name in the Street which reflected on his friendships with Sidney Poitier, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X and Medgar Evans – who were all assassinated. Baldwin’s 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk was adapted into a film in 2018. During his life Baldwin was friends with Nina Simone, Marlon Brando, Jean Genet, Toni Morrison, Miles Davis, Richard Avedon, Jean-Paul Sartre and many other leading creative and literary figures. He died in Paris in 1987 after battling stomach cancer. He has been cited as one of the most important writers of the 2oth century. In June 2019 he was one of inaugural fifty American “pioneers, trailblazers and heroes” inducted on the the USA’s National LGBTQ Wall of Honour within the Stonewall monument. Author William Burroughs died in 1997 As an author Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major post-modern author who had a big effect on popular culture. Prior to publishing his first novels, Burroughs lived a life that took him to many countries, and several incidents with the law. While studying English and Anthropology at Harvard University, he would travel to New York on the weekends an explore lesbian dives and piano bars in Harlem and the homosexual underground in Greenwich Village. In the 1930’s Burroughs moved to Europe and attended medical school in Vienna. Here he delved into the Weimar-era LGBT culture and spent time picking up young men in the city’s steam baths. Here he met Ilse Klapper, a Jewish woman fleeing the Nazi government, though never romantically involved Burroughs married Klapper so she could escape to the USA. The pair divorced soon after but remained friends for many years. He joined the army during World War II signing up in 1942, but a year later he was living in New York where he developed a drug addiction that followed him for the rest of his life. Here he made friends with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, their work as poets and writers would become central to the foundation of the Beat Generation and 1960’s counter-culture movements. In 1944 Burroughs began living with Joan Vollmer, she already had a daughter from a previous relationship, and soon the couple added a son to their family. Both Burroughs and Voller struggled with mental health and drug addiction. After spending time in Louisiana and Texas, the couple moved to Mexico to avoid Burroughs being sent to prison after he caught forging a doctor’s prescription for drugs. Once in Mexico Burroughs and Volmer from all accounts had an unhappy life, free of heroin his libido returned and he was pursuing other men, while Volmer became an alcoholic. One night in as Mexico City bar Burroughs pulled a revolver from his bag and told Vollmer it was time to do their ‘William Tell’ act. There was no indication the couple had ever previously performed the act – Vollmer balanced a highball glass on her head, and Burroughs fired the pistol at her, shooting her in the head and killing her almost instantly. While awaiting trial in Mexico Burroughs wrote what would later become the novel Queer. Before he got to trial his lawyer, who had his own legal problems, ran away. Burroughs also decided to skip out on the trial and the country. He was convicted in absentia of homicide. Next Burroughs spent several months in South America searching for a drug called yage, which reportedly gave users telepathic abilities. His letters correspondence with Ginsberg during this time formed The Yage Letters which was published in 1963 – it was later revealed the letters were mostly fictional. In 1953 Burroughs’ first book Junkie was published. Later Queer was published. The author relocated to Tangiers in Morocco where he spent four years writing his next work The Naked Lunch.  The novel would be acclaimed for it’s unconventional style, but also faced challenges from authorities who ruled it’s blunt depictions of homosexuality and drug use. In Massachusetts Burroughs was prosecuted for producing obscenity, but the court ruled the work not obscene. Finding success in the 1960’s Burroughs spent time living in Paris and London before retuning to the USA in the 1970s. In the early 1980’s he relocated to Kansas. Among his novels are The Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Ticket Exploded and Wild Boys.  Acclaimed a literary genius by critics, Burroughs also inspired many musicians, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Ian Curtis, Tom Waits, Patti Smith and Genesis P-Orridge all cited as a hero. In his latter year Burroughs often collaborated with musicians, he made the album Seven Souls with Bill Laswell, collaborated with Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy on another, worked with Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Kris Novoselic, REM, Yellow Magic Orchestra and electronic band Spring Hell Jack. Burroughs novels have often be described as unfilmable, but a few of his works have been adapted for the screen. In the 1980’s director Russel Mulcahy planned to created film version of The Wild Boys, and Duran Duran even created a song for the project. The film never eventuated and instead Mulcahy created the concert film Arena with the band that included narrative elements and drew upon the film Barbarella which was the source of the band’s name. In 1991 director David Cronenberg directed a film adaptation of Naked Lunch, starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm and Roy Scheider. It was a failure at the box office, but got critical acclaim and became known as a cult classic. Director Luca Guadagnino had more success with his 2024 adaptation of Queer which starred Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey and Jason Schwartzman and Lesley Manville. William Burroughs died on 2nd August 1997, aged 83, having suffered a heart attack the previous day. Photograph of James Baldwin by Allan Warren published under Creative Commons 3.0 SA.
This post was originally published on 2nd August 2020 and has been updated.     The post On This Gay Day | Author James Baldwin was born appeared first on OUTinPerth. Author James Baldwin was born in 1924 James Baldwin was born on this day in 1924 in Harlem New York City. Baldwin would become a celebrated author whose characters often sought acceptance into society. He included gay and bisexual men as characters in many of this works. Baldwin wrote essays, plays, and novels, often embracing themes relating to race, masculinity, sexuality and class. His first novel Go Tell It On The Mountain was released in 1953 and is largely autobiographical focusing on the role of the Pentecostal church in the lives of African Americans. Baldwin’s second novel Giovanni’s Room was released in 1956 and tells the story of an American man living in Paris and exploring the city’s gay bars. It is credited with prompting more widespread discussion about sexuality, and was released several years before the Stonewall riots. The author continued to feature gay and bisexual characters in his following books including Another Country (1962) and Tell Me How Long The Trains Been Gone (1968). In the 1960’s Baldwin was a prominent contributor to the civil rights movement and later wrote about his book length essay No Name in the Street which reflected on his friendships with Sidney Poitier, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X and Medgar Evans – who were all assassinated. Baldwin’s 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk was adapted into a film in 2018. During his life Baldwin was friends with Nina Simone, Marlon Brando, Jean Genet, Toni Morrison, Miles Davis, Richard Avedon, Jean-Paul Sartre and many other leading creative and literary figures. He died in Paris in 1987 after battling stomach cancer. He has been cited as one of the most important writers of the 2oth century. In June 2019 he was one of inaugural fifty American “pioneers, trailblazers and heroes” inducted on the the USA’s National LGBTQ Wall of Honour within the Stonewall monument. Author William Burroughs died in 1997 As an author Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major post-modern author who had a big effect on popular culture. Prior to publishing his first novels, Burroughs lived a life that took him to many countries, and several incidents with the law. While studying English and Anthropology at Harvard University, he would travel to New York on the weekends an explore lesbian dives and piano bars in Harlem and the homosexual underground in Greenwich Village. In the 1930’s Burroughs moved to Europe and attended medical school in Vienna. Here he delved into the Weimar-era LGBT culture and spent time picking up young men in the city’s steam baths. Here he met Ilse Klapper, a Jewish woman fleeing the Nazi government, though never romantically involved Burroughs married Klapper so she could escape to the USA. The pair divorced soon after but remained friends for many years. He joined the army during World War II signing up in 1942, but a year later he was living in New York where he developed a drug addiction that followed him for the rest of his life. Here he made friends with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, their work as poets and writers would become central to the foundation of the Beat Generation and 1960’s counter-culture movements. In 1944 Burroughs began living with Joan Vollmer, she already had a daughter from a previous relationship, and soon the couple added a son to their family. Both Burroughs and Voller struggled with mental health and drug addiction. After spending time in Louisiana and Texas, the couple moved to Mexico to avoid Burroughs being sent to prison after he caught forging a doctor’s prescription for drugs. Once in Mexico Burroughs and Volmer from all accounts had an unhappy life, free of heroin his libido returned and he was pursuing other men, while Volmer became an alcoholic. One night in as Mexico City bar Burroughs pulled a revolver from his bag and told Vollmer it was time to do their ‘William Tell’ act. There was no indication the couple had ever previously performed the act – Vollmer balanced a highball glass on her head, and Burroughs fired the pistol at her, shooting her in the head and killing her almost instantly. While awaiting trial in Mexico Burroughs wrote what would later become the novel Queer. Before he got to trial his lawyer, who had his own legal problems, ran away. Burroughs also decided to skip out on the trial and the country. He was convicted in absentia of homicide. Next Burroughs spent several months in South America searching for a drug called yage, which reportedly gave users telepathic abilities. His letters correspondence with Ginsberg during this time formed The Yage Letters which was published in 1963 – it was later revealed the letters were mostly fictional. In 1953 Burroughs’ first book Junkie was published. Later Queer was published. The author relocated to Tangiers in Morocco where he spent four years writing his next work The Naked Lunch.  The novel would be acclaimed for it’s unconventional style, but also faced challenges from authorities who ruled it’s blunt depictions of homosexuality and drug use. In Massachusetts Burroughs was prosecuted for producing obscenity, but the court ruled the work not obscene. Finding success in the 1960’s Burroughs spent time living in Paris and London before retuning to the USA in the 1970s. In the early 1980’s he relocated to Kansas. Among his novels are The Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Ticket Exploded and Wild Boys.  Acclaimed a literary genius by critics, Burroughs also inspired many musicians, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Ian Curtis, Tom Waits, Patti Smith and Genesis P-Orridge all cited as a hero. In his latter year Burroughs often collaborated with musicians, he made the album Seven Souls with Bill Laswell, collaborated with Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy on another, worked with Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Kris Novoselic, REM, Yellow Magic Orchestra and electronic band Spring Hell Jack. Burroughs novels have often be described as unfilmable, but a few of his works have been adapted for the screen. In the 1980’s director Russel Mulcahy planned to created film version of The Wild Boys, and Duran Duran even created a song for the project. The film never eventuated and instead Mulcahy created the concert film Arena with the band that included narrative elements and drew upon the film Barbarella which was the source of the band’s name. In 1991 director David Cronenberg directed a film adaptation of Naked Lunch, starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm and Roy Scheider. It was a failure at the box office, but got critical acclaim and became known as a cult classic. Director Luca Guadagnino had more success with his 2024 adaptation of Queer which starred Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey and Jason Schwartzman and Lesley Manville. William Burroughs died on 2nd August 1997, aged 83, having suffered a heart attack the previous day. Photograph of James Baldwin by Allan Warren published under Creative Commons 3.0 SA.
This post was originally published on 2nd August 2020 and has been updated.     The post On This Gay Day | Author James Baldwin was born appeared first on OUTinPerth.

USA | Born in 1924, James Baldwin’s works centred race, class, and sexuality, boldly portraying gay and bisexual characters decades before Stonewall. A civil rights voice and LGBTQ trailblazer, he remains a literary giant honoured on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honour.

Critical Discourse Studies achieved 71,193 downloads in the 2nd quarter of 2025, up from 61,763 downloads during the same three months on 2024.

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’ Pattern of ‘hostile language’ in media and debates likely to describe people of colour with less sympathy, report says A pattern of “hostile language” in news reports and UK parliamentary debates is more likely to describe people of colour as immigrants, or with less sympathy, researchers have found. The race equality thinktank the Runnymede Trust analysed more than 63m words from 52,990 news articles and 317 House of Commons debates on immigration between 2019 and the general election in July 2024. Continue reading...

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’

we don't, I suppose it might come to that in future. I hope that specifically citing 'academic misconduct' in the rejection letter will give them pause & stop doing it. I live in hope.

We have just rejected an(other) article for the use of AI. The AI had hallucinated a publication apparently written by a certain J.E. Richardson, and another (by G. Mautner) apparently published in CDS 16(2). Funnily enough, I recognised both were fictional.
A reminder: AI generates slop.

Fascinating special Issue of the Greek Review of Social Research:
Critique and Reflexivity: Exploring the “C” in C/ritical Discourse Studies (CDS)
Editors: Anastasia G. Stamou, Panayota Gounari, Salomi Boukala
ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/ek...

We've received the 300th submission of the year, so far! (And, because things happen in threes, we've also received the 301st and the 302nd too!)

Climate adaptation in public-oriented research communication The notion of adaptation has become central to the development of responses to climate-related risks. However, what climate adaptation means in earnest appears highly variable. Given that academics...

📢 new 🔓 open access paper in Critical Discourse Studies @critdiscstuds.bsky.social with Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social
You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1080/1740...
Some key points below ⬇️

📢 Call for Papers
Conference Panel: "Polarization, Hate Speech, Populism: Reactions and Prevention"
📅 3–5 December 2025
📍 4th International Humanities–Society–Identity Congress, University of Warsaw

📆 Deadline for submissions: 29 July 2025
🔗 Full conference details: hsic.wn.uw.edu.pl

@cadaad.bsky.social @cadaad-journal.bsky.social any climate-concerned CDA folks planning to come to RaAM this year?

Due to, well, world circumstances, we're looking for a couple of more voices to join our panel. If you're interested, please let me know!

🌿🌞

Geopolitical mythmaking: A narrative study of German far-right media discourse on the Russian invasion of Ukraine This study examines how German far-right digital media use narratives and mythological storytelling to recontextualise crises and legitimise far-right discourses, focusing on the 2022 Ukraine invas...

#OpenAccess Research Article>>
Bianca Welker:
Geopolitical mythmaking: A narrative study of German far-right media discourse on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Hosting refugees is the most rewarding experience’: migrant identity and affective positioning in curated NGO stories This study explores positive migrant storytelling in non-governmental organizations’ advocacy campaigns. We focus on the practices and implications of leveraging storytelling towards charity organi...

Our article with Korina Giaxoglou and Paige Johnson has just been assigned an issue at @critdiscstuds.bsky.social We argue that even humanitarian narratives about migration in the UK are deeply problematic.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Post-fascism’, or how the far right talks about itself: the 2022 Italian election campaign as a case study While the mainstreaming of the far right is attracting growing scholarly interest based on its contemporary relevance, the role that far-right self-representation strategies play in this process ha...

Mine and @k8ebrown.bsky.social's article on normalisation strategies of the far right in Italy has been assigned an issue in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social Sadly, the normalisation/legitimation strategies we identify are certainly not unique to Italian politics...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....