Latest issue
Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2 (2026)
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One month left to register for my course: Criticial Discourse Analysis: Texts, Contexts, and Power at the @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School held at CEU Vienna.

Course dates: 29th June - 3rd July

Registration Deadline: April 20th

Course details: methodsnet.org/course/b01-c...

We will be at the PSA Annual Conference in Oxford, with 6 panels on political rhetoric and discourse, plus a Roundtable with professional speechwriters (co-organised with the @psapolleadership.bsky.social

Full programme here 👉 www.psa.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #PSA26

IPRA 2027 is inviting you to Helsinki, Finland, in the summer 2027!

Call for papers is open!

Deadline fo panel proposals: June 5th 2026
Deadline for presentation and poster proposals: October 15th

#IPRA2027
#linguistics
#pragmatics

biggest solidarity to the Department ot Languages and Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh): heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/04/d...

please sign their petition and send them any support they need, this is part of a UK-wide attack on languages education!

Constructing continuity: on the establishment of temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis This article investigates how political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis discursively constructs temporalities as a means of legitimizing crisis management. Building on Critical Discourse Studi...

Research Article
Lydie Denis:
Constructing continuity: on the establishment of temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis
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‘Fighting corruption is not a beauty pageant’: discursive and rhetorical constructions of meritocracy and digital misogyny on Ghana’s ORAL task force This paper attends to the rhetorical and discursive constructions of gendered violence in Ghanaian digital culture surrounding the prospective nomination of women on Ghana’s ORAL task force – Opera...

Research Article
Gabriel Opare & Alex Agyena Duah:
‘Fighting corruption is not a beauty pageant’: discursive and rhetorical constructions of meritocracy and digital misogyny on Ghana’s ORAL task force
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From hegemonic consensus to polarisation: Austrian public discourse on Israel’s war in Gaza This article examines how Austrian public discourse on Israel’s war in Gaza shifted from hegemonic consensus to pronounced polarisation between October 2023 and September 2025. Drawing on a multi-d...

#OpenAcess Research Article
Markus Rheindorf:
From hegemonic consensus to polarisation: Austrian public discourse on Israel’s war in Gaza
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How to be a woman (in politics): constructions of gender in responses to Giorgia Meloni’s Instagram Posts Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Italian far-right party Fratelli d’Italia, is the first female Presidente del Consiglio in the history of Italy and is known to be vocal against feminism and gender-re...

#OpenAccess Research Article
Federica Formato & Giulia Evolvi:
How to be a woman (in politics): constructions of gender in responses to Giorgia Meloni’s Instagram Posts
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Metaphors of rupture, legitimization, and renewal in post-Assad Syrian leadership discourse This study examines the first 11 Arabic leadership speeches of Ahmad al-Sharaa, the former jihadist insurgent who became Syria’s transitional president after ousting Bashar al-Assad in 2024. Drawin...

Research Article
Rania Al-Sabbagh: Metaphors of rupture, legitimization, and renewal in post-Assad Syrian leadership discourse
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Because of this incident, CDS will no longer consider book reviews. We have a backlog that we will work through & publish in Issues, but we will reject all future submissions.

This was a real disappointment for all, particularly the book author, but last month we retracted a book review that had been 'written' using GenAI. Hopefully my embarrassment at letting this through is less than the reviewer, whose name will remain online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

**CALL FOR PAPERS: Online Discourse of Gender-Based Violence**

Dates: Jan 13-15, 2027
Location: University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens

The conference will bring together linguists working on the interplay between online discourse & gender-based violence

odgbv27.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

New #OpenAccess article. This one has been in development for a while, so it is nice to finally see this research published.

'Paths to action: Fantasy, ideology and incitement in an extreme-right narrative'. Language in Society doi.org/10.1017/S004...

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)

www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

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!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

(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!