#discourseanalysis

🚀Communalytic is Getting a Major Upgrade (March 15, 2026) - Communalytic - A no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media We are excited to announce the next major evolution of Communalytic! Over the past year, we have listened closely to feedback from individual researchers and academic teams and rebuilt key parts of th...

2 weeks ago

Researchers, are you studying public discourse on social media? If you are, here's a preview of our new Communalytic research tool. It's getting a major upgrade on Mar. 15, 2026 communalytic.org/2026/02/18/c... #AcademicSky #ComSky #CommSky #DiscourseAnalysis #LibrarySky #PhDSky #PolCom #ResearchSky

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3 weeks ago

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In other words, policy language doesn’t just reflect political thinking; it actively produces it. Labels organise public perception, justify action & shape who is imagined to be part of “us”.

#langsky #language #linguistics #discourseanalysis

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3 weeks ago

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When applied to contemporary migrant communities, the term does more than describe a place: it frames a population & legitimises particular kinds of state intervention.

#langsky #language #linguistics #discourseanalysis

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3 weeks ago

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From a linguistic perspective, this is a reminder that words are never neutral. “Ghetto” carries centuries of historical meaning, from enforced Jewish quarters in early modern Europe to Nazi persecution.

#langsky #language #linguistics #discourseanalysis

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3 weeks ago

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Denmark even created an official “ghetto list” of housing areas, later renamed “parallel societies” to soften the stigma — yet the policies largely remained the same.

#langsky #language #linguistics #discourseanalysis

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3 weeks ago

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The episode also offers valuable advice for early-career researchers, from navigating theory & method, to recognising that critical research is not simply about analysing texts, but about engaging with real-world problems.

#langsky #criticaldiscourseanalysis #CDA #discourseanalysis

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3 weeks ago

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A key theme running throughout is context: discourse cannot be understood in isolation, but only in relation to the historical, political & social environments in which it is produced & interpreted.

#langsky #linguistics #criticaldiscourseanalysis #CDA #discourseanalysis #discoursestudies

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@fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org

3 weeks ago

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Wodak reflects on the origins of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), explaining how it emerged as an explicitly interdisciplinary, problem-oriented approach to studying language in society.

#langsky #linguistics #CDA #discourseanalysis #discoursestudies

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Florent Moncomble

1 month ago

Screenshot of RedditScraper's interface : dropdown menu with "Article thread" selected, textbox for article URL, dropdown menu for sorting comments and search button

📣 Major update to RedditScraper: researchers can now opt to extract comments (and replies) along with posts/articles, and there's a new mode to extract a single post with its thread of comments and replies.

corpustools.prendrelangue.fr/redditscraper/

#linguistics #discourseanalysis

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Sketch Engine

@sketchengine.eu

1 month ago

An example of Sketch Engine used outside the field of pure linguistics. This study in media discourse analysis will be published in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MediaRepresentation #discourseanalysis #corpuslinguistics

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Veronika Koller

@veronikakoller.bsky.social

1 month ago

This is happening tomorrow (10 Feb) at @liprg.bsky.social

#metaphor #discourseanalysis

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SPARK Group

@sparkgroup.bsky.social

1 month ago

SPARK Research Group – Specific Purposes and Applied-language Research in Knowledge

ℹ️ spark.uji.es
𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥-𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦
#SPARKresearchgroup
#SomUJI
#CallForPapers #AcademicConference #AppliedLinguistics #GenderPerspective #DiscourseAnalysis #DigitalEra

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Florent Moncomble

@fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org

2 months ago

RedditScraper A web app for collecting corpora of Reddit posts for discourse analysis

📣 RedditScraper, already a browser plugin, now also lives as a web app to help you build corpora of Reddit posts for discourse analysis.

#linguistics #discourseanalysis

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Social Media Research Toolkit - Social Media Lab The Social Media Research Toolkit is a curated collection of more than 50 tools compiled by researchers at the Social Media Lab.

2 months ago

Kick-start your academic research in 2026 with our new Social Media Research Toolkit, a curated collection of 50+ research tools compiled by researchers at our lab. socialmedialab.ca/apps/social-...

#AcademicSky #ComSky #DiscourseAnalysis #LibrarySky #PhDSky #PolCom #ResearchSky #ResearchMatters

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Working papers in Applied Linguistics and Linguistics at York

@wallyjournal.bsky.social

2 months ago

Meta-discourses of disability among people with Multiple Sclerosis | Working papers in Applied Linguistics and Linguistics at York

Jerca (2021), our 4th publication, discusses how Reddit users identify, resist, or redefine "disabled" and advocates for us to accept the ways individuals with disabilities refer to themselves: wally.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/de...

#discourseanalysis #disability #Reddit #multiplesclerosis

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Social Media Research Toolkit - Social Media Lab The Social Media Research Toolkit is a curated collection of more than 50 tools compiled by researchers at the Social Media Lab.

2 months ago

Kick-start your academic research in 2026 with our new Social Media Research Toolkit, a curated collection of 50+ research tools compiled by researchers at our lab. socialmedialab.ca/apps/social-...

#AcademicSky #ComSky #DiscourseAnalysis #LibrarySky #PhDSky #PolCom #ResearchSky #ResearchMatters

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Kick-Start Your Social Media Research with Our New Toolkit - Social Media Lab Are you starting a new social media research project? Check out our new Social Media Research Toolkit. It is a list of 50+ social media research tools curated by researchers at the Social Media Lab at...

2 months ago

🔎 Kick-Start Your Academic Social Media Research with Our New Toolkit socialmedialab.ca/2025/12/15/s...

#AcademicSky #ComSky #DiscourseAnalysis #LibrarySky #PhDSky #PolCom #ResearchSky #ResearchMatters

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Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL

@tcsaltjournal.bsky.social

3 months ago

Check out the new publication by Alyson (Lal) Horan, SALT Book Review Editor. Congrats, Lal! doi.org/10.1080/1946...

#ASL #signlanguage #vocabulary #AppliedLinguistics #DiscourseAnalysis #SALT #TC #Columbia

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3 months ago

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“Strongman” leaders deploy misogynistic rhetoric to perform dominance. Their language constructs hierarchies: strong vs weak, rational vs emotional, leader vs subordinate.

#langsky #linguistics #politicaldiscourse #discoursestudies #discourseanalysis #politicalcommunication

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3 months ago

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Hate speech, slurs, threats, mocking labels, gendered nicknames & defamatory narratives all rely on specific linguistic forms designed to degrade, intimidate & silence.

#langsky #linguistics #politicaldiscourse #discoursestudies #discourseanalysis #politicalcommunication #politicallanguage

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@simply-put-psych.bsky.social

3 months ago

I cannot wait to attend this talk 🤓

#langsky #linguistics #digitaldiscourse #discourseanalysis

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Psych with Satire

4 months ago

The Devolution of the “Fake News” Rhetoric — Simply Put Psych See how Donald Trump’s use of “fake news” evolved from attacking the media to shaping a culture of denial. This article analyzes the political, psychological, and authoritarian roots of the fake news ...

Trump’s true legacy?
Not the wall. Not the 'deals'. Not groceries.
2016: Popularizes “fake news” to attack the press.
2025: Upcycles it into a full-blown thought-terminating cliché.
Considering his limited lexicon, that’s quite an achievement.

#DumpTrump #Fakenews #Discourseanalysis #USPolitics

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