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Liebe Diskursforscherinnen und Diskursforscher,

Morning all,

I am delighted to announce that the 50th International Systemic Functional Congress will be held at the University of Glasgow from the 7th to the 11th of July 2025.

The first call for papers will be issued in September.  

There will be a Pre-Congress Institute with six different workshops on the 5th and 6th of July.

We have a star-studded list of plenary speakers:

Estimadxs colegas:

Liebe Diskursforscherinnen und Diskursforscher,

Die Universität Graz besetzt am Institut für Germanistik der Geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät eine

Tenure Track-Professur für Soziolinguistik

(40 Stunden/Woche; Verfahren gem § 99 Abs 5 Universitätsgesetz; zunächst befristet auf 6 Jahre als Assistenzprofessor/in mit Qualifizierungsvereinbarung nach dem Angestelltengesetz; Ziel ist die Überleitung in ein unbefristetes Arbeitsverhältnis als Assoziierte/r Professor/in; voraussichtlich zu besetzen ab 01. Februar 2025)

The journal Gender and Language is inviting applications for Co-editors of the journal.

Hate speech and abusive behaviour on social media: A cross-cultural perspective (Vernon Press, 2024) examines hate speech and abusive behaviour adopting an innovative cross-cultural perspective. To this end, the book analyses a sample of over 100 scholarly papers originally published in three non-hegemonic languages (Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish) and encompassing 11 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, and Spain).

Call for applications for post-doc fellows, for research on the discursive construction of peace.

Charles University (Czech Republic) will make a limited number of Post-Doctoral Fellowships available, financed through its JUNIOR Fund. Post-Doctoral Fellows will be engaged to work on a project taking no longer than 2 years (24 months) of full-time employment. The scholarship will be around 2400 Euro per month.

Dear discourse researchers,

The Summer School "The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD)" 2024 will take place from July 29th to 31st at the University of Augsburg. There are still a few open spots. For more information about the workshop and the registration process, please see the attached announcement.

Registrations per e-mail to skad@phil.uni-augsburg.de

https://discourseanalysis.net/en/summer-school-sociology-knowledge-approach-discourse-skad-2024