Dear all,
In the autumn of 2023, we are hosting a series of seven virtual workshops on contemporary online hate speech. Their aim is to establish a dialogue between our research experiences and other expert approaches, opening up the debate on the challenges of hate speech in various areas of academic and professional practice.
DiscourseNet Winter School No 8 - Discourse studies and power from the margins
Tuesday 16 until Friday 19 January 2024, Universitat de València, Spain
The core interest of the DiscourseNet Winter School No 8 lies in
Since decades, rationality has been viewed as a cornerstone of linguistic-pragmatic theories of communicative action. Both in Habermas’s theory of communicative action (derived, among others things, from speech act theory) and in Grice’s intentionalist theory of meaning, the presupposition of rationality of conversationalists plays a central role.
Following the success of the last four international workshops with participants from different countries and all world regions, there will be a fifth introductory workshop in English on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) at the University of Augsburg in October 2023.
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The Russian government’s war against Ukraine has exposed multiple dimensions and geopolitical faultlines of contemporary authoritarianisms: The systematic hijacking of state institutions and accumulation of wealth through the extraction and capitalization of gas, oil and coal clearly stand out as indispensable preconditions for Russia’s neo-imperialism and military power. The invasion has been accompanied by the dissemination of state-steered lies, disinformation and ethno-nationalist narratives.
It is our pleasure to invite you to our workshop on "discourse and alterity", which is supported by WELS and will take place in London on Wednesday. It is open to anybody who wants to join us on Mile End campus. Please write to Elise if you want to attend.
Following the success of the last three international workshops with participants from different countries spanning from Indonesia to Brazil, from Japan to the Netherlands, from Scotland to Poland and from C
Discourse Studies have an important record of analysing all types of open and subtle discrimination in and through discourses. Racism in all its varieties is one of the most researched topics in discourse studies.