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12/08/2020
Luiz Valerio Trindade
New book: No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media

A new book entitled “No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media” has just been released. | Authored by Luiz Valério P. Trindade (Vernon Press, 2020) | https://vernonpress.com/book/861 | SUMMARY: This book examines the main ideological motivations and the embedded meaning of racist jokes on social media aimed at upwardly mobile black women. Trindade argues that “disparagement humour on social media reveals the deep-seated colonial ideologies still present in Brazilian society”.

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16/07/2020
Sascha Bosancic
Journal for Discourse Studies (JfDS)

Dear discourse researchers,

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10/07/2020
Jan Zienkowski
Vacancy - 4-year PhD fellowship at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL, UCLouvain, Belgium)

Vacancy for 4-year PhD fellowship at the Centre for English Corpus Linguisics (CECL, UCLouvain, Belgium)

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10/07/2020
Jan Zienkowski
Vacancy - research assistant (50% - 1 year) - Institute for Language and Communication (UCLouvain, Belgium)

Vacancy -  research assistant (50%) for one year in the field of Natural Language Processing (ILC, UCLouvain, Belgium)

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25/06/2020
Nico Carpentier
Call for applications for post-doc fellows, for research on Environmental Communication and the Construction of Nature

Charles University will make 10 to 12 Post-Doctoral Fellowships available, financed through its Post-Doc Stays 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.

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25/06/2020
Sylvie Housiel
Argumentation et Analyse du discours. Appel à contributions " Les discours du tourisme "

Appel à contributions

« Les discours du tourisme »

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17/06/2020
Sascha Bosancic
Journal for Discourse Studies (JfDS)

Dear discourse researchers,

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17/06/2020
Sascha Bosancic
Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung (ZfD)

Liebe Diskursforscherinnen und Diskursforscher,

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16/06/2020
Jens Maeße
DNACVD19 e-WORKSHOP Discourses and Dispositifs of Covid-19 Pandemic. How to Make Sense of a Global Crisis? 11.7.20 at 12.00 (CEST, Zoom)

DNACVD19 e-WORKSHOP

Discourses and Dispositifs of Covid-19 Pandemic. How to Make Sense of a Global Crisis?

11.7.20 at 12.00 (CEST, Zoom)

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14/06/2020
George Rossolatos PhD
International Journal of Marketing Semiotics & Discourse Studies Vol. VIII 2020 Online first

#InternationalJournalMarketingSemioticsDiscourseStudies Online first June 2020

Gabriel Tetteh and Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful (2020). Marketisation of Ghanaian higher academic institutions: a hypermodal analysis of universities’ homepages. International Journal of Marketing Semiotics & Discourse Studies Vol. VIII, pp.1-24.

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