Social vulnerability triage: a dynamic scenario-based system for disaster planning and response www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How to argue for peace and how to evaluate argumentation within peace discourse -- by Manfred Kienpointner www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted that the Bloomsbury Handbook of Language of Death is out. Edited by Justyna Ziolkowska and me. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur...

Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.

How to argue for peace and how to evaluate argumentation within peace discourse -- by Manfred Kienpointner www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Review of government social media communication research www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Discursive strategies of power and governance (2026) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Out now: 'Critical Discourse Studies and Health Communication'. Chapter in Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies, ed. by B. Forchtner and F. Zappettini. Honoured to publish in this book alongside many whose work has inspired me. Chapter pre-print #openaccess here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...

Doxxing Discourse By @carmen-lee.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...

This is a fantastic chapter on discourse, power and governance. Fully recommend to anyone working in this area.

Discursive strategies of power and governance (2026) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our new special issue is now published! "Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right" www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...

Strategic synchrony? The co-projection of identity narratives by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Sputnik Latvia by @emmaronngren.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm very excited about the most recent @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Element in Politics & Communication, "Catching Fire in the News The Necessary Conditions for Media Storms" by Amber Boydstun, @jilllaufer.bsky.social, @dallascard.bsky.social & Noah Smith. Check it out: doi.org/10.1017/9781....

Review of government social media communication research www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Flooding the zone: Paths forward for information quality, misinformation, and disinformation work -- @joshscacco.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A NEW HOPE? Local journalism as a mitigation hub for misinformation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The discursive micro-politics of blame avoidance: Unpacking the language of government blame games link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In this chapter, I map the field of linguistically informed critical studies of #power and #governance, identify key trends, and point to future avenues of research www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Doxxing Discourse By @carmen-lee.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Solid editorial work from @bforchtner.bsky.social and @francozappettini.bsky.social 🔓 You can read the pre-print of my chapter 'Anything goes? Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Critical Discourse Studies' here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Out now: 'What is good care, and who is it good for? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK care home websites'. Chapter led by @emma-putland.bsky.social with Kevin Harvey in the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han.... Accepted version in original post below!

New publication: "Researching immigration and racism with critical discourse studies" in the newly published Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies, edited by @bforchtner.bsky.social and @francozappettini.bsky.social www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

The discursive micro-politics of blame avoidance: Unpacking the language of government blame games link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In this chapter, I map the field of linguistically informed critical studies of #power and #governance, identify key trends, and point to future avenues of research www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The first part features a conversation between the editors and me. This book must have been a mammoth task and has turned out really well, so please get your library to buy it if you can.

Congratulations to the editors and authors. I was amazed and pleased to see my work cited.

Thanks to all contributors

Great to see it out. I'm very happy to have two chapters in this collection, one an interview and the other co-authored with Tommaso Milani

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

I am in this

This may be of interest to researchers of #PolComm #DiscourseStudies @polcomm.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @liprg.bsky.social @psarhetoric.bsky.social @discoursenet.bsky.social @theframelab.bsky.social @jlanpol.bsky.social @cadaad.bsky.social @languagepowerpodcast.org #TeamRhetoric

Contributors include @paulchilton.bsky.social @veronikakoller.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @discodiscourse.bsky.social @dgalasinski.bsky.social @markmcglashan.com @johnnyunger.bsky.social @ronidanz.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @samtbennett.bsky.social @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social

Introducing the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies By @bforchtner.bsky.social @francozappettini.bsky.social www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

📢 OUT NOW: Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies (2026) www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

"Can personal political branding from within government be considered as a form of disinformation?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polcomm

Strategic narrative: its origins and evolution, its connection to public diplomacy, and some future paths link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Discourse approaches to gender-based violence: Deconstructing social inequality through linguistic inquiry books.google.co.uk/books?id=RzW...

Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory (2026) By Bart Cammaerts @lsemedia.bsky.social books.google.co.uk/books?id=bti...

Government Communication on Social Media: Research Foci, Domains, and Future Directions www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Politicization of Government Social Media Communication: A Linguistic Framework and Case Study journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Coercive impoliteness and blame avoidance in government communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

If you work on any aspect of trust and politics, you'll definitely want to check out this agenda-setting collection co-edited by our brilliant colleague @danjdevine.bsky.social. Plus, it's open access and free for all! #polisky #commsky #socsky #econsky

Corpus-based narrative analysis: Bridging lexical patterning and narrative structure in large-scale discourse journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Giant moral reframing null: "We consistently found null results... We found no plausible explanation for the absence of treatment effect. Moral reframing techniques may be less helpful to persuasion than previous research suggests." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This may be of interest to researchers of #PolComm #DiscourseStudies #TeamRhetoric @polcomm.bsky.social @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @liprg.bsky.social @discoursenet.bsky.social @theframelab.bsky.social @jlanpol.bsky.social

Ruth Wodak's new article: “We’re the party of common sense”: Conflicting appeals to “normal/ity” and “common sense” in the discourse of the freedom party of Austria www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There are some great tips and observations in this editorial. I'll thread them >>