And continuing with Theo van Leeuwen, Sydney and Odense, on the semiotics of walking: moving the hips, knees, feet like John Travolta, John Wayne or famous YouTube influencers nowadays.

Starting with John Bateman, University of Bremen, on how to do multimodal analysis - on many different layers and with many potential methods.

Full house at the Multimodality & AI Research Day @rug.nl - only 7 months after #12ICOM 🥰

#stopthegenocide #freepalestine #patras

See mine and @dimitrisrf.bsky.social recent article. see mine and @dimitrisrf.bsky.social article for our comment on this issue ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/ek...

Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex), Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio (University of Granada), and Dimitris Serafis (University of Groningen) will meet in what promises to be a fantastic roundtable.

🤩 New week, new CADAAD Journal Special Issue! 🤩 “Power relations in digitally-mediated communication: Exploring inequalities, discrimination, and new forms of injustice”, edited by Marina Niceforo, Francesco Nacchia and Sole Alba Zollo. ➡️ Open Access: ugp.rug.nl/cadaad/issue...

And now it's my turn, to provide an overview of the @mantrap.bsky.social project - happy to share slides on request!

This is @linguadigitalis.bsky.social enthusiastically facilitating a round table of a different kind - loved it!

This is happening today, @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social is about to start his talk

Now @rug.nl 👉 keynote lecture by the one and only @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social who is sharing his latest insights on discursive #shifts and the manufacturing of #illiberal public imagination -- TaalX2: Discourses of Discrimination -- the #normalization of politics of #exclusion

📣New book chapter w/ @neous.bsky.social on #hatespeech #multimodality #argumentation check it out 👉Imagery of Hate Online www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

This ⬇️ is a hybrid event, so do follow the link to register for the finale to the TaalX lecture series - looking forward to seeing you there!

V.much looking forward to this fab TaalX event of the NL Graduate School in Linguistics at RUG! Please join us online and/or in person! Thank you so much for organising @dimitrisrf.bsky.social & looking forward to our discussions @veronikakoller.bsky.social cc @uumediacomms.bsky.social

We are excited to welcome @veronikakoller.bsky.social & @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social for the keynote event of our lecture series "TaalX: #Discourses of #Discrimination" - register to attend online/in-person 👉 sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx2 @rug.nl

My visit @rug.nl was extremely rewarding.What a fantastic staff and student cohort! We talked about CDS,marginalised groups, positionality, privilege&boundaries. Thanks everyone for your important contributions to my talk &especially @dimitrisrf.bsky.social &Johanna Chojnicka for the invitation!

Exciting opportunity! We’re offering a fully funded four-year PhD position in the fields of sociolinguistics, experimental pragmatics and cognitive linguistics @unigroningen.bsky.social! Join Alexander Martin and me to investigate the social meaning of address forms: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

#12ICOM Update 🔴 You can now register for the conference and save your spot for the conference dinner. 🔴 A preliminary schedule is also available to plan your travel to and stay in Groningen: bit.ly/12ICOM 💥 I am so looking forward to this conference and everyone coming to Groningen! 💥

We are looking for a PostDoc to join the @birthingthenation.bsky.social team at Penn State! Are you interested in the overlaps between gender, sexuality, and the far right? Apply now: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Really pleased to join @cadaad-journal.bsky.social and looking forward to working with @dimitrisrf.bsky.social @stavrosling.bsky.social and the whole team.

📣Come and work with us @unigroningen.bsky.social New PhD position/project: "Tik-Tok Wars: Analyzing the Mobilization of Conflict Narratives on Social Media" more info 👉 www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... #CDS #socialmedia #conflict #war

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Ruth Wodak next week for two talks! 📍 April 1, 3:30–5 PM – Public Lecture on gender & national identity at Pattee Library 📍 April 3, 9–10:30 AM – Hybrid Seminar on gender backlash in Austrian pop culture (133 Sparks & Zoom) Registration: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Flying to #Bern - talking about #migration, soft #hatespeech and the #normalization of #violence - many thanks for the invitation #cds #discourse #ideology #power #critique

⏰📢The “TaalX2: #Discourses of #Discrimination” series returns on Jan 31, 2025, (15:00-17:00) w/ a lecture by @samtbennett.bsky.social (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) on "Myths and Silences of Empire in British Immigration Discourse." sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx... join us online/in person!

Great to see this special issue on critical discursive approaches to intersecting global inequalities out today! Featuring me on the intersection of single adoption & disability, @lucyjones.bsky.social, @angelazottola.bsky.social & @dimitrisrf.bsky.social & more! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjgs20/3...

My contribution to the special issue on hate speech by @dimitrisrf.bsky.social and @stavrosling.bsky.social has just been published in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Research Article>> Stavros Assimakopoulos & Dimitris Serafis: Why soft hate speech matters: argumentativity and the dispersion of hatred towards minorities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My new article is available. "Soft hate speech and denial of racism at Euro 2020" in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social Part of @dimitrisrf.bsky.social and @stavrosling.bsky.social's fantastic special issue on hate speech 50 eprints available www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EEP72...

#OpenAccess introduction to their special issue on 'Soft Hate Speech' Zooming in on the study of soft hate speech by @dimitrisrf.bsky.social & @stavrosling.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣Our intro (w/ @stavrosling.bsky.social) to the SI 'Soft #HateSpeech: Critical Perspectives from #Discourse and #Argumentation Studies' has just been published in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social 👉 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XNH3W...

The CADAAD Journal is now on Bluesky! Check out our new website and publication platform at ugp.rug.nl/cadaad/.

Have you played with Lego at a conference 🧱? Have you ever participated in a fishbowl 🐠🐟? Would you like to learn a few words of Plains Cree/ nêhiyawêwin? (& do you wonder what these are?) Come along to our Congress 24-25 February 2025, in Groningen, NL to get answers to all the above.. and more!

The first title in the Cambridge UP Elements series edited by @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and me has been published. The short book - the latest by Teun van Dijk - is available for free for the next four weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

📣Join us on Dec 6 2024, 15-17.00 - TaalX2: #Discourses of #Discrimination 👉Ksenija Bogetić Pejović on #Metaphors of #hate: The new figurative vocabularies of #gender, #sexuality and #race in #online misogynist communities sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx2 @unigroningen.bsky.social

Note: The deadline has been extended: submit your abstracts by 13 December! bit.ly/12ICOM

🚨 Meet the #12ICOM keynotes! 🎤 We're honored to welcome Prof. Louise Ravelli from the University of New South Wales. 🌍 Don't miss her insights on #multimodal organization studies, spatial discourse analysis, or museum studies! bit.ly/12ICOM The submission deadline is approaching: 1 December

Hello World! We are happy to greet the world also on this platform. Join us in Brussels for DNC6 and – subscribe for the news! Help us promote DN and promote your work in the community of app. 10000 researchers worldwide. discourseanalysis.net/DNC6

We would like to remind you: our DNC6 (7-10.7.2025) conference takes place in Bruxelles next year! Please apply and join us for science & networking in these challenging times! discourseanalysis.net/DNC6 PS New to the platform, so glitches happen :) Like reposting. No bot, just tired academics...

For those of you who recently jumped from the sinking ship, this interview with Cas Mudde - @casmudde.bsky.social - reflecting on the 20th anniversary of The Populist Zeitgeist might be of interest 🔥

New edited collection, out now (one for library purchases though) > www.routledge.com/The-Politics...

#OpenAccess Research Article Katy Brown & George Newth ‘Post-fascism’, or how the far right talks about itself: the 2022 Italian election campaign as a case study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

OK, here it is: the starter pack to get to know the #multimodalists on Bluesky. Who is missing? go.bsky.app/QPLSxuX

New Runnymede Trust report: Islamophobia: the intensification of racism against Muslim communities in the UK www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...

Did one! Not listed and should be? Let me know 🙂 go.bsky.app/AT6KX6X

I've created a starter pack with scholars and groups working on different areas related to Multilingualism --- please, share. Happy to add more. go.bsky.app/KSQ5zm

Endowed Professorship of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford, closing date 13 January 2025: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #jobs #sociolinguistics #linguistics #professor

The CADAAD Journal is officially part of University of Groningen Press @unigroningen.bsky.social See: ugp.rug.nl/cadaad/index @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @samtbennett.bsky.social @discodiscourse.bsky.social @proftaylor.bsky.social @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social @stenhansson.bsky.social

2 weeks left to submit an abstract! Save your spot in the program and meet #multimodalists from around the world in Groningen!

Hey 🦋 folks, I joined yesterday and already have things to say :D @neous.bsky.social, colleagues and I are planning the 12th Int. Conf. on #multimodality in Oct 2025 - consider submitting your abstract bit.ly/12ICOM! - a platform for comm / discourse studies | digi. humanities | computer science!

📢 Funded PhD positions available (incl. Linguistics) at @liverpooluni.bsky.social 📩 APPLY: t.ly/GLPPP 💷 Fees covered by ESRC NWSSDTP: nwssdtp.ac.uk/how-to-apply/ 🌍 UK & international applicants ❗ Deadline: 3rd February 2025