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michaelfarrelly.bsky.social
@michaelfarrelly.bsky.social
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Relational dynamics in terrorist incitement - Language in the negotiation of bonds and obligations. Read my article in The Conversation Australia + NZ:

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Violent extremists wield words as weapons. New study reveals 6 tactics they use
The language and rhetoric of extremists helps fuel brutal, often deadly, violence. Spotting the strategies can help protect people from radicalisation.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Day 2
- Positive discourse analysis
- Genre & social practices
- [Optional] Project presentations & feedback
#qualitativeresearch #discourse #CDA
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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research | Discourse Academy
Learn how to apply key CDA theories, concepts and methods to your research project. Sessions on key ideas in CDA and how to apply them to your work. Group discussion and advice tailored to your resear...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Day 1
- Understanding your research project
- Corpus analysis for CDA
- Discourse & context - integrating CDA theories of discourse with your work
- Analysing text & discourse: social actors, intertextuality, meaning relations, metaphor
#discourse #CDA
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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research | Discourse Academy
Learn how to apply key CDA theories, concepts and methods to your research project. Sessions on key ideas in CDA and how to apply them to your work. Group discussion and advice tailored to your resear...
www.discourseacademy.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
michaelfarrelly.bsky.social
Something to look forward to in January...
#cda #PhD #discourse
November 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Two-day workshop on CDA - join us in Sheffield!
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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research
Booking now open!We are running an in-person workshop for PhD students and early career researchers working in any discipline and who are using CDA. Sheffield, UK 15th & 16th January 2026. • Professor...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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tamsinparnell.bsky.social
Last year I was supposed to give a presentation titled 'Researching national identity and migration discourses in times of polycrisis'. Unfortunately it didn't go ahead due to illness. I've made the presentation available on Researchgate for anyone interested.

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(PDF) Researching national identity and migration discourses in times of polycrisis
PDF | On Nov 13, 2025, Tamsin Parnell published Researching national identity and migration discourses in times of polycrisis | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Today is the last day to safely vote in the FE ballot! If it’s in your bag, your desk, under the bed, fish it out and run to that post box!!! VOTE YES!
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
michaelfarrelly.bsky.social
Looking forward to this workshop! Join me, @kranertmichael.bsky.social , Tom Bartlett and Jane Mulderrig to work on using CDA in your research!
discourseacademy.org Discourse Academy @discourseacademy.org · 13d
How to use critical discourse analysis in your research: 2-day, in-person workshop for PhD students & early career researchers.
15 & 16 January 2026
Sheffield, UK

Details:
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November 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research: 2-day, in-person workshop for PhD students & early career researchers.
15 & 16 January 2026
Sheffield, UK

Details:
www.discourseacademy.org/event-detail...
Vertical stripes of black, red, gold and pink with the words 'how to use critical discourse analysis in your research'; logo for the discourse academy in the top right corner which has an a tablet computer, and academic cap and a hand interacting with the computer screen
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
michaelfarrelly.bsky.social
Do you know any PhD/early career researchers who would benefit from a 2-day, in-person workshop on how to apply CDA in their research project? I'm really looking forward to this..!
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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mayblin.bsky.social
Most of the time we ask the wrong questions in relation to asylum policy. What this new report on asylum accommodation shows, for me, is that we need to be asking all the time "who materially benefits from the current policy approach?"
Billions squandered on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement – Home Affairs Committee report finds - Committees - UK Parliament
Flawed contract design and incompetent delivery left the Home Office unable to cope with the surge in demand for asylum accommodation, a report by the Home Affairs Committee has found.
committees.parliament.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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critdiscstuds.bsky.social
We have just rejected our first submission where the use of Gen-AI to rewrite the article was acknowledged.
Given the way that they commandeer public water resources and contribute to climate collapse, we do not think that there is an ethical way to use such tools.
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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discodiscourse.bsky.social
Happy pre-order book day to @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social !
Conflict, Discourse and Cognition:
Political Discourse in Northern Ireland
Out soon!
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Conflict, Discourse and Cognition
A comprehensive approach to the study of discourse and conflict, this book explores how opposing communities construe discourse worlds which appear to reflect t…
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October 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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October 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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husajaakko.bsky.social
France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...
Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking
France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...
sciencebusiness.net
October 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
michaelfarrelly.bsky.social
My short blog post on social actors in CDA...
discourseacademy.org Discourse Academy @discourseacademy.org · Oct 22
'...as a critical discourse analyst, I’m concerned with who has the power to use their will and who does not; and I’m concerned with the extent to which texts and discourse are a factor in facilitating or curtailing this power...'
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What is a social actor?
This question—what is a social actor—is an important one that we, as people doing text and discourse analysis, should take seriously. It is a question that we should address before getting into the de...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
michaelfarrelly.bsky.social
Next one on my series of short posts on social actors in CDA - what is a social actor and why should we care as critical discourse analysis's?
October 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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matteofuoli.bsky.social
It was such a pleasure to take part in the legendary Language and Power podcast!

We had a very interesting chat about climate change discourses on the back of a lively panel at the last SFL Congress in Glasgow.

Thanks @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social and Tom Bartlett for hosting us!
October 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
michaelfarrelly.bsky.social
Had a fantastic first webinar in my free series 'The representation of social actors in text and discourse' last Friday - thanks to all who attended!

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September 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Webinar Series: The representation of social actors in text and discourse — Language/Power Podcast
Sign up for the September webinar series on the representation of social actors by Dr Michael Farrelly
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July 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Language and Power Podcast recorded a new episode: with participants in an academic colloquium at ISFC50 in Glasgow this week: Changing Climate, Changing Discourse
with @katherineeruss1.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social John Currie, Cinzia Bevitori, Gerard O'Grady, Daniel Fryer, Paul White
July 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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We had a great time talking about the article! Well worth a read and a listen to the podcast!
kranertmichael.bsky.social Michael Kranert @kranertmichael.bsky.social · Jul 1
No time to read my new article, but still curious about climate change policy making in local government? Have a listen to this podcast, where I talk about it with Tom Bartlett and @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social. Many more great insights into language and power in their podcast!
July 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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kranertmichael.bsky.social
No time to read my new article, but still curious about climate change policy making in local government? Have a listen to this podcast, where I talk about it with Tom Bartlett and @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social. Many more great insights into language and power in their podcast!
July 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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New episode of the podcast out now - with @kranertmichael.bsky.social on his work published in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social !

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S5 Episode 2: The wickedness of net-zero policy - Michael Kranert — Language/Power Podcast
We chat with Dr Michael Kranert about his new research article ‘The wickedness of net-zero policy: scales in policy discourse’. In the article, he examines how international climate change policies ...
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July 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Some further discussion and results of the social actor analysis we spoke about in our last episode
Analysis of the representation of social actors in 3 media texts on COP 29 — Language/Power Podcast
In our last podcast episode, I spoke about an a nalysis of the representation of social actors that I had done of the 3 media texts we focused on in that episode. In this post, I share the results ta...
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June 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM