Pretty exciting delivery today - hard copies of my first book!

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐮𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐀 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

So pleased to see my first book published! 📙🥳

I look at how and why we might want to combine poststructuralist discourse theory, critical discourse studies and corpus linguistics.

👉 bit.ly/DtCdsCl

@mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @springernature.com

Case in point...

We can also see how far-right politics is increasingly mainstream in the current context, as exemplified by Keir Starmer's speech on immigration this week, as well as 'stop the boats' discourse under the previous government.

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We suggest a revised approach to far-right politics which sees it as a political position rather than a form of party category.

This means we can identify far-right politics wherever it emerges, not just the 'usual suspects'.

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New @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org article out in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics with @georgenewth.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social:

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠

Short 🧵 on the key ideas 1/

The way people were smiling and clapping while literally denying trans people's humanity... the callousness of this government and its enablers knows no bounds