Irene Elmerot#CADS2026
Ursula Kania (@instantlinguist.bsky.social but hopefully on Masto soon) now presents “culinary xenophobia”, how Chinese food businesses have been represented in UK mainstream newspaper media after Covid19.
Slides here, if you can stand Gurgle: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/117cr3m5GPp2CPU6mbVDJs9Cb-bOw1NkR
Conference #CADS2026 starts its last day with the word ”vicennium” (20 years) in the title of Brian King's presentation on what colleagues have done with online discourse from his oen “Queer chatroom corpus” (2009) via anxiety fora interactions by Collins & Baker (2023) and via xml and UTF-8 decisions to mediation and generation of present-time language models and their discourse, such as Zappavigna's 2025 idea on having chatbots helping out with messy socmedia data. What can be replicated?
Before the conference lunch, @CharlotteTaylor presented her work on emotional language on migration in the UK parliament.
'Proud' was used both about crushing and supporting welcoming immigrants, but in both cases a nostalgic expression about British history. Mainly men and mainly rightwings used 'proud'.
The opposite could be 'shame' and 'regret' which is mainly talked about by women and mainly leftwing politicians. Article to come out later.
#CADS2026
@DiscourseNet
'Proud' was used both about crushing and supporting welcoming immigrants, but in both cases a nostalgic expression about British history. Mainly men and mainly rightwings used 'proud'.
The opposite could be 'shame' and 'regret' which is mainly talked about by women and mainly leftwing politicians. Article to come out later.
#CADS2026
@DiscourseNet
Chris Hart studied a multimodal corpus of tv news clips and its subtitles to analyse how refugees and (im)migrants are represented in collustrations.
Water metaphors are combined with land images, whereas the verb “arrive” is combined with watery images!
Read the article: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1451105/full
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#MigrationResearch
Water metaphors are combined with land images, whereas the verb “arrive” is combined with watery images!
Read the article: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1451105/full
#CADS2026
#MigrationResearch
Frontiers | Multimodal meaning making in news communication about immigration: using the NewsScape corpus to explore co-verbal images in TV news
The communication of news relies on semiotic resources besides language, including various audiovisual modes of representation. Owing to the difficulties ass...
#CADS2026 conference starts the sessions with a talk by Tony Berber Sardinha
and Marilisa Shizamori, where they did a multi-dimensional analysis of chatbot texts versus hunan text on immigration. Their results shortly say that AI is abstracting everything, compared to the human texts. It does not promote action or frustration handling.
Tomasz Detlaf from Uni Warszawa concludes in his presentation that politicians in Poland have talked very differently about abortion, and that the centre to right parties mention the actual women much less than the other parties!
Also, in 2001-2005, the Polish Left had an informal agreement with the Catholic church to not push abortion legislation if the church supported the ascendance into the EU, and this period his data ahow that there are no abortion debates!
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#CorporaAndDiscourse
Also, in 2001-2005, the Polish Left had an informal agreement with the Catholic church to not push abortion legislation if the church supported the ascendance into the EU, and this period his data ahow that there are no abortion debates!
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#CorporaAndDiscourse
Packing for conference going in Lancaster! Rain coat and sunscreen – you never know. Also: CAMRA venues noted on map. If anyone else is there on Monday, let me know if you want to have a pint and chat!