2023 Summer Seminar Series
Available recordings from July and August of 2023 can be found below.
5 July – Katharine Schulmann (TCD)
Constructions of older people’s vulnerability during the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland: A Grounded Theory analysis of official discourses
12 July – Roumaissa Nora Sayoud (UL)
Legitimating a “humanitarian” military intervention: A critical discourse analysis of the political discourse of David Cameron (the 2011 Libyan Arab Spring rebellion as a case study)
17 July – Robyn Cunneen & Maria Rieder (UL)
A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of language ideologies in parliamentary debates about the recognition of Irish Sign Language
17 July – Alexander Pavlenko & Anatoly Uchvatov (TGPI, RSUE)
An attempt at transforming an island dialect into an Ausbau-language (the case of Ulster Scots)
19 July – Chris Fitzgerald (MIC)
The Discourse of Oral History: A Corpus-Informed Exploration of an Irish Archive
19 July – Antonio Bibbò (University of Trento)
Deal or no Deal? Brexit and its consequences for Ireland in Irish journalism
19 July – Mariavita Cambria (University of Messina)
Empire shaped Ireland’s past. A century after partition, it still shapes our present’: Un-naming partition and social actors in the Irish decade of centenaries
26 July – Belinda Vigors (The Women of Ireland Project)
The “Ghost” of Tight Culture Past: Exploring the impact of cultural tightness in the life histories of women of Ireland
2 August – Simon Statham (QUB) & Helen Ringrow (University of Portsmouth)
Ireland’s hidden diaspora: multimodal stylistic constructions of journey and landscape on the Irish abortion trail
9 August – Elizabeth Kiely (UCC)
Interrogating Class Discourses: The Value of Critical Discourse Studies
9 August – Stephen Gaffney (UoG)
Activating or Exiling our Youth? The (de)legitimation and re-contextualisation of an austerity policy
16 August – Steph Hanlon (Carlow / UCD)
‘Unvetted, Military-Aged Men’: A Discourse Analysis of Far-Right Use of Rhetorical Devices in Disinformation Strategies
23 August – Olena Marina (Kerry ETB)
Present-Day Discourse of Global Challenges: A Multimodal and Transmedia Perspective
30 August – Muhammad Irfan (UL)
The Perception of Artificial Intelligence on Public Discourses in the Republic of Ireland: A Study of Fear and Hope