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CADAAD Journal

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The official journal of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) network. https://linktr.ee/cadaad_journal

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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 4w ago

We have had some truly great day of fabulous intellectual discussions & exchanges at the “New Directions in Analysing Contemporary Public Discourse: Challenges in/for Critical Discourse Studies” Panel which we organised within @CADAAD2026 Conference in Valladolid, Spain.

CADAAD 2026@cadaad2026.bsky.social · last mo.

Hi! Mondays feel less like Mondays when there are good news 😌 👏 thus, we start this week with the abstract of Hidalgo-Tenorio, Serafis, and Taylor's #CADAAD2026 round table (in conversation with Filardo-Llamas 😀) See you in Valladolid in ten days ☀️😎

CADAAD 2026 keynote speaker: title and abstract Dichotomies and synthesis in Critical Discourse Studies (in conversation with Laura Filardo-Llamas) Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex) Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio (Universidad de Granada) Dimitris Serafis (Groningen University) “Almost forty years after the emergence of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and two decades after the first Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference, Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) continues to evolve in response to changing social realities, theoretical developments and methodological innovations. This roundtable offers an opportunity to reflect on some of the key tensions, challenges and opportunities that currently shape the field and, in doing so, to consider how CDS can continue to respond to an increasingly complex communicative landscape. At the heart of these reflections lies a series of old dichotomies that continue to inform both research and debate within CDS. One concerns the very nature of the field itself: whether CDS is best understood as a theoretical framework, an analytical approach, a methodology or some combination of these. This question is closely linked to broader discussions about the continuing relevance of established CDA traditions for analysing contemporary forms of communication and the need to move beyond predominantly Western and European perspectives in order to engage more fully with diverse epistemologies and social realities. These conceptual concerns are inseparable from methodological debates surrounding the relationship between qualitative and quantitative approaches. [...]”“[...] The growing use of corpus-assisted and computational methods has renewed discussions about methodological rigour, interpretation, researcher bias and triangulation, which raises questions about how critical discourse research can balance empirical robustness with contextual sensitivity and critical insight. Underlying both theoretical and methodological discussions is the persistent tension between positionality and objectivity. Questions of researcher responsibility, the study of vulnerable communities, the ethics of analysing harmful discourses and the place of activism within scholarship continue to challenge the field. At stake is not only how power is examined through discourse, but also how critical research may itself reproduce, negotiate or contest existing power relations while remaining reflexive about its own assumptions and limitations. These issues become particularly pressing in light of wider social and academic transformations. The need to engage with audiences beyond academia, the challenges posed by the marketisation and colonisation of higher education, and the opportunities and risks associated with artificial intelligence all open up important debates concerning the future role of CDS. Rather than seeking definitive answers, this roundtable aims to encourage dialogue on how the field can continue to address emerging forms of inequality, power and social change while remaining responsive to the evolving conditions of contemporary communication.”
CADAAD 2026@cadaad2026.bsky.social · last mo.

Continuing with the good news, we're very happy to announce that #CADAAD2026 will have two poster sessions 📜 right after lunch break 🍽️ on July 8th and 10th. ☝️🤨 you better be there or be square; you don't want to miss these amazing works and their authors!

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CADAAD 2026@cadaad2026.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since we're less than a month away from #CADAAD2026, we think it's time to share more details about the exciting programme that awaits you in Valladolid 😎 Today we bring the abstract of Garcés-Conejos Blitvich's keynote presentation. Enjoy!

CADAAD 2026 keynote speaker: title and abstract Resisting the Imperative to Forgive: Standing, Agency, and Reintegration in Post-Digital Publics Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)This talk addresses a gap in critical discourse studies by developing a technosocial account of forgiveness and reintegration after cancelation. I argue that normative and critical philosophical models, while useful for explaining some of the dynamics of forgiveness, are insufficient for understanding post-digital moral repair. These traditions typically presuppose identifiable victims, offenders, and shared moral systems, while leaving digital architecture outside their conceptualizations. By contrast, cancelation involves diffuse victims, contested wrongdoers, and transient light groups, while platform affordances such as persistence, replicability, scalability, and searchability, along with algorithmically amplified outrage, structurally reward condemnation and inhibit reconciliation. In this context, forgiveness becomes a counter-algorithmic practice.To tackle this problem, the study turns to first-order perspectives, asking how social actors themselves theorize, negotiate, grant, and withhold forgiveness. Drawing on a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of forgiveness-related commentary following cancelation in The New York Times and Reddit, the study codes meta-illocutionary expressions across multiple dimensions. The findings show that counter-forgiveness discourse and stringent conditions dominate, while refusal to forgive is often moralized as justice. Forgiveness, therefore, emerges as a public, ideological, and power-laden practice through which moral authority, victimhood, accountability, punishment, and reintegration are negotiated. More broadly, the analysis shows that the aftermath of cancelation functions as a prolonged site of moral negotiation that produces an unstable moral afterlife, or what I call framed continuity: a condition in which wrongdoers may fulfill the expected requirements of forgiveness, acknowledgment, apology, and repair, yet remain indefinitely tethered to scandal through the persistence of the digital record.
CADAAD Journal@cadaad-journal.bsky.social · last mo.

📘 NEW Article in CADAAD Journal 📘 “Voices of Resistance: A political discourse analysis of ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement slogans in Iran” by Reza Ashouri Talooki Open Access ➡️ link in bio

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Franco Zappettini@francozappettini.bsky.social · last yr.

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

CADAAD Journal@cadaad-journal.bsky.social · last yr.

🙌 TEAM UPDATE 🙌 We are delighted to announce that our dear colleague Franco Zappettini (@francozappettini.bsky.social), of Sapienza Università di Roma, will be joining the Editorial Team of the CADAAD Journal as a new Co-Editor. Please join us in wishing Franco all the best in his new role!

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