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barbaradecock.bsky.social
Professor in Spanish linguistics at UCLouvain I'm interested in pragmatics and discourse analysis on politics, healthcare, and everyday life. Circle U. chair for democracy Avid reader who likes to go hiking
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📢 Nueva publicación para empezar el fin de semana, con Laetitia Aulit "Los términos #populismo(s) y #populista(s) en debates #parlamentarios españoles: contextos, usos y efectos en la argumentación" 👇 revistes.ua.es/dissoc/artic...

This morning at the colloquium on #taboo in #translation, organised by Andrea Pizarro Pedraza at the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation Marie Haps Saint-Louis UCLouvain. @jjavilacabrera.bsky.social delivers the opening plenary, which changes the way you watch #subtitled series ;-)

Funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster: 'The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations.' Open to applicants with a background in Linguistics as well as Psychology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) ofrece 6 #becas de francés para el verano 2025, destinadas a profesores y futuros profesores de francés en España. 📆Fecha límite: 2 marzo 2025 ℹ️https://www.valonia-bruselas.es/es/actualites/becas-de-verano-2025-wbi #profesoresfrancés #francés @wbi.bsky.social

Hoy se celebra el #11F para visibilizar la cienciA en femenino. La ciencia de TODAS las áreas científicas como la que hacemos en el @iphunizar.bsky.social en @www.unizar.es Ojalá un día solo tengamos que conmemorar el día de la #ciencia #STEAM #DíaMujerYNiñaEnCiencia @mujeresconciencia.bsky.social

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📢 Publication day! Carolina Figueras and I have a new article on "Hierarchies of Knowledge in Responses to Messages of Newbies in #Online #Health Support Groups". (free access till 13/3: Till 13 March free access here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kU03_GoWn...) (1/3)

⏰📢The “TaalX2: #Discourses of #Discrimination” series returns on Jan 31, 2025, (15:00-17:00) w/ a lecture by @samtbennett.bsky.social (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) on "Myths and Silences of Empire in British Immigration Discourse." sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx... join us online/in person!

La nouvelle administration des #USA et les langues minoritaires. La version espagnole du site de la Maison-Blanche n’est plus disponible. #TrumpInauguration2025 apnews.com/article/trum...

¡Enhorabuena Dr. Raül! Happy to have been cosupervisor with @enirdans.bsky.social of the PhD defended today by @raulnuevo.bsky.social on "Circulation and collective meaning : the construction of hashtag#populism in arenas of public discussion in France and Spain". What a way to start the year!

Dix ans depuis les attaques sur Charlie Hebdo. Dix ans depuis #jesuischarlie. Dix ans pour ne jamais oublier les victimes. Avec Andrea Pizarro, nous avions décrypté les emplois de #jesuis, de la solidarité à l'humour(www.cambridge.org/core/journal...) et (uclouvain.be/fr/instituts...) (1/2)

#winterwalk If only you could also feel and hear the wind blowing. It's very much like one of the opening scenes of Mary Poppins.

Highly appropriate choice for this time of the year 😴

Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo encontraron al nieto número 138. Ellas siguen siendo un símbolo de esperanza y lucha por la verdad y la justicia 💪. Que lo único que quede en el olvido sea la indiferencia.

The kind of image that helps you understand how many (folk) tales arose in winter. #winterwalk

Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769

A Christmas gift from me to my fellow word nerds: Nine Christmas-related words with interesting etymologies, one for each of the nine letters of 'Christmas'! It was written with much linguistic love in an armchair beside a roaring fire. dannybate.com/2024/12/23/a...

How your email finds me: Christmas Edition

Ya está publicada la nueva convocatoria de plazas para ejercer como 𝐚𝐮𝐱𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨́𝐧 𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐞𝐫𝐨 durante el curso escolar 2025-2026. 🔗Acceso a convocatoria: acortar.link/O1ENii ¡Bélgica te espera como destino!😉 #auxiliaresconversación

La @fundeu.bsky.social ha elegido #dana como la palabra del año y no faltan razones.Pero no deberíamos olvidar el impacto de otra de las candidatas, #fango, ni su poder de activación de marcos morales y éticos en un reciente episodio de la política nacional. theconversation.com/cinco-dias-d...

Acaba de salir la lista de candidatas a #palabradelaño de la @fundeu.bsky.social 📣 Si quieres conocer algo más que su definición... Échale un vistazo a este artículo @es.theconversation.com ⬇️ theconversation.com/como-llegar-...

Charos...🙄🧘 Mira @iraideia.bsky.social , ¿te suena?

We are back! 📣📣 3rd Seminar Series on Polarization and Digital Discourse. Starting on Dec. 18th More info and registration [email protected]

Have you cited papers published in Latin American journals lately? “Greater international engagement can help amplify their global impact and foster meaningful collaborations.” #OpenAccess #OpenScience

As always a superinteresting read by Deborah Cameron!

Do you study influencer discourse? Send your abstract to our ADDA panel! We’re interested in classic 🌹👓 influencers but also in the “dark side” of social media power-users 🐦🐦

If you're looking for an interesting PhD opportunity with a wonderful supervisor, this is it!

Probably no better first post here than one on a very enriching collaboration with @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social, Philippe Hambye and Nadezda Shchinova on the use of "I am not #populist" on the place where lots of us come from;-) Couldn't summarize it better than Laura has done in this thread 👇