Abstract

This lecture will address some of the most influential critical approaches to language and discourse which have flourished in the last decades. By discussing examples and case studies from a number of key discourses and recent texts, Massimiliano Demata will look at how certain approaches, such as Multimodality, Proximization Theory, and the Discourse-Historical Approach, have provided linguists with essential analytical perspectives in the context of discourse analysis but have also offered (or may potentially offer) a set of toolkits to researchers in other disciplines too.

This is the second research seminar in the series on discourse analysis that the Urban Development and Mobility department at LISER is organizing as part of a collective interest in developing qualitative and mixed methods approaches at LISER. This initiative of UDM contributes to the centre of competences in Experimental and Participatory Research. The four scholars invited are working in the field of political science, land change science or linguistics and are recognized experts in discourse or content analysis. They will present different facets of these methodologies and show how they can be used to address issues of interest to researchers at UDM and LISER.