35.2942, FYI: The shared anti-science discourses

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-2942. Wed Oct 23 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.2942, FYI: The shared anti-science discourses

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Date: 19-Oct-2024
From: Claire Hardaker [c.hardaker at lancaster.ac.uk]
Subject: The shared anti-science discourses


In the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster
University, we’re celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2024. In a
series of public lectures, we will showcase our recent research in
different areas of linguistics. Everyone is welcome!

Our next talk should be of particular interest to corpus linguists,
forensic linguists, and researchers broadly interested in the security
and protection sciences:

Title: The shared anti-science discourses

Speaker: Dr Isobelle Clarke
(https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/isobelle-clarke)

Abstract: Anti-science discourse has been studied through the optic of
particular governments (Carter et al., 2019) or specific topics, such
as anti-vaccination (Davis, 2019), anti-genetically modified organisms
(Cook et al. 2004), stem cell research (Marcon, Murdoch and Caulfield,
2017), and climate denial discourse (Park, 2015). This research often
details the development and content of the anti-science position and
discourses. Yet, little is known about how the discourses compare
across topics. Are there anti-science discourses that are shared
across topics or does the discourse vary with the topic? In this talk,
I will present the results of the common discourses which are shared
between texts from websites known to promote pseudoscience and
conspiracy on the topics of stem cells, climate change, vaccination
and genetically modified organisms.

For details of this talk and the upcoming programme, please visit our
50th anniversary website:
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/50th-anniversary/

Register to attend: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/68278

Date and time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (UTC+01), Thursday 24th October 2024

Location: Faraday Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University, Lancaster,
LA1 4YW

Getting to the University:
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/about-us/maps-and-travel/

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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