Discourse Research Association of Ireland 2025 Summer Seminar Series
Short Title: DRAOI 2025 SSS

Date: 01-Jul-2025 - 31-Aug-2025
Location: Online
Meeting URL: https://discourseresearch.ie/summer-seminar-series/2025-summer-seminar-series/

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

The Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) is pleased to announce the full schedule for our fifth annual Summer Seminar Series, taking place online every Wednesday* at 15:00 Irish Standard Time during July and August 2025.

All seminars are free and open to the public. Join us for a vibrant series of talks by researchers working across discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, multimodality, discourse theory, and more.

July

9 July
Liz Kiely, University College Cork
‘What about the “Mom-and-Pop” Landlord?’: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

16 July
Deepak Singh, Maynooth University
Cross-linguistic Influence in the Acquisition of Spanish as a Third Language

23 July
Olena Marina, Munster Technological University
Multimodal Construal of Conflict through Art in the 21st Century Media Discourse

30 July
Muireann Prendergast, South East Technological University
Time to be seen: Promoting gender balance in media discourses on agriculture and rural communities in Ireland

August

11* August
Giuseppina Di Gregorio, University of Catania
New genres in corporate discourse of airline industry

13 August
Gary Hussey, Independent Researcher
A Post-foundational Discourse Theoretical analysis of the spatial dynamics of violence in the north of Ireland, c. 1868–1972

20 August
Alexander Pavlenko & Nadezhda Gukalova, A.P. Chekhov Institute of Taganrog, Rostov State University of Economics
Multiple Modals as a Cross-Level Phenomenon between Grammar and Discourse (The Evidence of Ulster-Scots)

27 August
Olga O’Toole, Jagiellonian University
(De-)constructing secondary victimization in the discursive construction of rape: A perspective of two cultures

*11 August is a Monday, all other seminars will run on a Wednesday

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