Mutations in Discourse: Digital Discourses

Date: 17-Oct-2025 - 17-Oct-2025
Location: Amiens, France
Meeting URL: https://univ-artois-fr.zoom.us/j/92529263837?pwd=XSRYB0ocYpaqvvP597xaLk0Jv20KYa.1

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
French (fra)

Organised by Laure Lansari, Florent Moncomble & Océane Foubert

New modes of discourse have emerged over the last twenty years, linked to a number of technological innovations. These modes of discourse are sometimes referred to as ‘technodiscourses’, which call into question the traditional dichotomy between written and oral communication. Linguists have gradually taken an interest in these technodiscourses, which raise important methodological and theoretical questions, forcing the field of linguistics to take a crucial epistemological turn: how can one collect data and build reliable corpora? What tools should be used to analyse the data? What are the similarities and differences between the various existing social media? From a theoretical point of view, what linguistic and, more broadly, communicational changes can be observed on the basis of this data? What new ways are emerging of looking at previously documented phenomena? To what extent is it still relevant to use the usual analytical frameworks?

The aim of this event will be to provide an overview of current research in this field at an international level, and to compare practices and results. It is geared towards established as well as young researchers, doctoral students and even undergraduates, with the aim of reinforcing training through research.

Programme:

9.00 Opening remarks

9.15 - 10.15 Florent Moncomble (Université d’Artois)
Automating the collection of digital corpora: methodology and challenges

10.15 - 11.15 Christian Ilbury (University of Edinburgh)
Gen Z language? Sociolinguistic change in social media

11.15 - 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 - 12.30 Catherine Ruchon (Université de Montpellier Paul Valéry)
Du forum de discussion au biorama numérique : hybridité des discours écraniques autour du deuil d’enfant

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 - 14.30 Jessica Aiston (Queen Mary University of London)
Red pills and spinning plates: Discourse approaches to the manosphere

14.30 - 15.30 Océane Foubert (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
Homme-soja and tchoin: Neologisms in the French manosphere on Youtube

15.30 - 15.45 Coffee break

15.45 - 16.15 Round table