With the usual apologies for any cross-posting: 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, researchers broadly interested in the security and protection sciences:
The shared anti-science discourses, by Dr Isobelle Clarkehttps://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/isobelle-clarke 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 websitehttps://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/50th-anniversary/.
Register Register herehttps://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/68278 to attend.
Date and time 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (UTC+01), Thursday 24th October 2024
Location Faraday Lecturehttps://use.mazemap.com/#v=1&config=lancaster&campusid=341&zlevel=1¢er=-2.784396,54.010911&zoom=18&sharepoitype=poi&sharepoi=874208 Theatre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW
Getting to the University More information on ways to get to the university can be found herehttps://www.lancaster.ac.uk/about-us/maps-and-travel/.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Regards Claire
Professor Claire Hardaker (she/her) Professor of Forensic Linguistics Director of the MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Sciencehttps://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/forensic-linguistics-and-speech-science-msc/ Lancaster University, LA1 4YL