Phobia: A corpus study of political diagnostics

Jan Buts Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Volume 7, Article number: 101 OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00593-w Abstract This article is a rhetorical corpus study of the use of -phobia in online alternative media. The term phobia is used in the psychiatric domain to refer to a range of anxiety disorders, but is now also commonly used to identify social tensions.

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‘Is climate science taking over the science?’: A corpus-based study of competing stances on bias, dogma and expertise in the blogosphere

Luis Pérez-González Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Volume 7, Article number: 92 OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00582-z Abstract Climate change science has become an increasingly polarized site of controversy, where discussions on epistemological rigour are difficult to separate from debates on the impact that economic and political interests have on the production of evidence and the construction of knowledge. Little research

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Free webinar event: Conceptual Analysis and Thematic Corpora

Conceptual Analysis and Thematic Corpora: Theory, Methodology and Indicative Case Studies A webinar organized by the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network, in collaboration with Aston University, UK Date: Thursday 12th November Time: 09.45-13.00 (GMT) Venue: Blackboard Collaborate Ultra The Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network is pleased to announce it will be hosting a free webinar exploring theoretical and methodological questions

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