An interdisciplinary field focused on the study of language use in social contexts, examining how meaning is constructed, negotiated, and challenged through spoken, written, and multimodal communication.
Explores how language structures reflect, reinforce, and challenge societal power relations, examining institutional texts, media framing, and political rhetoric through Foucauldian and Faircloughian lenses.
A foundational overview of CA methodologies, detailing how participants manage speaker transitions, overlap, and self/other-initiated repair in naturalistic interactions.
Examines how platform architectures, algorithmic curation, and multimodal literacy shape contemporary persuasive strategies, echo chambers, and viral narrative propagation.
Traces the evolution of Foucault's early methodology, analyzing how discursive rules govern what can be said, by whom, and under what epistemic conditions across historical epochs.
Compares the pragmatic functions of discourse markers (e.g., well, you know, indeed) across Germanic, Romance, and Sino-Tibetan language families, highlighting universal vs. culture-specific patterns.