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DiscourseNet

Please join us again in 2025/2026 for our monthly Friday lunchtime online English-language Open DiscourseNet Seminar from London, a collaboration of the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK and @DiscourseNet.

Our next session will be on 28 November 2025 with Tom Bartlett (University of Glasgow) on “Positive #Critique as Immanent Critique“.

For more information visit: discourseanalysis.net/en/open- #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies

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DiscourseNet

Our Seminar Series ”#Discourse and #Sustainability“ is an international forum for presenting and discussing new, cutting edge, research on discourse and issues of sustainability, environment, #ClimateChange and #ecology. Please join us again in 2025–2026!

For more information: discourseanalysis.net/en/disco #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis

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DiscourseNet

#Job:

Offre de doctorat à l’Université de Gand en #linguistique française et analyse du discours (2026–2030). Le projet porte sur les #médias francophones contemporains et leurs représentations des #conflits (géo)politiques à venir. #DiscourseAnalysis #AnalyseDuDiscours #géopolitique

Pour plus de détails voir: discourseanalysis.net/node/142

DiscourseNetOffre de doctorat à l’Université de Gand en linguistique française et analyse du discours (2026-2030) | discourseanalysisThe community portal for Discourse Studies
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DiscourseNet

If you are interested in #DiscourseAnalysis and how #AI is impacting the #KnowledgeEcononmy, than join us for our early stage research workshop. Our online workshop aims to bring together researchers from a range of disciplines —including linguistics, sociology, political economy, and computer science— to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about the challenges and transformations brought by the #digitalization of the knowledge economy.

For all necessary information see: discourseanalysisa.net/en/cfa- #Discourse #DiscourseStudies

DiscourseNet

Are you interested in the study of discourse? Our online seminar on #truth and #critique is open for graduate students and early-career researchers who want to deepen their theoretical understanding of #discourse and to develop their discourse research projects.

In this new cycle of our discussion, which started in fall 2024, we will focus on the question of #power, truth and critique. The core group consists of Irene Ktori, Michael Schmidlehner, Thiago Augusto Pereira, Adel Tayebi, Johannes Angermuller. Members of the group work on ideas such as the discursive construction of technology (Adel), family policies (Irene) truth and #postTruth discourse (Johannes), environment and psychoanalysis (Michael), right-wing book publishers (Thiago).

For more information see: discourseanalysis.net/en/disco #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis

Philo Sophies

The #discourse of #philosophy - a short #journey through the #history of #philosophy

Start

“1st stop - at the old #Greeks in Athens and surroundings”, “2nd stop - at the meditating #Descartes in Ulm”, “3rd stop - in Königsberg at #Kant, who sees the light”, “4th stop - short detour to Nice to the all-negating #Nietzsche” and then finally “5th search for another #station”.

If you want to continue: philosophies.de/index.php/2025

#HistoryOfPhilosophy#MichelFoucault#DiscourseAnalysis
Agustin V. Startari

📘 New Article Published: Grammar Without Judgment
Author: Agustín V. Startari
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783365
Series: Grammars of Power
Published: July 3, 2025

🔗 Read on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783365
🗂 Mirror on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf
🖥 Author site: agustinvstartari.com
#AIethics #FormalGrammar #ExecutablePower #HumanitiesCommons #AI #Judgment #LLM #Accountability #PostReferentialAuthority #Linguistics
#AI
#CriticalTheory #agustinvstartari #ArtificialIntelligence #DiscourseAnalysis

ZenodoGrammar Without Judgment: Eliminability of Ethical Trace in Syntactic ExecutionThis article advances a new theoretical hypothesis: a regla compilada, defined as a Type-0 production in the Chomsky hierarchy (Chomsky 1965, 101-103; Montague 1974, 55-57), can eliminate the ethical trace embedded in syntactic operations without resorting to semantic suppression. Grounded in the notion of the soberano ejecutable (Startari 2025, 12-16) and located within the Executable Power canon (Startari 2025, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15754714, 34-36), the paper argues that ethical judgment, treated here as a syntactically traceable node, can be structurally excised through a deletion rule applied during derivation. Existing research in algorithmic alignment and computational ethics (Anderson 2024, 89-92; Floridi 2023, 143-147) has not addressed the strictly syntactic eliminability of moral judgment, therefore this proposal establishes a novel logical vector toward operational grammars that function without ethical residues. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783365 This work is also published with DOI reference in Figshare https://doi.org/ 10.6084/m9.figshare.29447060 and Pending SSRN ID to be assigned. ETA: Q3 2025.   Este artículo presenta una nueva hipótesis teórica: una regla compilada, definida como producción Tipo 0 en la jerarquía de Chomsky (Chomsky 1965, 101-103; Montague 1974, 55-57), puede eliminar la traza ética incrustada en las operaciones sintácticas sin recurrir a supresión semántica. Basado en la noción de soberano ejecutable (Startari 2025, 12-16) y enmarcado en el canon de Executable Power (Startari 2025, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15754714, 34-36), el trabajo sostiene que el juicio ético, concebido como nodo rastreable sintácticamente, puede ser extirpado de forma estructural mediante una regla de borrado aplicada durante la derivación. La literatura existente sobre alineación algorítmica y ética computacional (Anderson 2024, 89-92; Floridi 2023, 143-147) no aborda la eliminabilidad estrictamente sintáctica del juicio moral, por lo tanto, esta propuesta establece un vector lógico novedoso hacia gramáticas operativas sin residuos éticos.
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DiscourseNet

Today we had the first day of our biannual DiscourseNet, this time in #Brussels. We had great discussions about discourses and imaginaries of the future, and will still have plenty of keynotes and panels until Thursday. Thank you Jan Zienkowski for organising this amazing event.

discourseanalysis.net/en/dnc6- #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis #Imaginaries #DNC6

Agustin V. Startari

New article: Ethos Without Source: Algorithmic Identity and the Simulation of Credibility

We examine 1,500 AI-generated texts that simulate authority without traceable sources. Results show synthetic ethos is engineered—not accidental.

🧠 AI in law, health, education: what happens when credibility is coded?

🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15700412
🔍 SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=53133
📁 Figshare: doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29

ZenodoEthos Without Source: Algorithmic Identity and the Simulation of CredibilityGenerative language models increasingly produce texts that simulate authority without a verifiable author or institutional grounding. This paper introduces synthetic ethos: the appearance of credibility constructed by algorithms trained to replicate human-like discourse without any connection to expertise, accountability, or source traceability. Such simulations raise critical risks in high-stakes domains including healthcare, law, and education. We analyze 1500 AI-generated texts produced by large-scale models such as GPT-4, collected from public datasets and benchmark repositories. Using discourse analysis and pattern-based structural classification, we identify recurring linguistic features,such as depersonalized tone, adaptive register, and unreferenced assertions,that collectively produce the illusion of credible voice. In healthcare, for instance, generative models produce diagnostic language without citing medical sources, risking patient misguidance. In legal context, generated recommendations mimic normative authority while lacking any basis in legislation or case law. In education, synthetic essays simulate scholarly argumentation without verifiable references. Our findings demonstrate that synthetic ethos is not an accidental artifact, but an engineered outcome of training objectives aligned with persuasive fluency. We argue that detecting such algorithmic credibility is essential for ethical and epistemically responsible AI deployment. To this end, we propose technical standards for evaluating source traceability and discourse consistency in generative outputs. These metrics can inform regulatory frameworks in AI governance, enabling oversight mechanisms that protect users from misleading forms of simulated authority and mitigate long-term erosion of public trust in institutional knowledge.                 Original article DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15700412               Additional repository mirrors:               – Figshare: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29367062               – SSRN: (Pending DOI – to be updated upon assignment)  
#AIethics#LLM#DiscourseAnalysis
Alexander Schniedermann

I am slowly but surely enjoying Reiner Keller's "Sociology of knowledge approach to discourse". I highly appreciate the level of care towards what is identified/extracted and taken for real. However, as with any other sociological framework, the position of the analyst remains problematic.

Even if one masters the analytical practice, communicating it remains problematic, as language must be used to do so. Traditionally, sociologists attempt to find a new form of language, which often becomes increasingly abstract and incomprehensible.

I wonder what the alternative would be: expressing analytical insights in every possible language or discursive logic (which is practically impossible), or at least in those connected to the analysis. Language translation or 'elif' could be examples of this. However, I also consider 'speaking in your terms' when communicating with individuals from different backgrounds.

#ADSK#Sociology#DiscourseAnalysis
DiscourseNet

DiscourseNet Winter School #9 - Transformative #DiscourseStudies. Social and political struggle in a polarised world

We are organising the Winter School #9 that will take place at the Universitat de #València in January 2026. It is aimed at international masters and doctoral students interested in discourse studies from diverse perspectives.

If you want to participate you can find all necessary information here: discourseanalysis.net/en/disco

The deadline for abstract submission is August 31st, 2025.

#DiscourseAnalysis#Polarization
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