Environmental Hazards and Migrations: a rejoinder and a plea for discourse awareness

The connection between migration and the environment has become a controversial topic in many areas of the public sphere, as nowadays we are witnessing changes in the discourses and languages evolving around, and feeding into, narratives of migration and the environment. This paper seeks to discuss the relationships between language uses and the representation of environmetal migrations

Environmental Hazards and Migrations: a rejoinder and a plea for discourse awareness

The connection between migration and the environment has become a controversial topic in many areas of the public sphere, as nowadays we are witnessing changes in the discourses and languages evolving around, and feeding into, narratives of migration and the environment. This paper seeks to discuss the relationships between language uses and the representation of environmetal migrations

Keeping the Threat Out Trump’s Discourse, the Wall and the “Other”

This paper discusses the discourse strategies used by former US President Donald Trump in the tweets in which he discusses the construction of the wall between the US and Mexico. Border walls play a very important role in today’s world in that they characterise discourses of exclusion and othering in geopolitical and cultural terms and indicate a revival of nationalism.  By employing Proximization Theory, this paper shows how certain lexico-grammatical features of Trump’s tweets contribute to a nationalist and populist discourse which legitimises the construction of the wall on the basis of the threat coming from an “Other”.This paper discusses the discourse strategies used by former US President Donald Trump in the tweets in which he discusses the construction of the wall between the US and Mexico. Border walls play a very important role in today’s world in that they characterise discourses of exclusion and othering in geopolitical and cultural terms and indicate a revival of nationalism.  By employing Proximization Theory, this paper shows how certain lexico-grammatical features of Trump’s tweets contribute to a nationalist and populist discourse which legitimises the construction of the wall on the basis of the threat coming from an “Other”

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Introduction

“The Languages and Anti-Languages of Health Communication in the Age of Conspiracy Theories, Mis/Disinformation and Hate Speech” aims at analysing the languages of discourse of health communication, specifically health message design, addressing COVID-19 in both institutional and non-institutional media settings. The purpose of this special issue is to explore the “anti-languages” and counter-discourses endorsing (mis/dis-)information, and conspiracy theories which are in direct opposition to official discourses and challenge social and political hegemony. The discourse approach to health communication featured in the papers of this special issue will help understanding social responses to sickness and belief related to health