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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

IDK fam, perhaps online translators need some human input somewhere along the way

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Come and join me in Vienna to learn about how and why people do nasty things with words (among other things).

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Just gonna leave this little nugget here for my all my corpus linguistics friends.

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Last Monday I had open heart surgery to replace my aortic valve. I was discharged yesterday. The story of me and my heart is a long, complicated one but 21 July 2025 is an inflection point.

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Me: I'd like like to enjoy a glass of wine on my birthday and just forget about the troubles of the world. My wineglass: Never change Poznan.

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Hence me oversleeping by 20mins this morning. Working a full time job AND playing in the Stanley Cup is tiring.

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Following @mh-christiansen.bsky.social's wonderful idea of asking students to produce meme's about their studies, I asked my intro critical discourse analysis class to meme the course....a selection.

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

@audreyalejandro.bsky.social So I asked my students to produce memes about our CDA course and this one made me smile

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I'll be summing up and finishing my undergrad CDS course with the help of this absolute mensch. We'll be talking about the role of the researcher, the role of the teacher, education as praxis and Peppa Pig (again)

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

2nd paper looking at 'Fascist themes among young MAGA men' by @a-b2.bsky.social @tinasoo5.bsky.social & colleagues. Using DHA to compare language of C20th fascism with that of current online MAGA spaces. They found similar antisemitic language but a relative lack of dehumanising terms 3/3

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

First presentation entitled "Ghosts in the Algorithm: Hidden Hate and Coded Speech on TikTok" looking at how users subvert AI and human moderation to continue hard and soft anti-trans hate speech - perhaps of interest to @stavrosling.bsky.social, @dimitrisrf.bsky.social 2/3

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Official start of the summer, IMHO

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Perfectly curated concert this weekend in Poznan, if you're a lover of police procedurals.

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

If he didn't know about it then it's a worrying lack of knowledge on the historical immigration discourse by the PM and his speech writers. If he DID know, then it shows he has no problem with the framing. Either option reflects very badly on Starmer

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

or it can used as a space to disrupt

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Like every public space, it can be used to carry on and plug into a dominant narrative

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This is what van Dijk would call a disclaimer. A version of 'we're not racist but...' The belief in this, as I argue in the book is cross-party. It is such a sedimented myth in British life, we cannot conceive of ourselves as ever doing the wrong thing...

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Listen up, there's good news and bad news.

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

No need to panic, one is going to cancel the other out, apparently.

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Fancy a read of the first chapter of my new book? academic.oup.com/book/59283/c...

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Yep, in this one we have: ‘HITLER WAS A LEFTY: Contrary to Communist propaganda the Nazis had nothing in common with the Right’. A colleague and I wrote a chapter on it: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Poznan friends. If you're at loose end this Sunday, take yourself off to Targi Rozmaitosci at Concordia. My wife, Ola, is there wilth her stained glass (IG: @powidoki_stained_glass) and there are lots of other amazing stalls.

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

My MA group and I were discussing this sign outside the toilets from a semiotic/multimodal perspective. IMHO, quite interesting. The symbols on the left are largely decodable by themselves, but to call them 'inclusive bathrooms' seems problematic.

Image of a sign for gender-neutral bathrooms, with a symbol on the left and 'inclusive bathroom' in Catalan on the right.

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Spotted in Valencia. A nice reframing of the process of migration/immigration.

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

FFS, so now I have to agree with her?

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

This year’s conference theme is "Borders and boundaries in/across discourses" but we are also happy to receive abstracts of discourse analytical work from any field that looks at, among others:

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Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Yep. Lovely garden view this AM not conducive to staring at a screen

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