Three’s a lucky #

Workshop Poster – Copyright: Franz Frommann, 2025 For the third time now, argumentation and multimodality scholars team up to discuss…

Eco-linguistics and Promotional Discourse

VOLKSWAGEN ‚Nature Routes‘, 2024, BBDO Ecuador, Quito – Lürzer’s Archive 03/24.151 There’s nothing new under the sun. That’s what we…

ICOM#12 – Sadly, from Afar

This was to be my annual conference highlight: I was looking forward to meeting long-time and new colleagues, learning about…

Handbook Chapters – Oh no, not again!

Even though I’ve been in the academic business long enough to know better, I did accept another invitation to contribute…

Looking back on the Summer

Usually, my page-entries look ahead to upcoming events. That this is a post-hoc, reminiscing comment must mean I’ve been neglecting…

Editorial Pains – Editorial Gains

My ambitions were never very high regarding editing something larger than an individual volume. It took the persuasive powers of…

What’s New in Discourse Linguistics?

This is what we were curious about and decided to take the opportunity to invite some colleagues who must know…

Reviewing can be Rewarding

It is a well-known paradox of our profession that reviewing doesn’t pay (in any sense of the word) but still…

A very Special Special Issue

I was relieved when the special issue on ‚Multimodal Argumentation‘ finally saw the light of day in the Journal of…

Setting up a Series – (Trying)

I am infinitely grateful that the workshop on multimodal argumentation I started at Salzburg last April now find its nearly…