1st International Symposium

Evaluative Language
in Social Media

A two-day scholarly gathering on how people are evaluated — positively and negatively — in online discourse.

About the symposium

The 1st International Symposium on Evaluative Language in Social Media examines how appraisal — the linguistic expression of judgement, emotion and value — shapes the way women and men are represented across TikTok, Instagram and X.

Bringing together linguists, discourse analysts and social-media researchers, it maps the mechanisms through which evaluation is constructed, circulated and contested online.

The event is organised within the research project CIAICO/2023/187 — a multimodal, multilingual database for identifying and classifying mechanisms of appraisal toward women and men on TikTok, Instagram and X.

Visit the project site →

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Thematic panels

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Gender

How evaluative language encodes and reproduces gendered norms in social-media discourse.

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Emotions

Affect, sentiment and the emotional dimension of online appraisal.

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Hate speech

Linguistic markers, escalation and the analysis of hostile evaluative discourse.

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Racism

Racialised evaluation and its discursive construction across platforms.

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Plenary speakers

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Niall Curry

Manchester Metropolitan University

Corpus linguist working on discourse, evaluation and the methods of analysing language at scale.

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To be announced

Second plenary speaker

A second plenary speaker will be confirmed shortly.

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Key dates

Department of Applied Linguistics, UPV

Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Valencia is served by an international airport and high-speed rail; the UPV campus is reachable by metro and bus.

November in Valencia is mild — expect 15–22 °C and bright Mediterranean light.

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Organising committee & contact

Organising committee members to be announced.