David Block (5.3.2024): Political discourse in a digitalized toxic informational environment: From post-truth to diagonalism

David Block is Honorary Professor in Sociolinguistics in the Departament d’Humanitats at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Over the past four decades, he has published books on a range of topics related to contemporary life, drawing on scholarship in political economy, history, sociolinguistics, sociology, anthropology and geography. His most recent single-authored books are are Political Economy and Sociolinguistics: Neoliberalism, Inequality and Social Class (Bloomsbury, 2018); Post-Truth and Political Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research (Routledge, 2022) and Interviews in Applied Linguistics: Autobiographical Reflections on Research Processes (Routledge, 2024). He is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences (UK), Visiting Professor at University College London Institute of Education and co-editor of the Routledge book series Language, Society and Political Economy.