Discourse & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Discourse & Society is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Managing moral category implications of former drug addiction98
Antisemitism in contemporary Türkiye: Discourses on Turkish Jews on Twitter35
Dispatching First Responders: Language Practices and the Dispatcher’s Operational Role in Radio Encounters With Police Officers19
Identity in crisis: Power, agency, and subjugation in the small stories of the Moroccan diaspora in Spain19
Book review: Chris Heffer, All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness17
Reacting to homophobia in a French online discussion: The fuzzy boundaries between heteronormativity and homophobia17
Neoliberalism, alternatives and (de)politicisation: Analysis of political discourse during the coronavirus crisis15
Book review: I. Theodoropoulou and J. Tovar (eds), Research Companion to Language and Country Branding [Routledge Studies in Language and Identity] TheodoropoulouI.Tovar15
Rags to riches: A critical analysis of social mobility discourse, ideology and power in neoliberal Indonesia14
Authoritarian stereotyping: Values, judgements and representations of groups in conversations on news14
‘Feel like going crazy’: Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-1914
A clumsy messenger with a flippant tongue: Reported speech by Chinese males between their mothers and wives13
Mining misinformation discourse on social media within the ‘ideological square’13
From marginalization to resistance: A critical discourse analysis of indigenous Tao anti-racist and anti-nuclear waste narratives in Taiwan13
Resistant discourse strategies in social media in China’s epidemic prevention context12
Reporting the news: How Breitbart derives legitimacy from recontextualised news11
Denying racial animus: Political discourse in Arizona anti-ethnic studies legislation11
Speech act of flaming: A pragmatic analysis of Twitter trolling in Pakistan10
Accounting for discrimination through categorization work: An examination of the target-of-discrimination group members’ practices10
A critical enthymematic deconstruction of anti/pro LGBTQ+ arguments on Malaysian social media10
Linguistic encoding of women’s agency in the German political discourse on abortion: A diachronic Critical Discourse Analysis9
Analysis of governmental open letters mobilizing residents in China during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Afro-diasporan racial discourse in Germany8
Book review: Nataša Lacković and Alin Olteanu, Relational and Multimodal Higher Education: Digital, Social and Environmental Perspectives LackovićNatašaOlteanuAlin, Rela8
Delving deeper into OpIndia.com’s representation of Hindus and Muslims8
Political alliance with COVID-19: Macedonian politics and the strategic use of the pandemic7
Book review: Teun A. van Dijk, Social Movement Discourse: An Introduction van DijkTeun A., Social Movement Discourse: An Introduction, London and New York, NY: Routledge7
Changing concepts of greenhouse gas expressions: Discursive specialization in parliamentary discourses on climate change7
‘The ultimate violation’: A linguistic taxonomy for rape euphemisms in courtroom discourse7
Surveillant care or benevolent control? A multimodal genre and sentiment analysis of therapeutic mHealth app reviews7
‘It will never be well with SARS’: A discourse analytic study of the #EndSARS protests on social media7
Book review: Jonathan Charteris-Black, Metaphors of Coronavirus: Invisible Enemy or Zombie Apocalypse?6
‘Noticias no son noticias, ¿no?’: Mexican perspectives on violence in the media and the war on drugs6
Never have they had any chance to spread their wings’: The construction of agency and socio-gender identity of Iranian women6
Decoding intentions in evaluations: A discursive study of disputants’ discourses in Chinese family mediation6
Religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse: Towards a critical religious tolerance6
Friends, enemies, and agonists: Politics, morality and media in the COVID-19 conjuncture5
‘[P]aying back to the community and to the British people’: Migration as transactional discourse in curated stories by UK charity organisations5
Book review: Mark Nartey, Political Myth-Making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction and Promotion of the African Dream5
Appified surveillance: TripAdvisor as a site for entextualized surveillant assemblage5
Rule 1: Remember the human. A socio-cognitive discourse study of a Reddit forum banned for promoting hate based on identity5
Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability5
Gender and politics in a digitalised world: Investigating online hostility against UK female MPs4
A discourse analysis of critical commenting online: A study of comments on a self-mockery event4
‘Wrap our arms around them here in Ireland’: Social media campaigns in the Irish abortion referendum4
An analysis of self-other representations in the incelosphere: Between online misogyny and self-contempt4
Kindness in British communities: Discursive practices of promoting kindness during the Covid pandemic4
‘I’m not blue or green. I’m black’. The participatory entextualization of translingual memes and metapragmatic comments in transnational sociopolitical discourse4
‘I have controlled so much’: Discourse of prison violence4
‘Language’, power and liberty: Discursive constructions of Ghanaian glossolalic speeches4
Discursive pragmatics of justification in terrorist threat texts: Victim-blaming, denying, discrediting, legitimating, manipulating, and retaliation3
Book review: Kristin Enola Gilbert and Gregory Matoesian, Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups3
Book review: Risa Applegarth, Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency ApplegarthRisa, Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency, Columbus, OH: Ohio State U3
Book review: Cynthia Gordon (ed.), Approaches to Discourse Analysis3
Debating the legal recognition of gender identity in parliamentary discourse: Human rights and queer politics3
Gesture and legitimation in the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage3
Nationalism in discursive legitimation: An analysis of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s ‘bamboo diplomacy’ discourse on digital journalism3
Book review: Jesse W. C. Yip, Discourse of Online Social Support: A Study of Online Self-Help Groups for Anxiety and Depression3
Book review: Colleen Elizabeth Kelley, A Rhetoric of Divisive Partisanship: The 2016 American Presidential Campaign Discourse of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump3
Book review: Casey Ryan Kelly, Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood KellyCasey Ryan, Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rh3
Book review: Lisa Nahajec, Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts: A Textual and Communicative Perspective3
Book review: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Malcolm Coulthard (eds.), Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, 2nd edn3
Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-193
Toward integrative triangulation in discourse-historical approach2
Book review: Theresa Catalano and Linda R. Waugh, Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond2
The normalisation of the far right in the Dutch media in the run-up to the 2021 general elections2
Book review: Gwen Bouvier and Joel Rasmussen, Qualitative Research Using Social Media2
Book review: William Simpson, Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching2
Preempting the past: How the future space unfolds in political discourse of Iran2
Book review: Rodney H Jones (ed.), Viral Discourse2
‘Her life saves lives’; ‘This war must end’: Personal trauma as ground for change when subjective accounts defy facts2
Book review: Anaïs Augé, Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse2
Book review: David Machin and Andrea Mayr, How to do Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal Introduction2
A discursive study of parents’ identity construction in Chinese wedding ceremony2
Book review: Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson, Academic Irregularities: Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education2
Digital resistance: Discursive construction of polarization and otherness in Oduduwa secessionists’ social media discourse2
Living with contradictions: A corpus-assisted analysis of grown-up left-behind children discourses in Zhihu2
‘Like the virus just brings out the worst in people’: Positioning and identity in student narratives during the Covid-19 outbreak in Australia1
Regular selves constructed through genres: A socio-cognitive approach to the study of positioning acts in Italian rectors’ inaugural speeches1
Book review: Elena dell’Agnese, Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse1
Misogyny in election discourse: Analysing the 2019 General Elections in India1
De figuris caporali: The emerging social representations and ideologies of caporali in narratives of power and control1
Racist discourse in a German far-right blog: A corpus-driven approach using word embeddings1
The gendered semiotics of far-right populism on Instagram: A case from Spain1
Reporting assassinations in the Ethiopian press1
The ‘pathologically state dependent’ versus ‘middle-aged ministers on mammoth salaries’: The legitimation contest over a 2013 austerity measure in the Republic of Ireland1
Book review: Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting: Linking Linguistic Approaches With Socio-cultural Interpretation1
Review forum of Tamar Katriel’s book Defiant Discourse1
Super, social, medical: Person-first and identity-first representations of disabled people in Australian newspapers, 2000–20191
“A radical point of view”: The discursive construction of the political identity of student activists1
The abnormalisation of social justice: The ‘anti-woke culture war’ discourse in the UK1
Value frames in discourse supporting transgender athlete bans1
If not a ‘macho’, then who did it? Social actors and the violence of Mexico1
Distinction within the ‘global north’? A Bourdieusian approach for analysing development discourse: The case of U.S. and E.U. relations with the Colombian state (2016–2022): A comparative analysis1
Book review: Ryan Durgasingh and Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon (eds), Caribbean Discourses: Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean1
The critical cognitive analysis of “hyper-securitization” strategy: A case study of China’s official discourse on the “Japan nuclear contaminated water discharge incident”1
Book review: Gavin Brookes and Paul Baker, Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press1
Book review: Robert Poole, Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics1
Book review: Tara Coltman-Patel, (Mis)Representing Weight and Obesity in the British Press: Fear, Divisiveness, Shame and Stigma1
Misandry, authorities, and gender politics on Weibo: A discourse analytic case study of the 2022 Tangshan restaurant attack in China1
Political narratives and reconfiguration of Adivasi identity in Jharkhand1
Discourses of leadership in the 2015–2023 Poland: From conflict and crisis, to a “smiling state”1
The Islamic State’s use of the Qur’an in its Magazines, Dabiq and Rumiyah1
Political orientation in media treatment of police violence: Evidence from modal adjectives1
Introduction: Special issue on the discourses of poverty1
Book review: Andrea McDonnell, Celebrity Rhetoric and Sexual Misconduct Cases: Discursive Self-Cleaving0
Emergent intertextual networks: Intertextuality in storytelling about intimate partner violence and the revisioning of social norms0
Talking of poverty: From the analytical to the political0
“Hug you tightly”: Displaying warm affectivity in online advice about family trauma0
Constructing threat through proximization in digital news: A multimodal analysis0
Book review: Joseph Comer, Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality0
Not ready for democracy: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the representation of majorities in Arabic media narratives0
“The impacts are not evenly distributed”: Representation and inclusion of marginalized groups in authorities’ COVID-19 communication0
Fortifying the otherness in Montenegrin political discourse0
Occupying the streets, occupying words. Reframing new feminisms through reappropriation0
The Good, the Bad and the Other: Discursive constructions of nations in Voice of America’s international news0
Book review: Sabine Tan and K. L. E. Marissa (eds), Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach TanSabineMarissa0
Book review: Sigrid Norris, Systematically Working With Multimodal Data: Research Methods in Multimodal Discourse Analysis0
Discursive construction of migrant otherness on Facebook: A distributional semantics approach0
‘Italians locked at home, illegal migrants free to disembark’: How populist parties re-contextualized the anti-immigration discourse at the time of COVID-19 pandemic0
Book review: Rowan R Mackay, Multimodal Legitimation: Understanding and Analysing Political and Cultural Discourse0
You’re a murderer: Critical discourse analysis of conversations around abortions in the Russian talk show0
The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China0
Delegitimating a contested cultural practice “guanxixue” in a Chinese official newspaper0
Reclaiming sociolinguistic identity through graffiti art: A social semiotics approach to wall expressions0
Book review: Mike Savage, The Return of Inequality. Social Change and the Weight of the Past0
Sustaining or overcoming distance in representations of U.S. drone strikes0
‘It was Never Just About the Statue’: Ethos of historical figures in public debates on contested cultural objects0
‘Welcome to favelas, but in Italy’: Urban precariousness, right-wing ideology and phatic nihilism on social media0
‘Please don’t insult Dog. He is a loyal friend!’ The use of animal metaphors for evaluation and positioning on a Chinese Political Web Forum0
Constructing COVID-19: A corpus-informed analysis of prime ministerial crisis response communication by gender0
Can space be conceptualized in a different way in political discourse? An extended application of Discourse Space Theory0
Illegitimation of same-sex sexualities in news reports of selected Nigerian newspapers0
Analysing agency in linguistic representations of action0
‘Nothing Can Stop What’s Coming’: An analysis of the conspiracy theory discourse on 4chan’s /Pol board0
Book review: Anne-Mette Hermans, Discourses of Perfection: Representing Cosmetic Procedures and Beauty Products in UK Lifestyle Magazines0
Narrating the ‘new normal’ or pre-legitimising media control? COVID-19 and the discursive shifts in the far-right imaginary of ‘crisis’ as a normalisation strategy0
What if migrants were only people and relatives? Designations used to name people on the move in the Belgian media0
Book review: Ali Almanna and Chonglong Gu (eds), Translation as a Set of Frames0
Book review: Shi-xu (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies0
Book review: Frazer Heritage and Charlotte Taylor (Eds.), Analysing Representation: A Corpus and Discourse Textbook HeritageFrazerTaylorCharlotte (Eds.), Analysing Repre0
Book Review: Claire Sisco King, Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity0
‘Hopefully this will be a wake-up call on how we treat migrant workers’: National wokeness in press reports during the Covid-19 pandemic0
‘Sorry everything’s in bags’: The accountability of selling bread at a market during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Worthiness, unity, numbers and commitment: Strengthening qualitative corpus methods in the critical discourse analysis of protest press coverage0
Levelling, differentiation and structure of feeling: Address and interlocutor reference in Indonesian political interviews0
‘As long as you have the guts’: The discourse of drug offending0
Legitimizing Germany’s intervention policy: A discourse analysis of German media’s coverage on supplying weapons to Ukraine0
Public pedagogies in post-literate cultures0
‘Retire, play petanque, take synthrom, travel, eat a blue pill and screw two old ladies’: Ageist language in Spain on Twitter0
Book review: Anesa P and Engberg J (eds.), The Digital (R)Evolution of Legal Discourse. New Genres, Media, and Linguistic Practices0
Orchestration of perspectives in televised climate change debates0
Book review: Teresa Oteíza, What to Remember, What to Teach: Human Rights Violations in Chile’s Recent Past and the Pedagogical Discourse of History OteízaTeresa, What t0
The limits to growth(ism) in ChatGPT—corpus assisted discourse studies in AI-generated texts0
Book review: Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin (eds), Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From Global to Local Discourses NevalaMinnaPalander-CollinMinna 0
Cartooning and sexism in the time of Covid-19: Metaphors and metonymies in the Arab mind0
Marginal voices: Exploring presence and participation in interaction in child protection conferences0
Historical explanations in the Rettig Report: The role of interpersonal grammatical metaphors0
Music as symbolic action0
The intertextuality and interdiscursivity of “mirroring” in South Korean cyberfeminist posts0
The generic uniqueness of AI imagery: A critical approach to Dall-E as semiotic technology0
Taboo language in a sample of Egyptian op-eds: A corpus-based socio-cognitive study0
Book review: Louise Ravelli, Theo van Leeuwen, Markus A. Höllerer and Dennis Jancsary (eds), Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectives on Organizational Studies 0
#AllCatsAreBeautiful: Ambient affiliation and the visual-verbal representation and appreciation of cats in online subversive discourses0
Critical analysis of dehumanizing news photographs on immigrants: Examples of the portrayal of non-citizenship0
The master’s tools: Media repurposing of exclusionary metaphors to challenge racist constructions of migrants0
The discursive role of the label “PC”: Analyzing changes in discriminatory language with the condemnation model0
Book review: Anna De Fina and Gerardo Mazzaferro (eds), Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries0
Book review: Angela Zottola, Transgender Identities in the Press. A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis0
A multimodal discourse study of selected COVID-19 online public health campaign texts in Nigeria0
Book review: Chilton, P., Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy ChiltonP., (2024). Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy. Cambridge: Camb0
Look, Dude: How hyperpartisan and non-hyperpartisan speech differ in online commentary0
Book review: Theo van Leeuwen, Multimodality and Identity0
Book review: Raili Marling and Marko Pajević (eds), Care, Control and COVID-19. Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature0
Book review: Crispin Thurlow, Christa Dürscheid and Federica Diémoz (eds), Visualizing Digital Discourse: Interactional, Institutional and Ideological Perspectives0
The disappearance of ‘poverty’ in Dutch House of Representatives debates on the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT)0
Sexism in Facebook discourse about clergy misconduct0
Evolutions in hegemonic discourses of climate change: An ecomodern enactment of implicatory denial0
Book review: Aurora Donzelli, One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia0
Discursive representations of tongqi in selected Chinese newspapers0
When science communication meets politics: A corpus-assisted discourse study of the Congressional hearing on TikTok0
Integrating older persons’ narratives of resistance with critical discourse analysis to counter ageist discourses0
News media and the politics of fear: Normalization and contrastive discourses in the reporting on terrorist attacks in Sweden and the UK0
Book review: Jef Verschueren, Complicity in Discourse and Practice0
Book review: Dezheng (William) Feng, Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China0
Understanding emotions in hate speech: A methodology for discourse analysis0
Book review: Eva M Gómez-Jiménez and Michael Toolan (eds), The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality: CADS Approaches to the British Media0
The normalization of far-right populism and nativist authoritarianism: discursive practices in media, journalism and the wider public sphere/s0
An empirical study on court-related mediator’s discourse strategies from the perspective of proximization: Based on a workplace injury pretrial mediation case0
Book review: Clare Cunningham and Christopher J Hall (eds), Vulnerabilities, Challenges and Risks in Applied Linguistics0
Book review: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Malcolm Coulthard (eds.), Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis Caldas-Coulthard0
Book review: Gwynne Mapes, Elite Authenticity: Remaking Distinction in Food Discourse0
Unhinged consumerism or aspirational organisation? A critical discourse analysis of restock videos0
TikTok as a site of social protest in Iran’s Gen-Z uprising0
Book review: Michael Handford and James Paul Gee (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis0
Poverty constructions and discursive strategies employed by participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment0
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes in Oman0
Book review: Germán Canale, A Multimodal and Ethnographic Approach to Textbook Discourse CanaleGermán, A Multimodal and Ethnographic Approach to Textbook Discourse. New 0
‘JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW’: Textual trajectories in emergency medical dispatch0
Eberhard Kranzmayer’s dovetailing with Nazism: His fascist years and the ‘One Standard German Axiom (OSGA)’0
From criticism to conspiracies: The populist discourse of COVID-19 sceptics in Germany’s Querdenken community on Telegram0
The US-China battle over Coronavirus in the news media: Metaphor transfer as a representation of stance mediation0
The potential of creative uses of metonymy for climate protest0
Mines, environment, questions, and disagreements: An analysis of the Turów coal mine disputes0
Ideology and the contextualization of ancient Chinese judicial opinions0
Book review: Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem0
Living on a low income during the cost-of-living crisis: Exploring experiences and perceptions0
‘Which would be more democratic? Allowing them the opportunity to change their mind or pressing on regardless’: A discursive psychological study of arguments for and against calls for a second Brexit 0
Field relations in lawyers’ courtroom discourse: Understanding fact construction0
‘More profound than fire or electricity’: The role of analogies in legitimizing ChatGPT’s revolutionary nature0
Book review: Riley Clare Valentine, Progressive Liberalism and Neoliberalism in American Politics: The Heterodoxical Imperative ValentineRiley Clare, Progressive Liberal0
(De)legitimation of COVID-19 vaccination narratives on Facebook comments in Romania: Beyond the co-occurrence patterns of discursive strategies0
Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-190
Book review: Montesano Montessori N, Farrelly M and Mulderrig J (eds.), Critical Policy Discourse Analysis0
Synthetic personalization and the legitimization of the Crimean annexation: A discourse analysis of Vladimir Putin’s March 2014 presidential address0
Book review: Marissa KLE, Discourses of Neoliberalism in Singapore’s Higher Education Context: Individualist and Communitarian Perspectives0
To change or not to change: Transformations of ecological metaphors in Chinese government microblogs0
Book review: Michael Farrelly, Discourse and Democracy. Critical Analysis of the Language of Government0
Book Review: Hansun Zhang Waring and Nadja Tadic (eds.), Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction0
In/exclusion in fashion discourse: Are we in or out?0
Bloody widows? Discourses of tradition and gender in Ghanaian politics0
Shameless normalization as a result of media control: The case of Austria0
Alternative ‘Lives Matter’ formulations in online discussions about Black Lives Matter: Use, support and resistance0
The view from ‘My Pitch’: Homeless voices in The Big Issue during the cost-of-living crisis0
Why do we need a sociocognitive-CDA in hate speech studies? A corpus-based systematic review0
‘Relatively civilized, relatively European’: Offence and online (de)normalization of media racism0
From fallacies to semi-fake news: Improving the identification of misinformation triggers across digital media0
Representations of LGBT people in Vietnamese online newspapers: A corpus-assisted critical discourse study0
Seeking safety, finding fear: Corpus-assisted discourse analysis of electoral immigration detention discourse in three countries0
Thinking different as an act of resistance: Reconceptualizing the German protests in the COVID-19 pandemic as an emergent counter-knowledge order0
To share vulnerability is to show strength: A discursive study of self-disclosure by Chinese cancer patients on short-form video platforms0
Defining, labelling and evaluating poverty: A corpus-based discourse analysis of category construction in The Times newspaper 1900–20090
‘The land of your fathers lieth in ruins’: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria’s 2023 pre- election crises-related internet memes0
Book review: Mathew Gillings, Gerlinde Mautner, and Paul Baker, Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies0
Book review: Rosa Freedman, David Hirsh and Odeliya Lanir Zafir (eds), Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse FreedmanRosaHirshDavidZafirOdeliya Lanir (eds), Resp0
Book review: Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, British and American Representations of 9/11: Literature, Politics and the Media0
Whose Satan? U.S. mainstream media depictions of The Satanic Temple0
Book review: Majid KhosraviNik (ed.), Social Media Critical Discourse Studies0
ChatGPT-4 as a journalist: Whose perspectives is it reproducing?0
Mothers as stancetakers: Intertextuality in same-sex marriage debates in Taiwan0
Unravelling the Global Britain vision? International relationships and national identity in UK Government documents about Brexit, 2016–20190
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