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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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To share vulnerability is to show strength: A discursive study of self-disclosure by Chinese cancer patients on short-form video platforms75
To change or not to change: Transformations of ecological metaphors in Chinese government microblogs47
Corruption in a Greek context: Analyzing a newspaper’s discourse on a major political scandal28
‘Feel like going crazy’: Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-1924
Racist discourse in a German far-right blog: A corpus-driven approach using word embeddings24
Book review: Chris Heffer, All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness21
Book review: Michael Handford and James Paul Gee (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis17
Antisemitism in contemporary Türkiye: Discourses on Turkish Jews on Twitter15
‘It was Never Just About the Statue’: Ethos of historical figures in public debates on contested cultural objects14
Book review: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Malcolm Coulthard (eds.), Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis14
Managing moral category implications of former drug addiction13
Look, Dude: How hyperpartisan and non-hyperpartisan speech differ in online commentary13
Identity in crisis: Power, agency, and subjugation in the small stories of the Moroccan diaspora in Spain12
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 strategy12
‘You come back fighting. That’s what gives you the drive to achieve’: The extraordinary psychological construction of the super-rich in entertainment documentaries10
Neoliberalism, alternatives and (de)politicisation: Analysis of political discourse during the coronavirus crisis10
Sustaining or overcoming distance in representations of U.S. drone strikes10
Dispatching First Responders: Language Practices and the Dispatcher’s Operational Role in Radio Encounters With Police Officers10
Book reviews: Helen Caple, Changpeng Huan and Monika Bednarek, Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures10
Legitimizing Germany’s intervention policy: A discourse analysis of German media’s coverage on supplying weapons to Ukraine9
‘Welcome to favelas, but in Italy’: Urban precariousness, right-wing ideology and phatic nihilism on social media9
Occupying the streets, occupying words. Reframing new feminisms through reappropriation9
A discourse analysis of critical commenting online: A study of comments on a self-mockery event9
From criticism to conspiracies: The populist discourse of COVID-19 sceptics in Germany’s Querdenken community on Telegram8
Levelling, differentiation and structure of feeling: Address and interlocutor reference in Indonesian political interviews8
Kindness in British communities: Discursive practices of promoting kindness during the Covid pandemic8
Sexism in Facebook discourse about clergy misconduct7
‘I have controlled so much’: Discourse of prison violence7
Book review: Jef Verschueren, Complicity in Discourse and Practice7
Political orientation in media treatment of police violence: Evidence from modal adjectives7
A bibliometric analysis of critical discourse analysis and its implications6
Book review: I. Theodoropoulou and J. Tovar (eds), Research Companion to Language and Country Branding [Routledge Studies in Language and Identity] TheodoropoulouI.Tovar6
The abnormalisation of social justice: The ‘anti-woke culture war’ discourse in the UK6
Reacting to homophobia in a French online discussion: The fuzzy boundaries between heteronormativity and homophobia6
Analysing agency in linguistic representations of action6
The view from ‘My Pitch’: Homeless voices in The Big Issue during the cost-of-living crisis6
Book review: Risa Applegarth, Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency5
The democratic king: The role of ritualized flattery in political discourse5
Mining misinformation discourse on social media within the ‘ideological square’5
‘Wrap our arms around them here in Ireland’: Social media campaigns in the Irish abortion referendum5
Rags to riches: A critical analysis of social mobility discourse, ideology and power in neoliberal Indonesia4
Why do we need a sociocognitive-CDA in hate speech studies? A corpus-based systematic review4
Misogyny in election discourse: Analysing the 2019 General Elections in India4
Book review: Ryan Durgasingh and Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon (eds), Caribbean Discourses: Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean4
Evolutions in hegemonic discourses of climate change: An ecomodern enactment of implicatory denial4
Seeking safety, finding fear: Corpus-assisted discourse analysis of electoral immigration detention discourse in three countries4
Pandemic morality-in-action: Accounting for social action during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Book review: Tara Coltman-Patel, (Mis)Representing Weight and Obesity in the British Press: Fear, Divisiveness, Shame and Stigma4
Bloody widows? Discourses of tradition and gender in Ghanaian politics4
Book review: Mike Savage, The Return of Inequality. Social Change and the Weight of the Past3
‘Nothing Can Stop What’s Coming’: An analysis of the conspiracy theory discourse on 4chan’s /Pol board3
Book review: Theo van Leeuwen, Multimodality and Identity3
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 analysis3
Book review: Gavin Brookes and Paul Baker, Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press3
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 t3
What if migrants were only people and relatives? Designations used to name people on the move in the Belgian media3
Book Review: Hansun Zhang Waring and Nadja Tadic (eds.), Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction3
Book review: Raili Marling and Marko Pajević (eds), Care, Control and COVID-19. Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature3
Regular selves constructed through genres: A socio-cognitive approach to the study of positioning acts in Italian rectors’ inaugural speeches3
Book review: Jesse W. C. Yip, Discourse of Online Social Support: A Study of Online Self-Help Groups for Anxiety and Depression3
‘Language’, power and liberty: Discursive constructions of Ghanaian glossolalic speeches3
Critical analysis of dehumanizing news photographs on immigrants: Examples of the portrayal of non-citizenship2
Constructing COVID-19: A corpus-informed analysis of prime ministerial crisis response communication by gender2
Book review: Angela Zottola, Transgender Identities in the Press. A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis2
Defining, labelling and evaluating poverty: A corpus-based discourse analysis of category construction in The Times newspaper 1900–20092
Value frames in discourse supporting transgender athlete bans2
Resistant discourse strategies in social media in China’s epidemic prevention context2
You’re a murderer: Critical discourse analysis of conversations around abortions in the Russian talk show2
Book review: Dezheng (William) Feng, Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China2
Super, social, medical: Person-first and identity-first representations of disabled people in Australian newspapers, 2000–20192
A clumsy messenger with a flippant tongue: Reported speech by Chinese males between their mothers and wives2
(De)legitimation of COVID-19 vaccination narratives on Facebook comments in Romania: Beyond the co-occurrence patterns of discursive strategies2
Whose Satan? U.S. mainstream media depictions of The Satanic Temple2
‘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 2
Book reviews: Juan Eduardo Bonnin, Discourse and Mental Health: Voice, Inequality and Resistance in Medical Settings2
Book review: Marissa KLE, Discourses of Neoliberalism in Singapore’s Higher Education Context: Individualist and Communitarian Perspectives2
Book Review: Claire Sisco King, Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity2
Discourses of leadership in the 2015–2023 Poland: From conflict and crisis, to a “smiling state”2
The ‘pathologically state dependent’ versus ‘middle-aged ministers on mammoth salaries’: The legitimation contest over a 2013 austerity measure in the Republic of Ireland2
Ideology in the linguistic landscape: Towards a quantitative approach1
Book review: Cynthia Gordon (ed.), Approaches to Discourse Analysis1
Book review: Ali Almanna and Chonglong Gu (eds), Translation as a Set of Frames1
Book review: Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, British and American Representations of 9/11: Literature, Politics and the Media1
‘Please don’t insult Dog. He is a loyal friend!’ The use of animal metaphors for evaluation and positioning on a Chinese Political Web Forum1
Denying racial animus: Political discourse in Arizona anti-ethnic studies legislation1
An empirical study on court-related mediator’s discourse strategies from the perspective of proximization: Based on a workplace injury pretrial mediation case1
Book review: Colleen Elizabeth Kelley, A Rhetoric of Divisive Partisanship: The 2016 American Presidential Campaign Discourse of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump1
Debating the legal recognition of gender identity in parliamentary discourse: Human rights and queer politics1
‘Hopefully this will be a wake-up call on how we treat migrant workers’: National wokeness in press reports during the Covid-19 pandemic1
The disappearance of ‘poverty’ in Dutch House of Representatives debates on the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT)1
Public pedagogies in post-literate cultures1
Misandry, authorities, and gender politics on Weibo: A discourse analytic case study of the 2022 Tangshan restaurant attack in China1
A critical enthymematic deconstruction of anti/pro LGBTQ+ arguments on Malaysian social media1
Unravelling the Global Britain vision? International relationships and national identity in UK Government documents about Brexit, 2016–20191
Understanding emotions in hate speech: A methodology for discourse analysis1
Corpus-based analysis of genetically modified seed discourse1
Book review: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Malcolm Coulthard (eds.), Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, 2nd edn1
The generic uniqueness of AI imagery: A critical approach to Dall-E as semiotic technology1
Reporting the news: How Breitbart derives legitimacy from recontextualised news1
Poverty constructions and discursive strategies employed by participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment1
Book review: Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting: Linking Linguistic Approaches With Socio-cultural Interpretation1
‘As long as you have the guts’: The discourse of drug offending1
Book review: Shi-xu (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies0
Book reviews: Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio, Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro and Francesca De Cesare (eds), Populist Discourse. Critical Approaches to Contemporary Politics0
Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-190
Mothers as stancetakers: Intertextuality in same-sex marriage debates in Taiwan0
Exploring vegan ideology through graffiti slogans0
Delving deeper into OpIndia.com’s representation of Hindus and Muslims0
Book review: Michael Farrelly, Discourse and Democracy. Critical Analysis of the Language of Government0
Synthetic personalization and the legitimization of the Crimean annexation: A discourse analysis of Vladimir Putin’s March 2014 presidential address0
Religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse: Towards a critical religious tolerance0
The critical cognitive analysis of “hyper-securitization” strategy: A case study of China’s official discourse on the “Japan nuclear contaminated water discharge incident”0
‘It will never be well with SARS’: A discourse analytic study of the #EndSARS protests on social media0
Gender and politics in a digitalised world: Investigating online hostility against UK female MPs0
Book review: Kristin Enola Gilbert and Gregory Matoesian, Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups0
Deficiencies and loopholes: Clashing discourses, problems and solutions in Australian migration advice regulation0
Book review: Rowan R Mackay, Multimodal Legitimation: Understanding and Analysing Political and Cultural Discourse0
A discursive study of parents’ identity construction in Chinese wedding ceremony0
Shameless normalization as a result of media control: The case of Austria0
Book review: Majid KhosraviNik (ed.), Social Media Critical Discourse Studies0
The normalisation of the far right in the Dutch media in the run-up to the 2021 general elections0
‘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
The discursive role of the label “PC”: Analyzing changes in discriminatory language with the condemnation model0
Book reviews: Janet McIntosh and Norma Mendoza-Denton, Language in the Trump Era. Scandals and Emergencies0
News media and the politics of fear: Normalization and contrastive discourses in the reporting on terrorist attacks in Sweden and the UK0
Who should apologise: Expressing criticism of public figures on Chinese social media in times of COVID-190
The master’s tools: Media repurposing of exclusionary metaphors to challenge racist constructions of migrants0
Book review: Rosa Freedman, David Hirsh and Odeliya Lanir Zafir (eds), Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse0
Historical explanations in the Rettig Report: The role of interpersonal grammatical metaphors0
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
Mines, environment, questions, and disagreements: An analysis of the Turów coal mine disputes0
Book review: Sigrid Norris, Systematically Working With Multimodal Data: Research Methods in Multimodal Discourse Analysis0
Talking of poverty: From the analytical to the political0
Book review: Aurora Donzelli, One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia0
Living with contradictions: A corpus-assisted analysis of grown-up left-behind children discourses in Zhihu0
Fortifying the otherness in Montenegrin political discourse0
What gets lost in Twitter ‘cancel culture’ hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns0
Discursive construction of migrant otherness on Facebook: A distributional semantics approach0
‘[P]aying back to the community and to the British people’: Migration as transactional discourse in curated stories by UK charity organisations0
Can space be conceptualized in a different way in political discourse? An extended application of Discourse Space Theory0
TikTok as a site of social protest in Iran’s Gen-Z uprising0
Book review: Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson, Academic Irregularities: Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education0
Decoding intentions in evaluations: A discursive study of disputants’ discourses in Chinese family mediation0
Book review: Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem0
Book review: William Simpson, Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching0
Orchestration of perspectives in televised climate change debates0
Review forum of Tamar Katriel’s book Defiant Discourse0
Rethinking ‘the personal is political:’ Enacting agency in the narrative of sexual harassment experiences in China0
Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability0
Accounting for discrimination through categorization work: An examination of the target-of-discrimination group members’ practices0
Introduction: Special issue on the discourses of poverty0
Book review: Eva M Gómez-Jiménez and Michael Toolan (eds), The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality: CADS Approaches to the British Media0
Book review: Theresa Catalano and Linda R. Waugh, Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond0
Discursive representations of tongqi in selected Chinese newspapers0
Book review: David Machin and Andrea Mayr, How to do Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal Introduction0
‘Retire, play petanque, take synthrom, travel, eat a blue pill and screw two old ladies’: Ageist language in Spain on Twitter0
Nationalism in discursive legitimation: An analysis of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s ‘bamboo diplomacy’ discourse on digital journalism0
Eberhard Kranzmayer’s dovetailing with Nazism: His fascist years and the ‘One Standard German Axiom (OSGA)’0
Rule 1: Remember the human. A socio-cognitive discourse study of a Reddit forum banned for promoting hate based on identity0
Cartooning and sexism in the time of Covid-19: Metaphors and metonymies in the Arab mind0
Gesture and legitimation in the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage0
Speech act of flaming: A pragmatic analysis of Twitter trolling in Pakistan0
Book review: Gwen Bouvier and Joel Rasmussen, Qualitative Research Using Social Media0
Preempting the past: How the future space unfolds in political discourse of Iran0
Afro-diasporan racial discourse in Germany0
Worthiness, unity, numbers and commitment: Strengthening qualitative corpus methods in the critical discourse analysis of protest press coverage0
Book review: Joseph Comer, Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality0
“A radical point of view”: The discursive construction of the political identity of student activists0
‘Like the virus just brings out the worst in people’: Positioning and identity in student narratives during the Covid-19 outbreak in Australia0
Reporting assassinations in the Ethiopian press0
Illegitimation of same-sex sexualities in news reports of selected Nigerian newspapers0
Discursive pragmatics of justification in terrorist threat texts: Victim-blaming, denying, discrediting, legitimating, manipulating, and retaliation0
In/exclusion in fashion discourse: Are we in or out?0
Book review: Crispin Thurlow, Christa Dürscheid and Federica Diémoz (eds), Visualizing Digital Discourse: Interactional, Institutional and Ideological Perspectives0
The Islamic State’s use of the Qur’an in its Magazines, Dabiq and Rumiyah0
The US-China battle over Coronavirus in the news media: Metaphor transfer as a representation of stance mediation0
Never have they had any chance to spread their wings’: The construction of agency and socio-gender identity of Iranian women0
Book review: Clare Cunningham and Christopher J Hall (eds), Vulnerabilities, Challenges and Risks in Applied Linguistics0
Book review: Lisa Nahajec, Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts: A Textual and Communicative Perspective0
An analysis of self-other representations in the incelosphere: Between online misogyny and self-contempt0
‘Noticias no son noticias, ¿no?’: Mexican perspectives on violence in the media and the war on drugs0
#AllCatsAreBeautiful: Ambient affiliation and the visual-verbal representation and appreciation of cats in online subversive discourses0
Exploring narrative linearity between Twitter and the news: Echoes of the Arab Spring in Brazil0
‘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
Political alliance with COVID-19: Macedonian politics and the strategic use of the pandemic0
Book review: Mark Nartey, Political Myth-Making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction and Promotion of the African Dream0
Not ready for democracy: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the representation of majorities in Arabic media narratives0
Rhetorical uses of precise numbers and semi-magical round numbers in political discourse about COVID-19: Examples from the government of the United Kingdom0
Book review: Elena dell’Agnese, Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse0
‘I’m not blue or green. I’m black’. The participatory entextualization of translingual memes and metapragmatic comments in transnational sociopolitical discourse0
Book review: Rodney H Jones (ed.), Viral Discourse0
Linguistic encoding of women’s agency in the German political discourse on abortion: A diachronic Critical Discourse Analysis0
The gendered semiotics of far-right populism on Instagram: A case from Spain0
If not a ‘macho’, then who did it? Social actors and the violence of Mexico0
The limits to growth(ism) in ChatGPT—corpus assisted discourse studies in AI-generated texts0
The Good, the Bad and the Other: Discursive constructions of nations in Voice of America’s international news0
‘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: Anaïs Augé, Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse0
Digital resistance: Discursive construction of polarization and otherness in Oduduwa secessionists’ social media discourse0
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes in Oman0
Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-190
Book review: Anesa P and Engberg J (eds.), The Digital (R)Evolution of Legal Discourse. New Genres, Media, and Linguistic Practices0
Book reviews: Chong Wang, Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinese Advertisement: Case Studies of Household Appliance Advertisements from 1981 to 19960
Analysis of governmental open letters mobilizing residents in China during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Book review: Mathew Gillings, Gerlinde Mautner, and Paul Baker, Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies0
Book review: Jonathan Charteris-Black, Metaphors of Coronavirus: Invisible Enemy or Zombie Apocalypse?0
Marginal voices: Exploring presence and participation in interaction in child protection conferences0
Book review: Germán Canale, A Multimodal and Ethnographic Approach to Textbook Discourse0
Ideology and the contextualization of ancient Chinese judicial opinions0
Book reviews: Mimi Huang and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds), The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses0
Alternative ‘Lives Matter’ formulations in online discussions about Black Lives Matter: Use, support and resistance0
ChatGPT-4 as a journalist: Whose perspectives is it reproducing?0
Book review: Anne-Mette Hermans, Discourses of Perfection: Representing Cosmetic Procedures and Beauty Products in UK Lifestyle Magazines0
The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China0
Toward integrative triangulation in discourse-historical approach0
Book review: Anna De Fina and Gerardo Mazzaferro (eds), Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries0
‘JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW’: Textual trajectories in emergency medical dispatch0
Living on a low income during the cost-of-living crisis: Exploring experiences and perceptions0
Book review: Andrea McDonnell, Celebrity Rhetoric and Sexual Misconduct Cases: Discursive Self-Cleaving0
Book review: Robert Poole, Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics0
Book review: Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin (eds), Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From Global to Local Discourses NevalaMinnaPalander-CollinMinna 0
Appified surveillance: TripAdvisor as a site for entextualized surveillant assemblage0
Book review: Montesano Montessori N, Farrelly M and Mulderrig J (eds.), Critical Policy Discourse Analysis0
A multimodal discourse study of selected COVID-19 online public health campaign texts in Nigeria0
Delegitimating a contested cultural practice “guanxixue” in a Chinese official newspaper0
The normalization of far-right populism and nativist authoritarianism: discursive practices in media, journalism and the wider public sphere/s0
Music as symbolic action0
The intertextuality and interdiscursivity of “mirroring” in South Korean cyberfeminist posts0
Friends, enemies, and agonists: Politics, morality and media in the COVID-19 conjuncture0
The potential of creative uses of metonymy for climate protest0
Thinking different as an act of resistance: Reconceptualizing the German protests in the COVID-19 pandemic as an emergent counter-knowledge order0
Taboo language in a sample of Egyptian op-eds: A corpus-based socio-cognitive study0
Reality bites: How the pandemic has begun to shape the way we, metaphorically, see the world0
‘Sorry everything’s in bags’: The accountability of selling bread at a market during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Changing concepts of greenhouse gas expressions: Discursive specialization in parliamentary discourses on climate change0
Book review: Gwynne Mapes, Elite Authenticity: Remaking Distinction in Food Discourse0
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