Social Semiotics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Social Semiotics is 9. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inheritance and development: revisiting three editions of Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design and their social-semiotic and linguistic insights21
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride18
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society17
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants14
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”14
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities13
Rhetoric of a terrorist: a metafunctional thematic analysis of the Unabomber Manifesto10
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis10
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory , by Gerard J. Steen, Amsterdam/Philadelphia,9
The language of reality: a semiotic guide for shaping thought about American education9
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments9
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech9
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili9
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