Social Semiotics

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Semiotics 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inheritance and development: revisiting three editions of Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design and their social-semiotic and linguistic insights18
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride17
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society14
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”12
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis11
Rhetoric of a terrorist: a metafunctional thematic analysis of the Unabomber Manifesto10
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities10
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili9
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants8
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments8
The language of reality: a semiotic guide for shaping thought about American education8
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona8
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory , by Gerard J. Steen, Amsterdam/Philadelphia,7
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech7
Making death (in)different: discursive legitimation in death trials7
Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks7
“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–20227
Legitimation of governments by renaming of everyday things and places: a comparison of the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic in Iran6
Flags and fields: a comparative analysis of national identity in butter packaging in Sweden and the UK6
Stylistic expressions of YouTube lifestyle influencers: authenticity and professional amateurism6
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks6
Categorisations of developed and developing countries in UN news on climate change6
Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine tra6
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria president Bola Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal policy-related internet memes5
Narratology Beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life5
“Is your font racist?” Metapragmatic online discourses on the use of typographic mimicry and its appropriateness5
How defendants frame remorse: a pragmatic and transitivity analysis of allocution statements in Chinese and American courts5
The scientifization of “green” anti-ageing cosmetics in online marketing: a multimodal critical discourse analysis5
Multimodal metaphor (re)framing: a critical analysis of the promotional image of China’s Hubei Province in the post-pandemic era on new media5
Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy5
A study of Pinyin as social practice in China’s commercial linguistic landscape5
“Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity4
Russian train graffiti: a history of performance4
Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China , edited by Li Pan, Xia4
Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method4
The linear structure of narrative figures in the Saint Francis Cycle: a linguistic analysis4
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power4
Teachers’ gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation3
Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida in the rough waters of photography theory3
Revolutionary things: the making of South Korea’s Candlelight Protests3
Embracing transgression(s) : a critical-dialogical semiotic approach on how “rhetorical plasticity” shapes contemporary far-right ideological reproduction3
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning3
The multimodal performance of conversational humor3
Towards a unified affordance approach: searching for congruent meaning making in COVID-19 warning designs3
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw3
Hypertranslation3
Silence: a modality of its own2
Erotic capital in digital age: a multimodal analysis of the idolization of fresh meat elite on Xiaohongshu2
China opportunity or China threat? A corpus-based study of China’s image in Australian news discourse2
Ps. I’ll find you .” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile2
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes2
Statistics in corpus linguistics: a practical guide2
Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety2
Screens of inequality: caste narratives in Hindi cinema2
Nonprofit campaigning done ethically to elicit empathy instead of aversion: A case study of the UNICEF multimodal book Lives Beyond Figures2
Alignment, negation, and androcentricity: representation of bride price by Chinese state media2
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation2
“All sisters must experience the endorphin rush!” A virtual discourse-ethnographic study on neoliberalism female fitness community on Bilibili2
A boon or a bane: multimodal figurative framing in Chinese and foreign BRI-themed cartoons2
Multilingual crisis communication: insights from China2
Ghost signs at the mall: structuring semiotics and (formerly) branded retail space2
Where Covid metaphors come from: reconsidering context and modality in metaphor2
Approaches to systemic functional grammar: convergence and divergence2
From monologues to multimodal perspectivization: strategies for affective commercialization via Boys Love (BL) manga covers1
Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination , edited by Andrea Cossu and Jorge Fontdevila, Bristol, Bristol U1
Triadic discursive strategy: a digital arena for ideological legitimization in land movement1
Visual meanings in Vietnamese picture books: exploring Vietnamese artists’ perspectives on the Yin–Yang balancing1
What does it mean to redefine prosperity? A theory of definition for pathways to sustainable futures1
A comparative critical analysis of official and personal social media videos on being and becoming old in China1
A new way to justice? Multimodal meaning construction in videoconferencing technology-based online criminal courts in China1
Street art assemblages1
The Spanish tilde as a visual semiotic marker of Pan-Hispanism1
Monuments to Lenin in the post-Soviet cultural landscape1
What do vegans know and how do they learn? Veganism as a social text and a form of knowledge1
The moral metaphor system: a conceptual metaphor approach1
(Re)framing online news through paratexts: a multisemiotic analysis of The New York Times in Chinese1
Misrepresenting autism in university promotional videos advocating robot therapy: a multimodal critical discourse analysis1
Visible signs: an introduction to semiotics in the visual arts (3rd edition)1
Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China1
The recontextualization of art exhibition text panels for children: a comparative analysis of the semiotic resources in audience-sensitive texts0
“They are unpredictable junkies and criminals”: George Floyd’s death and the BLM movement in Czech user discussions0
The Resemiotisation of Chokri Belaid’s talk before his assassination: roles of sign-maker interest and re-reading forces0
The development of L2 interactional competence: a multimodal study of complaining in French interactions The development of L2 interactional competence: a multimodal study of complainin0
A comparison of cultural representation and ideologies in the multimodal discourses of textbooks used in public and private Iranian contexts: a cross-textual study0
Non-finiteness: a process-relation perspective0
Linguistic landscape as a way to construct multiple identities in the context of globalization: the case of an ancient town in China0
The “menstruating” Muslim Brotherhood: taboo metaphor, face attack, and gender in Egyptian culture0
Multimodal composing and multiple identity mediations0
You Are just a №: the quantified self from a semio-pragmatic perspective0
The Unthinkable in Ethics, History, and Philosophical Anthropology: A Pragmatic-Transcendental View0
Values: a core component in the discursive construction of Europe and the EU0
Multimodal approaches to Chinese-English translation and interpreting0
What’s the point of Donald Trump? Deictic gestures in the service of right-wing populism0
The social semiotics of Switzerland's far right: how campaign posters by the Swiss National Party communicate across different domains0
The chop suey letterform in historical Los Angeles Chinatowns0
Qanons, anti-vaxxers, and alternative health influencers: a cultural semiotic perspective on the links between conspiracy theories, spirituality, and wellness during the Covid-19 pandemic0
Intercultural competence and pragmatics Intercultural competence and pragmatics , edited by Gila A. Schauer, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, xxiv + 168 pp., ISBN 97830310
Multilingual currents in literature, translation, and culture0
Space-time (Dis)continuities in the linguistic landscape: studies in the symbolic (Re)appropriation of public space0
Guided to Guider: the “∼ed” and “∼er” roles in professional development materials for guided Reading0
Digital multimodal composing: connecting theory, research and practice in second language acquisition0
Tourist discourse and carnivalesque humour in children’s television narratives: learning travel from Thomas, Peppa and the Go Jetters0
A reappraisal of the marketing offerings: consumer experience from the perspective of post-structural semiotics0
Fair or biased? A corpus-based study of Australia’s early COVID-19 media representation of China0
Analyzing the meaning of social images during pandemic lockdown0
New research on cohesion and coherence in linguistics New research on cohesion and coherence in linguistics , by Delu Zhang and Rushan Liu, London and New York, Routledg0
Corpus-assisted Ecolinguistics0
Reappraising self and others: a corpus-based study of Chinese political discourse in English translation0
War on feminism: an analysis of metaphorical representations on Weibo0
Lawyer evaluation in Chinese courtroom: a social-semiotic perspective0
Climate irresponsibility on social media. A critical approach to “high-carbon visibility discourse”0
Cultural semiotics as the foundation of political semiotics0
Correction0
Conducting sentiment analysis Conducting sentiment analysis , by Lei Lei and Dinlin Liu, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, iv++104 pp., $20.00 (paperback), IS0
Affectivization of borders in the digital sphere: migration-related online narratives in Argentina0
Remembering the other, repositioning oneself: the right to a biography and autocommunication in perpetrator and collaborator descendant documentaries*0
Strategic Conspiracy Narratives: A Semiotic Approach Strategic Conspiracy Narratives: A Semiotic Approach , by Mari-Liis Madisson and Andreas Ventsel, Abingdon, Routledg0
Discourse, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic: a multimodal discourse analysis approach0
Lessons in influence: unveiling the multimodal identity construction of female teacher influencers on Xiaohongshu0
Semiotics for Latour, Latour for semiotics. Tracing a network of relations across disciplinary boundaries Inchiesta sulle reti di senso. Bruno Latour nella svolta semiotica 0
Discourses that undermine union movements: a multimodal analysis of union-busting videos0
Graffiti and Urban transformation: the ideological discourse in the semiotic landscape of the Asturian Mining Valley0
Inside Facebook’s semiosphere. How social media influence digital hate and fuel cyber-polarization0
Making meaning of an artwork: promoting expression of thoughts through artwork for patients with eating disorders0
A panorama of linguistic landscape studies A panorama of linguistic landscape studies , by Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz, Bristol, Jackson, Multilingual Matters, 2023, xv0
Correction0
Kongish: translanguaging and the commodification of an urban dialect Kongish: translanguaging and the commodification of an urban dialect , by Tong King Lee, Cambridge, 0
Street art/art in the street – semiotics, politics, economy0
BOOKS AND SOCIAL MEDIA: How the Digital Age is Shaping the Printed Word0
Ideology in “women’s language”: a review of The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies by Natalia Konstantinovskaia0
Multimodal narrativity in a Pakistani TV advertisement: a socio-semiotic and narratological analysis0
“The trash is ruining the picture”: social media, sustainability, and the semiotics of pristine nature0
Reading images for knowledge building: analyzing infographics in school science0
Caste and gender in Tamil Cinema: Phallic Rehabilitation in the Neo-Native film Dharma Durai0
Semiotic representations of neoliberal dystopia in Black Mirror0
How emoji make meaning and enact ambient affiliation: a social semiotic account of emoji-text relations in TikTok comments0
Designing learning with digital technologies: perspectives from multimodality in education0
The politicization of place: chronotopes, authenticity, and semioscaping Fujialu as a site of “red tourism” in China0
Blurring boundaries – ‘Anti-gender’ ideology meets feminist and LGBTIQ+ discourses0
Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: theory and application Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: theory and application , b0
Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel and the mediatization of street art0
Political othering and polarisation in Nigeria’s online electoral discourse: towards a culture of inter-political party tolerance0
Semiotic analysis of university prospectuses in Pakistan: marketization, identity, and power dynamics0
The geosemiotics of ethno-political graffiti in Kosovo: polyphony, emplacement and heteroglossia0
To preserve and to protect vanishing signs: activism through art, ethnography, and linguistics in a gentrifying city0
Reimagining maternity: a multimodal analysis on the identity construction amongst Chinese “Married, child-free” women in Xiaohongshu0
Harnessing comics as minoritarian interventions in the representation of conflicts and their everyday: the case of Vanni and Welcome to the New World0
Corruption, language and popular agency0
Breakdown of knowledge authority: semiotic analysis of an anti-vax conspiracy theory influencer on Twitter0
An examination of delegitimation in the activist discourse of Ghana's #FixTheCountry lead convener Oliver Barker-Vormawor0
Sharing emotions or/and making allies: the emoji’s interpersonal function in Chinese social media news comments0
Navigating nuance: the dual edges of multimodal discourse analysis in Macao’s policy evolution0
An introduction to language and social justice: what is, what has been, and what could be0
Systemic functional language description: making meaning matter0
Inseparability of language and culture: evidence from spirituality, emotionality, and society0
Internet memes and the mobilization of a “One-China” cyber nationalist campaign: the case of the 2016 Diba Expedition to Taiwan0
Language ideologies in a Finnish university student union’s Facebook communication practices0
Bridging typical and atypical reference: a review of Referring in Language: An Integrated Approach by Lise Fontaine, Katy Jones and David Schönthal0
Actions and digital empathy in the interactive storytelling of serious games: a multimodal discourse approach0
The multimodal construction of political personae through the strategic management of semiotic resources of emotion expression0
The linguistic landscape in China: commodification, image construction, contestations and negotiations0
Romaphobia in the UK Right-Wing Press: racist and populist discourse during the Brexit referendum0
Interfacing the semiosis of affect and crowdsourced spatialities in the context of post-panoptic surveillance. A case study of Safecity app0
The selective foregrounding of social structures in factual welfare television: a multimodal analysis0
Fueling divisions: a multimodal analysis of Canadian petro-nationalism in the social media discourse of “oil sands strong”0
Paratextual mediation and (re)framed narratives: a case study of Ganxiao liuji0
“(scream)(wriggle)(dismally crawl)” – parentheses as semiotic resources for translanguaging and trans-semiotic practices on Chinese micro-blogging0
The power of algorithms and the rise of experience economy: “the digital mind. semiotic studies of digital culture” The power of algorithms and the rise of experience economy: “the digi0
Gender representation and stereotyping in Moroccan print media coverage of the 2023 Haouz Earthquake0
(Non) representation and normalized losses of the other in pro-migrant media texts: what is at stake in migrant visibility?0
Skin-tone modified emoji and first-person indexicality0
Politicalization of public health crisis – metaphorically “out-grouped” Chinese authorities in their domestic COVID-19 campaign0
A social semiotic multimodal analysis of ateji translation in manga0
Looking at the stars in the twenty-first century: Lotman's semiotics, progress and utopia0
Multimodality and social interaction in online and offline shopping0
Art in the petrotimes: an aesthetics of wasteAmanda Boetzkes. 2019. Plastic capitalism: contemporary art and the drive to waste . Cambridge (MA): MIT Press. ISBN: 9780260
Meaning, identity and interaction: sociolinguistic variation and change in game-theoretic pragmatics0
For a semiotics of culture as a critique of culture*0
Econarrative: ethics, ecology, and the search for new narratives to live by Econarrative: ethics, ecology, and the search for new narratives to live by , by Arran Stibbe0
Key themes and new directions in systemic functional translation studies0
Muddying the waters on climate change: conflicting positions articulated in Instagram posts about Greta Thunberg’s 2023 arrest0
In search of the social in social semiotics: a historical perspective0
Investigating the relation between mind and semiotic systems: a review Linguistic relativity today0
Translation, adaptation and digital media Translation, adaptation and digital media , by John Milton and Silvia Cobelo, London, Routledge, 2023, 322 pp., £34.99 (e-book)0
Face masks, materiality and exclusion in the COVID-19 semiotic landscape0
Framing insecurity: the ideological functions of discourse markers in select Nigerian political interviews0
Fire, police cars and barricade tape: exploring visual securitisation in Sweden Democrats’ Instagram posts0
Visualising the past for the future: a social semiotic reading of urban heritage0
Creative appropriation of offline linguistic landscapes on Chinese social media: the case of playful mockery of universities on Sina Weibo0
Metaphors of the virtual: how ordinary people frame what the internet is0
Forensic analysis of populist discourse and multimodal craft of consensus in Netanyahu's July 2024 Congressional address0
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation0
Signs, billboards, and graffiti a social-spatial discourse in a regenerated council estate0
Organizational semiotics: multimodal perspectives on organization studies0
Interrogating the multimodal construction of gender and family in children’s literature: a review0
Language choice and identity in the linguistic landscape of Barcelona0
Polish Camp Literature0
La lluita continua : socio-political debate and the linguistic landscape of a Catalan city0
Street art as “street fetish”- a new signifier of social class? The case of Brazil’s “Beverley Hills”0
“They will not erase the blood, of those who fell here”: a multimodal analysis of the music video as a site of (post)memory and resistance against negationism in post-dictatorial Chile0
Membership categorization devices in courtroom opening and closing speeches0
Fighting whom? A critical approach to marketing communication of skin whitening product in Taiwan0
Correction0
Anti-Black sentiments in Chinese Weibo discourse: a critical discourse historical analysis0
Bourdieu’s theory of economic practice and organisational modelling0
Making sense of platform-mediated residences in tourist destinations. A semiotic analysis of the controversy around home sharing in Barcelona0
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