OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Semiotics is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Discursive shifts and the normalisation of racism: imaginaries of immigration, moral panics and the discourse of contemporary right-wing populism	112
Normalization and the discursive construction of “new” norms and “new” normality: discourse in the paradoxes of populism and neoliberalism	61
Discourse and affect	24
Legitimization strategies in China's official media: the 2018 vaccine scandal in China	21
The normalization of the populist radical right in news interviews: a study of journalistic reporting on the Swedish democrats	20
Emojis and Law: contextualized flexibility of meaning in cyber communication	15
History, modernity, and city branding in China: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of Xi’an’s promotional videos on social media	15
Populism in musical mash ups: recontextualising Brexit	13
The semiotics of the anti-COVID-19 mask	13
“She uses men to boost her career”: Chinese digital cultures and gender stereotypes of female academics in Zhihu discourses	12
Moody and monstrous menstruators: the Semiotics of the menstrual meme on social media	11
Sarcasm, the smiling poop, and E-discourse aggressiveness: getting far too emotional with emojis	11
Cyberbullying in Poland: a case study of aggressive messages with emojis targeted at the community of hunters in urbanized society	11
Tough guys and little rocket men: @Realdonaldtrump’s Twitter feed and the normalisation of banal masculinity	10
Getting smart: towards critical digital literacy pedagogies	10
Disgusting politics: circuits of affects and the making of Bolsonaro	10
Where Covid metaphors come from: reconsidering context and modality in metaphor	10
Revealing the politics in “soft”, everyday uses of social media: the challenge for critical discourse studies	9
Introversive semiosis in action: depictions in opera rehearsals	9
Affective regimes on Wilton Drive: a multimodal analysis	8
Do political cartoons and illustrations have their own specialized forms for warnings, threats, and the like? Speech acts in the nonverbal mode	8
Reading Chinese anti-COVID-19 pandemic narratives on facemasks as the art of disaster governance: a semiotic and biopolitical survey	8
Feeling safe while being surveilled: the spatial semiotics of affect at international airports	8
The normalization of exclusion through a Revival of whiteness in Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign discourse	7
102: the semiotics of living memorials	7

Visual representation of happiness: a sociosemiotic perspective on stock photography	7
Communicating the “world-class” city: a visual-material approach	7
Ideology, attitudinal positioning, and the blockchain: a social semiotic approach to understanding the values construed in the whitepapers of blockchain start-ups	7
Beyond the managed heart? Seduction, subjugation and the symbolic economies of sleep	6
Typographic landscape, indexicality and Chinese writing: a case study of place-making practices in transitional China	6
Emoticons, memes and cyberbullying: gender equality in Colombia	6
Affective trouble: a Jewish/Palestinian heterosexual wedding threatening the Israeli nation-state?	6
Towards a unified affordance approach: searching for congruent meaning making in COVID-19 warning designs	6
Introducing writing (in) the city	6
Street art/art in the street – semiotics, politics, economy	6
The commodification of motherhood: normalisation of consumerism in mediated discourse on mothering	6
Selling homes: the polysemy of visual marketing	6
Alphabet city: orthographic differentiation and branding in late capitalist cities	6
Categorisations of developed and developing countries in UN news on climate change	6
“We are a mutual fund:” how Ponzi scheme operators in Nigeria apply indexical markers to shield deception and fraud on their websites	6
When globalese meets localese: transformational tactics in the typographic landscape – a Bernese case study	6
Women and fitness on Weibo: the neoliberalism solution to the obligations of Confucianism	5
Towards a psychosemiotics of journalism, mental distress and Covid-19	5
Making sense of handwritten signs in public spaces	5
Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel and the mediatization of street art	5
Traditional Knowledge, science and China's pride: how a TCM social media account legitimizes TCM treatment of Covid-19	5
Masking morality in the making: how China’s anti-epidemic promotional videos present facemask as a techno-moral mediator	5
“To honour cleanness and shame filth”: medical facemasks as the narrative of nationalism and modernity in China	5
Like your emoji — a philosophical context	4
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw	4
Monuments to Lenin in the post-Soviet cultural landscape	4
Mona Lisa's emoji: digital civilization and its discontents	4
Spain vs. Catalonia: normalizing democracy through police intervention	4
Gastropopulism: a sociosemiotic analysis of politicians posing as “the everyday man” via food posts on social media	4
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili	4
Normalization of language deficit ideology for a new generation of minoritized U.S. youth	4
The scientifization of “green” anti-ageing cosmetics in online marketing: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	4
Cyberbullying and hate speech in the debate around the ratification of the Istanbul convention in Bulgaria: a semiotic analysis of the communication dynamics	4
Framing similar issues differently: a cross-cultural discourse analysis of news images	4
Aggressiveness of emojis before the court: a sociosemiotic interpretation	4
Validating visuals: a socio-semiotic instrument for an informed production and use of visual representations	4
Disagree and you shall be valued: a semiotic examination of how photojournalism constructs “valuable” Iranian bodies across Time	4
Street art assemblages	4
Face masks, materiality and exclusion in the COVID-19 semiotic landscape	4
A scalar approach to the circulation of virulent affects on the web	4