Social Semiotics

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Semiotics is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society27
Inheritance and development: revisiting three editions of Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design and their social-semiotic and linguistic insights27
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”18
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride18
Gazes, words, and silences in pragmatics17
Institutional and conceptual flipsiding: illiberal subversion of “democracy”16
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis16
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili15
Rhetoric of a terrorist: a metafunctional thematic analysis of the Unabomber Manifesto14
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities12
Digital gastronationalism: how “white people food” discourse constructs national identity on Douyin11
The language of reality: a semiotic guide for shaping thought about American education10
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech10
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments10
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants10
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks9
Correction9
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory9
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona8
Visual Citizenship. Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media8
Exclusionary and xenophobic speech in Swedish health care settings: the challenge of “language”8
Morality in discourse7
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
The multimodal landscape in healthcare: technology, culture, and communication7
Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine tra7
Encounters at the counter: the organization of shop interactions7
Legitimation of governments by renaming of everyday things and places: a comparison of the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic in Iran6
Multimodality of the non-leading teacher in collaborative teaching6
Multimodal metaphor (re)framing: a critical analysis of the promotional image of China’s Hubei Province in the post-pandemic era on new media6
Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy6
Stylistic expressions of YouTube lifestyle influencers: authenticity and professional amateurism6
How defendants frame remorse: a pragmatic and transitivity analysis of allocution statements in Chinese and American courts6
“We’re the party of common sense”: conflicting appeals to “normal/ity” and “common sense” in the discourse of the Freedom Party of Austria6
Digital rehegemony and the cultural politics of child protection in Indonesia5
“Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape5
Appraisal, sentiment and emotion analysis in political discourse: a multimodal, multi-method approach5
A study of Pinyin as social practice in China’s commercial linguistic landscape5
Constructing the prosecution-defense relationship through multimodal positioning: a corpus-based analysis of Chinese courtroom argumentation5
Introduction: cancel culture & celebrity bashing, exploring the theatre of morality?5
Language assemblage5
Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China , edited by Li Pan, Xia5
Reproductive rights and the recontextualization of abortion: a multimodal analysis of ballot initiatives in the US4
Correction4
“Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity4
Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method4
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria president Bola Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal policy-related internet memes4
Benign, malign, and tolerable: authoritarianism across the spectrum of likeability4
The linear structure of narrative figures in the Saint Francis Cycle: a linguistic analysis4
Representations of “Divorced” in Turkish media on psychological health: a multimodal critical discourse analysis4
Who are the “People” and what does “Home” mean? A case of frame transformation and counter-framing of the “People’s Home” in the Sweden Democrat Rhetoric 1989–20224
Response To Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”3
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power3
Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida in the rough waters of photography theory3
Russian train graffiti: a history of performance3
(Dis)connecting commerce and everyday life multimodally: professional vision and frame laminations in sponsored everyday vlogging3
A boon or a bane: multimodal figurative framing in Chinese and foreign BRI-themed cartoons2
Hypertranslation2
The multimodal performance of conversational humor2
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw2
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning2
The effectiveness of sarcastic multimodal semiotic analysis in revealing deficiencies among authority officials: a case study of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)2
Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies2
Statelessness and the semiotics of benign visibility in Malaysian news media2
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation2
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes2
Teachers’ gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation2
Embracing transgression(s) : a critical-dialogical semiotic approach on how “rhetorical plasticity” shapes contemporary far-right ideological reproduction2
Revolutionary things: the making of South Korea’s Candlelight Protests2
Nationalism for sale: advertising, consumption, and the discursive construction of legitimacy in contemporary India2
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