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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inheritance and development: revisiting three editions of Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design and their social-semiotic and linguistic insights25
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society18
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”15
Institutional and conceptual flipsiding: illiberal subversion of “democracy”15
Gazes, words, and silences in pragmatics15
The language of reality: a semiotic guide for shaping thought about American education13
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis13
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride13
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities11
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants11
Rhetoric of a terrorist: a metafunctional thematic analysis of the Unabomber Manifesto11
Digital gastronationalism: how “white people food” discourse constructs national identity on Douyin10
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili9
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments8
Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks8
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech8
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona7
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks7
“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–20227
Exclusionary and xenophobic speech in Swedish health care settings: the challenge of “language”7
Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine tra7
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory7
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
The multimodal landscape in healthcare: technology, culture, and communication6
Encounters at the counter: the organization of shop interactions6
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
Categorisations of developed and developing countries in UN news on climate change5
A study of Pinyin as social practice in China’s commercial linguistic landscape5
Multimodal metaphor (re)framing: a critical analysis of the promotional image of China’s Hubei Province in the post-pandemic era on new media5
“We’re the party of common sense”: conflicting appeals to “normal/ity” and “common sense” in the discourse of the freedom party of Austria5
Narratology Beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life5
The linear structure of narrative figures in the Saint Francis Cycle: a linguistic analysis5
How defendants frame remorse: a pragmatic and transitivity analysis of allocution statements in Chinese and American courts5
“Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape5
Constructing the prosecution-defense relationship through multimodal positioning: a corpus-based analysis of Chinese courtroom argumentation5
Representations of “Divorced” in Turkish media on psychological health: a multimodal critical discourse analysis4
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria president Bola Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal policy-related internet memes4
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power4
“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
Teachers’ gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation4
Reproductive rights and the recontextualization of abortion: a multimodal analysis of ballot initiatives in the US4
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
Russian train graffiti: a history of performance4
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
Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida in the rough waters of photography theory3
The multimodal performance of conversational humor3
Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies3
Embracing transgression(s) : a critical-dialogical semiotic approach on how “rhetorical plasticity” shapes contemporary far-right ideological reproduction3
Revolutionary things: the making of South Korea’s Candlelight Protests3
Response To Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”3
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning3
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw2
A boon or a bane: multimodal figurative framing in Chinese and foreign BRI-themed cartoons2
Alignment, negation, and androcentricity: representation of bride price by Chinese state media2
Screens of inequality: caste narratives in Hindi cinema2
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes2
Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety2
“All sisters must experience the endorphin rush!” A virtual discourse-ethnographic study on neoliberalism female fitness community on Bilibili2
Erotic capital in digital age: a multimodal analysis of the idolization of fresh meat elite on Xiaohongshu2
Hypertranslation2
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation2
The effectiveness of sarcastic multimodal semiotic analysis in revealing deficiencies among authority officials: a case study of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)2
Multilingual crisis communication: insights from China2
Response to Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”2
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