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
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride18
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”18
Gazes, words, and silences in pragmatics17
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis16
Institutional and conceptual flipsiding: illiberal subversion of “democracy”16
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 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
The language of reality: a semiotic guide for shaping thought about American education10
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech10
Correction9
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory9
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks9
Exclusionary and xenophobic speech in Swedish health care settings: the challenge of “language”8
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona8
Visual Citizenship. Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(Dis)connecting commerce and everyday life multimodally: professional vision and frame laminations in sponsored everyday vlogging3
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
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
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
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