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Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Discourse Studies is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
‘It's OK to be white’: the discursive construction of victimhood, ‘anti-white racism’ and calculated ambivalence in Australia	20
A war or merely friction? Examining news reports on the current Sino-U.S. trade dispute in The New York Times and China Daily	17
From ‘echo chambers’ to ‘chaos chambers’: discursive coherence and contradiction in the #MeToo Twitter feed	17
‘Lose weight, save the NHS’: Discourses of obesity in press coverage of COVID-19	16
Digital meaning-making across content and practice in social media critical discourse studies	16
Political discourse analysis: a decolonial approach	13
Representations of LGBTQ+ issues in China in its official English-language media: a corpus-assisted critical discourse study	12
Young vs old? Truancy or new radical politics? Journalistic discourses about social protests in relation to the climate crisis	12
Proximization, prosumption and salience in digital discourse: on the interface of social media communicative dynamics and the spread of populist ideologies	12
When discourse analysts tell stories: what do we ‘do’ when we use narrative as a resource to critically analyse discourse?	12
Discourses of celebrities on Instagram: digital femininity, self-representation and hate speech	12
Connoting a neoliberal and entrepreneurial discourse of science through infographics and integrated design: the case of ‘functional’ healthy drinks	11
‘“Narrative!”I can’t hear that anymore’. A linguistic critique of an overstretched umbrella term in cultural and social science studies, discussed with the example of the discourse on cl	11
Discourse patterns used by extremist Salafists on Facebook: identifying potential triggers to cognitive biases in radicalized content	10
Un-braiding deficit discourse in Indigenous education news 2008–2018: performance, attendance and mobility	9
Legitimation in government social media communication: the case of the Brexit department	9
Critique, Habermas and narrative (genre): the discourse-historical approach in critical discourse studies	9
Introducing ‘Narrative in Critical Discourse Studies’	8
Making sense of nationalism manifested in interpreted texts at ‘Summer Davos’ in China	8
Doxxing as discursive action in a social movement	8
Psycho-discursive constructions of narrative in archetypal storytelling: a discourse-mythological approach	8
Sportswomen under the Chinese male gaze: A feminist critical discourse analysis	7
Women’s online advocacy campaigns for political participation in Nigeria and Ghana	6
Social media discourses of feminist protest from the Arab Levant: digital mirroring and transregional dialogue	6
The law and critical discourse studies	6

Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press	5
Ambiguity, responsibility and political action in the UK daily COVID-19 briefings	5
Crime or culture? Representations of chemsex in the British press and magazines aimed at GBTQ+ men	5
Social media and terrorism discourse: the Islamic State’s (IS) social media discursive content and practices	5
Self-legitimation and other-delegitimation in the internet radio speeches of the supreme leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra	4
‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: a transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism	4
‘New’ Dutch Civic Integration: learning ‘Spontaneous Compliance’ to address inherent difference	4
Race, religion, law: an intertextual micro-genealogy of ‘stirring up hatred’ provisions in England and Wales	4
Investigating emancipatory discourses in action: The need for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture	4
Centering marginalized voices: a discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter	4
Humiliating and dividing the nation in the British pro-Brexit press: a corpus-assisted analysis	4
The spatial, networked and embodied agency of social media: a critical discourse perspective on Banksy’s political expression	4
Deceptive transparency and masked discourses in Ponzi schemes: a critical discourse analysis of MMM Nigeria	3
Between autonomy and representation: toward a post-foundational discourse analytic framework for the study of horizontality and verticality	3
The transgressive rhetoric of standup comedy in China	3
‘The rapist is you’: semiotics and regional recontextualizations of the feminist protest ‘a rapist in your way’ in Latin America	3
Textbooks as ‘Neoliberal artifacts’: a critical study of knowledge-making in ELT industry	3
An ideological square analysis of the podcast discourse in “Chinese Dreams” of the BBC World Service	3
Visitors’ discursive responses to hegemonic and alternative museum narratives: a case study of Le Modèle Noir	3
Politics of memory, urban space and the discourse of counterhegemonic commemoration: a discourse-ethnographic analysis of the ‘Living Memorial’ in Budapest’s ‘Liberty Square’	3
Harnessing the potential of transmedia narratives for critical multimodal literacy	3
The polyphonic critique of trade unions: unpacking the logics of union critical discourse	3
‘The people want …: ’ the populist specter in the Tunisian President’s inaugural speech	3
El Análisis Crítico del Discurso y el giro decolonial ¿Por qué y para qué?	3
‘Malaysia belongs to the Malays’ (Malaysia ni Melayu Punya!): Categorising ‘us’ and ‘them’ in Malaysia’s mainstream Malay-language newspapers	3
Nanjing Massacre in Chinese and Japanese history textbooks: transitivity and Appraisal	3
Representing the (un)finished revolution in Belfast's political murals	3
Responsibility for justice in action: commemoration, affect and politics at Il Memoriale della Shoah in Milan	3
Comprender prácticas discursivas racistas desde el Sur Global: (re) ajustando el poder y la construcción de significado	2
Corporate social responsibility in postcolonial contexts: a critical analysis of the representational features of South African corporate social responsibility reports	2
‘It’s time we invested in stronger borders’: media representations of refugees crossing the English Channel by boat	2
Saying ‘Criminality’, meaning ‘immigration’? Proxy discourses and public implicatures in the normalisation of the politics of exclusion	2
Twenty-first century discourses of American lynching	2
Modeling public perception in times of crisis: discursive strategies in Trump’s COVID-19 discourse	2
Participation and deliberative discourse on social media – Wikipedia talk pages as transnational public spheres?	2
‘The jobs all go to foreigners’: a critical discourse analysis of the Labour Party's ‘left-wing’ case for immigration controls	2
Negotiating climate change in public discourse: insights from critical discourse studies	2
The values of trees and woodland: a discourse-based cross-disciplinary perspective on integrating ‘revealed’ evaluations of nature into environmental agendas	2
‘Same, same but different’: representations of Chinese mainland and Hong Kong people in the press in post-1997 Hong Kong	2
Positioning students as consumers and entrepreneurs: student service materials on a Hong Kong university campus	2
Probing into populism’s core: an analysis of the deep semio-linguistic structure underlying populism	2
Stop family destruction!: ideologies concerning family destruction metaphors in same-sex marriage debates	2
Beyond the state as the ‘cold monster’: the importance of Russian alternative media in reconfiguring the hegemonic state discourse	2
The depoliticization of law in the news: BBC reporting on US use of extraterritorial or ‘long-arm’ law against China	2
The discourse of security: language, illiberalism and governmentality	2
A politics of reminding: Khoisan resurgence and environmental justice in South Africa’s Sarah Baartman district	2
‘Real men score’: masculinity in contemporary advertising discourse	2
Who owns “democracy”? The role of populism in the discursive struggle over the signifier “democracy” in Catalonia and Spain	2
Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis	2
Operationalizing heterogeneity in poststructuralist discourse theory: the heterogeneous logics of international trade politics	2

Post-Marxist reflections on the value of our time. Value theory and the (in)compatibility of discourse theory and the critique of political economy	2
How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	1
Decolonizar os estudos críticos do discurso:por perspectivas Latino-Americanas	1
The art of illusion as government policy. Analysing political economies of surrealism	1
The hybrid discourse of the ‘European Green Deal’: road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly	1
Xi Jinping's keynote in the Belt and Road Forum: a pentadic cartography	1
The effect of media populism on racist discourse in New Zealand	1
Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles	1
Abrogating Article 370 and Kashmir’s exceptionalism: a critical analysis of India’s bodies politic	1
The gains and losses of identity politics: the case of a social media social justice movement called stylelikeU	1
Politicized or popularized? News values and news voices in China’s and Australia’s media discourse of climate change	1
The Magna Carta of Women as the Philippine Translation of the CEDAW: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis	1
Discourses of collective remembering: contestation, politics, affect	1
Language, power and identity: discursive construction of post-Revolution national identity in Tunisia	1
Coercive persuasion in the rebranding Nigeria campaign discourse	1
‘I had to work through what people would think of me’: negotiating ‘problematic single motherhood’ as a solo or single adoptive mum	1
The discursive construction of gender and agency in the linguistic landscape of Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum campaign	1
The use of the PATH and FORCE image schemas in Barack Obama’s counterterrorism discourse against ISIL	1
Economic imaginaries andbeyond. A cultural political economy perspective on the League party	1
Rhetoric, death, and the politics of memory	1
Merging mobilities: querying knowledges, actions, and chronotopes in discourses of transcultural relationships from a North/South queer contact zone	1
Gender equality in the name of the state: state feminism or femonationalism in civic orientation for newly arrived migrants in Sweden?	1
Settler colonialism and therapeutic discourses on the past: a response to Burnett et al.’s ‘a politics of reminding’	1
Discourses of the Willkommenskultur (Welcoming culture) in Germany	1
Decolonizar os estudos críticos do discurso – Introdução	1
Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond (Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology 26)	1
‘A threat to national unity, an emancipator’: discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities	1
Intensifying resistance through complexification: a positive discourse analysis of the portrayal of Amazighs in a selected Moroccan EFL textbook	1
Negotiating the limits of teacher agency: constructed constraints vs. capacity to act in preservice teachers’ descriptions of teaching emergent bilingual learners	1
Language and gender in Canadian Chief Medical Officers’ tweets during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
‘The rulebook – our constitution’: a study of the ‘Austrian Commonwealth’s’ language use and the creation of identity through ideological in- and out-group presentation and legitimation	1
Research methods for digital discourse analysis	1
The meaning of work in ‘crisis-ridden’ Greece. A bottom-up critical discourse analytical perspective	1
An ‘attractive alternative way of wielding power’? Revealing hidden gender ideologies in the portrayal of women Heads of State during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Extremist language in anti-COVID-19 conspiracy discourse on Facebook	1
Media representation of mutual aid practices: Superbergamo as ‘good news’	1
“Não posso colocar essa palavra feminismo porque eu acho muito forte”: discurso e linguagem avaliativa sobre feminismo em narrativas de gênero produzidas por acadêmicas cabo-verdianas	1