Critical Discourse Studies

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conspiracy theory discourses Conspiracy theory discourses , edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2022, 509 pp., $18
Correction15
‘A threat to national unity, an emancipator’: discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities14
Linguistic polyphony in UN speeches on climate change: an analysis of implicit argumentation13
Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction 13
Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By12
From space to spatiality: critical spatial discourse analysis as a framework for the geo-graphing of media texts12
The representation of students in undergraduate prospectuses between 1998 and 2021: a diachronic corpus-assisted discourse study12
What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis12
Beyond the state as the ‘cold monster’: the importance of Russian alternative media in reconfiguring the hegemonic state discourse11
The gains and losses of identity politics: the case of a social media social justice movement called stylelikeU11
A multimodal and ethnographic approach to textbook discourse11
Destructive storytelling: disinformation and the Eurosceptic myth that shaped Brexit10
National identity construction in Polish right-wing populist discourse10
Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles10
Unfit and cast aside: portrayals of mothering with intellectual disability in Québec court reports10
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: a Hallidayan transitivity analysis9
Johnsonism and crisis management: a critical narrative analysis of the UK Prime Minister’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic9
The politics of climate change metaphors in the U.S. discourse: conceptual metaphor theory and analysis from an ecolinguistics and critical discourse analysis perspective The politics o7
Negotiating the boundaries of the politically sayable: populist radical right talk scandals in the German media7
Redescribing fossil-fuel investments: how hegemony challengers ‘invert’ arguments in the Norwegian public discourse on climate risk7
Snyder and Habermas on the war in Ukraine: a critical discourse analysis of elite media discourse in Germany7
Modeling public perception in times of crisis: discursive strategies in Trump’s COVID-19 discourse7
A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of language ideologies in parliamentary debates about the recognition of Irish sign language7
Representations of gender in conspiracy theories: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis6
‘Hosting refugees is the most rewarding experience’: migrant identity and affective positioning in curated NGO stories6
Anti-populist fantasies: interrogating Veja 's discursive constructions, from Lula to Bolsonaro6
The politics of fear: the shameless normalization of far-right discourses6
Humiliating and dividing the nation in the British pro-Brexit press: a corpus-assisted analysis6
The argumentative function of rescue narratives: Trump’s national security rhetoric as a case study6
Correction6
Is this discursive Yentling? A critical study of an RCMP officer’s interaction with a child sexual assault complainant6
Soft hate speech and denial of racism at Euro 20205
How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development5
The Magna Carta of Women as the Philippine Translation of the CEDAW: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis5
The discursive construction of a new reality in Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech5
Correction5
The hybrid discourse of the ‘European Green Deal’: road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly4
Language of conflict: discourses of the Ukrainian crisis4
Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law4
Merging mobilities: querying knowledges, actions, and chronotopes in discourses of transcultural relationships from a North/South queer contact zone4
Phil Graham and axiological discourse analysis: after neoliberalism4
Sensegiving doesn't always make sense: framing the implementation of performance-based funding in Ohio4
Why and when should we (not) distinguish between academic and therapeutic discourses on the past? A response to Burnett et al.’s ‘Indigenous resurgence, collective “reminding”, and insidious binaries’4
Politics, ethnicity and the postcolonial nation: a critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean4
Negotiating the limits of teacher agency: constructed constraints vs. capacity to act in preservice teachers’ descriptions of teaching emergent bilingual learners4
Unravelling social media critical discourse studies (SM-CDS) – four approaches to studying social media through the critical lens3
‘Trapping my way up’: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Black Sherif’s songs3
The discursive construction of intersectionality in public policy implementation3
‘If she asked for settlement money, she must not be a real victim’: an interdisciplinary analysis of the discourse of victims and perpetrators of sexual violence3
Positioning as discursive struggle for equity: a critical discourse analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of African countries3
‘The rapist is you’: semiotics and regional recontextualizations of the feminist protest ‘a rapist in your way’ in Latin America3
Rethinking ethics in AI policy: a method for synthesising Graham’s critical discourse analysis approaches and the philosophical study of valuation3
The spatialisation of the political imagination: A political discourse analysis of space, fantasy and inter-communal conflict in Derry city3
Twenty-first century discourses of American lynching3
Audience labour, discourse dynamics and challenges for analysis3
Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China2
‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: a transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism2
The pragmatics of hypocrisy The pragmatics of hypocrisy , edited by Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024, 2
‘Vicious, vitriolic, hateful and hypocritical’: the representation of feminism within the manosphere2
The depoliticization of law in the news: BBC reporting on US use of extraterritorial or ‘long-arm’ law against China2
Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives 2
‘So they hit each other’: gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial2
Curating activist journalism to defy China’s “mainstream” narrative on X (Twitter)2
Social media discourses of feminist protest from the Arab Levant: digital mirroring and transregional dialogue2
Shedding light on the ‘invisible load’: an analysis of sight metaphors in parenthood podcasts2
The ethnocratic shikun : housing discourse in support of nation-building2
Correction2
Who owns “democracy”? The role of populism in the discursive struggle over the signifier “democracy” in Catalonia and Spain2
Politics of memory, urban space and the discourse of counterhegemonic commemoration: a discourse-ethnographic analysis of the ‘Living Memorial’ in Budapest’s ‘Liberty Square’2
Zooming in on the study of soft hate speech: an introduction to this special issue2
Race, religion, law: an intertextual micro-genealogy of ‘stirring up hatred’ provisions in England and Wales2
‘For business it boils down to one thing’: affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse2
Language, power and identity: discursive construction of post-Revolution national identity in Tunisia2
Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis2
Europhobia as a trajectory to hate speech normalisation? A diachronic analysis of Brexit media propaganda1
Metaphor and argumentation in climate crisis discourse Metaphor and argumentation in climate crisis discourse , by Anaïs Augé, New York, Routledge, 2023, 198 pp., $180.01
Dual discursive articulation: languages of persuasion and resistance in street library community1
The law and critical discourse studies1
Cultural linguistics and critical discourse studies1
Correction1
Discourse of cycling, road users and sustainability: an ecolinguistic investigation1
Centering marginalized voices: a discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter1
Demands as the black box of discourse theory: the German integration debate, demanding a ‘leading culture’ and the mainstreaming of the far-right1
Metaphors we overthrow with: a critical metaphor analysis of Nigerian military leaders’ post-coup proclamations1
Econarrative: ethics, ecology and the search for new narratives to live by1
An ‘attractive alternative way of wielding power’? Revealing hidden gender ideologies in the portrayal of women Heads of State during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Responsibilization of weight management: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of losing weight articles in Chinese official WeChat posts1
Spicebags, slippery masks and ‘Free Staters’: anti-republican anti-populism in contemporary Irish political discourse1
How to ‘decaffeinate’ a legislative report: emerging discourses on the climate change-migration nexus within the European Parliament1
Women’s online advocacy campaigns for political participation in Nigeria and Ghana1
Ambiguity, responsibility and political action in the UK daily COVID-19 briefings1
The potential of eye tracking data to strengthen CDA’ explanatory power: the case of multimodal critical discourse analysis of advertising persuasion1
Language and gender in Canadian Chief Medical Officers’ tweets during the COVID-19 pandemic1
‘Black people don’t do that’: a critical qualitative study of discursive barriers and black women’s digital well-being networks1
Textbooks as ‘Neoliberal artifacts’: a critical study of knowledge-making in ELT industry1
‘A day that unites the nation': contesting historical narratives in national day discussions1
Where the hate lies in soft hate speech: the argumentative potential in hostile public spheres1
Hegemony and the politics of labour: towards a discourse theory of value in contemporary capitalism1
Narratives and responsibility in media framings of the (1973–1985) Uruguayan dictatorship: a critical discourse analysis1
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