Critical Discourse Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Discourse Studies is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The representation of students in undergraduate prospectuses between 1998 and 2021: a diachronic corpus-assisted discourse study27
Conspiracy theory discourses Conspiracy theory discourses , edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2022, 509 pp., $27
Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction 26
Correction24
‘A threat to national unity, an emancipator’: discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities23
What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis22
Linguistic polyphony in UN speeches on climate change: an analysis of implicit argumentation22
A multimodal and ethnographic approach to textbook discourse20
Unfit and cast aside: portrayals of mothering with intellectual disability in Québec court reports20
National identity construction in Polish right-wing populist discourse18
Negotiating the boundaries of the politically sayable: populist radical right talk scandals in the German media17
Redescribing fossil-fuel investments: how hegemony challengers ‘invert’ arguments in the Norwegian public discourse on climate risk16
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 o16
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: a Hallidayan transitivity analysis16
The making, anchoring, and reassurance of ‘meaninglessness’: a critical discourse and modal affordance perspective on Chinese dance drama The Eternal Radio Waves15
Johnsonism and crisis management: a critical narrative analysis of the UK Prime Minister’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic14
Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles12
Representations of gender in conspiracy theories: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis11
A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of language ideologies in parliamentary debates about the recognition of Irish sign language10
Snyder and Habermas on the war in Ukraine: a critical discourse analysis of elite media discourse in Germany10
The argumentative function of rescue narratives: Trump’s national security rhetoric as a case study10
Correction9
‘Hosting refugees is the most rewarding experience’: migrant identity and affective positioning in curated NGO stories9
Is this discursive Yentling? A critical study of an RCMP officer’s interaction with a child sexual assault complainant9
Anti-populist fantasies: interrogating Veja 's discursive constructions, from Lula to Bolsonaro9
How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development9
The discursive construction of a new reality in Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech8
Correction8
Soft hate speech and denial of racism at Euro 20208
Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law7
Sensegiving doesn't always make sense: framing the implementation of performance-based funding in Ohio7
The Magna Carta of Women as the Philippine Translation of the CEDAW: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis7
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’7
The spatialisation of the political imagination: A political discourse analysis of space, fantasy and inter-communal conflict in Derry city6
‘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 violence6
Phil Graham and axiological discourse analysis: after neoliberalism6
Representation of social actors in the tweets of Nigerian #EndSARS protesters6
The hybrid discourse of the ‘European Green Deal’: road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly6
‘Trapping my way up’: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Black Sherif’s songs6
Unravelling social media critical discourse studies (SM-CDS) – four approaches to studying social media through the critical lens5
Rethinking ethics in AI policy: a method for synthesising Graham’s critical discourse analysis approaches and the philosophical study of valuation5
Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives 5
Audience labour, discourse dynamics and challenges for analysis5
The discursive construction of intersectionality in public policy implementation5
Morality in discourse5
‘So they hit each other’: gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial5
Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China5
Positioning as discursive struggle for equity: a critical discourse analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of African countries5
Twenty-first century discourses of American lynching5
Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis5
Who owns “democracy”? The role of populism in the discursive struggle over the signifier “democracy” in Catalonia and Spain5
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