Discourse & Society

Article	Citations
COVID-19 memes going viral: On the multiple multimodal voices behind face masks	65
The abnormalisation of social justice: The ‘anti-woke culture war’ discourse in the UK	47
Shameless normalisation of impoliteness: Berlusconi’s and Trump’s press conferences	43
What gets lost in Twitter ‘cancel culture’ hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns	39
Metaphors of migration over time	34
Reality bites: How the pandemic has begun to shape the way we, metaphorically, see the world	22
The normalization of far-right populism and nativist authoritarianism: discursive practices in media, journalism and the wider public sphere/s	21
Who should apologise: Expressing criticism of public figures on Chinese social media in times of COVID-19	19
Rhetorical uses of precise numbers and semi-magical round numbers in political discourse about COVID-19: Examples from the government of the United Kingdom	19
Ideology in the linguistic landscape: Towards a quantitative approach	14
Pandemic morality-in-action: Accounting for social action during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Gender and politics in a digitalised world: Investigating online hostility against UK female MPs	12
Rethinking ‘the personal is political:’ Enacting agency in the narrative of sexual harassment experiences in China	11
Affective rebirth: Discursive gateways to contemporary national socialism	11
‘Re-educating the Roma? You must be joking. . .’: Racism and prejudice in online discussion forums	11
Narrating the ‘new normal’ or pre-legitimising media control? COVID-19 and the discursive shifts in the far-right imaginary of ‘crisis’ as a normalisation strategy	11
The master’s tools: Media repurposing of exclusionary metaphors to challenge racist constructions of migrants	10
Constructing COVID-19: A corpus-informed analysis of prime ministerial crisis response communication by gender	10
The US-China battle over Coronavirus in the news media: Metaphor transfer as a representation of stance mediation	10
A bibliometric analysis of critical discourse analysis and its implications	10
‘Feel like going crazy’: Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19	9
‘Wrap our arms around them here in Ireland’: Social media campaigns in the Irish abortion referendum	8
From fallacies to semi-fake news: Improving the identification of misinformation triggers across digital media	8
Gesture and legitimation in the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage	8
Unravelling the Global Britain vision? International relationships and national identity in UK Government documents about Brexit, 2016–2019	7

Shameless normalization as a result of media control: The case of Austria	7
Deficiencies and loopholes: Clashing discourses, problems and solutions in Australian migration advice regulation	6
Bloody widows? Discourses of tradition and gender in Ghanaian politics	6
An analysis of self-other representations in the incelosphere: Between online misogyny and self-contempt	6
‘Next time stay in your war room and pray for your boys’ or return to your kitchen: Sexist discourses in Ghana’s 2019 National Science and Math Quiz	6
Occupying the streets, occupying words. Reframing new feminisms through reappropriation	6
Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19	6
Reporting the news: How Breitbart derives legitimacy from recontextualised news	6
Alternative ‘Lives Matter’ formulations in online discussions about Black Lives Matter: Use, support and resistance	5
Women and men in the United Nations: A corpus analysis of General Debate addresses	5
The normalisation of the far right in the Dutch media in the run-up to the 2021 general elections	5
‘The legislature is the engine room of democracy’: Constructing ideological worldviews through proximisation strategies in Nigerian Senate debates	5
Cartooning and sexism in the time of Covid-19: Metaphors and metonymies in the Arab mind	5
‘You come back fighting. That’s what gives you the drive to achieve’: The extraordinary psychological construction of the super-rich in entertainment documentaries	5
Public pedagogies in post-literate cultures	4
‘It was Never Just About the Statue’: Ethos of historical figures in public debates on contested cultural objects	4
‘Sorry everything’s in bags’: The accountability of selling bread at a market during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes in Oman	4
(De)legitimation of COVID-19 vaccination narratives on Facebook comments in Romania: Beyond the co-occurrence patterns of discursive strategies	4
The intertextuality and interdiscursivity of “mirroring” in South Korean cyberfeminist posts	4
The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China	4
Human rights and ideology in foreign policy discourse: A case study of U.S. State Department Human Rights Country Reports 2000–2019	4
Super, social, medical: Person-first and identity-first representations of disabled people in Australian newspapers, 2000–2019	4
Orchestration of perspectives in televised climate change debates	4
‘It will never be well with SARS’: A discourse analytic study of the #EndSARS protests on social media	4
Changing concepts of greenhouse gas expressions: Discursive specialization in parliamentary discourses on climate change	3
Alternative futures in political discourse	3
‘Nothing Can Stop What’s Coming’: An analysis of the conspiracy theory discourse on 4chan’s /Pol board	3
‘I’m not blue or green. I’m black’. The participatory entextualization of translingual memes and metapragmatic comments in transnational sociopolitical discourse	3
Discursive pragmatics of justification in terrorist threat texts: Victim-blaming, denying, discrediting, legitimating, manipulating, and retaliation	3
Critical analysis of dehumanizing news photographs on immigrants: Examples of the portrayal of non-citizenship	3
Historical explanations in the Rettig Report: The role of interpersonal grammatical metaphors	3
“A radical point of view”: The discursive construction of the political identity of student activists	3
Debating the legal recognition of gender identity in parliamentary discourse: Human rights and queer politics	3
Digital resistance: Discursive construction of polarization and otherness in Oduduwa secessionists’ social media discourse	2
Illegitimation of same-sex sexualities in news reports of selected Nigerian newspapers	2
A multimodal discourse study of selected COVID-19 online public health campaign texts in Nigeria	2
Value frames in discourse supporting transgender athlete bans	2
Reacting to homophobia in a French online discussion: The fuzzy boundaries between heteronormativity and homophobia	2
A discourse analysis of critical commenting online: A study of comments on a self-mockery event	2
Worthiness, unity, numbers and commitment: Strengthening qualitative corpus methods in the critical discourse analysis of protest press coverage	2
The potential of creative uses of metonymy for climate protest	2
‘[P]aying back to the community and to the British people’: Migration as transactional discourse in curated stories by UK charity organisations	2
Re-defining gender as a heinous crime: A case study from the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies	2
An empirical study on court-related mediator’s discourse strategies from the perspective of proximization: Based on a workplace injury pretrial mediation case	2
Dispatching First Responders: Language Practices and the Dispatcher’s Operational Role in Radio Encounters With Police Officers	2
Friends, enemies, and agonists: Politics, morality and media in the COVID-19 conjuncture	2
#AllCatsAreBeautiful: Ambient affiliation and the visual-verbal representation and appreciation of cats in online subversive discourses	2
News media and the politics of fear: Normalization and contrastive discourses in the reporting on terrorist attacks in Sweden and the UK	2
‘Italians locked at home, illegal migrants free to disembark’: How populist parties re-contextualized the anti-immigration discourse at the time of COVID-19 pandemic	2

In the name of democracy: UNSC reform at the intersection of discourse and governmentality	2
Intertextual, action-orientated, political and occasioned constructions of Zimbabwe as a country in crisis	2
Synthetic personalization and the legitimization of the Crimean annexation: A discourse analysis of Vladimir Putin’s March 2014 presidential address	1
TikTok as a site of social protest in Iran’s Gen-Z uprising	1
Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability	1
Music as symbolic action	1
Afro-diasporan racial discourse in Germany	1
‘Those people who chose us’: Discursive construction of identity and belonging in the context of Quebec’s 2018 provincial elections	1
The democratic king: The role of ritualized flattery in political discourse	1
Jan Blommaert (1961–2021)	1
Analysing agency in linguistic representations of action	1
Look, Dude: How hyperpartisan and non-hyperpartisan speech differ in online commentary	1
Mothers as stancetakers: Intertextuality in same-sex marriage debates in Taiwan	1
Thinking different as an act of resistance: Reconceptualizing the German protests in the COVID-19 pandemic as an emergent counter-knowledge order	1
Preempting the past: How the future space unfolds in political discourse of Iran	1
Marginal voices: Exploring presence and participation in interaction in child protection conferences	1
Book reviews: Chong Wang, Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinese Advertisement: Case Studies of Household Appliance Advertisements from 1981 to 1996	1
You’re a murderer: Critical discourse analysis of conversations around abortions in the Russian talk show	1
Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19	1
From criticism to conspiracies: The populist discourse of COVID-19 sceptics in Germany’s Querdenken community on Telegram	1
Understanding emotions in hate speech: A methodology for discourse analysis	1
Managing moral category implications of former drug addiction	1
Epistemic competitions over Jewish Holocaust survivors’ stories in interviews	1
Rule 1: Remember the human. A socio-cognitive discourse study of a Reddit forum banned for promoting hate based on identity	1
Exploring narrative linearity between Twitter and the news: Echoes of the Arab Spring in Brazil	1
Political alliance with COVID-19: Macedonian politics and the strategic use of the pandemic	1
The gendered semiotics of far-right populism on Instagram: A case from Spain	1
Corpus-based analysis of genetically modified seed discourse	1
Evolutions in hegemonic discourses of climate change: An ecomodern enactment of implicatory denial	1
Whose Satan? U.S. mainstream media depictions of The Satanic Temple	1
Racist discourse in a German far-right blog: A corpus-driven approach using word embeddings	1
Kindness in British communities: Discursive practices of promoting kindness during the Covid pandemic	1
Sexism in Facebook discourse about clergy misconduct	1
‘Like the virus just brings out the worst in people’: Positioning and identity in student narratives during the Covid-19 outbreak in Australia	0
Book review: Joseph Comer, Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality	0
Book review: Marissa KLE, Discourses of Neoliberalism in Singapore’s Higher Education Context: Individualist and Communitarian Perspectives	0
Book review: Kristin Enola Gilbert and Gregory Matoesian, Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups	0
Book reviews: Helen Caple, Changpeng Huan and Monika Bednarek, Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures	0
Book Review: Michael Farrelly, Discourse and Democracy. Critical Analysis of the Language of Government	0
Book review: William Simpson, Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching	0
Book Review: Teresa Oteíza, What to Remember, What to Teach: Human Rights Violations in Chile’s Recent Past and the Pedagogical Discourse of History	0
Book review: Sigrid Norris, Systematically Working With Multimodal Data: Research Methods in Multimodal Discourse Analysis	0
Book review: Paul Thompson and Susan Hunston, Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals	0
Exploring vegan ideology through graffiti slogans	0
Book review: Dezheng (William) Feng, Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China	0
Book review: Clare Cunningham and Christopher J Hall (eds), Vulnerabilities, Challenges and Risks in Applied Linguistics	0
Poverty constructions and discursive strategies employed by participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment	0
Living on a low income during the cost-of-living crisis: Exploring experiences and perceptions	0
Rags to riches: A critical analysis of social mobility discourse, ideology and power in neoliberal Indonesia	0
Book reviews: Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio, Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro and Francesca De Cesare (eds), Populist Discourse. Critical Approaches to Contemporary Politics	0
The generic uniqueness of AI imagery: A critical approach to Dall-E as semiotic technology	0
Book review: Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem	0
Defining, labelling and evaluating poverty: A corpus-based discourse analysis of category construction in The Times newspaper 1900–2009	0
Book review: Robert Poole, Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics	0
Book review: Gwynne Mapes, Elite Authenticity: Remaking Distinction in Food Discourse	0
Introduction: Special issue on the discourses of poverty	0
‘Relatively civilized, relatively European’: Offence and online (de)normalization of media racism	0
Book reviews: Juan Eduardo Bonnin, Discourse and Mental Health: Voice, Inequality and Resistance in Medical Settings	0
Book review: David Machin and Andrea Mayr, How to do Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal Introduction	0
Book review: Anna De Fina and Gerardo Mazzaferro (eds), Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries	0
Decoding intentions in evaluations: A discursive study of disputants’ discourses in Chinese family mediation	0
‘I have controlled so much’: Discourse of prison violence	0
ChatGPT-4 as a journalist: Whose perspectives is it reproducing?	0
The ‘pathologically state dependent’ versus ‘middle-aged ministers on mammoth salaries’: The legitimation contest over a 2013 austerity measure in the Republic of Ireland	0
A discursive study of parents’ identity construction in Chinese wedding ceremony	0
Sustaining or overcoming distance in representations of U.S. drone strikes	0
Book review: Mathew Gillings, Gerlinde Mautner, and Paul Baker, Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies	0
Book review: Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting: Linking Linguistic Approaches With Socio-cultural Interpretation	0
Neoliberalism, alternatives and (de)politicisation: Analysis of political discourse during the coronavirus crisis	0
Book review: Anaïs Augé, Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse	0
‘The land of your fathers lieth in ruins’: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria’s 2023 pre- election crises-related internet memes	0
Nationalism in discursive legitimation: An analysis of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s ‘bamboo diplomacy’ discourse on digital journalism	0
To change or not to change: Transformations of ecological metaphors in Chinese government microblogs	0
Reporting assassinations in the Ethiopian press	0
Book review: Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Lucía Fernández-Amaya and María de la O Hernández-López (eds), Technology-mediated Service Encounters	0
Taboo language in a sample of Egyptian op-eds: A corpus-based socio-cognitive study	0
Book review: Montesano Montessori N, Farrelly M and Mulderrig J (eds.), Critical Policy Discourse Analysis	0
Book review: Raili Marling and Marko Pajević (eds), Care, Control and COVID-19. Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature	0
Can space be conceptualized in a different way in political discourse? An extended application of Discourse Space Theory	0
Corruption in a Greek context: Analyzing a newspaper’s discourse on a major political scandal	0

Delegitimating a contested cultural practice “guanxixue” in a Chinese official newspaper	0
Book review: Jonathan Charteris-Black, Metaphors of Coronavirus: Invisible Enemy or Zombie Apocalypse?	0
Regular selves constructed through genres: A socio-cognitive approach to the study of positioning acts in Italian rectors’ inaugural speeches	0
Analysis of governmental open letters mobilizing residents in China during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Legitimizing Germany’s intervention policy: A discourse analysis of German media’s coverage on supplying weapons to Ukraine	0
Toward integrative triangulation in discourse-historical approach	0
Religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse: Towards a critical religious tolerance	0
Mining misinformation discourse on social media within the ‘ideological square’	0
Book review: Elena dell’Agnese, Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse	0
Book review: Colleen Elizabeth Kelley, A Rhetoric of Divisive Partisanship: The 2016 American Presidential Campaign Discourse of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump	0
Book review: Rodney H Jones (ed.), Viral Discourse	0
Book Review: Mike Savage, The Return of Inequality. Social Change and the Weight of the Past	0
Book review: Jonathan Charteris-Black, Metaphors of Brexit: No Cherries on the Cake	0
Book review: Cynthia Gordon (ed.), Approaches to Discourse Analysis	0
Discursive construction of migrant otherness on Facebook: A distributional semantics approach	0
Book review: Theo van Leeuwen, Multimodality and Identity	0
The discursive role of the label “PC”: Analyzing changes in discriminatory language with the condemnation model	0
Victimhood in Swedish political discourse	0
Discourses of leadership in the 2015–2023 Poland: From conflict and crisis, to a “smiling state”	0
Book review: Malcolm N MacDonald and Duncan Hunter, The Discourse of Security: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality	0
Book review: Angela Zottola, Transgender Identities in the Press. A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis	0
Fortifying the otherness in Montenegrin political discourse	0
‘Retire, play petanque, take synthrom, travel, eat a blue pill and screw two old ladies’: Ageist language in Spain on Twitter	0
Denying racial animus: Political discourse in Arizona anti-ethnic studies legislation	0
‘Never have they had any chance to spread their wings’: The construction of agency and socio-gender identity of Iranian women	0
Book review: Ronny Scholz (ed.), Quantifying Approaches to Discourse for Social Scientists	0
Book review: Crispin Thurlow, Christa Dürscheid and Federica Diémoz (eds), Visualizing Digital Discourse: Interactional, Institutional and Ideological Perspectives	0
Book review: Eva M Gómez-Jiménez and Michael Toolan (eds), The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality: CADS Approaches to the British Media	0
Living with contradictions: A corpus-assisted analysis of grown-up left-behind children discourses in Zhihu	0
To share vulnerability is to show strength: A discursive study of self-disclosure by Chinese cancer patients on short-form video platforms	0
Talking of poverty: From the analytical to the political	0
‘Which would be more democratic? Allowing them the opportunity to change their mind or pressing on regardless’: A discursive psychological study of arguments for and against calls for a second Brexit	0
Book review: Jef Verschueren, Complicity in Discourse and Practice	0
Book review: Ourania Hatzidaki and Dionysis Goutsos (eds), Greece in Crisis: Combining Critical Discourse and Corpus Linguistics Perspectives	0
Book review: Ali Almanna and Chonglong Gu (eds), Translation as a Set of Frames	0
Book review: Theresa Catalano and Linda R. Waugh, Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond	0
Book review: Chris Heffer, All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness	0
Book review: Gwen Bouvier and Joel Rasmussen, Qualitative Research Using Social Media	0
What if migrants were only people and relatives? Designations used to name people on the move in the Belgian media	0
Mines, environment, questions, and disagreements: An analysis of the Turów coal mine disputes	0
Book Review: I. Theodoropoulou and J. Tovar (eds), Research Companion to Language and Country Branding	0
The Islamic State’s use of the Qur’an in its Magazines, Dabiq and Rumiyah	0
Distinction within the ‘global north’? A Bourdieusian approach for analysing development discourse: The case of U.S. and E.U. relations with the Colombian state (2016–2022): A comparative analysis	0
Delving deeper into OpIndia.com’s representation of Hindus and Muslims	0
Speech act of flaming: A pragmatic analysis of Twitter trolling in Pakistan	0
Ideology and the contextualization of ancient Chinese judicial opinions	0
Misogyny in election discourse: Analysing the 2019 General Elections in India	0
Book review: Andrea McDonnell, Celebrity Rhetoric and Sexual Misconduct Cases: Discursive Self-Cleaving	0
Book review: Jesse Egbert and Paul Baker (eds), Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis	0
Linguistic encoding of women’s agency in the German political discourse on abortion: A diachronic Critical Discourse Analysis	0
Book review: Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson, Academic Irregularities: Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education	0
Book Review: Claire Sisco King, Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity	0
Accounting for discrimination through categorization work: An examination of the target-of-discrimination group members’ practices	0
Identity in crisis: Power, agency, and subjugation in the small stories of the Moroccan diaspora in Spain	0
Book review: Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, British and American Representations of 9/11: Literature, Politics and the Media	0
Book review: Jens O Zinn, The UK ‘at Risk’, A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change 1785–2009	0
Book review: Gavin Brookes and Paul Baker, Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press	0
Book review: Lisa Nahajec, Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts: A Textual and Communicative Perspective	0
Book review: Franco Zappettini, European Identities in Discourse: A Transnational Citizens’ Perspective	0
Book review: Aurora Donzelli, One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia	0
Book review: Tara Coltman-Patel, (Mis)Representing Weight and Obesity in the British Press: Fear, Divisiveness, Shame and Stigma	0
Book reviews: Mimi Huang and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds), The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses	0
The disappearance of ‘poverty’ in Dutch House of Representatives debates on the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT)	0
‘Noticias no son noticias, ¿no?’: Mexican perspectives on violence in the media and the war on drugs	0
‘Language’, power and liberty: Discursive constructions of Ghanaian glossolalic speeches	0
Eberhard Kranzmayer’s dovetailing with Nazism: His fascist years and the ‘One Standard German Axiom (OSGA)’	0
Book reviews: Janet McIntosh and Norma Mendoza-Denton, Language in the Trump Era. Scandals and Emergencies	0
‘As long as you have the guts’: The discourse of drug offending	0
Book review: Amy Jo Murray and Kevin Durrheim (eds), Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action	0
Why do we need a sociocognitive-CDA in hate speech studies? A corpus-based systematic review	0
In/exclusion in fashion discourse: Are we in or out?	0
If not a ‘macho’, then who did it? Social actors and the violence of Mexico	0
Appified surveillance: TripAdvisor as a site for entextualized surveillant assemblage	0
A clumsy messenger with a flippant tongue: Reported speech by Chinese males between their mothers and wives	0
Book review: Majid KhosraviNik (ed.), Social Media Critical Discourse Studies	0
Book review: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Malcolm Coulthard (eds.), Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis	0
Book Review: Sabine Tan and K. L. E. Marissa (eds), Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach	0
Levelling, differentiation and structure of feeling: Address and interlocutor reference in Indonesian political interviews	0
Book review	0
Resistant discourse strategies in social media in China’s epidemic prevention context	0
Book review: Michael Handford and James Paul Gee (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis	0
Book review: Mark Nartey, Political Myth-Making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction and Promotion of the African Dream	0
‘Please don’t insult Dog. He is a loyal friend!’ The use of animal metaphors for evaluation and positioning on a Chinese Political Web Forum	0
Book review: Anne-Mette Hermans, Discourses of Perfection: Representing Cosmetic Procedures and Beauty Products in UK Lifestyle Magazines	0
Antisemitism in contemporary Türkiye: Discourses on Turkish Jews on Twitter	0
Book review: Anesa P and Engberg J (eds.), The Digital (R)Evolution of Legal Discourse. New Genres, Media, and Linguistic Practices	0
Book review: Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds), Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse	0
The critical cognitive analysis of “hyper-securitization” strategy: A case study of China’s official discourse on the “Japan nuclear contaminated water discharge incident”	0
The view from ‘My Pitch’: Homeless voices in The Big Issue during the cost-of-living crisis	0
Book review: Rowan R Mackay, Multimodal Legitimation: Understanding and Analysing Political and Cultural Discourse	0
Book Review: Hansun Zhang Waring and Nadja Tadic (eds.), Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction	0
Review forum of Tamar Katriel’s book Defiant Discourse	0