OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Discourse & Society is 3. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

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	45
Shameless normalisation of impoliteness: Berlusconi’s and Trump’s press conferences	42
What gets lost in Twitter ‘cancel culture’ hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns	38
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
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
Who should apologise: Expressing criticism of public figures on Chinese social media in times of COVID-19	19
Ideology in the linguistic landscape: Towards a quantitative approach	13
Gender and politics in a digitalised world: Investigating online hostility against UK female MPs	11
Pandemic morality-in-action: Accounting for social action during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Rethinking ‘the personal is political:’ Enacting agency in the narrative of sexual harassment experiences in China	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
‘Re-educating the Roma? You must be joking. . .’: Racism and prejudice in online discussion forums	11
Affective rebirth: Discursive gateways to contemporary national socialism	11
The US-China battle over Coronavirus in the news media: Metaphor transfer as a representation of stance mediation	10
The master’s tools: Media repurposing of exclusionary metaphors to challenge racist constructions of migrants	10
‘Feel like going crazy’: Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19	9
Strategies of ideological polarisation in the online news media: A social actor analysis of Megawati Soekarnoputri	9
A bibliometric analysis of critical discourse analysis and its implications	9
Gesture and legitimation in the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage	8
Constructing COVID-19: A corpus-informed analysis of prime ministerial crisis response communication by gender	8
‘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	7

Shameless normalization as a result of media control: The case of Austria	7
Unravelling the Global Britain vision? International relationships and national identity in UK Government documents about Brexit, 2016–2019	7
Deficiencies and loopholes: Clashing discourses, problems and solutions in Australian migration advice regulation	6
“This is similar to Vincent Chin”: Intertextuality, referring expressions, and the discursive construction of Asian American activist identities in an online messaging community	6
Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19	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
Reporting the news: How Breitbart derives legitimacy from recontextualised news	6
Occupying the streets, occupying words. Reframing new feminisms through reappropriation	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	5
Womenandmenin 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
Alternative ‘Lives Matter’ formulations in online discussions about Black Lives Matter: Use, support and resistance	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
Discourses of poverty across genres: Competing representations of the poor in the transitional context of Serbia	4
The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China	4
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
The intertextuality and interdiscursivity of “mirroring” in South Korean cyberfeminist posts	4
‘Sorry everything’s in bags’: The accountability of selling bread at a market during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Orchestration of perspectives in televised climate change debates	4
(De)legitimation of COVID-19 vaccination narratives on Facebook comments in Romania: Beyond the co-occurrence patterns of discursive strategies	4
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes in Oman	4
‘It will never be well with SARS’: A discourse analytic study of the #EndSARS protests on social media	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
“A radical point of view”: The discursive construction of the political identity of student activists	3
Critical analysis of dehumanizing news photographs on immigrants: Examples of the portrayal of non-citizenship	3
Changing concepts of greenhouse gas expressions: Discursive specialization in parliamentary discourses on climate change	3
Discursive pragmatics of justification in terrorist threat texts: Victim-blaming, denying, discrediting, legitimating, manipulating, and retaliation	3
Debating the legal recognition of gender identity in parliamentary discourse: Human rights and queer politics	3
Historical explanations in the Rettig Report: The role of interpersonal grammatical metaphors	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