OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Discourse & Society is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Reacting to homophobia in a French online discussion: The fuzzy boundaries between heteronormativity and homophobia	31
Book review: Chris Heffer, All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness	21
Book review: I. Theodoropoulou and J. Tovar (eds), Research Companion to Language and Country Branding [Routledge Studies in Language and Identity] Theod	19
Identity in crisis: Power, agency, and subjugation in the small stories of the Moroccan diaspora in Spain	19
Neoliberalism, alternatives and (de)politicisation: Analysis of political discourse during the coronavirus crisis	17
Authoritarian stereotyping: Values, judgements and representations of groups in conversations on news	16
‘Feel like going crazy’: Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19	15
Antisemitism in contemporary Türkiye: Discourses on Turkish Jews on Twitter	13
Dispatching First Responders: Language Practices and the Dispatcher’s Operational Role in Radio Encounters With Police Officers	13
Moving beyond securitisation and deservingness: Convergence between political and media discourses about ‘irregular migrants’ in Germany	12
Police gaslighting in UK domestic abuse cases	11
Anti-Latin American migrant hate speech on X: A comparative study of Spain and the United States	11
A clumsy messenger with a flippant tongue: Reported speech by Chinese males between their mothers and wives	11
Multimodal blends and Israel’s genocide in Gaza: A critical cognitive study	11
From marginalization to resistance: A critical discourse analysis of indigenous Tao anti-racist and anti-nuclear waste narratives in Taiwan	10
CORRIGENDUM to “Book review: Manuela Romano, Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts ”	10
Mining misinformation discourse on social media within the ‘ideological square’	9
The victimized Self and threatening Other: A cross-country analysis of (in)security representations in the visual discourse of populist radical right parties	9
Book review: Katie Jane Patterson and Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio (eds.), Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Discourses of Extremism PattersonKatie Jane	8
Rags to riches: A critical analysis of social mobility discourse, ideology and power in neoliberal Indonesia	8
Resistant discourse strategies in social media in China’s epidemic prevention context	8
A critical enthymematic deconstruction of anti/pro LGBTQ+ arguments on Malaysian social media	7
The protest paradigm and Power: A relationship study using the 2024 Pro-Palestine student protests	7
Denying racial animus: Political discourse in Arizona anti-ethnic studies legislation	7
Exploring anti-Armenian hate speech in Azerbaijani state-aligned news outlets: A post-conflict discourse analysis	7

A discursive history of platform capitalism: Graphicon evolution and cultural negotiation on Bilibili	6
Book review: Nataša Lacković and Alin Olteanu, Relational and Multimodal Higher Education: Digital, Social and Environmental Perspectives LackovićNatašaO	6
Words as weapons: Online shaming, sectarian polarization, and identity contestation in post-Assad Syria	6
Delving deeper into OpIndia.com’s representation of Hindus and Muslims	6
‘It will never be well with SARS’: A discourse analytic study of the #EndSARS protests on social media	6
Linguistic encoding of women’s agency in the German political discourse on abortion: A diachronic Critical Discourse Analysis	6
‘The ultimate violation’: A linguistic taxonomy for rape euphemisms in courtroom discourse	5
Afro-diasporan racial discourse in Germany	5
Religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse: Towards a critical religious tolerance	5
Changing concepts of greenhouse gas expressions: Discursive specialization in parliamentary discourses on climate change	5
Competing populist narratives in Pakistan: A discourse analysis of politicians, digital citizens, and bureaucratic counter-narratives	5
Speech act of flaming: A pragmatic analysis of Twitter trolling in Pakistan	5
Decoding intentions in evaluations: A discursive study of disputants’ discourses in Chinese family mediation	5
Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability	5
Book review: Teun A. van Dijk, Social Movement Discourse: An Introduction van DijkTeun A., Social Movement Discourse: An Introduction, London and New Yor	5
Analysis of governmental open letters mobilizing residents in China during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Book review: Jonathan Charteris-Black, Metaphors of Coronavirus: Invisible Enemy or Zombie Apocalypse?	5
Surveillant care or benevolent control? A multimodal genre and sentiment analysis of therapeutic mHealth app reviews	5
‘Noticias no son noticias, ¿no?’: Mexican perspectives on violence in the media and the war on drugs	5
Call them demons without calling them demons: How The New York Times legitimises violence in its coverage of 7 October 2023	4
Rule 1: Remember the human. A socio-cognitive discourse study of a Reddit forum banned for promoting hate based on identity	4
Discursive and ideological dimensions of fake news in Nigeria’s 2023 general election discourse	4
‘ Never have they had any chance to spread their wings ’: The construction of agency and socio-gender identity of Iranian women	4
Appified surveillance: TripAdvisor as a site for entextualized surveillant assemblage	4
Book review: Mark Nartey, Political Myth-Making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction and Promotion of the African Dream	4
‘[P]aying back to the community and to the British people’: Migration as transactional discourse in curated stories by UK charity organisations	4
Book review: Jessica Aiston, Male Separatism: Discourse, Ideology, and Argumentation AistonJessica, Male Separatism: Discourse, Ideology, and Argumentati	4
Between rebellion and compliance: Discursive practices of 985 waste youth in China	3
“Foreigners who come to live in Monaco are rich, but normal Monegasques are normal people”: Exploring how Monegasque citizens are constructed in entertainment documentaries about the super-rich in Mon	3
Kindness in British communities: Discursive practices of promoting kindness during the Covid pandemic	3
Locked and loaded: Pro-gun discourse in Czechia	3
Ideological dilemmas of policing on the spectrum: Using critical discursive psychology to examine how neurodivergent police manage their identity framing	3
‘Language’, power and liberty: Discursive constructions of Ghanaian glossolalic speeches	3
Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19	3
Holistic, nurturing and sustainable: Discursive shift in corporate social responsibility reporting	3
False labeling and double standards in the populist discourse of the Law and Justice party when it became the opposition	3
‘I have controlled so much’: Discourse of prison violence	3
Book review: Risa Applegarth, Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency ApplegarthRisa, Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency, Columbus,	3
Book review: Michael Haugh and Rosina Márquez Reiter, Morality in Discourse HaughMichaelReiterRosina Márquez (eds), Morality in Discourse, Oxford Univers	3
Event conceptualization in news coverage of pro-life protests: A multimodal analysis of language and image	3
A discourse analysis of critical commenting online: A study of comments on a self-mockery event	3
‘I’m not blue or green. I’m black’. The participatory entextualization of translingual memes and metapragmatic comments in transnational sociopolitical discourse	3
Eticising the emic: Epistemic violence and the reframing of the 2023 Gaza War	3
Book review: John Blewitt, William Morris’s Socialism and Politics: Claiming a Decent Life BlewittJohn (ed.), William Morris’s Socialism and Politics: Cl	3
Book review: Jesse W. C. Yip, Discourse of Online Social Support: A Study of Online Self-Help Groups for Anxiety and Depression YipJesse W. C., Discourse	3
Book review: Małgorzata Waśniewska, The Discourse of Dehumanization WaśniewskaMałgorzata, The Discourse of Dehumanization, Routledge: London, 2026; 236 p	2
Book review: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Malcolm Coulthard (eds.), Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis , 2	2
Drawing moral boundaries: The ‘normal’ and the ‘deviant’ in the Sweden Democrats’ LGBTQ+ discourse	2
‘Her life saves lives’; ‘This war must end’: Personal trauma as ground for change when subjective accounts defy facts	2
Digital resistance: Discursive construction of polarization and otherness in Oduduwa secessionists’ social media discourse	2

A discursive study of parents’ identity construction in Chinese wedding ceremony	2
Living with contradictions: A corpus-assisted analysis of grown-up left-behind children discourses in Zhihu	2
Book review: David Machin and Andrea Mayr, How to do Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal Introduction	2
Nationalism in discursive legitimation: An analysis of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s ‘ bamboo diplomacy ’ discourse on digital journalism	2
Book review: Casey Ryan Kelly, Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood KellyCasey Ryan, Apocalypse Man: The Death	2
Book review: Ruihua Zhao and Guowen Huang, Harmonious Discourse Analysis: Ecolinguistics Through Chinese Culture and Philosophy ZhaoRuihuaHuangGuowen, Ha	2
Boycott Israel: What can multimodal discourse achieve by using logic and cognition?	2
Book review: Theresa Catalano and Linda R. Waugh, Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond	2
The crown in the tempest: Multimodal appraisal and gendered judgment of symbolic authority on X	2
Book review: Lorenza Mondada and Anssi Peräkylä (eds.), New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction: Body, Participation and the Self Mondada	2
Discursive pragmatics of justification in terrorist threat texts: Victim-blaming, denying, discrediting, legitimating, manipulating, and retaliation	2
“When peace and freedom broke apart”: A rhetoric of values in early Cold War discourse	2
Book review: Michele Zappavigna and Andrew S. Ross, Innovations and Challenges in Social Media Discourse Analysis ZappavignaMicheleRossAndrew S. (eds.),	2
Book review: Cynthia Gordon (ed.), Approaches to Discourse Analysis	2
Toward integrative triangulation in discourse-historical approach	2
Book review: Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson, Academic Irregularities: Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education	2
Book review: William Simpson, Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching	2
Book review: Marion Mathier, Postdigital Disconnects: The Discursive Formation of Technology in Education MathierMarion, Postdigital Disconnects: The Dis	2