Social Semiotics

Article	Citations
Inheritance and development: revisiting three editions of Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design and their social-semiotic and linguistic insights	23
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride	18
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society	18
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”	17
Rhetoric of a terrorist: a metafunctional thematic analysis of the Unabomber Manifesto	14
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili	13
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants	10
“Scrounger-bashing” as national pastime: the prevalence and ferocity of anti-welfare ideology on niche-interest online forums	10
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities	9
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis	9
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona	8
Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks	8
Flags and fields: a comparative analysis of national identity in butter packaging in Sweden and the UK	8
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks	8
“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–2022	8
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory , by Gerard J. Steen, Amsterdam/Philadelphia,	8
Making death (in)different: discursive legitimation in death trials	7
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments	7
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech	7
Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine tra	7
“Is your font racist?” Metapragmatic online discourses on the use of typographic mimicry and its appropriateness	6
From black to green with a dash of New Nordic. The multimodal rebranding of a Danish energy company with global aspirations	6
Categorisations of developed and developing countries in UN news on climate change	6
Legitimation of governments by renaming of everyday things and places: a comparison of the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic in Iran	6
Stylistic expressions of YouTube lifestyle influencers: authenticity and professional amateurism	6

The linear structure of narrative figures in the Saint Francis Cycle: a linguistic analysis	5
The scientifization of “green” anti-ageing cosmetics in online marketing: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	5
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria president Bola Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal policy-related internet memes	5
Narratology Beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life	5
Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China , edited by Li Pan, Xia	5
Multimodal metaphor (re)framing: a critical analysis of the promotional image of China’s Hubei Province in the post-pandemic era on new media	5
Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy	5
“Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity	4
Russian train graffiti: a history of performance	4
Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method	4
Towards a unified affordance approach: searching for congruent meaning making in COVID-19 warning designs	4
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power	4
Embracing transgression(s) : a critical-dialogical semiotic approach on how “rhetorical plasticity” shapes contemporary far-right ideological reproduction	3
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw	3
#Civilwar2: Instagram posts during COVID-19	3
The multimodal performance of conversational humor	3
Where Covid metaphors come from: reconsidering context and modality in metaphor	3
Teachers’ gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation	3
Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida in the rough waters of photography theory	3
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning	3
Statistics in corpus linguistics: a practical guide	2
Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety , by Luke Collins and Paul Baker, Cambridge, Cambridge UniversityPress, 2023, p. xiii	2
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes	2
Silence: a modality of its own	2
Screens of inequality: caste narratives in Hindi cinema	2
Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination , edited by Andrea Cossu and Jorge Fontdevila, Bristol, Bristol U	2
Approaches to systemic functional grammar: convergence and divergence	2
Alignment, negation, and androcentricity: representation of bride price by Chinese state media	2
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	2
Nonprofit campaigning done ethically to elicit empathy instead of aversion: A case study of the UNICEF multimodal book Lives Beyond Figures	2
China opportunity or China threat? A corpus-based study of China’s image in Australian news discourse	2
“ Ps. I’ll find you .” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile	2
Raising awareness against fake news to protect democracy: the myth of Islamophobia in Trump's speech	2
“All sisters must experience the endorphin rush!” A virtual discourse-ethnographic study on neoliberalism female fitness community on Bilibili	2
A boon or a bane: multimodal figurative framing in Chinese and foreign BRI-themed cartoons	2
Ghost signs at the mall: structuring semiotics and (formerly) branded retail space	2
Multilingual crisis communication: insights from China	2
Erotic capital in digital age: a multimodal analysis of the idolization of fresh meat elite on Xiaohongshu	2
Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China	1
Visible signs: an introduction to semiotics in the visual arts (3rd edition)	1
What do vegans know and how do they learn? Veganism as a social text and a form of knowledge	1
Fire, police cars and barricade tape: exploring visual securitisation in Sweden Democrats’ Instagram posts	1
Free Mo Robinson: citizen engagement in response to a crime event on social media	1
A new way to justice? Multimodal meaning construction in videoconferencing technology-based online criminal courts in China	1
Monuments to Lenin in the post-Soviet cultural landscape	1
Misrepresenting autism in university promotional videos advocating robot therapy: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	1
What does it mean to redefine prosperity? A theory of definition for pathways to sustainable futures	1
Fair or biased? A corpus-based study of Australia’s early COVID-19 media representation of China	1
A comparative critical analysis of official and personal social media videos on being and becoming old in China	1
(Re)framing online news through paratexts: a multisemiotic analysis of The New York Times in Chinese	1

Street art assemblages	1
Triadic discursive strategy: a digital arena for ideological legitimization in land movement	1
The Spanish tilde as a visual semiotic marker of Pan-Hispanism	1
Moody and monstrous menstruators: the Semiotics of the menstrual meme on social media	1
Visual meanings in Vietnamese picture books: exploring Vietnamese artists’ perspectives on the Yin–Yang balancing	1
The moral metaphor system: a conceptual metaphor approach	1
From monologues to multimodal perspectivization: strategies for affective commercialization via Boys Love (BL) manga covers	1
Desiring the indigenous: affective commodification of the Sámi	0
Qanons, anti-vaxxers, and alternative health influencers: a cultural semiotic perspective on the links between conspiracy theories, spirituality, and wellness during the Covid-19 pandemic	0
Multimodal approaches to Chinese-English translation and interpreting	0
A panorama of linguistic landscape studies A panorama of linguistic landscape studies , by Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz, Bristol, Jackson, Multilingual Matters, 2023, xv	0
Discourses that undermine union movements: a multimodal analysis of union-busting videos	0
Reading images for knowledge building: analyzing infographics in school science	0
The development of L2 interactional competence: a multimodal study of complaining in French interactions The development of L2 interactional competence: a multimodal study of complainin	0
Intercultural competence and pragmatics Intercultural competence and pragmatics , edited by Gila A. Schauer, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, xxiv + 168 pp., ISBN 9783031	0
In search of the social in social semiotics: a historical perspective	0
Actions and digital empathy in the interactive storytelling of serious games: a multimodal discourse approach	0
Values: a core component in the discursive construction of Europe and the EU	0
Breakdown of knowledge authority: semiotic analysis of an anti-vax conspiracy theory influencer on Twitter	0
Kongish: translanguaging and the commodification of an urban dialect Kongish: translanguaging and the commodification of an urban dialect , by Tong King Lee, Cambridge,	0
Bridging typical and atypical reference: a review of Referring in Language: An Integrated Approach by Lise Fontaine, Katy Jones and David Schönthal	0
To preserve and to protect vanishing signs: activism through art, ethnography, and linguistics in a gentrifying city	0
Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: theory and application Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: theory and application , b	0
Climate irresponsibility on social media. A critical approach to “high-carbon visibility discourse”	0
Analyzing the meaning of social images during pandemic lockdown	0
La lluita continua : socio-political debate and the linguistic landscape of a Catalan city	0
The chop suey letterform in historical Los Angeles Chinatowns	0
Interrogating the multimodal construction of gender and family in children’s literature: a review	0
Polish Camp Literature	0
Romaphobia in the UK Right-Wing Press: racist and populist discourse during the Brexit referendum	0
Membership categorization devices in courtroom opening and closing speeches	0
Sharing emotions or/and making allies: the emoji’s interpersonal function in Chinese social media news comments	0
The politicization of place: chronotopes, authenticity, and semioscaping Fujialu as a site of “red tourism” in China	0
Making sense of platform-mediated residences in tourist destinations. A semiotic analysis of the controversy around home sharing in Barcelona	0
The multimodal construction of political personae through the strategic management of semiotic resources of emotion expression	0
Gastropopulism: a sociosemiotic analysis of politicians posing as “the everyday man” via food posts on social media	0
The linguistic landscape in China: commodification, image construction, contestations and negotiations	0
Political othering and polarisation in Nigeria’s online electoral discourse: towards a culture of inter-political party tolerance	0
Looking at the stars in the twenty-first century: Lotman's semiotics, progress and utopia	0
Visualising the past for the future: a social semiotic reading of urban heritage	0
Linguistic landscape as a way to construct multiple identities in the context of globalization: the case of an ancient town in China	0
Semiotics for Latour, Latour for semiotics. Tracing a network of relations across disciplinary boundaries Inchiesta sulle reti di senso. Bruno Latour nella svolta semiotica	0
Reimagining maternity: a multimodal analysis on the identity construction amongst Chinese “Married, child-free” women in Xiaohongshu	0
(Non) representation and normalized losses of the other in pro-migrant media texts: what is at stake in migrant visibility?	0
Populism in musical mash ups: recontextualising Brexit	0
The selective foregrounding of social structures in factual welfare television: a multimodal analysis	0
New research on cohesion and coherence in linguistics New research on cohesion and coherence in linguistics , by Delu Zhang and Rushan Liu, London and New York, Routledg	0
The “menstruating” Muslim Brotherhood: taboo metaphor, face attack, and gender in Egyptian culture	0
Street art/art in the street – semiotics, politics, economy	0
A social semiotic multimodal analysis of ateji translation in manga	0
Investigating the relation between mind and semiotic systems: a review Linguistic relativity today	0
The social semiotics of Switzerland's far right: how campaign posters by the Swiss National Party communicate across different domains	0
You Are just a №: the quantified self from a semio-pragmatic perspective	0
Guided to Guider: the “∼ed” and “∼er” roles in professional development materials for guided Reading	0
Gender representation and stereotyping in Moroccan print media coverage of the 2023 Haouz Earthquake	0
Corruption, language and popular agency	0
Traditional Knowledge, science and China's pride: how a TCM social media account legitimizes TCM treatment of Covid-19	0
“The trash is ruining the picture”: social media, sustainability, and the semiotics of pristine nature	0
Key themes and new directions in systemic functional translation studies	0
Semiotic analysis of university prospectuses in Pakistan: marketization, identity, and power dynamics	0
Skin-tone modified emoji and first-person indexicality	0
Translation, adaptation and digital media Translation, adaptation and digital media , by John Milton and Silvia Cobelo, London, Routledge, 2023, 322 pp., £34.99 (e-book)	0
Harnessing comics as minoritarian interventions in the representation of conflicts and their everyday: the case of Vanni and Welcome to the New World	0
Graffiti and Urban transformation: the ideological discourse in the semiotic landscape of the Asturian Mining Valley	0
War on feminism: an analysis of metaphorical representations on Weibo	0
Metaphors of the virtual: how ordinary people frame what the internet is	0
Econarrative: ethics, ecology, and the search for new narratives to live by Econarrative: ethics, ecology, and the search for new narratives to live by , by Arran Stibbe	0
Inseparability of language and culture: evidence from spirituality, emotionality, and society	0
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	0
How emoji make meaning and enact ambient affiliation: a social semiotic account of emoji-text relations in TikTok comments	0
Street art as “street fetish”- a new signifier of social class? The case of Brazil’s “Beverley Hills”	0
Correction	0
Conducting sentiment analysis Conducting sentiment analysis , by Lei Lei and Dinlin Liu, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, iv++104 pp., $20.00 (paperback), IS	0
The microblogging discourse of disasters: Twitter and Weibo in action in the aftermath of two major industrial accidents	0
Remembering the other, repositioning oneself: the right to a biography and autocommunication in perpetrator and collaborator descendant documentaries*	0
Meaning, identity and interaction: sociolinguistic variation and change in game-theoretic pragmatics	0
Lawyer evaluation in Chinese courtroom: a social-semiotic perspective	0
Multilingual currents in literature, translation, and culture	0
Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel and the mediatization of street art	0
Anti-Black sentiments in Chinese Weibo discourse: a critical discourse historical analysis	0

BOOKS AND SOCIAL MEDIA: How the Digital Age is Shaping the Printed Word	0
“They are unpredictable junkies and criminals”: George Floyd’s death and the BLM movement in Czech user discussions	0
Tourist discourse and carnivalesque humour in children’s television narratives: learning travel from Thomas, Peppa and the Go Jetters	0
The Resemiotisation of Chokri Belaid’s talk before his assassination: roles of sign-maker interest and re-reading forces	0
The recontextualization of art exhibition text panels for children: a comparative analysis of the semiotic resources in audience-sensitive texts	0
Caste and gender in Tamil Cinema: Phallic Rehabilitation in the Neo-Native film Dharma Durai	0
Creative appropriation of offline linguistic landscapes on Chinese social media: the case of playful mockery of universities on Sina Weibo	0
Semiotic representations of neoliberal dystopia in Black Mirror	0
“(scream)(wriggle)(dismally crawl)” – parentheses as semiotic resources for translanguaging and trans-semiotic practices on Chinese micro-blogging	0
The power of algorithms and the rise of experience economy: “the digital mind. semiotic studies of digital culture” The power of algorithms and the rise of experience economy: “the digi	0
An examination of delegitimation in the activist discourse of Ghana's #FixTheCountry lead convener Oliver Barker-Vormawor	0
For a semiotics of culture as a critique of culture*	0
Politicalization of public health crisis – metaphorically “out-grouped” Chinese authorities in their domestic COVID-19 campaign	0
Language choice and identity in the linguistic landscape of Barcelona	0
Ideology in “women’s language”: a review of The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies by Natalia Konstantinovskaia	0
Cultural semiotics as the foundation of political semiotics	0
Art in the petrotimes: an aesthetics of wasteAmanda Boetzkes. 2019. Plastic capitalism: contemporary art and the drive to waste . Cambridge (MA): MIT Press. ISBN: 978026	0
“They will not erase the blood, of those who fell here”: a multimodal analysis of the music video as a site of (post)memory and resistance against negationism in post-dictatorial Chile	0
Non-finiteness: a process-relation perspective	0
Tiocfaidh Ár Lá, get the brits out, lad: masculinity and nationalism in Irish-language rap videos	0
Designing learning with digital technologies: perspectives from multimodality in education	0
Blurring boundaries – ‘Anti-gender’ ideology meets feminist and LGBTIQ+ discourses	0
Affectivization of borders in the digital sphere: migration-related online narratives in Argentina	0
The geosemiotics of ethno-political graffiti in Kosovo: polyphony, emplacement and heteroglossia	0
Lessons in influence: unveiling the multimodal identity construction of female teacher influencers on Xiaohongshu	0
Correction	0
Digital multimodal composing: connecting theory, research and practice in second language acquisition	0
Systemic functional language description: making meaning matter	0
Paratextual mediation and (re)framed narratives: a case study of Ganxiao liuji	0
Reappraising self and others: a corpus-based study of Chinese political discourse in English translation	0
A reappraisal of the marketing offerings: consumer experience from the perspective of post-structural semiotics	0
Corpus-assisted Ecolinguistics	0
Women and fitness on Weibo: the neoliberalism solution to the obligations of Confucianism	0
Navigating nuance: the dual edges of multimodal discourse analysis in Macao’s policy evolution	0
An introduction to language and social justice: what is, what has been, and what could be	0
Everyday Globalization A Spatial Semiotics of Immigrant Neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris	0
Discourse, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic: a multimodal discourse analysis approach	0
Language ideologies in a Finnish university student union’s Facebook communication practices	0
Organizational semiotics: multimodal perspectives on organization studies	0
Fueling divisions: a multimodal analysis of Canadian petro-nationalism in the social media discourse of “oil sands strong”	0
Visualizing digital discourse	0
Making meaning of an artwork: promoting expression of thoughts through artwork for patients with eating disorders	0
Fighting whom? A critical approach to marketing communication of skin whitening product in Taiwan	0
Face masks, materiality and exclusion in the COVID-19 semiotic landscape	0
Internet memes and the mobilization of a “One-China” cyber nationalist campaign: the case of the 2016 Diba Expedition to Taiwan	0
Interfacing the semiosis of affect and crowdsourced spatialities in the context of post-panoptic surveillance. A case study of Safecity app	0
What’s the point of Donald Trump? Deictic gestures in the service of right-wing populism	0
Bourdieu’s theory of economic practice and organisational modelling	0
Researching Chinese language education: functional linguistic perspectives Researching Chinese language education: functional linguistic perspectives , edited by Mark Sh	0
Correction	0
Inside Facebook’s semiosphere. How social media influence digital hate and fuel cyber-polarization	0
Strategic Conspiracy Narratives: A Semiotic Approach Strategic Conspiracy Narratives: A Semiotic Approach , by Mari-Liis Madisson and Andreas Ventsel, Abingdon, Routledg	0
Signs, billboards, and graffiti a social-spatial discourse in a regenerated council estate	0
Multimodal narrativity in a Pakistani TV advertisement: a socio-semiotic and narratological analysis	0
A comparison of cultural representation and ideologies in the multimodal discourses of textbooks used in public and private Iranian contexts: a cross-textual study	0
“She uses men to boost her career”: Chinese digital cultures and gender stereotypes of female academics in Zhihu discourses	0
Revealing the politics in “soft”, everyday uses of social media: the challenge for critical discourse studies	0