Social Semiotics

Article	Citations
History, modernity, and city branding in China: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of Xi’an’s promotional videos on social media	22
“She uses men to boost her career”: Chinese digital cultures and gender stereotypes of female academics in Zhihu discourses	15
Where Covid metaphors come from: reconsidering context and modality in metaphor	15
The semiotics of the anti-COVID-19 mask	14
Populism in musical mash ups: recontextualising Brexit	14
Moody and monstrous menstruators: the Semiotics of the menstrual meme on social media	13
Revealing the politics in “soft”, everyday uses of social media: the challenge for critical discourse studies	12
Getting smart: towards critical digital literacy pedagogies	11
Introversive semiosis in action: depictions in opera rehearsals	10
Framing similar issues differently: a cross-cultural discourse analysis of news images	9
Women and fitness on Weibo: the neoliberalism solution to the obligations of Confucianism	8
Street art/art in the street – semiotics, politics, economy	8
The scientifization of “green” anti-ageing cosmetics in online marketing: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	7
Ideology, attitudinal positioning, and the blockchain: a social semiotic approach to understanding the values construed in the whitepapers of blockchain start-ups	7
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili	7
Towards a unified affordance approach: searching for congruent meaning making in COVID-19 warning designs	7
Monuments to Lenin in the post-Soviet cultural landscape	6
Categorisations of developed and developing countries in UN news on climate change	6
Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel and the mediatization of street art	6
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	5
Gastropopulism: a sociosemiotic analysis of politicians posing as “the everyday man” via food posts on social media	5
Internet memes and the mobilization of a “One-China” cyber nationalist campaign: the case of the 2016 Diba Expedition to Taiwan	5
Street art assemblages	5
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw	5
Traditional Knowledge, science and China's pride: how a TCM social media account legitimizes TCM treatment of Covid-19	5

China opportunity or China threat? A corpus-based study of China’s image in Australian news discourse	5
Validating visuals: a socio-semiotic instrument for an informed production and use of visual representations	5
“Is your font racist?” Metapragmatic online discourses on the use of typographic mimicry and its appropriateness	4
Visualising the past for the future: a social semiotic reading of urban heritage	4
“Scrounger-bashing” as national pastime: the prevalence and ferocity of anti-welfare ideology on niche-interest online forums	4
Face masks, materiality and exclusion in the COVID-19 semiotic landscape	4
La lluita continua : socio-political debate and the linguistic landscape of a Catalan city	4
Desiring the indigenous: affective commodification of the Sámi	3
The microblogging discourse of disasters: Twitter and Weibo in action in the aftermath of two major industrial accidents	3
Anti-Black sentiments in Chinese Weibo discourse: a critical discourse historical analysis	3
Sharing emotions or/and making allies: the emoji’s interpersonal function in Chinese social media news comments	3
The “menstruating” Muslim Brotherhood: taboo metaphor, face attack, and gender in Egyptian culture	3
Romaphobia in the UK Right-Wing Press: racist and populist discourse during the Brexit referendum	3
Climate irresponsibility on social media. A critical approach to “high-carbon visibility discourse”	3
The semiotics of visual and textual legitimacy in the 2014 Gaza war	3
From black to green with a dash of New Nordic. The multimodal rebranding of a Danish energy company with global aspirations	3
Silence: a modality of its own	3
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power	3
Multimodal metaphor (re)framing: a critical analysis of the promotional image of China’s Hubei Province in the post-pandemic era on new media	2
Social class and ethnic disparities in the semiotic landscape of an American “camp town”	2
Caste and gender in Tamil Cinema: Phallic Rehabilitation in the Neo-Native film Dharma Durai	2
The linguistic landscape of an Urban Hispanic-Serving Institution in the United States	2
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride	2
“Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity	2
Signs, billboards, and graffiti a social-spatial discourse in a regenerated council estate	2
You Are just a №: the quantified self from a semio-pragmatic perspective	2
Inside Facebook’s semiosphere. How social media influence digital hate and fuel cyber-polarization	2
Idealising martyrdom and Jordanian militarism in the Martyr’s Memorial in Amman: A social semiotic approach	2
To preserve and to protect vanishing signs: activism through art, ethnography, and linguistics in a gentrifying city	2
Skin-tone modified emoji and first-person indexicality	2
War on feminism: an analysis of metaphorical representations on Weibo	2
Cultural semiotics as the foundation of political semiotics	2
Metaphorical meanings of colour in abstract art	2
A comparison of cultural representation and ideologies in the multimodal discourses of textbooks used in public and private Iranian contexts: a cross-textual study	2
Flags and fields: a comparative analysis of national identity in butter packaging in Sweden and the UK	2
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”	2
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society	2
In search of the social in social semiotics: a historical perspective	2
The Spanish tilde as a visual semiotic marker of Pan-Hispanism	2
Language choice and identity in the linguistic landscape of Barcelona	1
Contestations of cultural memory at a disaster monument: the case of the Aceh Tsunami Museum in Indonesia	1
The selective foregrounding of social structures in factual welfare television: a multimodal analysis	1
Raising awareness against fake news to protect democracy: the myth of Islamophobia in Trump's speech	1
Tiocfaidh Ár Lá, get the brits out, lad: masculinity and nationalism in Irish-language rap videos	1
#Civilwar2: Instagram posts during COVID-19	1
Systemic functional language description: making meaning matter	1
A reappraisal of the marketing offerings: consumer experience from the perspective of post-structural semiotics	1
What do vegans know and how do they learn? Veganism as a social text and a form of knowledge	1
Approaches to systemic functional grammar: convergence and divergence	1
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona	1

Membership categorization devices in courtroom opening and closing speeches	1
Visualizing digital discourse Visualizing digital discourse , by Crispin Thurlow, Christa Dürscheid, Federica Diémoz, Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton, 2020, 273 pp., €99.95 (h	1
Language ideologies in a Finnish university student union’s Facebook communication practices	1
Props as visual arguments in the political speeches of Binyamin Netanyahu	1
Visual meanings in Vietnamese picture books: exploring Vietnamese artists’ perspectives on the Yin–Yang balancing	1
The politicization of place: chronotopes, authenticity, and semioscaping Fujialu as a site of “red tourism” in China	1
Street art as “street fetish”- a new signifier of social class? The case of Brazil’s “Beverley Hills”	1
The multimodal construction of political personae through the strategic management of semiotic resources of emotion expression	1
Interfacing the semiosis of affect and crowdsourced spatialities in the context of post-panoptic surveillance. A case study of Safecity app	1
“The trash is ruining the picture”: social media, sustainability, and the semiotics of pristine nature	1
Bridging typical and atypical reference: a review of Referring in Language: An Integrated Approach by Lise Fontaine, Katy Jones and David Schönthal	0
Breakdown of knowledge authority: semiotic analysis of an anti-vax conspiracy theory influencer on Twitter	0
Tourist discourse and carnivalesque humour in children’s television narratives: learning travel from Thomas, Peppa and the Go Jetters	0
The recontextualization of art exhibition text panels for children: a comparative analysis of the semiotic resources in audience-sensitive texts	0
Actions and digital empathy in the interactive storytelling of serious games: a multimodal discourse approach	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
Guided to Guider: the “∼ed” and “∼er” roles in professional development materials for guided Reading	0
Multilingual currents in literature, translation, and culture	0
Semiotic analysis of university prospectuses in Pakistan: marketization, identity, and power dynamics	0
Fair or biased? A corpus-based study of Australia’s early COVID-19 media representation of China	0
The linear structure of narrative figures in the Saint Francis Cycle: a linguistic analysis	0
Gender representation and stereotyping in Moroccan print media coverage of the 2023 Haouz Earthquake	0
Becoming and being a camp counsellor: discourse, power relations and emotions Becoming and being a camp counsellor: discourse, power relations and emotions , by Mandi Ba	0
Russian train graffiti: a history of performance	0
The geosemiotics of ethno-political graffiti in Kosovo: polyphony, emplacement and heteroglossia	0
Multimodal narrativity in a Pakistani TV advertisement: a socio-semiotic and narratological analysis	0
A social semiotic multimodal analysis of ateji translation in manga	0
Reading images for knowledge building: analyzing infographics in school science	0
Ideology in “women’s language”: a review of The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies by Natalia Konstantinovskaia	0
Discourse, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic: a multimodal discourse analysis approach Discourse, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic: a multimodal discourse ana	0
Affectivization of borders in the digital sphere: migration-related online narratives in Argentina	0
Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination , edited by Andrea Cossu and Jorge Fontdevila, Bristol, Bristol U	0
Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine tra	0
The multimodal performance of conversational humor	0
“(scream)(wriggle)(dismally crawl)” – parentheses as semiotic resources for translanguaging and trans-semiotic practices on Chinese micro-blogging	0
Remembering the other, repositioning oneself: the right to a biography and autocommunication in perpetrator and collaborator descendant documentaries*	0
What you see is what you hear: creativity and communication in audiovisual texts	0
How emoji make meaning and enact ambient affiliation: a social semiotic account of emoji-text relations in TikTok comments	0
Intercultural competence and pragmatics Intercultural competence and pragmatics , edited by Gila A. Schauer, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, xxiv + 168 pp., ISBN 9783031	0
Making meaning of an artwork: promoting expression of thoughts through artwork for patients with eating disorders	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
Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method	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
Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks	0
The chop suey letterform in historical Los Angeles Chinatowns	0
Visible signs: an introduction to semiotics in the visual arts (3rd edition)	0
The social semiotics of Switzerland's far right: how campaign posters by the Swiss National Party communicate across different domains	0
Strategic Conspiracy Narratives: A Semiotic Approach Strategic Conspiracy Narratives: A Semiotic Approach , by Mari-Liis Madisson and Andreas Ventsel, Abingdon, Routledg	0
Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China	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
BOOKS AND SOCIAL MEDIA: How the Digital Age is Shaping the Printed Word	0
Metaphors of the virtual: how ordinary people frame what the internet is	0
An introduction to language and social justice: what is, what has been, and what could be	0
What does it mean to redefine prosperity? A theory of definition for pathways to sustainable futures	0
For a semiotics of culture as a critique of culture*	0
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks	0
Correction	0
Investigating the relation between mind and semiotic systems: a review Linguistic relativity today	0
Correction	0
Making death (in)different: discursive legitimation in death trials	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
“Ps. I’ll find you.” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile	0
(Non) representation and normalized losses of the other in pro-migrant media texts: what is at stake in migrant visibility?	0
Fueling divisions: a multimodal analysis of Canadian petro-nationalism in the social media discourse of “oil sands strong”	0
Key themes and new directions in systemic functional translation studies	0
Nonprofit campaigning done ethically to elicit empathy instead of aversion: A case study of the UNICEF multimodal book Lives Beyond Figures	0
Statistics in corpus linguistics: a practical guide	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
Politicalization of public health crisis – metaphorically “out-grouped” Chinese authorities in their domestic COVID-19 campaign	0
Ghost signs at the mall: structuring semiotics and (formerly) branded retail space	0
“All sisters must experience the endorphin rush!” A virtual discourse-ethnographic study on neoliberalism female fitness community on Bilibili	0
The moral metaphor system: a conceptual metaphor approach	0
Legitimation of governments by renaming of everyday things and places: a comparison of the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic in Iran	0
Navigating nuance: the dual edges of multimodal discourse analysis in Macao’s policy evolution	0
Non-finiteness: a process-relation perspective	0
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities	0
Values: a core component in the discursive construction of Europe and the EU	0
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning	0
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	0
Critical discourse analysis, critical discourse studies and beyond Critical discourse analysis, critical discourse studies and beyond , by Theresa Catalano and Linda R.	0

Making sense of platform-mediated residences in tourist destinations. A semiotic analysis of the controversy around home sharing in Barcelona	0
Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: theory and application Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: theory and application , b	0
Misrepresenting autism in university promotional videos advocating robot therapy: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	0
(Re)framing online news through paratexts: a multisemiotic analysis of The New York Times in Chinese	0
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments	0
Fighting whom? A critical approach to marketing communication of skin whitening product in Taiwan	0
Discourses that undermine union movements: a multimodal analysis of union-busting videos	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
Corruption, language and popular agency	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
A new way to justice? Multimodal meaning construction in videoconferencing technology-based online criminal courts in China	0
Everyday Globalization A Spatial Semiotics of Immigrant Neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris Everyday Globalization A Spatial Semiotics of Immigrant Neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris	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
Paratextual mediation and (re)framed narratives: a case study of Ganxiao liuji	0
Human Language: from genes and brains to behavior Human Language: from genes and brains to behavior , edited by Peter HagoortCambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2019, 752 pp.,	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
“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–2022	0
Correction	0
A fresh start: a review of Observing Wildlife in Tropical Forests vol. 1 A Geosemeiotic Approach by Nils Lindahl Elliot Observing wildlife in tropical for	0
Semiotic representations of neoliberal dystopia in Black Mirror	0
Cultural texts, enemies, and taboos: autocommunicative meaning-making surrounding the “Ready for the Homeland” Ustaša salute in Croatia	0
Corpus-assisted Ecolinguistics	0
Creative appropriation of offline linguistic landscapes on Chinese social media: the case of playful mockery of universities on Sina Weibo	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
Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety , by Luke Collins and Paul Baker, Cambridge, Cambridge UniversityPress, 2023, p. xiii	0
Narratology Beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life	0
Inquiry graphics in higher education: new approaches to knowledge, learning and methods Inquiry graphics in higher education: new approaches to knowledge, learning and methods	0
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory , by Gerard J. Steen, Amsterdam/Philadelphia,	0
Fire, police cars and barricade tape: exploring visual securitisation in Sweden Democrats’ Instagram posts	0
Reimagining maternity: a multimodal analysis on the identity construction amongst Chinese “Married, child-free” women in Xiaohongshu	0
Looking at the stars in the twenty-first century: Lotman's semiotics, progress and utopia	0
Reappraising self and others: a corpus-based study of Chinese political discourse in English translation	0
Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy	0
Inseparability of language and culture: evidence from spirituality, emotionality, and society	0
Linguistic landscape as a way to construct multiple identities in the context of globalization: the case of an ancient town in China	0
Interrogating the multimodal construction of gender and family in children’s literature: a review	0
The Resemiotisation of Chokri Belaid’s talk before his assassination: roles of sign-maker interest and re-reading forces	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
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	0
Free Mo Robinson: citizen engagement in response to a crime event on social media	0
Alignment, negation, and androcentricity: representation of bride price by Chinese state media	0
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants	0
Multimodal approaches to Chinese-English translation and interpreting	0
Designing learning with digital technologies: perspectives from multimodality in education	0
Rhetoric of a terrorist: a metafunctional thematic analysis of the Unabomber Manifesto	0
Analyzing the meaning of social images during pandemic lockdown	0
Researching Chinese language education: functional linguistic perspectives Researching Chinese language education: functional linguistic perspectives , edited by Mark Sh	0
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	0