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	28
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society	27
Gazes, words, and silences in pragmatics	19
Institutional and conceptual flipsiding: illiberal subversion of “democracy”	19
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride	18
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”	18
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis	16
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili	15
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities	14
Digital gastronationalism: how “white people food” discourse constructs national identity on Douyin	14
The language of reality: a semiotic guide for shaping thought about American education	12
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments	11
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants	11
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory	10
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech	10
Correction	10
Exclusionary and xenophobic speech in Swedish health care settings: the challenge of “language”	9
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks	9
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona	8
Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks	8
Morality in discourse	8
Visual Citizenship. Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media	8
Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine tra	7
“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–2022	7
“We’re the party of common sense”: conflicting appeals to “normal/ity” and “common sense” in the discourse of the Freedom Party of Austria	7

Encounters at the counter: the organization of shop interactions	7
Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy	7
The multimodal landscape in healthcare: technology, culture, and communication	7
Multimodality of the non-leading teacher in collaborative teaching	7
Stylistic expressions of YouTube lifestyle influencers: authenticity and professional amateurism	7
Multimodal metaphor (re)framing: a critical analysis of the promotional image of China’s Hubei Province in the post-pandemic era on new media	6
Language assemblage	6
How defendants frame remorse: a pragmatic and transitivity analysis of allocution statements in Chinese and American courts	6
Introduction: cancel culture & celebrity bashing, exploring the theatre of morality?	6
Digital rehegemony and the cultural politics of child protection in Indonesia	6
“Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape	6
A study of Pinyin as social practice in China’s commercial linguistic landscape	6
Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method	5
Appraisal, sentiment and emotion analysis in political discourse: a multimodal, multi-method approach	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
Reproductive rights and the recontextualization of abortion: a multimodal analysis of ballot initiatives in the US	5
Constructing the prosecution-defense relationship through multimodal positioning: a corpus-based analysis of Chinese courtroom argumentation	5
Who are the “People” and what does “Home” mean? A case of frame transformation and counter-framing of the “People’s Home” in the Sweden Democrat Rhetoric 1989–2022	4
“Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity	4
(Dis)connecting commerce and everyday life multimodally: professional vision and frame laminations in sponsored everyday vlogging	4
The linear structure of narrative figures in the Saint Francis Cycle: a linguistic analysis	4
Benign, malign, and tolerable: authoritarianism across the spectrum of likeability	4
Representations of “Divorced” in Turkish media on psychological health: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	4
Correction	4
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria president Bola Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal policy-related internet memes	4
Multimodality across epistemologies in second language research	3
Response To Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”	3
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power	3
Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida in the rough waters of photography theory	3
Russian train graffiti: a history of performance	3
Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies	3
Hypertranslation	2
Statelessness and the semiotics of benign visibility in Malaysian news media	2
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw	2
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes	2
Response to Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”	2
Embracing transgression(s) : a critical-dialogical semiotic approach on how “rhetorical plasticity” shapes contemporary far-right ideological reproduction	2
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning	2
The effectiveness of sarcastic multimodal semiotic analysis in revealing deficiencies among authority officials: a case study of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)	2
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	2
Nationalism for sale: advertising, consumption, and the discursive construction of legitimacy in contemporary India	2
The multimodal performance of conversational humor	2
Revolutionary things: the making of South Korea’s Candlelight Protests	2
Teachers’ gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation	2
Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety	2
Emoji and social media paralanguage	1
Forensic analysis of populist discourse and multimodal craft of consensus in Netanyahu's July 2024 Congressional address	1
Fire, police cars and barricade tape: exploring visual securitisation in Sweden Democrats’ Instagram posts	1
Language ideology and the cultural politics of multilingualism in Chinese state entertainment television: CCTV national TV host competition	1
“Cleaning up after capitalism”: recentring blue-collar work in the spatial semiotics of waste	1

Misrepresenting autism in university promotional videos advocating robot therapy: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	1
(Re)framing online news through paratexts: a multisemiotic analysis of The New York Times in Chinese	1
A boon or a bane: multimodal figurative framing in Chinese and foreign BRI-themed cartoons	1
China opportunity or China threat? A corpus-based study of China’s image in Australian news discourse	1
Alignment, negation, and androcentricity: representation of bride price by Chinese state media	1
The moral metaphor system: a conceptual metaphor approach	1
Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China	1
AI-generated popular culture: a semiotic perspective	1
Telling China’s stories well: selection, translation, and communication	1
Corruption, language and popular agency	1
“We put family at the centre of social life”: conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of the Polish populist far-right	1
Chinese characters across Asia：how the Chinese script came to write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese	1
Unpacking gamification in CALL: a sociocultural and multimodal analysis of digital game-based language learning	1
Visible signs: an introduction to semiotics in the visual arts (3rd edition)	1
A new way to justice? Multimodal meaning construction in videoconferencing technology-based online criminal courts in China	1
Ghost signs at the mall: structuring semiotics and (formerly) branded retail space	1
Screens of inequality: caste narratives in Hindi cinema	1
A comparative critical analysis of official and personal social media videos on being and becoming old in China	1
Street art assemblages	1
Reappraising self and others: a corpus-based study of Chinese political discourse in English translation	1
Discursive strategies shift in U.S. Governmental discourse on Russia and Ukraine: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis across the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations	1
Fair or biased? A corpus-based study of Australia’s early COVID-19 media representation of China	1
Triadic discursive strategy: a digital arena for ideological legitimization in land movement	1
Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination	1
What do vegans know and how do they learn? Veganism as a social text and a form of knowledge	1
“ Ps. I’ll find you .” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile	1
Civil–military integration and softened authority: reconstruction of the Chinese military image in semiotic landscapes	1
From monologues to multimodal perspectivization: strategies for affective commercialization via Boys Love (BL) manga covers	1
Erotic capital in digital age: a multimodal analysis of the idolization of fresh meat elite on Xiaohongshu	1
Multilingual crisis communication: insights from China	1
“All sisters must experience the endorphin rush!” A virtual discourse-ethnographic study on neoliberalism female fitness community on Bilibili	1
Monuments to Lenin in the post-Soviet cultural landscape	1
What does it mean to redefine prosperity? A theory of definition for pathways to sustainable futures	1
Non-finiteness: a process-relation perspective	0
Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel and the mediatization of street art	0
Response to the responses to “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”	0
Translation, adaptation and digital media	0
Ugly filters, pretty faces: a multimodal analysis of the “pretty mess” aesthetic among female teacher influencers on Xiaohongshu	0
Language ideologies in a Finnish university student union’s Facebook communication practices	0
“It won’t harm the hymen!” – a multimodal critical discourse analysis of the marketing discourse of tampons in China	0
Communicative action in fishermen’s coffee shops West Aceh, Indonesia	0
Semiotic analysis of university prospectuses in Pakistan: marketization, identity, and power dynamics	0
The Unthinkable in Ethics, History, and Philosophical Anthropology: A Pragmatic-Transcendental View	0
An examination of delegitimation in the activist discourse of Ghana's #FixTheCountry lead convener Oliver Barker-Vormawor	0
War on feminism: an analysis of metaphorical representations on Weibo	0
Multimodality, ideology, and manipulation: BBC travel documentaries and the illusion of empire	0
Fighting whom? A critical approach to marketing communication of skin whitening product in Taiwan	0
Membership categorization devices in courtroom opening and closing speeches	0
A panorama of linguistic landscape studies	0
Signs, billboards, and graffiti a social-spatial discourse in a regenerated council estate	0
On the past, present, and future of semioethics: a dialogue with Susan Petrilli	0
Interrogating the multimodal construction of gender and family in children’s literature: a review	0
Metaphors of the virtual: how ordinary people frame what the internet is	0
Multimodal representation and ideological framing of social actors in Kenya’s anti-police brutality Twitter activism	0
Tourist discourse and carnivalesque humour in children’s television narratives: learning travel from Thomas, Peppa and the Go Jetters	0
From Zibi to Bingo: South African anti-littering adverts and narratives of personal responsibility	0
Guided to Guider: the “∼ed” and “∼er” roles in professional development materials for guided Reading	0
Conducting sentiment analysis	0
Multimodality and time	0
Language choice and identity in the linguistic landscape of Barcelona	0
Response to Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”	0
Corpus-assisted Ecolinguistics	0
Political othering and polarisation in Nigeria’s online electoral discourse: towards a culture of inter-political party tolerance	0
Space-time (Dis)continuities in the linguistic landscape: studies in the symbolic (Re)appropriation of public space	0
Intercultural competence and pragmatics	0
De Rationibus caporali: justification and denial in emerging social representations and ideologies of caporali in migrant agricultural exploitation	0
Muddying the waters on climate change: conflicting positions articulated in Instagram posts about Greta Thunberg’s 2023 arrest	0
“(scream)(wriggle)(dismally crawl)” – parentheses as semiotic resources for translanguaging and trans-semiotic practices on Chinese micro-blogging	0
The geosemiotics of ethno-political graffiti in Kosovo: polyphony, emplacement and heteroglossia	0
Semiotic opportunism and the “Brand as fan”: corporate performances of fandom in the Taylor Swift “Orange Rush”	0
The production of generational labels in news media: a forensic semiotic analysis of “Gen Z” protests in Nepal and Madagascar	0
A socio-biosemiotic perspective on the relationship between language, persona and society: a review of O’Grady and Bartlett’s The Language Dynamic	0
Semiotics for Latour, Latour for semiotics. Tracing a network of relations across disciplinary boundaries	0
Cultural semiotics as the foundation of political semiotics	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
The power of algorithms and the rise of experience economy: “the digital mind. semiotic studies of digital culture”	0
Looking at the stars in the twenty-first century: Lotman's semiotics, progress and utopia	0
The corporate cancellation debate: a framing analysis on Dutch-speaking media coverage on brand cancellation	0
Key themes and new directions in systemic functional translation studies	0
Gender representation and stereotyping in Moroccan print media coverage of the 2023 Haouz Earthquake	0

Music education as symbolic action: critiquing Western music education rhetoric	0
Politicalization of public health crisis – metaphorically “out-grouped” Chinese authorities in their domestic COVID-19 campaign	0
Language, image, gesture: the cognitive semiotics of politics	0
What’s the point of Donald Trump? Deictic gestures in the service of right-wing populism	0
Street art as “street fetish”- a new signifier of social class? The case of Brazil’s “Beverley Hills”	0
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	0
The social semiotics of Switzerland's far right: how campaign posters by the Swiss National Party communicate across different domains	0
Econarrative: ethics, ecology, and the search for new narratives to live by	0
An introduction to language and social justice: what is, what has been, and what could be	0
Discourse, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic: a multimodal discourse analysis approach	0
Waving the cancelling wand: Harry Potter fans and the cancellation of J.K. Rowling	0
Interfacing the semiosis of affect and crowdsourced spatialities in the context of post-panoptic surveillance. A case study of Safecity app	0
Making meaning of an artwork: promoting expression of thoughts through artwork for patients with eating disorders	0
Creative appropriation of offline linguistic landscapes on Chinese social media: the case of playful mockery of universities on Sina Weibo	0
A reappraisal of the marketing offerings: consumer experience from the perspective of post-structural semiotics	0
“Populism” and the far-right capture of liberal-democratic signifiers	0
To preserve and to protect vanishing signs: activism through art, ethnography, and linguistics in a gentrifying city	0
Remembering the other, repositioning oneself: the right to a biography and autocommunication in perpetrator and collaborator descendant documentaries*	0
Myth, space, and the politics of heritage: analysing the mythology of national identity construction in a Chinese museum	0
Correction	0
Navigating nuance: the dual edges of multimodal discourse analysis in Macao’s policy evolution	0
Multimodal mediation through picturebooks and graphic narratives: educational and translational contexts	0
A semiotics of multimodality and signification in the divine comedy	0
Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: theory and application	0
The politics of climate change metaphors in the U.S. discourse: conceptual metaphor theory and analysis from an ecolinguistics and critical discourse analysis perspective	0
Correction	0
Bridging typical and atypical reference: a review of Referring in Language: An Integrated Approach by Lise Fontaine, Katy Jones and David Schönthal	0
Response to Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”	0
Media reporting of cancel culture: a narrative anatomy of Billie Eilish’s cancellation	0
Emoji as interpersonal resources in LLM chatbot conversations: a social semiotic analysis of tenor and affiliation in human–AI interaction	0
Social identity and discourses in Chinese digital communication	0
Blurring boundaries – ‘Anti-gender’ ideology meets feminist and LGBTIQ+ discourses	0
Empowering language learners in a changing world through pedagogies of multiliteracies	0
Lawyer evaluation in Chinese courtroom: a social-semiotic perspective	0
The politicization of place: chronotopes, authenticity, and semioscaping Fujialu as a site of “red tourism” in China	0
(Non) representation and normalized losses of the other in pro-migrant media texts: what is at stake in migrant visibility?	0
“They are unpredictable junkies and criminals”: George Floyd’s death and the BLM movement in Czech user discussions	0
Crisis communication on Instagram: celebrity apologies and the role of image repair strategies in shaping public perception	0
Reduced moral culpability: discursive practices by perpetrators and accomplices of honor crimes in the Arab world	0
Designing learning with digital technologies: perspectives from multimodality in education	0
Orchestrating multimodal corrective feedback in teaching Chinese as a foreign language classrooms: how teachers deploy gesture and speech to construct ideational meaning	0
Editors’ Foreword	0
Inside Facebook’s semiosphere. How social media influence digital hate and fuel cyber-polarization	0
Framing insecurity: the ideological functions of discourse markers in select Nigerian political interviews	0
Romaphobia in the UK Right-Wing Press: racist and populist discourse during the Brexit referendum	0
Algorithmic reproduction of occupational stigma: visual prototype lock-in in Chinese text-to-image AI models	0
For a semiotics of culture as a critique of culture*	0
The linguistic landscape in China: commodification, image construction, contestations and negotiations	0
Selling China’s story: the multimodal semiotics of positive symbolic communication in national image building through Laowai Wanghong ’s vlogs	0
From denounced groupies to the cancelled idol: masculinities and cancel culture after the Chinese #MeToo	0
Science as the enemy: martyrs, prophets, and the delegitimization of medical authority in post-pandemic anti-vaccine discourse	0
Value regimes from authenticity nostalgia to xiaozi-class lifestyle: a critical assemblage analysis of treaty port commodification	0
Discursive construction of legitimation and delegitimation: a comparative critical discourse analysis of a public debate over Singapore’s capital punishment	0
Discourse in the digital age: social media, power and society	0
Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination	0
Negotiating climate change in public discourse: insights from critical discourse studies	0
Polish Camp Literature	0
Making sense of platform-mediated residences in tourist destinations. A semiotic analysis of the controversy around home sharing in Barcelona	0
Bourdieu’s theory of economic practice and organisational modelling	0
The multimodal construction of political personae through the strategic management of semiotic resources of emotion expression	0
Meaning, identity and interaction: sociolinguistic variation and change in game-theoretic pragmatics	0
Reimagining maternity: a multimodal analysis on the identity construction amongst Chinese “Married, child-free” women in Xiaohongshu	0
Translating the mythology of motherhood: a social semiotic analysis of pregnancy dress codes in contemporary advertising and magazine covers	0
Inseparability of language and culture: evidence from spirituality, emotionality, and society	0
Breakdown of knowledge authority: semiotic analysis of an anti-vax conspiracy theory influencer on Twitter	0
Anti-Black sentiments in Chinese Weibo discourse: a critical discourse historical analysis	0
New research on cohesion and coherence in linguistics	0
#WeGotYou: examining the intersections of believability, cancel culture, and fandom (in a not-cancel case)	0
Fueling divisions: a multimodal analysis of Canadian petro-nationalism in the social media discourse of “oil sands strong”	0
Multimodal critical discourse analysis of family construction in locally produced high school EFL coursebooks in Türkiye	0
Does being “anti-woke” mean you are pro-racism? A semiotic analysis of political propaganda	0
Analyzing the meaning of social images during pandemic lockdown	0
Correction	0
Organizational semiotics: multimodal perspectives on organization studies	0
Evaluative language in Chinese and Japanese history textbooks	0
Creative readings of multilingual picturebooks: international and transdisciplinary perspectives	0
Discourses that undermine union movements: a multimodal analysis of union-busting videos	0
“Officially diagnosed as X”: self-diagnosis memes as semiotic critique in post-pandemic China	0
Double flipsiding: the liberalisation and illiberalisation of “Security”	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
Reconstructing divorce on Xiaohongshu: a corpus-assisted critical narrative analysis	0
Mobilising through fear: the semiosis of Kremlin strategic conspiracy narratives	0
Increments in Mandarin Chinese: emergent units in action	0
Enacting and rearticulating “accountability”: reactionary watchdogs and the staging of anti-woke culture wars	0
Lessons in influence: unveiling the multimodal identity construction of female teacher influencers on Xiaohongshu	0
Investigating the relation between mind and semiotic systems: a review Linguistic relativity today	0
Reading images for knowledge building: analyzing infographics in school science	0
Digital multimodal composing: connecting theory, research and practice in second language acquisition	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
Semiotic representations of neoliberal dystopia in Black Mirror	0
Bombs, cameras, and smoke screens: how the Hurt Locker defuses anti-war cinema	0
Linguistic landscape as a way to construct multiple identities in the context of globalization: the case of an ancient town in China	0
Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction	0
Street art/art in the street – semiotics, politics, economy	0
How mobile mental health applications promote entrepreneurial ways of life: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of interface design	0