OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Semiotics is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Discursive shifts and the normalisation of racism: imaginaries of immigration, moral panics and the discourse of contemporary right-wing populism	112
Normalization and the discursive construction of “new” norms and “new” normality: discourse in the paradoxes of populism and neoliberalism	61
Discourse and affect	24
Legitimization strategies in China's official media: the 2018 vaccine scandal in China	21
The normalization of the populist radical right in news interviews: a study of journalistic reporting on the Swedish democrats	20
Emojis and Law: contextualized flexibility of meaning in cyber communication	15
History, modernity, and city branding in China: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of Xi’an’s promotional videos on social media	15
Populism in musical mash ups: recontextualising Brexit	13
The semiotics of the anti-COVID-19 mask	13
“She uses men to boost her career”: Chinese digital cultures and gender stereotypes of female academics in Zhihu discourses	12
Moody and monstrous menstruators: the Semiotics of the menstrual meme on social media	11
Sarcasm, the smiling poop, and E-discourse aggressiveness: getting far too emotional with emojis	11
Cyberbullying in Poland: a case study of aggressive messages with emojis targeted at the community of hunters in urbanized society	11
Tough guys and little rocket men: @Realdonaldtrump’s Twitter feed and the normalisation of banal masculinity	10
Getting smart: towards critical digital literacy pedagogies	10
Disgusting politics: circuits of affects and the making of Bolsonaro	10
Where Covid metaphors come from: reconsidering context and modality in metaphor	10
Revealing the politics in “soft”, everyday uses of social media: the challenge for critical discourse studies	9
Introversive semiosis in action: depictions in opera rehearsals	9
Affective regimes on Wilton Drive: a multimodal analysis	8
Do political cartoons and illustrations have their own specialized forms for warnings, threats, and the like? Speech acts in the nonverbal mode	8
Reading Chinese anti-COVID-19 pandemic narratives on facemasks as the art of disaster governance: a semiotic and biopolitical survey	8
Feeling safe while being surveilled: the spatial semiotics of affect at international airports	8
The normalization of exclusion through a Revival of whiteness in Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign discourse	7
102: the semiotics of living memorials	7

Visual representation of happiness: a sociosemiotic perspective on stock photography	7
Communicating the “world-class” city: a visual-material approach	7
Ideology, attitudinal positioning, and the blockchain: a social semiotic approach to understanding the values construed in the whitepapers of blockchain start-ups	7
Beyond the managed heart? Seduction, subjugation and the symbolic economies of sleep	6
Typographic landscape, indexicality and Chinese writing: a case study of place-making practices in transitional China	6
Emoticons, memes and cyberbullying: gender equality in Colombia	6
Affective trouble: a Jewish/Palestinian heterosexual wedding threatening the Israeli nation-state?	6
Towards a unified affordance approach: searching for congruent meaning making in COVID-19 warning designs	6
Introducing writing (in) the city	6
Street art/art in the street – semiotics, politics, economy	6
The commodification of motherhood: normalisation of consumerism in mediated discourse on mothering	6
Selling homes: the polysemy of visual marketing	6
Alphabet city: orthographic differentiation and branding in late capitalist cities	6
Categorisations of developed and developing countries in UN news on climate change	6
“We are a mutual fund:” how Ponzi scheme operators in Nigeria apply indexical markers to shield deception and fraud on their websites	6
When globalese meets localese: transformational tactics in the typographic landscape – a Bernese case study	6
Women and fitness on Weibo: the neoliberalism solution to the obligations of Confucianism	5
Towards a psychosemiotics of journalism, mental distress and Covid-19	5
Making sense of handwritten signs in public spaces	5
Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel and the mediatization of street art	5
Traditional Knowledge, science and China's pride: how a TCM social media account legitimizes TCM treatment of Covid-19	5
Masking morality in the making: how China’s anti-epidemic promotional videos present facemask as a techno-moral mediator	5
“To honour cleanness and shame filth”: medical facemasks as the narrative of nationalism and modernity in China	5
Like your emoji — a philosophical context	4
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw	4
Monuments to Lenin in the post-Soviet cultural landscape	4
Mona Lisa's emoji: digital civilization and its discontents	4
Spain vs. Catalonia: normalizing democracy through police intervention	4
Gastropopulism: a sociosemiotic analysis of politicians posing as “the everyday man” via food posts on social media	4
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili	4
Normalization of language deficit ideology for a new generation of minoritized U.S. youth	4
The scientifization of “green” anti-ageing cosmetics in online marketing: a multimodal critical discourse analysis	4
Cyberbullying and hate speech in the debate around the ratification of the Istanbul convention in Bulgaria: a semiotic analysis of the communication dynamics	4
Framing similar issues differently: a cross-cultural discourse analysis of news images	4
Aggressiveness of emojis before the court: a sociosemiotic interpretation	4
Validating visuals: a socio-semiotic instrument for an informed production and use of visual representations	4
Disagree and you shall be valued: a semiotic examination of how photojournalism constructs “valuable” Iranian bodies across Time	4
Street art assemblages	4
Face masks, materiality and exclusion in the COVID-19 semiotic landscape	4
A scalar approach to the circulation of virulent affects on the web	4
The semiotics of visual and textual legitimacy in the 2014 Gaza war	3
Visualising the past for the future: a social semiotic reading of urban heritage	3
Rituals about the skin: comments on pimple popping videos	3
“Scrounger-bashing” as national pastime: the prevalence and ferocity of anti-welfare ideology on niche-interest online forums	3
La lluita continua : socio-political debate and the linguistic landscape of a Catalan city	3
Sharing emotions or/and making allies: the emoji’s interpersonal function in Chinese social media news comments	3
An investigation into the connotations of iconic buildings by using a semiotic model of architecture	3
The “menstruating” Muslim Brotherhood: taboo metaphor, face attack, and gender in Egyptian culture	3
On the hypoiconic structure of cartoons	3
Climate irresponsibility on social media. A critical approach to “high-carbon visibility discourse”	3

Holocaust commemoration and affective practice: a rhetorical ethnography of audience applause	3
As the Holocaust escalated, the Swedish press fell silent: media and the normalisation of passivity and non-engagement in WWII Sweden	3
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	3
“Is your font racist?” Metapragmatic online discourses on the use of typographic mimicry and its appropriateness	3
Chinese city brands and semiotic image scales: a tourism perspective	3
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power	3
The linguistic landscape of an Urban Hispanic-Serving Institution in the United States	3
Silence: a modality of its own	2
A multimodal analysis of a controversial Israeli political campaign ad	2
Futures, imagined cities and emerging markets: the semiotic production of professional selves	2
Idealising martyrdom and Jordanian militarism in the Martyr’s Memorial in Amman: A social semiotic approach	2
#wordswewear: mobile texts, expressive persons, and conviviality in urban spaces	2
Cultural semiotics as the foundation of political semiotics	2
You Are just a №: the quantified self from a semio-pragmatic perspective	2
Social class and ethnic disparities in the semiotic landscape of an American “camp town”	2
Loving mother vs. controlling mother: visual attitude and reading positions in the short film Bao	2
The microblogging discourse of disasters: Twitter and Weibo in action in the aftermath of two major industrial accidents	2
To preserve and to protect vanishing signs: activism through art, ethnography, and linguistics in a gentrifying city	2
Caste and gender in Tamil Cinema: Phallic Rehabilitation in the Neo-Native film Dharma Durai	2
Skin-tone modified emoji and first-person indexicality	2
Situated spatialities and the linguistic landscape: a diachronic account of an emblematic square in Naples	2
Analysing tension between language and images: a social semiotic view	2
The British Council’s role in nourishing the English language teaching industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council region: a visual social semiotic perspective	2
Selling surveillance technology: semiotic themes in advertisements for ageing in place with dementia	2
People on the move: how museums de-marginalize migration	2
Desiring the indigenous: affective commodification of the Sámi	2
China opportunity or China threat? A corpus-based study of China’s image in Australian news discourse	2
From black to green with a dash of New Nordic. The multimodal rebranding of a Danish energy company with global aspirations	2
Romaphobia in the UK Right-Wing Press: racist and populist discourse during the Brexit referendum	2
“Itching to make an impact”: constructing the mobile Singaporean voluntourist in Instagram travel narratives	2
Flags and fields: a comparative analysis of national identity in butter packaging in Sweden and the UK	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
Optimism and alienation – colour schemes and soundscapes as means for the social construction of risk in climate education videos	2
Cities of sociolinguistics	2
Internet memes and the mobilization of a “One-China” cyber nationalist campaign: the case of the 2016 Diba Expedition to Taiwan	2
The Spanish tilde as a visual semiotic marker of Pan-Hispanism	2
Metaphorical meanings of colour in abstract art	2
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
Language, affect, and carnivalesque: tourism encounters and transgressive narratives on a party island	2
Inside Facebook’s semiosphere. How social media influence digital hate and fuel cyber-polarization	2
The Semiotics of Emoji and The Emoji Revolution: a comparative review	2
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 Approaches to systemic functional grammar: convergence and divergence , edited by Gordon Tucker, Gu	1
Anti-Black sentiments in Chinese Weibo discourse: a critical discourse historical analysis	1
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride	1
Writing Singapore: choreographed and emergent practices	1
Props as visual arguments in the political speeches of Binyamin Netanyahu	1
Catwalks and cloisters: a semiotic analysis of fashion shows in built heritage	1
A comparison of cultural representation and ideologies in the multimodal discourses of textbooks used in public and private Iranian contexts: a cross-textual study	1
Street art as “street fetish”- a new signifier of social class? The case of Brazil’s “Beverley Hills”	1
The multimodal construction ofpolitical personaethrough the strategic management of semiotic resources of emotion expression	1
Actions and digital empathy in the interactive storytelling of serious games: a multimodal discourse approach	1
“Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity	1
Visual meanings in Vietnamese picture books: exploring Vietnamese artists’ perspectives on the Yin–Yang balancing	1
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona	1
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning	1
#Civilwar2: Instagram posts during COVID-19	1
Systemic functional language description: making meaning matter	1
Language choice and identity in the linguistic landscape of Barcelona	1
In search of the social in social semiotics: a historical perspective	1