Social Semiotics

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Semiotics is 4. 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Discursive shifts and the normalisation of racism: imaginaries of immigration, moral panics and the discourse of contemporary right-wing populism102
Normalization and the discursive construction of “new” norms and “new” normality: discourse in the paradoxes of populism and neoliberalism61
Discourse and affect22
The normalization of the populist radical right in news interviews: a study of journalistic reporting on the Swedish democrats20
Legitimization strategies in China's official media: the 2018 vaccine scandal in China18
Emojis and Law: contextualized flexibility of meaning in cyber communication15
History, modernity, and city branding in China: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of Xi’an’s promotional videos on social media14
Populism in musical mash ups: recontextualising Brexit13
The semiotics of the anti-COVID-19 mask12
Cyberbullying in Poland: a case study of aggressive messages with emojis targeted at the community of hunters in urbanized society11
Sarcasm, the smiling poop, and E-discourse aggressiveness: getting far too emotional with emojis11
Consumption as extended carnival on Tmall in contemporary China: a social semiotic multimodal analysis of interactive banner ads11
Moody and monstrous menstruators: the Semiotics of the menstrual meme on social media11
“She uses men to boost her career”: Chinese digital cultures and gender stereotypes of female academics in Zhihu discourses11
Tough guys and little rocket men: @Realdonaldtrump’s Twitter feed and the normalisation of banal masculinity10
Getting smart: towards critical digital literacy pedagogies10
Introversive semiosis in action: depictions in opera rehearsals9
Disgusting politics: circuits of affects and the making of Bolsonaro9
Do political cartoons and illustrations have their own specialized forms for warnings, threats, and the like? Speech acts in the nonverbal mode9
Where Covid metaphors come from: reconsidering context and modality in metaphor8
Revealing the politics in “soft”, everyday uses of social media: the challenge for critical discourse studies8
Affective regimes on Wilton Drive: a multimodal analysis8
The normalization of exclusion through a Revival of whiteness in Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign discourse7
Reading Chinese anti-COVID-19 pandemic narratives on facemasks as the art of disaster governance: a semiotic and biopolitical survey7
Communicating the “world-class” city: a visual-material approach7
Visual representation of happiness: a sociosemiotic perspective on stock photography7
102: the semiotics of living memorials7
Feeling safe while being surveilled: the spatial semiotics of affect at international airports7
Alphabet city: orthographic differentiation and branding in late capitalist cities6
“We are a mutual fund:” how Ponzi scheme operators in Nigeria apply indexical markers to shield deception and fraud on their websites6
Selling homes: the polysemy of visual marketing6
Beyond the managed heart? Seduction, subjugation and the symbolic economies of sleep6
Typographic landscape, indexicality and Chinese writing: a case study of place-making practices in transitional China6
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 designs6
Introducing writing (in) the city6
The commodification of motherhood: normalisation of consumerism in mediated discourse on mothering6
When globalese meets localese: transformational tactics in the typographic landscape – a Bernese case study6
Categorisations of developed and developing countries in UN news on climate change5
Emoticons, memes and cyberbullying: gender equality in Colombia5
“To honour cleanness and shame filth”: medical facemasks as the narrative of nationalism and modernity in China5
Making sense of handwritten signs in public spaces5
Towards a psychosemiotics of journalism, mental distress and Covid-195
Framing similar issues differently: a cross-cultural discourse analysis of news images5
Women and fitness on Weibo: the neoliberalism solution to the obligations of Confucianism5
Masking morality in the making: how China’s anti-epidemic promotional videos present facemask as a techno-moral mediator5
Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel and the mediatization of street art5
Ideology, attitudinal positioning, and the blockchain: a social semiotic approach to understanding the values construed in the whitepapers of blockchain start-ups5
Traditional Knowledge, science and China's pride: how a TCM social media account legitimizes TCM treatment of Covid-195
Disagree and you shall be valued: a semiotic examination of how photojournalism constructs “valuable” Iranian bodies across Time4
Mona Lisa's emoji: digital civilization and its discontents4
Face masks, materiality and exclusion in the COVID-19 semiotic landscape4
Gastropopulism: a sociosemiotic analysis of politicians posing as “the everyday man” via food posts on social media4
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw4
Normalization of language deficit ideology for a new generation of minoritized U.S. youth4
The scientifization of “green” anti-ageing cosmetics in online marketing: a multimodal critical discourse analysis4
Cyberbullying and hate speech in the debate around the ratification of the Istanbul convention in Bulgaria: a semiotic analysis of the communication dynamics4
A scalar approach to the circulation of virulent affects on the web4
Aggressiveness of emojis before the court: a sociosemiotic interpretation4
Validating visuals: a socio-semiotic instrument for an informed production and use of visual representations4
The “Miss Curvy Uganda” pageant: representation, commodification and exploitation of women’s bodies4
A trajectory of a mediational means in protest: the hand placard in South Korea’s Candlelight Protests4
“Is your font racist?” Metapragmatic online discourses on the use of typographic mimicry and its appropriateness4
Categorizing teachers’ gestures in classroom teaching: from the perspective of multiple representations4
Like your emoji — a philosophical context4
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili4
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