Social Semiotics

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Semiotics is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inheritance and development: revisiting three editions of Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design and their social-semiotic and linguistic insights38
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society28
Gazes, words, and silences in pragmatics21
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride19
Institutional and conceptual flipsiding: illiberal subversion of “democracy”19
The emotional labour of concession: a critical discourse analysis of Bawumia’s 2024 speech18
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”17
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities16
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis16
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants14
The language of reality: a semiotic guide for shaping thought about American education14
Digital gastronationalism: how “white people food” discourse constructs national identity on Douyin12
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments11
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili11
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech11
Correction10
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory10
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks9
Visual Citizenship. Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media9
Exclusionary and xenophobic speech in Swedish health care settings: the challenge of “language”9
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona8
Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks8
“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–20228
Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine tra8
Morality in discourse8
Visual and verbal governance: the case of COVID-19 campaign posters in South Korea7
Multimodality of the non-leading teacher in collaborative teaching7
The multimodal landscape in healthcare: technology, culture, and communication7
Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy7
Encounters at the counter: the organization of shop interactions7
“We’re the party of common sense”: conflicting appeals to “normal/ity” and “common sense” in the discourse of the Freedom Party of Austria7
Stylistic expressions of YouTube lifestyle influencers: authenticity and professional amateurism7
Digital rehegemony and the cultural politics of child protection in Indonesia6
Appraisal, sentiment and emotion analysis in political discourse: a multimodal, multi-method approach6
“Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape6
Language assemblage6
How defendants frame remorse: a pragmatic and transitivity analysis of allocution statements in Chinese and American courts6
A study of Pinyin as social practice in China’s commercial linguistic landscape5
Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China , edited by Li Pan, Xia5
Introduction: cancel culture & celebrity bashing, exploring the theatre of morality?5
Constructing the prosecution-defense relationship through multimodal positioning: a corpus-based analysis of Chinese courtroom argumentation5
Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method5
Representations of “Divorced” in Turkish media on psychological health: a multimodal critical discourse analysis4
Correction4
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 1989–20224
Reproductive rights and the recontextualization of abortion: a multimodal analysis of ballot initiatives in the US4
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria president Bola Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal policy-related internet memes4
Benign, malign, and tolerable: authoritarianism across the spectrum of likeability4
“Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity3
Multimodality across epistemologies in second language research3
Hypertranslation3
Response To Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”3
Russian train graffiti: a history of performance3
Embracing transgression(s) : a critical-dialogical semiotic approach on how “rhetorical plasticity” shapes contemporary far-right ideological reproduction3
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw3
The multimodal performance of conversational humor3
Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida in the rough waters of photography theory3
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power3
(Dis)connecting commerce and everyday life multimodally: professional vision and frame laminations in sponsored everyday vlogging3
Teachers’ gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation3
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation2
Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies2
Response to Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”2
Ghost signs at the mall: structuring semiotics and (formerly) branded retail space2
Multilingual crisis communication: insights from China2
China opportunity or China threat? A corpus-based study of China’s image in Australian news discourse2
A boon or a bane: multimodal figurative framing in Chinese and foreign BRI-themed cartoons2
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes2
Revolutionary things: the making of South Korea’s Candlelight Protests2
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning2
The effectiveness of sarcastic multimodal semiotic analysis in revealing deficiencies among authority officials: a case study of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)2
Screens of inequality: caste narratives in Hindi cinema2
The moral metaphor system: a conceptual metaphor approach2
Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety2
Statelessness and the semiotics of benign visibility in Malaysian news media2
Nationalism for sale: advertising, consumption, and the discursive construction of legitimacy in contemporary India2
“All sisters must experience the endorphin rush!” A virtual discourse-ethnographic study on neoliberalism female fitness community on Bilibili2
Alignment, negation, and androcentricity: representation of bride price by Chinese state media2
Erotic capital in digital age: a multimodal analysis of the idolization of fresh meat elite on Xiaohongshu2
From monologues to multimodal perspectivization: strategies for affective commercialization via Boys Love (BL) manga covers2
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