Social Semiotics

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Semiotics is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inheritance and development: revisiting three editions of Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design and their social-semiotic and linguistic insights22
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society17
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride14
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”13
The language of reality: a semiotic guide for shaping thought about American education12
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis12
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities11
Rhetoric of a terrorist: a metafunctional thematic analysis of the Unabomber Manifesto11
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili10
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants10
Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks9
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech9
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments9
“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 tra7
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks7
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory7
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona7
Categorisations of developed and developing countries in UN news on climate change6
The multimodal landscape in healthcare: technology, culture, and communication6
Stylistic expressions of YouTube lifestyle influencers: authenticity and professional amateurism6
Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy6
Legitimation of governments by renaming of everyday things and places: a comparison of the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic in Iran6
Multimodality of the non-leading teacher in collaborative teaching6
Encounters at the counter: the organization of shop interactions6
How defendants frame remorse: a pragmatic and transitivity analysis of allocution statements in Chinese and American courts5
“Waste-sorting is the new fashion”: waste, power, and the semiotic landscape5
A study of Pinyin as social practice in China’s commercial linguistic landscape5
Constructing the prosecution-defense relationship through multimodal positioning: a corpus-based analysis of Chinese courtroom argumentation5
Narratology Beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life5
The linear structure of narrative figures in the Saint Francis Cycle: a linguistic analysis4
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria president Bola Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal policy-related internet memes4
Embracing transgression(s) : a critical-dialogical semiotic approach on how “rhetorical plasticity” shapes contemporary far-right ideological reproduction4
Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method4
Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China , edited by Li Pan, Xia4
Russian train graffiti: a history of performance4
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness: how male and female Arab cartoonists think and draw4
“Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity4
Multimodal metaphor (re)framing: a critical analysis of the promotional image of China’s Hubei Province in the post-pandemic era on new media4
Teachers’ gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation4
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power4
Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida in the rough waters of photography theory3
Revolutionary things: the making of South Korea’s Candlelight Protests3
Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies3
The effectiveness of sarcastic multimodal semiotic analysis in revealing deficiencies among authority officials: a case study of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)3
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes3
The multimodal performance of conversational humor3
Hypertranslation3
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation3
Alignment, negation, and androcentricity: representation of bride price by Chinese state media3
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning3
Response To Evangelos Kourdis’ “Multimodal, polysemiotic, multisemiotic: a necessary demarcation for semiotics and translation studies”3
A boon or a bane: multimodal figurative framing in Chinese and foreign BRI-themed cartoons3
Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety3
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