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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inheritance and development: revisiting three editions of Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design and their social-semiotic and linguistic insights23
“The Amazingly Fabulous Tuk tuk Race”: mobility and carnival praxis in the semiotic landscape of Phnom Penh Pride18
The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society18
Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”17
Rhetoric of a terrorist: a metafunctional thematic analysis of the Unabomber Manifesto14
Orality, multimodality and creativity in digital writing: Chinese users’ experiences and practices with bullet comments on Bilibili13
“Scrounger-bashing” as national pastime: the prevalence and ferocity of anti-welfare ideology on niche-interest online forums10
Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants10
Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities9
Semiotics and framing of Ukrainian refugees in Spanish political discourse: a linguistic and cognitive analysis9
Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks8
Flags and fields: a comparative analysis of national identity in butter packaging in Sweden and the UK8
Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks8
“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–20228
Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory , by Gerard J. Steen, Amsterdam/Philadelphia,8
Situating affect in Chinese mediated soundscapes of suona8
Making death (in)different: discursive legitimation in death trials7
The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments7
The logic of language: a semiotic study of speech7
Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine tra7
“Is your font racist?” Metapragmatic online discourses on the use of typographic mimicry and its appropriateness6
From black to green with a dash of New Nordic. The multimodal rebranding of a Danish energy company with global aspirations6
Categorisations of developed and developing countries in UN news on climate change6
Legitimation of governments by renaming of everyday things and places: a comparison of the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic in Iran6
Stylistic expressions of YouTube lifestyle influencers: authenticity and professional amateurism6
The linear structure of narrative figures in the Saint Francis Cycle: a linguistic analysis5
The scientifization of “green” anti-ageing cosmetics in online marketing: a multimodal critical discourse analysis5
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria president Bola Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal policy-related internet memes5
Narratology Beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life5
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
Multimodal metaphor (re)framing: a critical analysis of the promotional image of China’s Hubei Province in the post-pandemic era on new media5
Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy5
“Yea I’m a f* Tomboy”: “girl crush,” postfeminism, and the reimagining of K-pop femininity4
Russian train graffiti: a history of performance4
Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method4
Towards a unified affordance approach: searching for congruent meaning making in COVID-19 warning designs4
The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power4
#Civilwar2: Instagram posts during COVID-193
The multimodal performance of conversational humor3
Where Covid metaphors come from: reconsidering context and modality in metaphor3
Teachers’ gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation3
Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida in the rough waters of photography theory3
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails: creating presence, marking absence, shaping meaning3
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
Statistics in corpus linguistics: a practical guide2
Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety , by Luke Collins and Paul Baker, Cambridge, Cambridge UniversityPress, 2023, p. xiii2
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes2
Silence: a modality of its own2
Screens of inequality: caste narratives in Hindi cinema2
Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination , edited by Andrea Cossu and Jorge Fontdevila, Bristol, Bristol U2
Approaches to systemic functional grammar: convergence and divergence2
Alignment, negation, and androcentricity: representation of bride price by Chinese state media2
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation2
Nonprofit campaigning done ethically to elicit empathy instead of aversion: A case study of the UNICEF multimodal book Lives Beyond Figures2
China opportunity or China threat? A corpus-based study of China’s image in Australian news discourse2
Ps. I’ll find you .” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile2
Raising awareness against fake news to protect democracy: the myth of Islamophobia in Trump's speech2
“All sisters must experience the endorphin rush!” A virtual discourse-ethnographic study on neoliberalism female fitness community on Bilibili2
A boon or a bane: multimodal figurative framing in Chinese and foreign BRI-themed cartoons2
Ghost signs at the mall: structuring semiotics and (formerly) branded retail space2
Multilingual crisis communication: insights from China2
Erotic capital in digital age: a multimodal analysis of the idolization of fresh meat elite on Xiaohongshu2
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