Discourse Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Discourse Studies is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Downgrading commitment: The final particle ba in complying responses to directives in Mandarin Chinese conversation32
Book review: Amanda Laugesen and Catherine Fisher (Eds.), Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific: Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse21
‘My family wouldn’t have survived, and I would not be here’: Juxtaposing counterfactual and actual pasts and presents in narratives of rescue by Aristides de Sousa Mendes21
Book Review: Ruth Page, David Barton, Carmen Lee, Johann Wolfgang Unger, and Michele Zappavigna, Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide15
Divided discourse: Establishing a methods-centered approach to latrinalia research13
Small stories of a key moment: Exploring discursive construction in digital quarantine stories12
Book Review: Othman Khalid Al-Shboul, The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis 11
Book Review: Sandrine Sorlin, The Stylistics of “You”: Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects9
Book Review: Patricia Canning and Brian Walker, Discourse Analysis: A Practical Introduction8
Humour and laughter as indicators of meeting leadership style in FOMC meetings8
Multimodal media: Framing climate change7
Ageism in job interviews: Discreet ways of building co-membership through age categorisation7
Analyzing frame analysis: A critical review of framing studies in social movement research7
Book review: Eliecer Crespo-Fernández (ed.), Discourse Studies in Public Communication7
Framing and related concepts in interactional sociolinguistics6
Book Review: Simon Statham, Critical Discourse Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Power in Language6
Backchannel forms and functions in context and culture: The use of backchannels in Arab media discourse6
Book Review: Caroline Tagg and Agnieszka Lyons, Mobile Messaging and Resourcefulness: A Post-Digital Ethnography5
Closing medical encounters in China’s Mainland: Doctors’ fishing for patient-initiated terminal exchanges5
Self-description in everyday interaction: Generalizations about oneself as accounts of behavior5
Avoidance of cognitive efforts as a risk factor in interaction5
Book Review: Anna Islentyeva, A Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias: Migration in the British Press5
Book Review: Annelie Ädel and Jan-Ola Östman (eds), Risk Discourse and Responsibility5
On granularity of doing other-initiation: Nǐ yìsi shì X ‘Your Meaning is X’ in Mandarin Chinese5
Book Review: Ole Schützler and Julia Schlüter (ed.), Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics: Comparative Approaches4
Introduction to “Scaling stories: Narratives and the dialogic regimentation of scales”4
Multimodal engagement strategies in science dissemination: A case study of TED talks and YouTube science videos4
Book Review: Lorena Pérez-Hernández, Speech Acts in English: From Research to Instruction and Textbook Development4
Book review: Camilla Vásquez, Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis4
Book review: Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes and Craig Evans, The Language of Patient Feedback: A Corpus Linguistic Study of Online Health Communication4
Repetition for real-time coordination of action: Lexical and non-lexical vocalizations in collaborative time management4
‘The sequential organisation of gossip talk’4
Book Review: Gerard J. Steen, Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory3
Book review: Thomas C Messerli, Repetition in Telecinematic Discourse. How American Sitcoms Employ Formal and Semantic Repetition in the Construction of Multimodal Humour3
On the defence of antifascist Italy in Alcide De Gasperi’s 1946 speech to the Paris Peace Conference3
Book review: Eva Ogiermann and Pilar G Blitvich (eds), From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness: Multilingual and Multicultural Perspectives3
A functional diversity of argumentative styles3
Book review: Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long, The Rise of Discourse Markers3
Book Review: Sandrine Zufferey and Liesbeth Degand, Connectives and Discourse Relations3
Socio-cultural and contextual resources shaping the initiation of closings of public utility service interactions3
Book Review: Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner, Discourse Syntax: English Grammar Beyond the Sentence3
Book Review: Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen, The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy3
‘Neyse Halim Çıksın Falim’: Turkish women’s intimate discourse in fortune-telling sessions through coffee cup readings3
Book Review: Robert Lawson, Language and Mediated Masculinities: Cultures, Contexts, Constraints2
Practices of patient participation: Getting a turn during hospital ward rounds2
Argumentative patterns based on pragmatic argumentation at China’s diplomatic press conferences2
Police officers’ management of suspects’ I don’t know responses in Chinese investigative interviews2
Back to the future: Topic modelling and beyond2
Book review: Óscar Loureda, Inés Recio Fernández, Laura Nadal and Adriana Cruz (eds), Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse2
Book review: Jenni Ingram and Victoria Elliott, Research Methods for Classroom Discourse2
How professionals deal with clients’ explicit objections to their advice2
‘Answer in any way you want’: Discursive tensions in conversations of a citizen participation process2
Book review: María-José Luzón & Carmen Pérez-Llantada (eds.), Science Communication on the Internet: Old Genres Meet New Genres2
Book Review: Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers2
Turn-allocation and gaze: A multimodal revision of the “current-speaker-selects-next” rule of the turn-taking system of conversation analysis2
‘I just need a yes or no’: Managing resistant responses in U.S. Senate hearings2
Sexual consent as an interactional achievement: Overcoming ambiguities and social vulnerabilities in the initiations of sexual activities2
Framing offer-related actions as assistance at jewelry stores in Japan2
Book Review: Fabrizio Gallai, Relevance Theory in Translation and Interpreting: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach2
An epistemic illumination of the acceptance of advice in Chinese phone-in counseling for family problems2
Book review: Jesse Egbert, Tove Larsson and Douglas Biber, Doing Linguistics with a Corpus: Methodological Considerations for the Everyday User2
Offensive, hateful comment: A networked discourse practice of blame and petition for justice during COVID-19 on Chinese Weibo2
Introduction2
Book review: Robin James Smith, Richard Fitzgerald, and William Housley (eds), On Sacks: Methodology, Materials, and Inspirations2
Responsive advice-giving to troubles in supervision interaction1
Two ways of spilling drink: The construction of offences as ‘accidental’ in police interviews with suspects1
Acknowledging and legitimizing the embarrassment: Responding to embarrassment-telling1
Seeing and knowing in interaction: Two distinct resources for action construction1
Book review: Sol Rojas-Lizana, The Discourse of Perceived Discrimination: Perspectives from contemporary Australian Society1
‘Go on keep going’: The instruction of sustained embodied activities1
Book Review: Marjut Johansson, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, and Jan Chovanec, Analyzing Digital Discourses: Between Convergence and Controversy1
Time-oriented decisions in Palliative Care team meetings1
Book Review: Fei Victor Lim, Designing Learning With Embodied Teaching: Perspectives From Multimodality1
Teasing via the [lo, ki ‘no, because’ + ironic utterance] structure in Hebrew talk-in-interaction1
Book Review: Carina Rasse, Poetic Metaphors: Creativity and Interpretation1
Rest in space, Starman! Creative reframing of death metaphors on David Bowie’s mural in London1
‘Something that’s very American’: The interactional role of Light-Head Relative Clauses1
The story of two connectives: Korean tunci ‘or’ and kena ‘or’1
Frame analysis1
Book review: Sam Bennett, Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse1
Scalar stories: Visuality of scales in photographic narratives1
Classroom teasing: Institutional contingencies and embodied action1
Epistemic stance in Korean assessment pairs: The role of evidential and non-evidential sentence-ending suffixes1
All but naive: Patrolling epistemic territories in radio phone-ins1
Book review: Joyce Lamerichs, Susan J. Danby, Amanda Bateman and Stuart Ekberg (eds), Children and Mental Health Talk: Perspectives on Social Competence1
A study of emotion management and identity construction in Chinese medical treatment discussions1
Book Review: Stephen C. Levinson, The Dark Matter of Pragmatics1
What’s really in a frame? The case of public marriage proposals1
Book Review: Dezheng (William) Feng, Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China1
Justice Under Microscope: Analysing Mandarin Chinese Markers in Virtual Courtroom Discourse1
‘That’s what the dream says’: The use of normalizing devices in dream reports1
Communicating disciplinary knowledge to a wide audience in 3MT presentations: How students engage with popularization of science1
Book Review: Neda Chepinchikj, Interactional Approach to Cinematic Discourse: How Do Woody Allen’s Characters Talk?1
Book Review: Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, Making Sense: Reference, Agency and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope, Adding Sense: Context and Interest i1
Prospective expertise: The use of ‘listen’ in the discourse of television sports pundits1
Book review: Karen Sullivan, Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse1
Expecting the unpredictable: Categorisation of children and youth during driver training1
A conversation analytical study of story-openings in advice-giving episodes in doctoral research supervision meetings1
Book Review: Paula Pérez Sobrino, Jeannette Littlemore and Samantha Ford, Unpacking Creativity: The Power of Figurative Communication in Advertising1
Book Review: Samira Bakeer, Discourse Markers in Doctoral Supervision Sessions: A Multimodal Perspective1
Book Review: Alexa Hepburn and Jonathan Potter, Essentials of Conversation Analysis1
Book Review: Istvan Kecskes, The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics1
Deontic authority and the maintenance of lay and expert identities during joint decision making: Balancing resistance and compliance0
Scrambling for power or cooperation for stability: A case study of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship in China0
Book Review: Tong King Lee and Dingkun Wang (eds), Translation and Social Media Communication in the Age of the Pandemic0
Polyphony in the pediatric clinic: Parents reporting teachers’ talk as a resource for building deontic and epistemic (dis)alliances among caregivers0
The situated deployment of the Italian presentative (e) hai. . ., ‘(and) you have. . .’ within routinized multimodal Gestalts in route mapping with visually impaired climbers0
The tacit dimension of expertise: Professional vision at work in airport security0
Book Review: Galina B. Bolden, John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds), Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts0
Book Review: Luke Collins and Paul Baker, Language, Discourse and Anxiety0
Argumentative strategies to evade state apologies: The Turkish example0
Book review: Patrizia Anesa and Aurora Fragonara (eds), Discourse Processes Between Reason and Emotion: A Post-Disciplinary Perspective0
Requesting another to taste: Passing food and the distribution of agency in the organization of bodily trajectories0
Framing and social movements0
Book Review: Gitte Rasmussen and Theo van Leeuwen (eds), Multimodality and Social Interaction in Online and Offline Shopping0
Book Review: Micheal Haugh, Daniel Kádár and Marina Terkourafi (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics0
Positive assessments, monitoring of activities, and dementia0
Resistance in public disputes: Third-turn blocking to suspend progressivity0
AI and racism: Tone policing by the Bing AI chatbot0
Scaling the value of multilingualism: ‘Common-sense’ narratives of growth and inequality in an expert report to the U.S. Congress0
Media construction of pseudo-events: Lula da Silva at the Portugal’s parliament during a historic annual celebration0
Book review: Arran Stibbe, Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By0
Book review: Ulrike Schneider and Matthias Eitelmann (eds), Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language: From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Tremendous Success’0
Sequence-initial pointing: Spotlighting what just happened as a cause of a new sequence0
Going against the interactional tide: The accomplishment of dialogic moments from a conversation analytic perspective0
What’s in a frame, what’s in a name?0
Constructing and negotiating the professional identity of ‘leader’ by suggesting and challenging improvement of professional practices: Deontics in a four-part sequential structure0
Book Review: Patrizia Anesa and Jan Engberg (eds), The Digital (R)Evolution of Legal Discourse: New Genres, Media, and Linguistic Practices0
Book review: Ruth Wodak, The Politics of Fear: The Shameless Normalization of Far-Right Discourse0
B-event statements as vehicles for two interactional practices in police interactions with suspects/witnesses0
Book review: Angela Zottola, Transgender Identities in the Press: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis0
Arguing through best practice: The role of argumentation from example in activists’ social media posts on sustainable fashion0
Book Review: Rodney H Jones, Sylvia Jaworska and Erhan Aslan, Language and Media: A Resource Book for Students0
Graduating political crisis and violence in the discourse of history: The role of Spanish suffixes0
Disclaiming knowledge to encourage participation in research group meetings0
Constructing mediator identities through questioning in Chinese televised mediation0
Hospitality and ritual: A discursive study of toasting in Chinese dining contexts0
Problem presentations in workplace meeting interactions0
Book Review: Mathew Gillings, Gerlinde Mautner and Paul Baker, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies0
Book Review: Natalia Knoblock (ed.), Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis0
Book review: Ronny Boogaart, Henrike Jansen and Maarten van Leeuwen (eds), The Language of Argumentation0
Expertise in interaction – Introduction0
The disputed territories of information: The case of alleged war crimes during the Kosovo War0
Challenging questions in Saudi press conferences0
When people do not want to talk anymore in online discussion boards: A corpus-based study of the multi-word expression bù shuō le ‘not talk anymore’ in Chinese0
Doing being ordinary nonetheless: Navigating social expectations in a peer support group0
Inferred vision: An analysis of the commentators’ descriptions of players’ visual perceptions and intentions during volleyball broadcasts0
Three decades of the framing perspective on social movements: Changing trends and continuities0
Overcoming embarrassment in humorous narratives among Pakistani young men: A case study0
Increasing mediators’ perceived responsibility: The role of persuasive attacks in vicarious relative-led family mediation0
Where does the true value of a frame analysis approach lie? A Reply to van Dijk0
Book review: Henry Silke, Fergal Quinn and Maria Rieder (eds), News Discourse and Power: Critical Perspectives on Journalism and Inequality0
An interactional linguistics study of Shi ba in Mandarin conversation0
Book review: Mimi Huang and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds), The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, Frames and Discourses0
Book review: Élisabeth Le, Degrees of European belonging0
Expertise as a domain of epistemics in intensive care shift-handovers0
Book Review: James R Martin, Beatriz Quiroz and Giacomo Figueredo (eds), Interpersonal Grammar: Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory and Description0
Seeded topic modeling as a more appropriate alternative to unsupervised standard topic models0
Book Review: Brian Paltridge, Discourse Analysis: An Introduction0
Book Review: Francisco Yus, Pragmatics of Internet Humour0
Continuing assessments in online dating: Enabling relational development between potential romantic partners in WeChat conversations0
Book Review: Michael Devitt, Overlooking Conventions: The Trouble With Linguistic Pragmatism0
Book Review: Gábor Tahin, Heuristic Rhetoric: Principle and Practice0
Critical discourse studies eleven years on in China (from 2011 to 2021): A critical review0
Book review: Lori Czerwionka, Rachel Showstack and Judith Liskin-Gasparro (eds), Contexts of Co-constructed Discourse: Interaction, Pragmatics, and Second Language Applications0
Book Review: Kate Scott, Pragmatics Online0
Book review: Thora Tenbrink, Cognitive Discourse Analysis: An Introduction0
Understanding performance responses: Instructional transitions in musical masterclasses0
Frame semantic grammars: Where frame analysis meets linguistics to study collective action frames0
Discourse markers in small talk and tasks0
Gestural repair in Mandarin conversation0
Bonding with followers: Chronotopes and scales in political communication on Instagram0
Public note-taking on a digital platform as a workplace practice0
Handling complainable matters in palliative care interactions0
Linguistic variation in supreme court oral arguments by legal professionals: A novel multi-dimensional analysis0
The #PantamiMustGo political activism: A textual analysis of narrative agency in protest discourse0
Contextualising topic models in corpus linguistics: Opportunities and challenges0
Book review: Péter B. Furkó, Discourse Markers and Beyond: Descriptive and Critical Perspectives on Discourse-Pragmatic Devices across Genres and Languages0
How is joint laughter ‘pre’ to advice-giving: A sequential pattern that centralizes trouble in student supervision0
Book review: Helen Caple, Changpeng Huan and Monika Bednarek, Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures0
Book Review: Maria Cristina Caimotto and Rachele Raus, Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse0
Distance, proximity, and authenticity in the point of view of US military drone operator autobiographies0
Neither speaker nor recipient: The middle-distance look of unaddressed participants0
Book Review: Rob Cover, Identity and Digital Communication: Concepts, Theories, Practices0
Book Review: Binhua Wang and Jeremy Munday (eds), Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting (Linking Linguistic Approaches With Socio-Cultural Interpretation)0
Discursive management of patients’ disagreement with doctors’ recommendations in Nigerian hospital visits0
Book Review: Esther Linares-Bernabéu, The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts0
Book review: Amy M Lindstrom, Unexpressed Subjects in English: An Empirical Analysis of Narrative and Conversational Discourse0
Book Review: Yuqi Na, The Chinese Internet: Political Economy and Digital Discourse0
Identity construction in digital communication for public engagement in science0
Book review: Theresa Catalano and Linda R Waugh, Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond0
The multiple constraints of addressed questions in whole-class interaction: Responses from unaddressed pupils0
Book Review: Robert Poole, Corpus-assisted Ecolinguistics0
I (don’t) want X/Y’: Formulating ‘wants’ in Chinese Mediation Resources0
Book Review: Michael Handford and James Paul Gee (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis0
Conversation analysis in a US Senate Judiciary hearing: Questioning Brett Kavanaugh0
Identifying disputants’ attitudinal variations in family mediations: A data mining approach0
Category relations and norms of feelings in children’s performances of a boyfriend-girlfriend culture0
Book review: Jean Wong and Hansun Zhang Waring (eds), Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective0
Book Review: Ignasi Navarro I Ferrando, Current Approaches to Metaphor Analysis in Discourse0
Book Review: Thomas Jacobs, Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy: Towards a Post-Marxist Understanding of Contestation and Politicization0
Book review: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Martin Adam, Renata Povolná and Radek Vogel, Persuasion in Specialised Discourses0
Constructing cancel culture: Strategic scaling in stories of “cancellation”0
‘Delayed response’ in psychodynamic psychotherapy0
Book review: Rodney H. Jones (ed), Viral Discourse0
Book review: John Flowerdew, Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography: The Case of Hong Kong’s Evolving Political Identity0
Book review: Valerie Hobbs, An Introduction to Religious Language: Exploring Theolinguistics in Contemporary Contexts0
Doing mutual understanding in child and family therapy sessions: How three interlocutors calibrate new information0
Discursive construction in multilingual crisis risk communication: An analysis of ‘A letter to foreign nationals’ messages in China’s COVID-19 fight0
Book review: Franco Zappettini and Michal Krzyżanowski (eds), Brexit as a Social and Political Crisis: Discourses in Media and Politics0
Topic modelling is a means to an end: On topic modelling in corpus linguistics and discourse analysis0
Shifting narratives: A critical discourse analysis of racial bias in the tale of Wu Feng’s indigenous representation0
Teachers’ use of reported habitual thoughts in research interviews0
Delineating categories in verbal interaction0
Combining different activities in family-style group care: How Professional Foster Parents show listenership towards adolescents during dinner related activities0
Rethinking frame analysis ‘from the margins’: A decolonial-intersectional epistemology to studying immigrants’ rights claims0
Book review: Mario Bisiada (ed.), Empirical studies in translation and discourse0
On affiliation and alignment: Non-cooperative uses of anticipatory completions in the context of tellings0
Judicial self fashioning: Rhetorical performance in Supreme Court opinions0
Book Review: Thu Ngo, Susan Hood, James R Martin, Clare Painter, Bradley A Smith, and Michele Zappavigna, Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and Application0
‘I know what it is’. An interactional study of sex discovery in prenatal ultrasound examinations0
An imperious, closed sandbox? A rejoinder to Van Dijk’s critique of the framing perspective on social movement mobilization0
Laughter in hospital emergency departments0
When a request turn is segmented: Managing the deontic authority via early compliance0
Topic modelling in corpus-based discourse analysis: Uses and critiques0
‘Who decided this?’: Negotiating epistemic and deontic authority in systemic family therapy training0
Book Review: Feng (Kevin) Jiang, Metadiscursive Nouns: Interaction and Persuasion in Disciplinary Writing0
Book Review: Jan-Friso Heeren, Establishing a Mechanism-Based Framework for the Corpus-Informed Analysis of Multi-Word Discourse Markers0
Expertise as a domain in interaction0
The epistemics of advice-giving sequences: Epistemic primacy and subordination in advice rejection0
Book review: Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland (eds), Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and Practice0
Between honorifics and non-honorifics: A study of the Korean semi-honorific style and a comparison with Japanese0
Book review: Anke Beger, The Role of (Deliberate) Metaphor in Communicating Knowledge in Academic Discourse: An Analysis of College Lectures from Different Disciplines0
Book Review: Janet Beavin Bavelas, Face-To-Face Dialogue: Theory, Research, and Applications0
‘I just shot my mom’: A genre analysis of swatting calls0
Exerting power through interruptions: A case study of arbitrators’ discourses in Chinese Arbitral Tribunals0
Asking for help without asking for help: How victims request and police offer assistance in cases of domestic violence when perpetrators are potentially co-present0
Place formulations and the incongruity procedure: On police officers’ practices for assembling appearances of wrongdoing0
Book review: Chen Xinren, Exploring Identity Work in Chinese Communication0
A study of applause in family ritual0
Book review: Theo van Leeuwen, Multimodality and Identity0
Book review: Alla Tovares and Cynthia Gordon (eds), Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse: Social Media Interactions Across Cultural Contexts0
Book Review: Louise Mullany and Stephanie Schnurr (eds), Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication0
Teachers’ use of reported speech in Korean elementary school classroom interactions0
Supporting and challenging hate in an online discussion of a controversial refugee policy0
Responding to the client’s self-deprecations in career guidance0
“They say it’s because I’m migrainous. . .” Contested identities of students with invisible disabilities in medical consultations0
Draw-a-Monster: Scaffolding and nurse-child improvisations at a child health center0
Book review: Stefanie Ullmann, Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics0
Negotiating joint commitment in collaborative work project: Focus on text-based requests and news deliveries in atypical work0
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