Critical Discourse Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Critical Discourse Studies is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conspiracy theory discourses Conspiracy theory discourses , edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2022, 509 pp., $21
Correction21
The representation of students in undergraduate prospectuses between 1998 and 2021: a diachronic corpus-assisted discourse study20
Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By20
Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction 20
Linguistic polyphony in UN speeches on climate change: an analysis of implicit argumentation19
What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis18
A multimodal and ethnographic approach to textbook discourse15
‘A threat to national unity, an emancipator’: discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities15
Unfit and cast aside: portrayals of mothering with intellectual disability in Québec court reports14
National identity construction in Polish right-wing populist discourse14
The gains and losses of identity politics: the case of a social media social justice movement called stylelikeU13
The making, anchoring, and reassurance of ‘meaninglessness’: a critical discourse and modal affordance perspective on Chinese dance drama The Eternal Radio Waves13
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: a Hallidayan transitivity analysis13
Johnsonism and crisis management: a critical narrative analysis of the UK Prime Minister’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic10
The politics of climate change metaphors in the U.S. discourse: conceptual metaphor theory and analysis from an ecolinguistics and critical discourse analysis perspective The politics o10
Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles10
Redescribing fossil-fuel investments: how hegemony challengers ‘invert’ arguments in the Norwegian public discourse on climate risk9
A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of language ideologies in parliamentary debates about the recognition of Irish sign language9
Negotiating the boundaries of the politically sayable: populist radical right talk scandals in the German media9
The argumentative function of rescue narratives: Trump’s national security rhetoric as a case study8
Anti-populist fantasies: interrogating Veja 's discursive constructions, from Lula to Bolsonaro8
Snyder and Habermas on the war in Ukraine: a critical discourse analysis of elite media discourse in Germany8
Correction7
Correction7
Representations of gender in conspiracy theories: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis7
‘Hosting refugees is the most rewarding experience’: migrant identity and affective positioning in curated NGO stories7
The politics of fear: the shameless normalization of far-right discourses7
Soft hate speech and denial of racism at Euro 20207
How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development7
Is this discursive Yentling? A critical study of an RCMP officer’s interaction with a child sexual assault complainant7
Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law6
Language of conflict: discourses of the Ukrainian crisis6
Phil Graham and axiological discourse analysis: after neoliberalism6
The discursive construction of a new reality in Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech6
The Magna Carta of Women as the Philippine Translation of the CEDAW: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis6
Sensegiving doesn't always make sense: framing the implementation of performance-based funding in Ohio6
The hybrid discourse of the ‘European Green Deal’: road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly5
Why and when should we (not) distinguish between academic and therapeutic discourses on the past? A response to Burnett et al.’s ‘Indigenous resurgence, collective “reminding”, and insidious binaries’5
Merging mobilities: querying knowledges, actions, and chronotopes in discourses of transcultural relationships from a North/South queer contact zone4
‘If she asked for settlement money, she must not be a real victim’: an interdisciplinary analysis of the discourse of victims and perpetrators of sexual violence4
Audience labour, discourse dynamics and challenges for analysis4
Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis4
The spatialisation of the political imagination: A political discourse analysis of space, fantasy and inter-communal conflict in Derry city4
Unravelling social media critical discourse studies (SM-CDS) – four approaches to studying social media through the critical lens4
Twenty-first century discourses of American lynching4
‘Trapping my way up’: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Black Sherif’s songs4
Positioning as discursive struggle for equity: a critical discourse analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of African countries4
Representation of social actors in the tweets of Nigerian #EndSARS protesters4
Rethinking ethics in AI policy: a method for synthesising Graham’s critical discourse analysis approaches and the philosophical study of valuation4
The discursive construction of intersectionality in public policy implementation4
Who owns “democracy”? The role of populism in the discursive struggle over the signifier “democracy” in Catalonia and Spain3
Language, power and identity: discursive construction of post-Revolution national identity in Tunisia3
Race, religion, law: an intertextual micro-genealogy of ‘stirring up hatred’ provisions in England and Wales3
‘Vicious, vitriolic, hateful and hypocritical’: the representation of feminism within the manosphere3
The depoliticization of law in the news: BBC reporting on US use of extraterritorial or ‘long-arm’ law against China3
Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives 3
Politics of memory, urban space and the discourse of counterhegemonic commemoration: a discourse-ethnographic analysis of the ‘Living Memorial’ in Budapest’s ‘Liberty Square’3
Correction3
Shedding light on the ‘invisible load’: an analysis of sight metaphors in parenthood podcasts3
The ethnocratic shikun : housing discourse in support of nation-building3
Zooming in on the study of soft hate speech: an introduction to this special issue3
Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China3
‘So they hit each other’: gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial3
Curating activist journalism to defy China’s “mainstream” narrative on X (Twitter)3
The pragmatics of hypocrisy3
‘For business it boils down to one thing’: affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse3
Language and gender in Canadian Chief Medical Officers’ tweets during the COVID-19 pandemic2
The law and critical discourse studies2
Responsibilization of weight management: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of losing weight articles in Chinese official WeChat posts2
An ‘attractive alternative way of wielding power’? Revealing hidden gender ideologies in the portrayal of women Heads of State during the COVID-19 pandemic2
How to ‘decaffeinate’ a legislative report: emerging discourses on the climate change-migration nexus within the European Parliament2
Cultural linguistics and critical discourse studies2
Textbooks as ‘Neoliberal artifacts’: a critical study of knowledge-making in ELT industry2
‘For 400 years?’ A critical race discourse analysis of the ‘new slave’, anti-Black postracialism, and Kanye West2
Econarrative: ethics, ecology and the search for new narratives to live by2
Metaphor and argumentation in climate crisis discourse2
‘A day that unites the nation': contesting historical narratives in national day discussions2
Metaphors we overthrow with: a critical metaphor analysis of Nigerian military leaders’ post-coup proclamations2
Innovations and challenges in social media discourse analysis2
Dual discursive articulation: languages of persuasion and resistance in street library community2
Multimodality, Ideology, and Manipulation: BBC Travel Documentaries and the Illusion of Empire2
The potential of eye tracking data to strengthen CDA’ explanatory power: the case of multimodal critical discourse analysis of advertising persuasion2
‘Black people don’t do that’: a critical qualitative study of discursive barriers and black women’s digital well-being networks2
Challenging waves of memory: intersections of rhetoric, politics, and grassroots narratives in contemporary memory studies2
Ten Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics: Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis1
Responding to questions at press conferences: confrontational maneuvering by Chinese spokespersons1
Where the hate lies in soft hate speech: the argumentative potential in hostile public spheres1
Hegemony and the politics of labour: towards a discourse theory of value in contemporary capitalism1
Narratives and responsibility in media framings of the (1973–1985) Uruguayan dictatorship: a critical discourse analysis1
Discourse of cycling, road users and sustainability: an ecolinguistic investigation1
‘Sorry, You're Not A Winner’: considering critical relativism, competing interests and lateral power struggle in ethical critique1
Stop family destruction!: ideologies concerning family destruction metaphors in same-sex marriage debates1
A critical discourse analysis of Geert Wilders’ pro-Israelism1
Hierarchies among intertextual references: reading Reggaeton Ilustrado ’s digital humour through the colonial matrix of power1
Affective intensities of polarization: the making of the Islamist/secularist divide through articulations of news media in Turkey1
Spicebags, slippery masks and ‘Free Staters’: anti-republican anti-populism in contemporary Irish political discourse1
Ambiguity, responsibility and political action in the UK daily COVID-19 briefings1
Europhobia as a trajectory to hate speech normalisation? A diachronic analysis of Brexit media propaganda1
Preserving choice: weaving femininity and autonomy through egg freezing discourse on Xiaohongshu1
Discursive bridges: a socio-hermeneutical analysis of meaning shifts1
Sportswomen under the Chinese male gaze: A feminist critical discourse analysis1
Discourse and ideologies of the radical right1
Examining gendered discourses from an African locale: towards an intrasectional feminist critical discourse analysis1
The discursive construction of gender and agency in the linguistic landscape of Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum campaign1
Correction1
Demands as the black box of discourse theory: the German integration debate, demanding a ‘leading culture’ and the mainstreaming of the far-right1
The Greek left-wing and the ‘Jewish problem’: analysing antizionism and antisemitism as forms of soft hate speech1
Legitimation in government social media communication: the case of the Brexit department1
Recovery rhetoric: a critical discourse analysis of substance use recovery1
The rise of large language models: challenges for Critical Discourse Studies1
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