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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The representation of students in undergraduate prospectuses between 1998 and 2021: a diachronic corpus-assisted discourse study30
Conspiracy theory discourses Conspiracy theory discourses , edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2022, 509 pp., $30
Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction 29
Correction26
‘A threat to national unity, an emancipator’: discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities25
Linguistic polyphony in UN speeches on climate change: an analysis of implicit argumentation23
A multimodal and ethnographic approach to textbook discourse22
What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis22
Unfit and cast aside: portrayals of mothering with intellectual disability in Québec court reports20
National identity construction in Polish right-wing populist discourse19
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 o18
Johnsonism and crisis management: a critical narrative analysis of the UK Prime Minister’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic16
The making, anchoring, and reassurance of ‘meaninglessness’: a critical discourse and modal affordance perspective on Chinese dance drama The Eternal Radio Waves16
Negotiating the boundaries of the politically sayable: populist radical right talk scandals in the German media14
Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles13
Redescribing fossil-fuel investments: how hegemony challengers ‘invert’ arguments in the Norwegian public discourse on climate risk13
A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of language ideologies in parliamentary debates about the recognition of Irish sign language11
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: a Hallidayan transitivity analysis11
Representations of gender in conspiracy theories: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis10
Correction9
Anti-populist fantasies: interrogating Veja 's discursive constructions, from Lula to Bolsonaro9
Correction9
Snyder and Habermas on the war in Ukraine: a critical discourse analysis of elite media discourse in Germany9
Soft hate speech and denial of racism at Euro 20208
‘Hosting refugees is the most rewarding experience’: migrant identity and affective positioning in curated NGO stories8
How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development8
Phil Graham and axiological discourse analysis: after neoliberalism7
The discursive construction of a new reality in Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech7
Correction7
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’6
The spatialisation of the political imagination: A political discourse analysis of space, fantasy and inter-communal conflict in Derry city6
Unravelling social media critical discourse studies (SM-CDS) – four approaches to studying social media through the critical lens6
Representation of social actors in the tweets of Nigerian #EndSARS protesters6
Sensegiving doesn't always make sense: framing the implementation of performance-based funding in Ohio6
Rethinking ethics in AI policy: a method for synthesising Graham’s critical discourse analysis approaches and the philosophical study of valuation6
The hybrid discourse of the ‘European Green Deal’: road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly6
‘Trapping my way up’: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Black Sherif’s songs6
Positioning as discursive struggle for equity: a critical discourse analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of African countries6
Morality in discourse5
Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China5
Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis5
The discursive construction of intersectionality in public policy implementation5
‘So they hit each other’: gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial5
Audience labour, discourse dynamics and challenges for analysis5
Politics of memory, urban space and the discourse of counterhegemonic commemoration: a discourse-ethnographic analysis of the ‘Living Memorial’ in Budapest’s ‘Liberty Square’5
Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives 5
Statement of Retraction4
Shedding light on the ‘invisible load’: an analysis of sight metaphors in parenthood podcasts4
From hegemonic consensus to polarisation: Austrian public discourse on Israel’s war in Gaza4
Correction4
Curating activist journalism to defy China’s “mainstream” narrative on X (Twitter)4
‘Vicious, vitriolic, hateful and hypocritical’: the representation of feminism within the manosphere4
Zooming in on the study of soft hate speech: an introduction to this special issue4
The pragmatics of hypocrisy4
The ethnocratic shikun : housing discourse in support of nation-building4
Textbooks as ‘Neoliberal artifacts’: a critical study of knowledge-making in ELT industry3
The depoliticization of law in the news: BBC reporting on US use of extraterritorial or ‘long-arm’ law against China3
Challenging waves of memory: intersections of rhetoric, politics, and grassroots narratives in contemporary memory studies3
Responsibilization of weight management: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of losing weight articles in Chinese official WeChat posts3
Innovations and challenges in social media discourse analysis3
‘I have no empathy’: self-Positioning in Israeli social media discourse during the Gaza war3
Ecological communication and ecoliteracy: discourses of awareness and action for the lifescape3
Multimodality, Ideology, and Manipulation: BBC Travel Documentaries and the Illusion of Empire3
‘For business it boils down to one thing’: affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse3
‘For 400 years?’ A critical race discourse analysis of the ‘new slave’, anti-Black postracialism, and Kanye West3
Dual discursive articulation: languages of persuasion and resistance in street library community3
An ‘attractive alternative way of wielding power’? Revealing hidden gender ideologies in the portrayal of women Heads of State during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Metaphors we overthrow with: a critical metaphor analysis of Nigerian military leaders’ post-coup proclamations2
The potential of eye tracking data to strengthen CDA’ explanatory power: the case of multimodal critical discourse analysis of advertising persuasion2
‘I hate slavery, too’: a systemic functional linguistics analysis of pragerU’s history-based children’s programing2
Demands as the black box of discourse theory: the German integration debate, demanding a ‘leading culture’ and the mainstreaming of the far-right2
Metaphor and argumentation in climate crisis discourse2
Constructing continuity: on the establishment of temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis2
Cultural linguistics and critical discourse studies2
Metaphors of rupture, legitimization, and renewal in post-Assad Syrian leadership discourse2
Econarrative: ethics, ecology and the search for new narratives to live by2
‘Black people don’t do that’: a critical qualitative study of discursive barriers and black women’s digital well-being networks2
How to ‘decaffeinate’ a legislative report: emerging discourses on the climate change-migration nexus within the European Parliament2
Europhobia as a trajectory to hate speech normalisation? A diachronic analysis of Brexit media propaganda2
Stop family destruction!: ideologies concerning family destruction metaphors in same-sex marriage debates1
Correction1
How to be a woman (in politics): constructions of gender in responses to Giorgia Meloni’s Instagram Posts1
Preserving choice: weaving femininity and autonomy through egg freezing discourse on Xiaohongshu1
Where the hate lies in soft hate speech: the argumentative potential in hostile public spheres1
Ambiguity, responsibility and political action in the UK daily COVID-19 briefings1
Spicebags, slippery masks and ‘Free Staters’: anti-republican anti-populism in contemporary Irish political discourse1
A critical discourse analysis of Geert Wilders’ pro-Israelism1
De fractura humana: narrative turning points and the ideological genesis of dehumanization among forced migrants in the Italian context1
Discourse and ideologies of the radical right1
Ten Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics: Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis1
The Greek left-wing and the ‘Jewish problem’: analysing antizionism and antisemitism as forms of soft hate speech1
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
Examining gendered discourses from an African locale: towards an intrasectional feminist critical discourse analysis1
Responding to questions at press conferences: confrontational maneuvering by Chinese spokespersons1
Hierarchies among intertextual references: reading Reggaeton Ilustrado ’s digital humour through the colonial matrix of power1
Gendered expectations and the framing of Afghan women in peacebuilding: a critical discourse analysis1
The rise of large language models: challenges for Critical Discourse Studies1
The discursive construction of gender and agency in the linguistic landscape of Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum campaign1
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
Discourses of perfection: representing cosmetic procedures and beauty products in UK lifestyle magazines1
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