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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conspiracy theory discourses Conspiracy theory discourses , edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2022, 509 pp., $27
The representation of students in undergraduate prospectuses between 1998 and 2021: a diachronic corpus-assisted discourse study25
Correction24
What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis23
Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction 21
‘A threat to national unity, an emancipator’: discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities21
Linguistic polyphony in UN speeches on climate change: an analysis of implicit argumentation21
A multimodal and ethnographic approach to textbook discourse19
Unfit and cast aside: portrayals of mothering with intellectual disability in Québec court reports18
Negotiating the boundaries of the politically sayable: populist radical right talk scandals in the German media16
National identity construction in Polish right-wing populist discourse16
Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles16
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 o15
Redescribing fossil-fuel investments: how hegemony challengers ‘invert’ arguments in the Norwegian public discourse on climate risk15
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: a Hallidayan transitivity analysis14
Johnsonism and crisis management: a critical narrative analysis of the UK Prime Minister’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic13
The making, anchoring, and reassurance of ‘meaninglessness’: a critical discourse and modal affordance perspective on Chinese dance drama The Eternal Radio Waves11
A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of language ideologies in parliamentary debates about the recognition of Irish sign language10
Representations of gender in conspiracy theories: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis10
Is this discursive Yentling? A critical study of an RCMP officer’s interaction with a child sexual assault complainant9
The argumentative function of rescue narratives: Trump’s national security rhetoric as a case study9
Correction9
Anti-populist fantasies: interrogating Veja 's discursive constructions, from Lula to Bolsonaro9
‘Hosting refugees is the most rewarding experience’: migrant identity and affective positioning in curated NGO stories9
Snyder and Habermas on the war in Ukraine: a critical discourse analysis of elite media discourse in Germany9
How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development8
The Magna Carta of Women as the Philippine Translation of the CEDAW: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis8
Correction8
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’7
The discursive construction of a new reality in Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech7
Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law7
Representation of social actors in the tweets of Nigerian #EndSARS protesters7
Soft hate speech and denial of racism at Euro 20207
The hybrid discourse of the ‘European Green Deal’: road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly6
Unravelling social media critical discourse studies (SM-CDS) – four approaches to studying social media through the critical lens6
Positioning as discursive struggle for equity: a critical discourse analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of African countries6
Phil Graham and axiological discourse analysis: after neoliberalism6
The spatialisation of the political imagination: A political discourse analysis of space, fantasy and inter-communal conflict in Derry city6
Sensegiving doesn't always make sense: framing the implementation of performance-based funding in Ohio6
Morality in discourse5
‘Trapping my way up’: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Black Sherif’s songs5
Rethinking ethics in AI policy: a method for synthesising Graham’s critical discourse analysis approaches and the philosophical study of valuation5
Twenty-first century discourses of American lynching5
Audience labour, discourse dynamics and challenges for analysis5
‘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 violence5
The discursive construction of intersectionality in public policy implementation5
Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis5
Language, power and identity: discursive construction of post-Revolution national identity in Tunisia4
Shedding light on the ‘invisible load’: an analysis of sight metaphors in parenthood podcasts4
Curating activist journalism to defy China’s “mainstream” narrative on X (Twitter)4
Correction4
Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives 4
‘So they hit each other’: gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial4
The pragmatics of hypocrisy4
Race, religion, law: an intertextual micro-genealogy of ‘stirring up hatred’ provisions in England and Wales4
Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China4
Politics of memory, urban space and the discourse of counterhegemonic commemoration: a discourse-ethnographic analysis of the ‘Living Memorial’ in Budapest’s ‘Liberty Square’4
Statement of Retraction4
Zooming in on the study of soft hate speech: an introduction to this special issue4
Who owns “democracy”? The role of populism in the discursive struggle over the signifier “democracy” in Catalonia and Spain4
The ethnocratic shikun : housing discourse in support of nation-building3
Innovations and challenges in social media discourse analysis3
An ‘attractive alternative way of wielding power’? Revealing hidden gender ideologies in the portrayal of women Heads of State during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Responsibilization of weight management: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of losing weight articles in Chinese official WeChat posts3
‘Vicious, vitriolic, hateful and hypocritical’: the representation of feminism within the manosphere3
‘For business it boils down to one thing’: affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse3
The depoliticization of law in the news: BBC reporting on US use of extraterritorial or ‘long-arm’ law against China3
Dual discursive articulation: languages of persuasion and resistance in street library community3
Multimodality, Ideology, and Manipulation: BBC Travel Documentaries and the Illusion of Empire3
From hegemonic consensus to polarisation: Austrian public discourse on Israel’s war in Gaza3
The law and critical discourse studies3
‘For 400 years?’ A critical race discourse analysis of the ‘new slave’, anti-Black postracialism, and Kanye West3
Ecological communication and ecoliteracy: discourses of awareness and action for the lifescape3
Textbooks as ‘Neoliberal artifacts’: a critical study of knowledge-making in ELT industry3
Constructing continuity: on the establishment of temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis2
‘Black people don’t do that’: a critical qualitative study of discursive barriers and black women’s digital well-being networks2
Narratives and responsibility in media framings of the (1973–1985) Uruguayan dictatorship: a critical discourse analysis2
Ambiguity, responsibility and political action in the UK daily COVID-19 briefings2
Europhobia as a trajectory to hate speech normalisation? A diachronic analysis of Brexit media propaganda2
Challenging waves of memory: intersections of rhetoric, politics, and grassroots narratives in contemporary memory studies2
How to ‘decaffeinate’ a legislative report: emerging discourses on the climate change-migration nexus within the European Parliament2
Econarrative: ethics, ecology and the search for new narratives to live by2
Demands as the black box of discourse theory: the German integration debate, demanding a ‘leading culture’ and the mainstreaming of the far-right2
Discourse of cycling, road users and sustainability: an ecolinguistic investigation2
Cultural linguistics and critical discourse studies2
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
Metaphors of rupture, legitimization, and renewal in post-Assad Syrian leadership discourse2
Spicebags, slippery masks and ‘Free Staters’: anti-republican anti-populism in contemporary Irish political discourse2
The potential of eye tracking data to strengthen CDA’ explanatory power: the case of multimodal critical discourse analysis of advertising persuasion2
The Greek left-wing and the ‘Jewish problem’: analysing antizionism and antisemitism as forms of soft hate speech1
The discursive construction of gender and agency in the linguistic landscape of Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum campaign1
Correction1
How to be a woman (in politics): constructions of gender in responses to Giorgia Meloni’s Instagram Posts1
Recovery rhetoric: a critical discourse analysis of substance use recovery1
Hierarchies among intertextual references: reading Reggaeton Ilustrado ’s digital humour through the colonial matrix of power1
Stop family destruction!: ideologies concerning family destruction metaphors in same-sex marriage debates1
Responding to questions at press conferences: confrontational maneuvering by Chinese spokespersons1
Preserving choice: weaving femininity and autonomy through egg freezing discourse on Xiaohongshu1
Affective intensities of polarization: the making of the Islamist/secularist divide through articulations of news media in Turkey1
Sportswomen under the Chinese male gaze: A feminist critical discourse analysis1
Intensifying resistance through complexification: a positive discourse analysis of the portrayal of Amazighs in a selected Moroccan EFL textbook1
A critical discourse analysis of Geert Wilders’ pro-Israelism1
Examining gendered discourses from an African locale: towards an intrasectional feminist critical discourse analysis1
‘Sorry, You're Not A Winner’: considering critical relativism, competing interests and lateral power struggle in ethical critique1
Where the hate lies in soft hate speech: the argumentative potential in hostile public spheres1
Discourse and ideologies of the radical right1
Hegemony and the politics of labour: towards a discourse theory of value in contemporary capitalism1
Discursive bridges: a socio-hermeneutical analysis of meaning shifts1
Ten Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics: Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis1
The rise of large language models: challenges for Critical Discourse Studies1
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