Critical Discourse Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Discourse Studies is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conspiracy theory discourses Conspiracy theory discourses , edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2022, 509 pp., $20
Correction20
Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction Analysing politics and protest in digital popular culture: a multimodal introduction 19
What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis19
‘A threat to national unity, an emancipator’: discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities19
The representation of students in undergraduate prospectuses between 1998 and 2021: a diachronic corpus-assisted discourse study18
Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By17
Linguistic polyphony in UN speeches on climate change: an analysis of implicit argumentation15
The gains and losses of identity politics: the case of a social media social justice movement called stylelikeU14
Beyond the state as the ‘cold monster’: the importance of Russian alternative media in reconfiguring the hegemonic state discourse14
Unfit and cast aside: portrayals of mothering with intellectual disability in Québec court reports13
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 o13
National identity construction in Polish right-wing populist discourse13
A multimodal and ethnographic approach to textbook discourse13
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: a Hallidayan transitivity analysis13
The making, anchoring, and reassurance of ‘meaninglessness’: a critical discourse and modal affordance perspective on Chinese dance drama The Eternal Radio Waves12
Johnsonism and crisis management: a critical narrative analysis of the UK Prime Minister’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic11
Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles10
Negotiating the boundaries of the politically sayable: populist radical right talk scandals in the German media10
Redescribing fossil-fuel investments: how hegemony challengers ‘invert’ arguments in the Norwegian public discourse on climate risk10
A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of language ideologies in parliamentary debates about the recognition of Irish sign language9
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
‘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
Representations of gender in conspiracy theories: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis7
Is this discursive Yentling? A critical study of an RCMP officer’s interaction with a child sexual assault complainant7
How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development7
Language of conflict: discourses of the Ukrainian crisis6
The discursive construction of a new reality in Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech6
Correction6
Politics, ethnicity and the postcolonial nation: a critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean6
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
Soft hate speech and denial of racism at Euro 20206
Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law5
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
Negotiating the limits of teacher agency: constructed constraints vs. capacity to act in preservice teachers’ descriptions of teaching emergent bilingual learners5
The spatialisation of the political imagination: A political discourse analysis of space, fantasy and inter-communal conflict in Derry city5
Merging mobilities: querying knowledges, actions, and chronotopes in discourses of transcultural relationships from a North/South queer contact zone5
Phil Graham and axiological discourse analysis: after neoliberalism5
The hybrid discourse of the ‘European Green Deal’: road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly5
Rethinking ethics in AI policy: a method for synthesising Graham’s critical discourse analysis approaches and the philosophical study of valuation4
Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives 4
Positioning as discursive struggle for equity: a critical discourse analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of African countries4
‘Trapping my way up’: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Black Sherif’s songs4
The discursive construction of intersectionality in public policy implementation4
Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis4
Unravelling social media critical discourse studies (SM-CDS) – four approaches to studying social media through the critical lens4
Audience labour, discourse dynamics and challenges for analysis4
Twenty-first century discourses of American lynching4
‘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
‘The rapist is you’: semiotics and regional recontextualizations of the feminist protest ‘a rapist in your way’ in Latin America4
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