OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Discourse Studies is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘It's OK to be white’: the discursive construction of victimhood, ‘anti-white racism’ and calculated ambivalence in Australia	23
Digital meaning-making across content and practice in social media critical discourse studies	20
‘Lose weight, save the NHS’: Discourses of obesity in press coverage of COVID-19	19
A war or merely friction? Examining news reports on the current Sino-U.S. trade dispute in The New York Times and China Daily	18
From ‘echo chambers’ to ‘chaos chambers’: discursive coherence and contradiction in the #MeToo Twitter feed	18
Introducing ‘Narrative in Critical Discourse Studies’	17
‘“Narrative!”I can’t hear that anymore’. A linguistic critique of an overstretched umbrella term in cultural and social science studies, discussed with the example of the discourse on cl	16
Discourses of celebrities on Instagram: digital femininity, self-representation and hate speech	15
Legitimation in government social media communication: the case of the Brexit department	14
Proximization, prosumption and salience in digital discourse: on the interface of social media communicative dynamics and the spread of populist ideologies	14
Connoting a neoliberal and entrepreneurial discourse of science through infographics and integrated design: the case of ‘functional’ healthy drinks	13
Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press	12
Social media discourses of feminist protest from the Arab Levant: digital mirroring and transregional dialogue	12
Discourse patterns used by extremist Salafists on Facebook: identifying potential triggers to cognitive biases in radicalized content	11
Making sense of nationalism manifested in interpreted texts at ‘Summer Davos’ in China	11
The law and critical discourse studies	10
Sportswomen under the Chinese male gaze: A feminist critical discourse analysis	10
Doxxing as discursive action in a social movement	10
Psycho-discursive constructions of narrative in archetypal storytelling: a discourse-mythological approach	10
Social media and terrorism discourse: the Islamic State’s (IS) social media discursive content and practices	8
Self-legitimation and other-delegitimation in the internet radio speeches of the supreme leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra	8
Centering marginalized voices: a discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter	8
Women’s online advocacy campaigns for political participation in Nigeria and Ghana	7
The transgressive rhetoric of standup comedy in China	7
Saying ‘Criminality’, meaning ‘immigration’? Proxy discourses and public implicatures in the normalisation of the politics of exclusion	7

Crime or culture? Representations of chemsex in the British press and magazines aimed at GBTQ+ men	7
Ambiguity, responsibility and political action in the UK daily COVID-19 briefings	6
How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	6
‘It’s time we invested in stronger borders’: media representations of refugees crossing the English Channel by boat	6
Investigating emancipatory discourses in action: The need for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture	6
‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: a transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism	5
‘New’ Dutch Civic Integration: learning ‘Spontaneous Compliance’ to address inherent difference	5
Who owns “democracy”? The role of populism in the discursive struggle over the signifier “democracy” in Catalonia and Spain	5
‘The people want …: ’ the populist specter in the Tunisian President’s inaugural speech	5
A politics of reminding: Khoisan resurgence and environmental justice in South Africa’s Sarah Baartman district	5
Harnessing the potential of transmedia narratives for critical multimodal literacy	5
Discourses of collective remembering: contestation, politics, affect	4
Humiliating and dividing the nation in the British pro-Brexit press: a corpus-assisted analysis	4
Negotiating the boundaries of the politically sayable: populist radical right talk scandals in the German media	4
‘A threat to national unity, an emancipator’: discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities	4
Race, religion, law: an intertextual micro-genealogy of ‘stirring up hatred’ provisions in England and Wales	4
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
The spatial, networked and embodied agency of social media: a critical discourse perspective on Banksy’s political expression	4
Textbooks as ‘Neoliberal artifacts’: a critical study of knowledge-making in ELT industry	4
Settler colonialism and therapeutic discourses on the past: a response to Burnett et al.’s ‘a politics of reminding’	4
Visitors’ discursive responses to hegemonic and alternative museum narratives: a case study of Le Modèle Noir	4
Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis	4
‘The rapist is you’: semiotics and regional recontextualizations of the feminist protest ‘a rapist in your way’ in Latin America	4
‘Real men score’: masculinity in contemporary advertising discourse	3
Positioning students as consumers and entrepreneurs: student service materials on a Hong Kong university campus	3
Modeling public perception in times of crisis: discursive strategies in Trump’s COVID-19 discourse	3
Unfit and cast aside: portrayals of mothering with intellectual disability in Québec court reports	3
Affective intensities of polarization: the making of the Islamist/secularist divide through articulations of news media in Turkey	3
Negotiating climate change in public discourse: insights from critical discourse studies	3
‘Same, same but different’: representations of Chinese mainland and Hong Kong people in the press in post-1997 Hong Kong	3
‘I had to work through what people would think of me’: negotiating ‘problematic single motherhood’ as a solo or single adoptive mum	3
Responsibility for justice in action: commemoration, affect and politics atIl Memoriale della Shoahin Milan	3
Negotiating the limits of teacher agency: constructed constraints vs. capacity to act in preservice teachers’ descriptions of teaching emergent bilingual learners	3
The hybrid discourse of the ‘European Green Deal’: road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly	3
An ideological square analysis of the podcast discourse in “Chinese Dreams” of the BBC World Service	3
Between autonomy and representation: toward a post-foundational discourse analytic framework for the study of horizontality and verticality	3
Nanjing Massacre in Chinese and Japanese history textbooks: transitivity and Appraisal	3
Participation and deliberative discourse on social media – Wikipedia talk pages as transnational public spheres?	3
The effect of media populism on racist discourse in New Zealand	3
Economic imaginaries andbeyond. A cultural political economy perspective on the League party	3