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How emoji make meaning and enact ambient affiliation: a social semiotic account of emoji-text relations in TikTok comments Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Michele Zappavigna, Lorenzo Logi
This paper explores how emoji make meaning with language in TikTok comments. It offers a social semiotic account which models emoji-text relations as a system of convergence, involving three kinds ...
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The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 An Ran
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An introduction to language and social justice: what is, what has been, and what could be Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Abutaleb Iranmehr
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Harnessing comics as minoritarian interventions in the representation of conflicts and their everyday: the case of Vanni and Welcome to the New World Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Shriya Raina
This essay studies the representation of the everyday of geopolitical conflicts in Vanni and Welcome to the New World. The graphic novels are situated in war-torn Sri Lanka and Syria, respectively,...
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Paratextual mediation and (re)framed narratives: a case study of Ganxiao liuji Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Xiaoyan Tan
Translation is not merely a textual transformation but involves paratextual mediation. Linking Genette's notion of paratext to Baker's narrative theory, this paper examines Yang Jiang's Ganxiao liu...
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(Non) representation and normalized losses of the other in pro-migrant media texts: what is at stake in migrant visibility? Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Maria Lymperi, Argiris Archakis
This article investigates whether and how media texts that explicitly support migrants and their settlement in Greece may echo racist assumptions. Our main claim is that the texts examined here ove...
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Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Nurit Peled-Elhanan
The paper examines the visual and verbal representation of the Holocaust in Israeli schoolbooks. The relations between images and texts or captions are revealed through a multimodal discourse analy...
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Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Maria Sabaté-Dalmau
Catalonia has become a rich site to investigate minorised-language identity, with the reemergence of a movement calling for independence. Our case study analyses how pro-/anti-secessionist protests...
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Semiotics for Latour, Latour for semiotics. Tracing a network of relations across disciplinary boundaries Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Leonardo Balestri
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Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Mei Teng, Shuo Wu
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“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–2022 Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Michał Krzyżanowski, Hugo Ekström
The article explores key trajectories of Swedish press discourse on immigration in the period 2010–2022 which covers a variety of socio-economic and political developments including parliamentary e...
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What does it mean to redefine prosperity? A theory of definition for pathways to sustainable futures Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Nikolay Mintchev
There is a growing body of literature arguing that we need to redefine prosperity – to move away from prosperity as economic wealth, and towards a new definition as quality of life for people and p...
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Fire, police cars and barricade tape: exploring visual securitisation in Sweden Democrats’ Instagram posts Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Salma Bouchafra
With the growing popularity of visual-centred social media, authoritarian populist parties are provided with more platforms and devices to position themselves as key securitising actors by engaging...
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A panorama of linguistic landscape studies Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Rui Guo
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(Re)framing online news through paratexts: a multisemiotic analysis of The New York Times in Chinese Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Yuan Ping, Kefei Wang
This study employs a multisemiotic approach to analyse various paratextual framing devices in online news texts, including news headlines, photographs and captions, as well as section names. Transl...
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Intercultural competence and pragmatics Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Yunyun Zhou, Hua Tan
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Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Yuchen Liu, Xuekun Liu
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Breakdown of knowledge authority: semiotic analysis of an anti-vax conspiracy theory influencer on Twitter Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Heidi Campana Piva
Anti-vax conspiracy theories are major drivers of “vaccine hesitancy”, a top-10 threat to global health according to the WHO. This paper investigates the interpretative mechanisms and discursive co...
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“The trash is ruining the picture”: social media, sustainability, and the semiotics of pristine nature Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Sean P. Smith
Images of improperly-discarded waste offer a case for examining the broader politics of “pristine nature.” As a global visual register in which the environment is depicted without human impact, an ...
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Econarrative: ethics, ecology, and the search for new narratives to live by Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Zirui Xiong
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The power of algorithms and the rise of experience economy: “the digital mind. semiotic studies of digital culture” Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Hristina Ambareva
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Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: theory and application Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Faksi Rana Al-Kahfi, Galang Adhitia Mahardhika, Muhammad Fardiansyah Irwan, Astri Winandari Berlin
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The development of L2 interactional competence: a multimodal study of complaining in French interactions Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Zhen Li, Guodong Yu
Interactional competence is crucial for language acquisition but has been overlooked in policy and language education, leading to a lack of research on longitudinal trajectories in L2 IC developmen...
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Kongish: translanguaging and the commodification of an urban dialect Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Junjie Ma
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“Ps. I’ll find you.” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Sol Rojas-Lizana
In 2020, the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile started the digital project Epistolario de la memoria, which aggregates letters addressed to victims of the civic-military dictatorship (1973...
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“(scream)(wriggle)(dismally crawl)” – parentheses as semiotic resources for translanguaging and trans-semiotic practices on Chinese micro-blogging Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Yi Zhang, Luoxiangyu Zhang, Wei Ren, Yuanbo Liu
While extensive research has explored translanguaging practices online in relation to named languages, written signs, such as punctuation, are under-researched despite their creative, multifunction...
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Discourses that undermine union movements: a multimodal analysis of union-busting videos Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Theresa Catalano, Julia Schleck
Labor unions in the United States have experienced decades of decline, but recent years have seen a rebirth of union campaigns and successes. Because unions are once again becoming a threat to larg...
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Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Haoda Feng, Gang Zeng
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Interfacing the semiosis of affect and crowdsourced spatialities in the context of post-panoptic surveillance. A case study of Safecity app Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Rania Magdi Fawzy
The current study investigates the intersection between crowdsourcing apps and postdigital affective polarization of online communities as manifested in the mobile app Safecity. The main thesis is ...
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Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia” Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Emma Putland, Chris Chikodzore-Paterson, Gavin Brookes
This article examines the ideologies reproduced in AI-generated images, focusing in particular on representations of dementia. Utilising Stable Diffusion version 1.4, a text-to-image AI model, we c...
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Translation, adaptation and digital media Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Zilong Zhong
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Conducting sentiment analysis Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Yaru Zhao
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New research on cohesion and coherence in linguistics Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Lu Li, Junqin Huang
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Correction Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-26
Published in Social Semiotics (Vol. 33, No. 5, 2023)
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Correction Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-26
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Semiotic analysis of university prospectuses in Pakistan: marketization, identity, and power dynamics Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Ambreen Shahnaz, Nazia Suleman
Inspired by neoliberalism, the marketization of higher education is being increasingly used by universities to sustain and grow amid intense competition and shrinking public funding. This paper pre...
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Discourse, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic: a multimodal discourse analysis approach Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Xi Wang, Xinru Chen
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Language ideologies in a Finnish university student union’s Facebook communication practices Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Mai Shirahata, Malgorzata Lahti, Marko Siitonen
This paper examines language ideologies – sets of normative beliefs about language and its speakers – in a Finnish university student union’s Facebook communication practices. Prior research has di...
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Fueling divisions: a multimodal analysis of Canadian petro-nationalism in the social media discourse of “oil sands strong” Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Weiqi Tian, Jingshen Ge
This research conducts a multimodal critical discourse analysis of social media posts by Oil Sands Strong (OSS), examining their role in advocating for resource extraction through the use of “petro...
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Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Min Xie, Wen Li
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Guided to Guider: the “∼ed” and “∼er” roles in professional development materials for guided Reading Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Maria Nicholas, David Kellogg
ABSTRACT This paper takes a social semiotic, Bernsteinian, view of the language used to describe the Guided Reading teaching strategy in Professional Development session materials for in-service teachers in Australia. We use categories from Michael Halliday’s systemic-functional grammar and Ruqaiya Hasan’s stylistics to demonstrate a radical discontinuity between content and form. While the content
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The geosemiotics of ethno-political graffiti in Kosovo: polyphony, emplacement and heteroglossia Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Uranela Demaj, Mieke Vandenbroucke
ABSTRACT This article examines the nature of graffiti semiotics in the public space of Kosovo’s capital Pristina. By adopting a perspective on graffiti as a historically situated and semiotic practice, we identify distinct ethno-political voices, each relying on highly multimodal-linguistic resources to convey their respective political messages to a wider audience. The corpus was gathered during a
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Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Philippa Carr, Simon Goodman, Adam Jowett, Jackie Abell
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen the proliferation of television broadcasts that focus on the lavish lifestyles and consumption of “rich kids.” However, flaunting inherited wealth is an accountable activity within UK society that claims to be based on meritocratic values. Whilst wealthy individuals are a source of public spectatorship, they are also attributed with contributing to economic inequality
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Analyzing the meaning of social images during pandemic lockdown Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Juan R. Coca, Claudio J. Rodríguez H, Juan A. Roche-Cárcel, Alberto Soto-Sánchez
ABSTRACT Our paper focuses on the semiotic analysis of images as shot by photojournalists. The photographs we analyze were taken in two different cities in Spain during a period of strict enclosure. For the analysis, we asked photojournalists to select several images. Once we received a selection, we analyzed the content of the images and categorized them. We processed the resulting information through
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Investigating the relation between mind and semiotic systems: a review Linguistic relativity today Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Hongying Xu
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The moral metaphor system: a conceptual metaphor approach Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Jie Huang
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Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 He He, Bing Xiong
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Corpus-assisted Ecolinguistics Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Zirui Xiong
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Language choice and identity in the linguistic landscape of Barcelona Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Marguerite Morlan, Steven Byrne
ABSTRACT The present research examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of two demographically distinct neighborhoods in Barcelona: Vila de Gràcia and El Barri Gòtic. The aim of this study is to analyze how language choice among Catalan, Castilian, and English indexes collective and individual aspects of identity in written messages on public walls. All transgressive artifacts in both communities were
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Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Kristian Bankov
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Misrepresenting autism in university promotional videos advocating robot therapy: a multimodal critical discourse analysis Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Ian Roderick
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical account of the way in which university marketing, public communication of science, and crisis narratives about autism are made to intersect in three promotional videos. The videos highlight research conducted at one UK and two US universities and showcase using social robots to diagnose and treat autistic children. The paper begins by contextualizing how a problematic
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Making meaning of an artwork: promoting expression of thoughts through artwork for patients with eating disorders Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Kristina Timonen
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to demonstrate how art could be connected to therapeutic treatment processes. The intervention took place between 2020 and 2021 at an eating disorder (ED) unit in Vaasa Central Hospital, Finland. Eating disorder patients and reference group saw an art video by artist Johanna Ketola depicting nature and mystical features. Participants then discussed thoughts stimulated
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Making sense of platform-mediated residences in tourist destinations. A semiotic analysis of the controversy around home sharing in Barcelona Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Elsa Soro, Ricard Espelt, Mayo Fuster Morell
ABSTRACT In 2021, the city of Barcelona made the controversial decision to prohibit short-term rentals of private rooms to tourists. The ban renewed the heated debate around the uses and functions of private property in the context of the contemporary tourist city, where the market of tourist accommodation has been significantly impacted by players such as Airbnb. This study aims to give an account
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Corruption, language and popular agency Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Federico Bellentani
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Membership categorization devices in courtroom opening and closing speeches Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Krisda Chaemsaithong
ABSTRACT Through the lens of Membership Categorization Analysis, this study explicates the process of discursive categorization in courtroom opening and closing statements, focusing on the use of mundane categories as well as associated activities to negotiate the legal facticity of a criminal offense. Based on the official transcripts of a high-profile Anglo-American trial, the study reveals that
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The social semiotics of Switzerland's far right: how campaign posters by the Swiss National Party communicate across different domains Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Claudio Scarvaglieri, Martin Luginbühl
This contribution investigates the campaign posters of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) in four communication domains: in public space, in the mass media, their impact on other political a...
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A reappraisal of the marketing offerings: consumer experience from the perspective of post-structural semiotics Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Alain Perusset
Since the mid-1980s, “experience” has become a central object of reflection for marketing as well as for semiotics, to the extent that meaning is always created during an experience. However, Engli...
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Semiotic representations of neoliberal dystopia in Black Mirror Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Marissa K. L. E, Sabine Tan
Neoliberalism as phenomenon has been noted for its pervasiveness, persistence and negative impact in society. The uncertainty, pessimism and tension associated with neoliberal societies have found ...
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In search of the social in social semiotics: a historical perspective Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Lauren Alex O’Hagan
This paper reflects on the importance of the social to the analysis of historical multimodal texts and how some concepts and analytical tools from SFL can prevent researchers from getting the most ...
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Romaphobia in the UK Right-Wing Press: racist and populist discourse during the Brexit referendum Social Semiotics (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Petre Breazu, Aidan McGarry
ABSTRACT This article investigates contemporary expressions of racism toward Roma in the context of growing populism in the UK. We focus on how and why Romaphobia becomes widespread in times of socio-political crises, especially during the 2016 referendum when the UK voted to leave the European Union. Drawing on content analysis and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, we provide an in-depth account