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Reading ‘between the lines’: How implicit language helps liberal media survive in authoritarian regimes. The Kommersant Telegram posts case study Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Alexey Tymbay
This case study demonstrates identification, explicitation, and validation of the implicatures found in the Kommersant (Russia) Telegram channel posts. It explores the primary reasons for Kommersant’s implicature use and the language means employed for the creation of the implicature. The contributors to the Kommersant Telegram channel use irony/sarcasm, creative neologisms, wordplay, metaphors, and
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Credibility in corporate testimonial videos: Addressed from a combined interactional and multimodal semiotic perspective Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Elisabeth Dalby Kristiansen, Nina Nørgaard
The article reports a study of corporate testimonial videos from a Danish tech SME. The aim of the study is to show how combining Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA) and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) may provide new insight into the persuasive appeal of corporate testimonial videos. The study uses EMCA to demonstrate how participants interactionally construct a position
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Book review: Hazel Price and Dan McIntyre (eds), Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Aulia Putri Meidina, Ni Komang Diah Restu Swari, Arni Arta Rahayu
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Book review: Andreas Musolff, Ruth Breeze, Kayo Kondo and Sara Vilar-Lluch (eds), Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Alif Lam Mim Huda, Yusuf Mukasyafah Rizqi Rahman, Hamidah Mulyani
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Book review: Gwen Bouvier and Joel Rasmussen, Qualitative Research Using Social Media Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Weiyi Li, Changpeng Huan
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Book review: Gordon C Chang, Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Frederick Erickson
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Collaboration, reinvented tools and specialist knowledge: Communication professionals’ experiences of global health crisis management Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Mats Landqvist, Mona Blåsjö
Communication professionals have a paramount role in global crisis. What did they learn during the covid pandemic that could be used in future global crisis? The aim of this article is to identify and analyze strategy changes among communicators in municipalities and how their conceptions of communicated knowledge transformed during the pandemic. Retrospective interviews and textual material are analyzed
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Violent incongruencies: Analyzing The New York Times’s discourse on George Floyd demonstrations and the Capitol riot Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Brown James
American news media outlets have a storied past of delegitimizing protest movements, particularly through violence. However, recent literature has suggested news media outlets in America are slowly beginning to pull away from this trend. Moreover, recent protest history has several memorable examples of this attempted course correction, such as CNN’s viral ‘fiery but mostly peaceful’ headline during
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COVID-19 and figures of blame: Discursive representations of blame for COVID-19 and its impacts in UK online news Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jamie Matthews, Farzeen Heesambee
As publics have attempted to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis and its longer-term impacts there has been an inevitable search for blame. Emergent research on the attribution of blame has focussed exclusively on the initial outbreak, with insufficient attention paid to how countries have responded to the pandemic. Our study adopts a longitudinal approach, examining the figures of blame that emerged
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Coping with gender-critical voices from within: A sociocognitive approach to Sussex’s Twitter (X) crisis responses Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Altman Yuzhu Peng, Thomas William Whyke, Feng Gu
Drawing on critical discourse studies (CDS), this article foregrounds how British higher education institutions respond to gender-critical controversies sparked by their staff members. Adopting Teun van Dijk’s sociocognitive approach, we analyse the University of Sussex’s crisis responses on Twitter (known as X today) concerning de-platforming campaigns against Kathleen Stock. The analysis unpacks
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From compensation to competition: The impact of graphicons on language use in a Chinese context Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Yiqiong Zhang, Susan C Herring, Rongle Tan, Qingwen Zhang, Dingxu Shi
This study examines the impact of graphicons (emoticons, emojis, and stickers) on the use of sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Chinese based on a 13-year longitudinal corpus of 941,020 comments po...
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Multimodal intertextuality and persuasion in advertising discourse Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Chunyan Xing, Dezheng (William) Feng
This paper provides an integrated social semiotic framework for analyzing intertextuality in multimodal advertising discourse. Following the distinction between manifest intertextuality and interdi...
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Twitter-based analysis of anti-refugee discourses in Türkiye Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Fahri Yılmaz, Tugay Elmas, Betil Eröz
As the number of refugees in Türkiye continues to grow, the constructed discourse of welcoming refugees with open arms has weakened, transforming the image of refugees from ‘guests’ to ‘threats’. S...
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Comparative discourse analysis of Kazakhstani universities’ organisational identity Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Zhansaya Tatyyeva, Aliya Zagidullina
The present study explored the discourses adopted by the Kazakhstani universities to represent their organisational identity. It analysed the information of 30 Kazakhstani universities as found in ...
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A critical discourse analysis of Al Jazeera’s online coverage of the war in Yemen before and after the 5 June 2017 Gulf crisis Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Monther Alluhaidah
In this study, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was utilised to examine the Al Jazeera Arabic news website with respect to its reports on the social actors in the Yemen war, particularly the KSA, ...
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‘Help us better understand our changing climate’: Exploring the discourse of Citizen Science Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Carmen Pérez-Llantada
In this article I claim that online Citizen Science projects are exemplars of a digital genre that acts as text and medium. To support this claim I apply a previously proposed two-dimensional genre...
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Spinning interactional plates: Managing multicommunication behind the screen of Facebook Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Hannah Ditchfield
Multicommunication is a form of multitasking that involves engaging in two or more interactional activities simultaneously. Technological features of mediated communication make multicommunication ...
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How cosmetic apps fragmentise and metricise the female face: A multimodal critical discourse analysis Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Göran Eriksson, Lame Maatla Kenalemang
In the present time, we see a rapid development of so-called cosmetic apps promoted by prominent cosmetic companies. Although there is an emerging market for male consumers, these apps are marketed...
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A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the representation of Syrian refugees in Canadian newspapers Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Nasim Omidian Sijani
This paper examines the representation of Syrian refugees in the Canadian press, from December 2015 to December 2017, in four English-language major newspapers. Using methods of Corpus Linguistics ...
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‘Joking aside’ The power of rejections in humour Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Hanna Söderlund
Response is an effective tool for exercising power in humour, since it can make a person seem funny. In the same way, the lack of response can make a person seem unfunny. In this article I argue th...
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Relationship initiation and formation in post-match Tinder chat conversations Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Carles Roca-Cuberes, Will Gibson, Michael Mora-Rodriguez
This article uses conversation analysis to investigate the communicative practices of unacquainted, matched Tinder users in chat conversations, in the process of developing a potential romantic rel...
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Discursive dynamics and local contexts on Twitter: The refugee crisis in Europe Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Thierry Warin, Aleksandar Stojkov
In today’s hybrid media environment, traditional news organizations extend their presence on Online Social Networks (OSNs) and compete with political and civil society organizations, public figures...
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How US judges manage a dilemma narrating their careers Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Karen Tracy
In the United States the law espouses contrary principles about the relationship between identity categories, such as race and gender, and justice. On the one hand, a more representative judiciary ...
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Alcoholic herbal sex drinks and the construction of masculinities in Nigeria Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Daniel Oluwafemi Ajayi
Extant works on masculinities have focused on their differential patterns in Nigeria. However, none of these studies has examined how masculinities are constructed through the metaphorical represen...
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‘Repetition without change?’: A critical discourse analysis of selected ZANU-PF advertisements for the July 2013 and July 2018 elections Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Albert Chibuwe, Allen Munoriyarwa
Drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and anchored on CDA theory, we argue that as the ruling party’s governance record increasingly came under scrutiny in two election cycles researched, t...
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The development of a multidimensional meaning of tax: From unfair tax to fair Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Axel Hilling, Niklas Sandell, Amanda Sonnerfeldt, Anders Vilhelmsson
Historically, companies have communicated taxes as a burden, as the benefits provided by governments are not perceived to be in proportion to their payments. With sustainable development becoming c...
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‘I’m actually shocked of how rude you are!’ Communication challenges in webchat-based customer service Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Erika Darics, Jane Lockwood
Computer-mediated webchat is fast replacing voice support in customer service. Whilst previous studies have explored how communication breaks down in customer service voice exchange in off-shored/o...
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Journalistic evaluation in financial news Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Lea Vindvad Hansen, Irene Pollach, Margit Malmmose
The business and financial press plays an important role for capital markets, as it routinely reports on the financial results of large companies, thereby influencing how investors perceive the eco...
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A study on the discourse strategy of telecommunication fraud based on proximization theory Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Hong Ye, Kexin Chen
Drawing on the proximization theory, this study investigated the characteristics and expected effects of proximization strategies in the discourse of telecommunication fraud through the textual ana...
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The voice of the work to be made: Abductive communication and creativity Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Thomas Martine, François Cooren
While artists often present their works as communicating to and through them, this idea has rarely been taken seriously, nor empirically studied from a communicational perspective. Building upon th...
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How sajiao (playing cute) wins forgiveness: The effectiveness of emojis in rebuilding trust through apology Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Kun Yang
Prior studies have found that emojis can contribute to rebuilding customers’ trust when after-sale staff apologize to them, but studies on the different types of emojis and their different levels o...
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The spatial organization of hybrid Scrum meetings: A multimodal conversation analysis study Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Safinaz Büyükgüzel, Ufuk Balaman
Bridging the physical distance between remote locations, video mediated interaction has long been an integral part of workplace activities. Hybrid meetings are instances of video-mediated interacti...
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The virtual mother: Mumsnet and the emergence of new forms of ‘good mothering’ online Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Lucy Bailey
Whilst previous research into mothering on social media has focused on representations of intensive mothering ideology, this paper argues that social media are fundamentally changing mothering disc...
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Multimodal signals of high commitment in expert-to-expert contexts Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Laura Vincze, Isabella Poggi
The paper merges research in multimodality with studies in epistemics and discourse analysis, and analyses the ways in which expert speakers multimodally display their knowledge and their degree of...
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Cooperation and demotion: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of Aboriginal people(s) in Australian print news Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Carly Bray
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander activists and researchers agree that print media discourses surrounding First Nations people(s) in Australia remain negative and stereotypical. However, how th...
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Ukrainian refugees in Polish press Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Natalia Zawadzka-Paluektau
The paper examines the representations of Ukrainian refugees in Polish press at the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion. Using corpus linguistics methods (namely, collocation analysis) it shows ...
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Discourses about independence: A corpus-based analysis of discourse prosodies in Spanish and Catalan newspapers Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Marcello Giugliano
The present study is a corpus-assisted analysis of discourses on the Catalan movement of independence in the Catalan and Spanish press. A referendum for Catalan independence was held on 1 October 2...
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A comparative investigation of metadiscursive clarifying devices in the abortion discourse of the U.S. Supreme Court Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-07-10 Jamie McKeown
Based on previous research that identified metadiscursive clarifiers as a means of discursive control and subversion, this study investigates the use of the devices in the abortion discourse of the...
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Resisting anti-democratic values with misogynistic abuse against a Chilean right-wing politician on Twitter: The #CamilaPeluche incident Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Daniela Silva-Paredes, Daniela Ibarra Herrera
This paper explores abuse received by a Chilean right-wing female politician in tweets produced with the #CamilaPeluche hashtag, which aimed to shame her sexually. The data considers the period of ...
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Public discourse on refugees in social media: ‘Refugees Welcome in Lithuania’ Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Rūta Sutkutė
Social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, are starting to become places where people present and evaluate various events in the world such as terrorist attacks in London, Barcelona, Berl...
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Persuasive attack on President Donald Trump President Vladimir Putin Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 William L Benoit
The U.S. House of Representatives impeached American President Donald Trump for a second time in 2021. Trump was accused of fomenting an insurrection against the democracy he was sworn to protect, one of the most serious accusations that could be made against a president. In 2022 President Joe Biden, and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken, declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal
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More than just an immigrant: The semantic patterns of (im)migrant/predicate-pairings in news stories about Mexican and Central American (im)migrants to the USA. A corpus-assisted discourse study Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Margrete Dyvik Cardona
In this paper we explore how some of the largest US-newspapers linguistically frame immigrants to the USA in articles about Mexican and Central American immigrants. Specifically, it is a corpus-assisted discourse study which examines the frequency of different semantic predicate-types with (im)migrant subjects and (im)migrant by-agents in the quest for underlying positive or negative biases. We wish
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The case of Mesut Özil: A symbol of (non-) integration? An analysis of German print media discourses on integration Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Martina Möllering, Eva Schmidt
This paper examines how German media discourses reflect debates around integration, based on a newspaper corpus spanning the period 2008–2018. Considering these discourses, our research interest is focussed on how integration is constructed as a responsibility of those who are expected to integrate into society. To analyze how media might play a role in reproducing essentialist constructions of difference
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Manipulative use of political headlines in western and Russian online sources Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Alexey A Tymbay
The research identifies the amount of headline/article discrepancies in the corpora of western (the USA, the UK) and Russian online articles on sensitive political topics. A quarter of the western headlines and nearly half of the Russian headlines distort the publications they introduce. Language means and manipulative strategies employed by different sides vary considerably. Extensive use of expressive
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Shaping the migrant: Semantic strategies to portray inward and outward migrants as social actors in the Arab press Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Marco Ammar, Pamela Murgia
The present work proposes to explore the discourse on migration in Arabic language media outlets. Present scientific literature in discourse analysis studies consistently analyzed discourses on migration and displayed the consistency of its features. In this paper, we will analyze how the Arabic discourse on migration in the Mediterranean area, either inbound or outbound, are realized and if they are
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Corpus-assisted analysis of legitimation strategies in government social media communication Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Sten Hansson, Ruth Page
When governments introduce controversial policies that many citizens disapprove of, officeholders increasingly use discursive legitimation strategies in their public communication to ward off blame. In this paper, we contribute to the study of blame avoidance in government social media communication by exploring how corpus-assisted discourse analysis helps to identify three types of common legitimations:
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Appealing to the senses: Approaching, sensing, and interacting at the market’s stall Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Lorenza Mondada
Sensorial access to products in shop encounters constitutes a crucial aspect of the appeal to customers. This paper examines sensorial engagements with products in a specific ecology (outdoor markets) with a focus on the possible (pre)opening of a shop encounter. When passers-by stroll from one stand to another, open to local findings, unplanned discoveries, and emergent opportunities to buy, they
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Special issue: The human touch – Analyzing online and offline shopping Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Gitte Rasmussen, Theo van Leeuwen
Today, many everyday social practices are digitally resemiotized (Iedema, 2001, 2003), adapted and transformed to suit online forms of communication. Increasingly, we date online, we socialize online, we look after our health and fitness online, we learn online, we work online – many other practices could be added. This trend has been underway for some time, but the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated
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A CiteSpace-based analysis of the application of Critical Discourse Analysis in news discourse Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Junfang Mu, Rui Ma
Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies has been applied in the study of news discourse for more than 30 years. In order to gain an in-depth understanding of the research in this field, this article uses the Web of Science core database to investigate their evolution and envision of the application of CDA/CDS in news discourse. Moreover, CiteSpace is employed to draw visualization maps of scientific knowledge
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Autistic sociality on Twitter: Enacted affordances and affiliation strategies Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Nelya Koteyko, Martine van Driel, John Vines
While there is an increasing focus on the use of online networks among autistic users, how autistic adults communicate in social networking sites remains underexplored. The article puts forward an argument for combining systematic observation of digital practices with analysis of evaluative language in order to provide a situated account of ‘autistic sociality’ in social media. Drawing on practice-based
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The same but different: A social semiotic analysis of website interactivity as discourse Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Søren Vigild Poulsen
The aim of this article is to explore website interactivity as discourse. Whereas the use of writing, images and layout in web design has been explored extensively, interactivity, that is, interactions between a web user and the website system, remains an underdeveloped area of discourse studies. To analyze interactivity as discourse, the article uses data from a research project on offline and online
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Reifying subjectivities: A critical discourse analysis of The Assam Tribune in Northeast India Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Suanmuanlian Tonsing
This article examines how colonial mentalities of subjectifying the people are reinstated in postcolonial Northeast India through the media. Using the Bodos as a context of the argument, the paper studies The Assam Tribune news headlines during the 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election. By studying both micro- and macrostructures of news headlines, using critical discourse analysis (CDA), the article
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The accountability of assessments in news interviews Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Abdulrahman Alroumi, El Mustapha Lahlali
This study examines the accountability of assessments in news interview settings on two Arabic networks. It employs a conversation analytic approach, in addition to quantitative analysis to identify the most adopted practices that show participants’ orientation to the accountability of assessments. The data consists of 28 hours of recorded interviews on the Arab television news networks, Aljazeera
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Biodiversity communication at the UN Summit 2020: Blending business and nature Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Matt Drury, Janet Fuller, Merel Keijzer
Biodiverse ecosystems play a key role in maintaining life on earth. In response to rapid declines in biodiversity throughout the world, the UN Biodiversity Summit 2020 brought together world leaders to discuss potential solutions. We draw on cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis and ecolinguistics in analysing the summit contributions. All speakers blended vocabulary from the fields of
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Managing higher education and neoliberal marketing discourses on Why Choose webpages for international students on Australian and British university websites Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-02-27 Zuocheng Zhang, Sabine Tan, Kay L. O’Halloran
International education is impacted by multiple discourses, in particular the discourse of university as an educational institution responsible for producing and curating knowledge for the public good, pursuing truth and transforming student life, and the neoliberal marketing discourse which portrays the university as a business organization providing a service for international students as customers/consumers
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Ode to a lost icon, David Jones Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Louise Ravelli
The dramatic impact of online shopping on ‘bricks and mortar’ retail is well known, and large, well-established department stores have been no exception. This article provides a case study of one department store, ‘David Jones’ in Sydney, which has been a long-term feature of the retail landscape in Australia. This store’s embodiment of glamour and service has come to define David Jones as an institution
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Question design and the construction of populist stances in political news interviews Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2021-12-04 Joanna Thornborrow, Mats Ekström, Marianna Patrona
This paper focuses on the relationship between journalism and right wing populist discourses in the context of broadcast news interviews. We analyse a specific feature of question design in which the public is invoked as a source of opinionated positions in adversarial interviewing. Analysing data from a range of socio-political contexts, we identify a shift in adversarial questioning along a scale
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Mock News: On the discourse of mocking in U.S. televised political discussions Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Christopher Jenks
American televised political shows are under tremendous pressure to succeed within an economic model that requires maximizing viewership. In response to this growing financial pressure, political shows invite contentious guests to discuss current events and issues. Such discussions are often confrontational, making a mockery of the responsibility the news industry has in disseminating information in
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‘To get or not to get vaccinated against COVID-19’: Saudi women, vaccine hesitancy, and framing effects Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Ahmed Abdel-Raheem, Reem Alkhammash
The use of language and images in the media may have a strong effect on people’s political cognition. In this regard, conspiracy theories and misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine can lead to reluctant uptake of the vaccine even among medical staff. In two experiments, this article tests the hypothesis that the public’s willingness to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus depends on the
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Argumentative dynamics in representations of migrants and refugees: Evidence from the Italian press during the ‘refugee crisis’ Discourse & Communication (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Dimitris Serafis, Carlo Raimondo, Stavros Assimakopoulos, Sara Greco, Andrea Rocci
The present paper analyses discursive representations and standpoint-arguments pairs, realized in articles of four mainstream Italian newspapers that report on migrants’ and refugees’ mobilization at the perceived peak of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ (2015–2017). We draw on the scholarly agenda of Critical Discourse Studies, employing tools from corpus linguistic perspectives, which allow us to generalize