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The generic uniqueness of AI imagery: A critical approach to Dall-E as semiotic technology Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Gustav Westberg, Gunhild Kvåle
This article addresses a major change emerging in visual communication worldwide: The advent of generative AI imagery. Rooted in Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies and Semiotic Technology Studies, the article scrutinizes how AI-generated images exert power with regards to the meaning-making choices that are afforded by Open AI’s software for generating visuals: Dall-E3. Using prompts to generate
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Legitimizing Germany’s intervention policy: A discourse analysis of German media’s coverage on supplying weapons to Ukraine Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Guosong Shao, Xingxing Fan, Wanfa Zhang
Following the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Germany made a pivotal decision to supply heavy weaponry to Ukraine, marking a dramatic shift in its diplomatic stance toward Russia and breaking from its longstanding policy of abstaining from arming conflict zones. Rooted in proximization theory, this study delved into the coverage of the weapon provisions to Ukraine by leading German media outlets
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Book review: Marissa KLE, Discourses of Neoliberalism in Singapore’s Higher Education Context: Individualist and Communitarian Perspectives Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Christian W Chun
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The discursive role of the label “PC”: Analyzing changes in discriminatory language with the condemnation model Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Asaf Saadon
Labeling suggestions for language change as “PC” (“political correctness”) has been regarded by several prominent scholars as an effective tactic to oppose anti-discriminatory language campaigns. Expanding on that, I argue that by historicizing the label “PC” a public debate is revealed, whose results may not only harm so-called “PC” campaigns but also promote them. By combining tools from the fields
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Book Review: Claire Sisco King, Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Simone Driessen
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Discourses of leadership in the 2015–2023 Poland: From conflict and crisis, to a “smiling state” Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Piotr Cap
The present paper employs conceptual tools of critical cognitive discourse studies (discourse space research, metaphor analysis, proximization) to explore patterns of legitimization discourse used by top Polish political parties to claim state leadership in the years 2015–2023. The first part studies the discourse of Law & Justice, a far-right conservative party ruling Poland from October 2015 to October
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Eberhard Kranzmayer’s dovetailing with Nazism: His fascist years and the ‘One Standard German Axiom (OSGA)’ Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Stefan Dollinger
Eberhard Kranzmayer is arguably Austria’s most influential German dialectologist. The present article traces Kranzmayer’s Nazi years (NSDAP member number 8.061.495) in archival sources in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Klagenfurt and Berlin. This account reconstructs Kranzmayer’s role in the Nazi machine, especially his directorship of the ‘Institut für Kärntner Landesforschung’ [Institute for Carinthian Provincial
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Book Review: Sabine Tan and K. L. E. Marissa (eds), Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Ying Ye, Yanyan Chen
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Book Review: Teresa Oteíza, What to Remember, What to Teach: Human Rights Violations in Chile’s Recent Past and the Pedagogical Discourse of History Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Mary Schleppegrell, Sida Sun
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Book Review: I. Theodoropoulou and J. Tovar (eds), Research Companion to Language and Country Branding Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Raymund Vitorio
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Linguistic encoding of women’s agency in the German political discourse on abortion: A diachronic Critical Discourse Analysis Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Marie Irmer, Tanja Mortelmans, Reinhild Vandekerckhove
This research, rooted in the Critical Discourse Analysis framework, employs a mixed-methods approach to examine debates on abortion legislation in the German Bundestag. Focusing on the attribution of agency to women through semantic role assignment in the context of abortion procedures, the study utilises both qualitative analysis and quantitative data analysis techniques. Five debates spanning the
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Book review: Tara Coltman-Patel, (Mis)Representing Weight and Obesity in the British Press: Fear, Divisiveness, Shame and Stigma Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Cristina María Tello-Barbé
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Appified surveillance: TripAdvisor as a site for entextualized surveillant assemblage Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Rania Magdi Fawzy, Amir HY Salama
Locative media in the context of travel apps alter the representations of space. However, locative media technologies, more specifically travel apps, do not neutrally mediate travelscapes. Rather, they produce a complex surveillance apparatus in which users and the interface algorithm interactionally assembled. To this end, the study argues that travel apps stand as assemblage interventions which regulate
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Book review: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Malcolm Coulthard (eds.), Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Wenting Zhao
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The ‘pathologically state dependent’ versus ‘middle-aged ministers on mammoth salaries’: The legitimation contest over a 2013 austerity measure in the Republic of Ireland Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Stephen Gaffney
This paper provides a discourse analysis of the political and media debate surrounding a 2013 austerity measure that targeted unemployed young people in the Republic of Ireland. Applying Van Leeuwen’s ‘justificatory schema’ it reveals the legitimation of this measure relied on an ‘anti-welfare populist’ framing of the young unemployed as ‘welfare dependent’ and thus ‘undeserving’. Furthermore, this
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Neoliberalism, alternatives and (de)politicisation: Analysis of political discourse during the coronavirus crisis Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Lucie Němcová
This study denaturalises the prevailing belief that crises bolster neoliberalism. It contends that context matters deeply – particularly in the lead-up to elections – and that not all politicians advocate a neoliberal agenda. Furthermore, it uncovers the cyclical relationship between (de)politicisation and coronavirus crisis in Czechia. The research employs discursive historical approach and critical
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Book Review: Michael Farrelly, Discourse and Democracy. Critical Analysis of the Language of Government Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Hendrik Wagenaar
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ChatGPT-4 as a journalist: Whose perspectives is it reproducing? Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Petre Breazu, Napoleon Katson
The rapid emergence of generative AI models in the media sector demands a critical examination of the narratives these models produce, particularly in relation to sensitive topics, such as politics, racism, immigration, public health, gender and violence, among others. The ease with which generative AI can produce narratives on sensitive topics raises concerns about potential harms, such as amplifying
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Discursive pragmatics of justification in terrorist threat texts: Victim-blaming, denying, discrediting, legitimating, manipulating, and retaliation Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Awni Etaywe
This article explores the under-researched area of discursive tactics employed in terrorist threat texts that exploit moral values to constantly justify violence, fostering a ‘discourse of justification’, disaffiliation and conflict. Employing a discursive pragmatic analysis, it delves into the tactics of violent extremists associated with jihadism and far-right ideologies. Utilising the Appraisal
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‘The land of your fathers lieth in ruins’: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Nigeria’s 2023 pre- election crises-related internet memes Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Oluwayemisi Olusola Adebomi
This paper examines political protest in 40 purposively sampled internet memes circulated among Nigerian Facebook and WhatsApp users during the socio-political crises that engulfed the country ahead of the 2023 general elections. It explores the thematic preoccupation as well as the representation of participants and processes in the memes. Data were subjected to qualitative anaysis, and examined from
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Regular selves constructed through genres: A socio-cognitive approach to the study of positioning acts in Italian rectors’ inaugural speeches Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Danni Yu, Carla Vergaro
This study aims to provide a socio-cognitive approach to understand how the identity associated with a social category is constructed through regular positioning acts in conventionalized genres. Using genre-based positioning analysis, we analyzed a corpus of 30 Italian rectors’ inaugural speeches and identified six rhetorical moves regularly used in the genre, which revealed three underlying positionings
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Book review: Anesa P and Engberg J (eds.), The Digital (R)Evolution of Legal Discourse. New Genres, Media, and Linguistic Practices Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Silvia Cacchiani
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Mines, environment, questions, and disagreements: An analysis of the Turów coal mine disputes Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Tomáš Ondráček, Paweł Łupkowski, Mariusz Urbański
This is a story of costs of 114 million EUR incurred by stubbornness and unwillingness to cooperate, or, in other words, by sticking to dead ends in discussions where parties disagree strongly enough that they cannot find common ground. This paper proposes an approach to analyzing such cases of disagreement by employing a multidimensional model involving deontic, ontological, and ethical axes. We use
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Distinction within the ‘global north’? A Bourdieusian approach for analysing development discourse: The case of U.S. and E.U. relations with the Colombian state (2016–2022): A comparative analysis Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Hugo Corten
The paper conducts a comparative analysis of EU (91 texts) and US (93 texts) discourses concerning post-peace accord Colombia (late 2016 to mid-2022). Employing a Bourdieu-influenced methodology, our proposal aims to reconcile Post-Development theories with International Relations research. This innovative and multidimensional approach illuminates both discursive continuities within Global North while
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In/exclusion in fashion discourse: Are we in or out? Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Kateryna Pilyarchuk
This article analyzes the conceptual framing of inclusion and exclusion in fashion discourse, discussing how women are denied or restricted the access to the bounded space of fashion based on a part of their identity, be it their race, religion, disability, gender identification, body weight, or social class. It relies on the data corpus is 1061 Vogue articles, collected between July 2019 and June
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What if migrants were only people and relatives? Designations used to name people on the move in the Belgian media Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Valériane Mistiaen
This article focuses on denominations that are used to name people on the move in Belgian media discourse, but that are not specifically related to migration. It specifically studies the nominal syntagms formed with the noun people ( people on the run, people in need) and words of kinship ( mother, brother). A Discursive Semantics analysis implemented through Corpus Linguistics is run on a corpus of
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TikTok as a site of social protest in Iran’s Gen-Z uprising Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Tom Walsh
This paper argues that understanding the power of TikTok’s visual discourse is a crucial part of conceptualising the character, inspiration, and ambition of Iran’s Gen-Z-led uprising, both at home and across the diaspora. TikTok is a social media platform that depends on visuality. As such, it creates its own specific forms of messaging. This paper seeks to apply an innovative methodology of ‘Visual
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Book Review: Mike Savage, The Return of Inequality. Social Change and the Weight of the Past Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Sarah Kerr
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Fortifying the otherness in Montenegrin political discourse Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Sanja Ćetković
Following the 2020 elections, Montenegro has experienced an upsurge in ‘patriotic’ political activism, largely supported by the party that lost control of the parliament after three decades of uncontested rule. The continuity and uniqueness of the Montenegrin dual identity, where the categories of Serb and Montenegrin are not mutually exclusive, have been undermined by nationalist aspirations to portray
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Reporting assassinations in the Ethiopian press Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Berhanu Asfaw Weldemikael
This paper aims at analyzing the reporting of assassinations in the Ethiopian press from a discourse analytical perspective. The study attempted to answer three questions: 1) How are assassinations represented in the press? 2) What identities are set up for those involved in the assassinations? And, finally, how is meaning communicated in various discursive structures and communicative events? To that
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Book review: Rowan R Mackay, Multimodal Legitimation: Understanding and Analysing Political and Cultural Discourse Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ico Maly
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Sustaining or overcoming distance in representations of U.S. drone strikes Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 John Oddo, Cameron Mozafari, Alexandra Kirsch
This article examines how U.S. news reports sustain or overcome distance between domestic audiences and the victims of U.S. drone strikes overseas. More specifically, we explain how language is used to construe distance in two different news stories about the same drone strike, enacting different political and affective relationships between Americans and the Pakistani victims of U.S. war. Drawing
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Thinking different as an act of resistance: Reconceptualizing the German protests in the COVID-19 pandemic as an emergent counter-knowledge order Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Florian Primig
Massive anti-government protests erupted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. The crisis activated a potential for resistance that has been simmering under the impositions of late-modern knowledge society. Made salient by the pandemic conditions of sudden extreme reliance on scientific (non) knowledge, the corona protestors activated this potential for resistance and constructed their own counter-knowledge
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Book review: William Simpson, Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Alberto Bruzos
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Levelling, differentiation and structure of feeling: Address and interlocutor reference in Indonesian political interviews Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Dwi Noverini Djenar
This article discusses the ways in which participants in Indonesian political interviews address and refer to each other. Drawing on Raymond Williams’s concept ‘structures of feeling’, it proposes levelling and differentiation as mechanisms by which interview participants orient to a common feeling. Levelling and differentiation form a dialectical process characterised by tension that emerges through
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‘Never have they had any chance to spread their wings’: The construction of agency and socio-gender identity of Iranian women Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Ali Basarati, Reza Kazemian
This paper intends to study how the agency and social-gender identity of Iranian women are constructed through social-cultural-political structures. To this end, we conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with Iranian citizens, both men and women in the context of the Zan-Zendegi-Azadi (Women-Life-Freedom) movement in Iran. This study is grounded upon the main tenets of Positive Discourse Analysis
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Speech act of flaming: A pragmatic analysis of Twitter trolling in Pakistan Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Kiran Rabbani, Muhammad Asim Mehmood, Areej Areej
This study analyzed twitter trolling as a speech act of flaming. Trolling are deliberate disruptive practices of individuals or of particular group to sensationalize, commoditize, or intensify the reaction in online communication. Twitter API account was used to collect the tweets generated in Pakistan in English. The tweets were manually annotated with the help of a framework proposed by the Nitin
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Understanding emotions in hate speech: A methodology for discourse analysis Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Manuel Alcántara-Plá
In recent years, emotions have been receiving considerable attention in discourse analysis, identified as a defining feature of contemporary political discourses. However, most of the previous studies in the field have focused on the categorization of emotions and on how these are present in texts. This approach fails if we want to understand the mechanisms that underpin the relevance of emotions in
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The potential of creative uses of metonymy for climate protest Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Niamh A O’Dowd
This paper develops the notion of metonymy scenarios by exploring the social and cognitive dimensions of various creative uses of metonymy in a collection of digital banners created for the Global Climate Strike movement. The paper argues that the banners exploit existing metonymic relationships to activate dominant anthropocentric discourses in society, and to subvert them via processes of recontextualisation
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Toward integrative triangulation in discourse-historical approach Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Xuri Tang, Jing Li
This paper proposes a novel mode of Discourse-Historical Approach that features integrative triangulation of quantitative and qualitative analyses. The integrative triangulation is achieved by following a rule-bound and systematic discourse analytic procedure with rules derived from a diachronic discourse model that is constructed by explicating premises in the Discourse-Historical Approach, and by
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Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability. Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Elena Semino,Tara Coltman-Patel,William Dance,Zsófia Demjén,Claire Hardaker
Experimental studies have shown that narratives can be effective persuasive tools in addressing vaccine hesitancy, including regarding the vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is transmitted via sexual contact and can cause cervical cancer. This paper presents an analysis of a thread from the online parenting forum Mumsnet Talk where an initially undecided Original Poster is persuaded
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(De)legitimation of COVID-19 vaccination narratives on Facebook comments in Romania: Beyond the co-occurrence patterns of discursive strategies. Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Camelia Cmeciu
The postmodern medical paradigm has empowered online users in the (de)legitimating process of health-related topics. By employing a co-occurrence analysis, this study identifies the thematic patterns used by Romanian online users in their multimodal comments to the #storiesfromvaccination Facebook campaign run by the Romanian government. The findings show that the commenters assessed source credibility
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Dispatching First Responders: Language Practices and the Dispatcher’s Operational Role in Radio Encounters With Police Officers Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Steven E Clayman, Heidi Kevoe-Feldman
The delivery of emergency services is often contingent on social processes launched when someone calls to request help. While initial encounters between civilian callers and institutional call-take...
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‘[P]aying back to the community and to the British people’: Migration as transactional discourse in curated stories by UK charity organisations Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Sofia Lampropoulou, Paige Johnson
This study explores migrant identity construction in the curated stories of UK-based charity organisations. Drawing upon the paradigms of critical discourse analysis and narrative positioning, we d...
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‘Relatively civilized, relatively European’: Offence and online (de)normalization of media racism Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Thulfiqar Hussein Altahmazi, Raith Zeher Abid
The paper explores the interplay of offence, (de)normalization and moral conflict triggered by media racism. The paper is premised on the assumption that public interventions to moral transgression...
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Reacting to homophobia in a French online discussion: The fuzzy boundaries between heteronormativity and homophobia Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Simo Määttä, Samuel Vernet
This article analyzes how participants of an online discussion thread related to a YouTube video on homophobia expressed their opposition to homophobia. Both the video and the 403 posts in the disc...
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Misogyny in election discourse: Analysing the 2019 General Elections in India Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Aparna Vincent, Ria Kumari
This article examines misogynist comments on women politicians as part of the campaign discourse for the 2019 General Elections in India. The objective is to understand and critically examine the b...
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‘Language’, power and liberty: Discursive constructions of Ghanaian glossolalic speeches Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Samuel Gyasi Obeng, Seth Antwi Ofori
Unlike xenoglossia (xenolalia), which involves speaking a language one has neither learned nor could have acquired naturally, glossolalia (ecstatic speech) is the uttering of ‘incomprehensible’ str...
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Super, social, medical: Person-first and identity-first representations of disabled people in Australian newspapers, 2000–2019 Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Amanda Potts, Monika A Bednarek, Annmaree Watharow
This paper provides an interdisciplinary, corpus-based study of naming practices for disabled people in a collection of Australian newspaper articles spanning 20 years. We analyse head nouns, modif...
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Illegitimation of same-sex sexualities in news reports of selected Nigerian newspapers Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Olubunmi Funmi Oyebanji
Nigeria has stringent legislation against same-sex identified people and their supporters. Scholarly attention on same-sex relationships in the Nigerian context has mainly been on the legalistic an...
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If not a ‘macho’, then who did it? Social actors and the violence of Mexico Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Justyna Tomczak-Boczko
The article examines how the Mexicans represent in their discourse the perpetrators of everyday violence. Ethnographic data that I collected during in-depth interviews recorded in Guadalajara, Mexi...
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Why do we need a sociocognitive-CDA in hate speech studies? A corpus-based systematic review Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Ahmad Sirulhaq, Untung Yuwono, Abdul Muta’ali
This article is a systematic review of previous research on hate speech in discourse studies indexed in the Scopus database in the last five years, from 2015 to 2021. This review aims to map the ma...
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‘Like the virus just brings out the worst in people’: Positioning and identity in student narratives during the Covid-19 outbreak in Australia Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Anikó Hatoss
This paper illustrates how superdiverse youth negotiate their identity in everyday interactions during Australia’s Covid-19 outbreak. The discussion is based on oral narratives collected from class...
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An empirical study on court-related mediator’s discourse strategies from the perspective of proximization: Based on a workplace injury pretrial mediation case Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Xianbing Ke, Shiqian Zou
Court-related mediation is proceeded by verbal negotiation to shorten the distance of both parties involved for the final fulfillment of dispute resolution and social harmony. Based on the transcri...
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Kindness in British communities: Discursive practices of promoting kindness during the Covid pandemic Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Jilan Wei
This research adopts Critical Discourse Analysis as a perspective to explore how kindness was expressed and promoted in university communities and city communities from January to March in 2020 whe...
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A multimodal discourse study of selected COVID-19 online public health campaign texts in Nigeria Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Tunde Ope-Davies (Opeibi), Mojisola Shodipe
This paper discusses web-based public health discursive practices during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Nigeria. It utilises a multimodal discourse approach to explore how a combination of ...
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Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19 Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Umair Munir Hashmi, Sultan Saleh Ahmed Almekhlafy, Mohamed Elarabawy Hashem, Muhammad Shahzad, Hassam Ahmad Hashmi, Rabia Munir, Bibi Hajira Ali Asghar
This study attempts to generate new insights into the wide spread online and offline conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19. Twofold analytical lens consisted of narrative interrelations framework an...
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Whose Satan? U.S. mainstream media depictions of The Satanic Temple Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Ramón Escamilla
Based on a corpus of 40 U.S. news articles and transcribed news videos, I bring together techniques from Critical Discourse Analysis with concepts from cognitive linguistics in analyzing mainstream...
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Changing concepts of greenhouse gas expressions: Discursive specialization in parliamentary discourses on climate change Discourse & Society (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Anje Müller Gjesdal, Gisle Andersen
Global environmental change has provoked changes in how humans experience and perceive their relationship to nature. Such conceptual changes can be observed through language use, and specifically l...