Critical Discourse Studies

• ‘You don’t have to’: a corpus-assisted analysis of modal auxiliaries in sexual consent guidance for young people
  Critical Discourse Studies28 March 2025By Abigaël Candelas de la Ossa Austin Independent School District, Austin, TX, USAAbigaël Candelas de la Ossa is an educator and researcher working on language use in violence prevention and survivor support. Making policy recommendations and advocating for improvements to violence prevention and survivor support programmes is an important component of their work. For more information about their research and activities, see https://acandelas.gitlab.io.
• Narratives and responsibility in media framings of the (1973–1985) Uruguayan dictatorship: a critical discourse analysis
  Critical Discourse Studies15 March 2025By Mariana Achugar Natalia Uval Betania Núñez Amanda Muñoz Julieta Núñez José Gabriel Lagos Facundo Franco Observatorio de Medios del Uruguay, Facultad de Información y Comunicación, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, UruguayMariana Achugar holds a PhD from the University of California, Davis. She is a Full Professor at the School of Information and Communication of the University of the Republic (Udelar) and a Coordinator of the Media Observatory of Uruguay (OMU) and Unesco Chair of Human Rights at Udelar.Natalia Uval, PhD from the University of La Plata, is a professor and researcher at the School of Information and Communication of the University of the Republic and coordinator of the Media Observatory of Uruguay (OMU).Betania Núñez is completing her Master's Degree in Political History. She is an Assistant professor and Head of the Academic Section of Journalism at the School of Information and Communication of the Universidad de la República. She is a researcher in the Group of Studies on the Left and the Media Observatory of Uruguay. She is the Responsible researcher in the Cruzar project and a journalist for the weekly Brecha.Amanda Muñoz is completing the Master in Human Sciences, option Language, culture and society at the School of Humanities and Education Sciences of the Universidad de la República. She teaches at the Journalism Academic Section of the School of Information and Communication at the Universidad de la República and works as a researcher at the Media Observatory of Uruguay.Julieta Núñez Tomas is a Graduate in Measurement of gender-based violence (CLACSO) and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Communication from the Universidad de la República (Udelar). She is a researcher at the Media Observatory of Uruguay (OMU) and a journalist at TV Ciudad.José Gabriel Lagos is completing a Master's in Latin American Studies from the Universidad de la República. He teaches at the School of Information and Communication of Udelar and is a researcher at the Media Observatory of Uruguay (OMU). He is the editor of the newspaper La Diaria.Facundo Franco holds a Master's degree in Political Science and a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from Udelar. He is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at the School of Information and Communication and a member of the Media Observatory of Uruguay.
• Mirrors of power: a critical discourse analysis of the case of a Tsou indigenous elite in Taiwan’s transitional justice
  Critical Discourse Studies03 March 2025By Rong-Xuan Chu Associate Professor Foreign Language Center, National Chengchi University, Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.)Rong-Xuan Chu is an Associate Professor in Foreign Language Center at National Chengchi University, Taiwan (R.O.C.). Her research interests lie in the theory and applications of Critical Discourse Analysis, with a focus on (anti)racism, discrimination against Taiwan's indigenous peoples, and political discourse.
• Spiritual guidance or ideological control? Framing of War in Russian orthodox sermons during the Ukraine invasion
  Critical Discourse Studies15 February 2025By Olga Mennecke Beatrix Kreß Institute for Intercultural Communication, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, GermanyOlga Mennecke is a research associate at the Institute for Intercultural Communication, University of Hildesheim, Germany. Her research interests include the language of Russian political discourse and ideology, as well as sociocultural linguistics and pragmatics.Beatrix Kreß studied Slavic and German Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main. She completed her doctorate in synchronous linguistics/Slavic studies. From 2005 to 2008, she was a research assistant in Slavic Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. From 2009 to 2014, she was a junior professor for Intercultural Communication in Slavic Countries at the University of Hildesheim. In 2012, she held the professorship for Intercultural Communication at Chemnitz University of Technology. She has been Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of Hildesheim since 2014. Her research focuses on political communication, media communication and multilingualism research.
• Unravelling social media critical discourse studies (SM-CDS) – four approaches to studying social media through the critical lens
  Critical Discourse Studies13 February 2025By Susanne Kopf WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, AustriaSusanne Kopf works at the Institute for Language and Discourse in Business at WU Wien. She holds a PhD (Lancaster University, UK) and a venia docendi (WU Wien, AT) in applied linguistics. Her research interests include corpus-assisted critical discourse and social media studies. Susanne has (co-)authored books on these subjects (e.g. A Discursive Perspective on Wikipedia (Palgrave)), published in journals such as New Media & Society and Critical Discourse Studies, and has contributed to and co-edited special journal issues and edited volumes, e.g. Discourses of Brexit (Routledge, with V. Koller and M. Miglbauer).
• Metaphors we overthrow with: a critical metaphor analysis of Nigerian military leaders’ post-coup proclamations
  Critical Discourse Studies13 February 2025By Godswill Uchechukwu Chigbu Richard Chijioke Ukwunna Sopuruchi Christian Aboh a Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, HKSARb Department of English Language and Literature, Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education, Owerri, NigeriaGodswill Uchechukwu Chigbu is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research centres on political discourse analysis, military and coup; metaphor application, and applied linguistics. He is a member of many professional research bodies, including Research and Applying Metaphor (RaAM), the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English, and the Nigerian Pragmatics Association.Richard Chijioke Ukwunna is a lecturer at Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education, Nigeria and researches the role of language in power, identity, and legitimacy in political, religious and media contexts. He specializes in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and African language revitalization with the aim of promoting multilingualism and the global presence of African linguistic and cultural heritage.Sopuruchi Christian Aboh is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a member of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English. His work spans (political) discourse analysis, multilingualism, language attitudes and stereotypes, the sociolinguistics of migration, and African studies. His research has been published in Discourse & Society, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and Discourse & Society, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
• Where the hate lies in soft hate speech: the argumentative potential in hostile public spheres
  Critical Discourse Studies12 February 2025By Dima Mohammed IFILNOVA – FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, PortugalDima Mohammed (PhD in Humanities, 2009, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is Principal researcher of Philosophy at IFILNOVA, the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL). Dima's main academic expertise is in argumentation theory, at the intersection of philosophy and communication. Her research examines the complexities of public political arguments and the challenges they pose, with a focus on the workings of argumentation in challenging conditions, such as situations characterised by populism, hate speech, polarisation and deep disagreements. Over the years, Dima has studied argumentative practices in a diversity of contexts: formal institutional ones, such as Parliaments (UK, EU and Portugal) and presidential speeches (USA), as well as less formal ones, such as (social) media discussions (e.g. Arab Spring, terrorism, #Me-Too, the 2022 Ukraine war). Beyond research, she has also taught argumentation, rhetoric and persuasion, communication and media as well as critical thinking in universities in Portugal, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada and in Palestine. Dima hold a BA in English Linguistics and Literature from the University of Birzeit, Palestine, and an MA in Logic, Language and Argumentation and a PhD in Humanities, both from the University of Amsterdam, NL.
• The wickedness of net-zero policy: scales in policy discourse
  Critical Discourse Studies11 February 2025By Michael Kranert Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton, Southampton, UKMichael Kranert is an Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Southampton, UK. As a comparative discourse linguist of German and English-speaking countries, he researches the influence of contextual differences in different discourse systems on linguistic and discursive features, employing methodologies such as Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis, Political Lexicography, Critical Metaphor Theory and Ethnography of Communication.
• ‘Black people don’t do that’: a critical qualitative study of discursive barriers and black women’s digital well-being networks
  Critical Discourse Studies10 February 2025By Shanice Jones Cameron Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USAShanice Jones Cameron (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research focuses on Black women’s health, well-being, and sport discourses that are distributed through social and digital media.
• Responsibilization of weight management: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of losing weight articles in Chinese official WeChat posts
  Critical Discourse Studies23 January 2025By Xiang Huang Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, City University of Macau, Taipa, People’s Republic of ChinaXiang Huang is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at City University of Macau. In 2023, she attained her PhD in Translation and Language Sciences from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Her research interests include (multimodal) critical discourse analysis, health communication and critical media studies.
• Europhobia as a trajectory to hate speech normalisation? A diachronic analysis of Brexit media propaganda
  Critical Discourse Studies16 January 2025By Franco Zappettini a Facoltà di Scienze Politiche Sociologia e Comunicazione, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italyb Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UKFranco Zappettini is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Political Sciences at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy as well as Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK. His research focuses on the textual/discursive analysis of different forms of political and organisational communication including the mediatisation of Brexit on which he has published internationally in peer-reviewed journals. His publications include also a monograph on ‘European Identities in Discourse’ (Bloomsbury, 2019); a volume on ‘Brexit as a social and political crisis’ coedited with Professor Michał Krzyżanowski, (Routledge 2021) and the monograph ‘Brexit: A Critical Discursive Analysis’ (Palgrave forthcoming).
• Social media and digital politics: networked reason in an age of digital emotion
  Critical Discourse Studies13 January 2025By Li Wei a School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of Chinab School of Foreign Languages, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou, People’s Republic of China
• Exploring primary school immigrant students’ soft hate speech: evidence from Greece
  Critical Discourse Studies07 January 2025By Nikoletta Panagaki Argiris Archakis Villy Tsakona a Department of Philology, University of Patras, Patras, Greeceb Department of Early Childhood Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GreeceNikoletta Panagaki holds a PhD in Linguistics in the Department of Philology of the University of Patras in Greece and a postgraduate diploma ‘Studies in Education’ from the Hellenic Open University. Her PhD research is funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) under the HFRI PhD Fellowship Grant. Her research interests include Critical Discourse Analysis, analysis of television and student discourse, linguistic and cultural diversity, multiculturalism in modern societies and schools, construction of (majority, minority, immigrant, refugee, gender) identities and (liquid) racism. Personal webpage: https://upatras.academia.edu/NikolettaPanagakiArgiris Archakis is Professor of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics in the Department of Philology at the University of Patras in Greece, where he has worked since 1997. He has carried out research and published extensively on the analysis of various discourse genres, such as migrant narratives, youth conversational narratives, and media discourse. He is the principal investigator of the research project TRACE (‘Tracing Racism to Anti-Racist Discourse: A critical approach to European public speech on the migrant and refugee crisis’) (TRACE/HFRI-FM17-42, HFRI 2019-2022, https://trace2019.wixsite.com/trace-project?lang = en). He has co-authored The Narrative Construction of Identities in Critical Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and recently authored the book From National to Post-National Discourse: Migrant’s Identities and Critical Education (Patakis 2020, in Greek) and co-edited the volume Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between Antiracist and Racist Discourse (John Benjamins, 2024). Personal webpage: http://philology.upatras.gr/teachers/archakis-argiris/Villy Tsakona is Associate Professor of Social and Educational Approaches to Language at the Department of Early Childhood Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She has published articles on humor research, political and media discourse analysis, as well as on critical literacy theory and applications. She has recently co-edited The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and Negotiating Humor in Everyday Encounters (with Jan Chovanec, 2018) and Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between Antiracist and Racist Discourse (with Argiris Archakis, 2024) and authored Recontextualizing Humor: Rethinking the Analysis and Teaching of Humor (2020). Personal webpage: http://www.concept-pl.us/villy.tsakona
• Why soft hate speech matters: argumentativity and the dispersion of hatred towards minorities
  Critical Discourse Studies07 January 2025By Stavros Assimakopoulos Dimitris Serafis a Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta, Msida, Maltab Department of Communication and Information Studies, Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Groningen, The NetherlandsStavros Assimakopoulos is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology of the University of Malta. His research lies at the interface of linguistics with philosophy, cognitive psychology and critical theory. He is the author of numerous papers in the fields of pragmatics and (critical) discourse studies and is currently serving as Special Issues Editor for the Journal of Pragmatics and as Editor of the CADAAD journal – Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines. His recent publications include: Online Hate Speech in the European Union: A Discourse-Analytic Perspective (Springer, 2017; with Fabienne H. Baider & Sharon Millar), Pragmatics at its Interfaces (Mouton de Gruyter, 2017) and Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics (John Benjamins, 2017; with Istvan Kecskes).Dimitris Serafis is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. His research interests lie at the intersection of critical discourse studies, social semiotics and multimodality, and argumentation studies, with his current focus being on topics such as racism, hate speech, populism and authoritarianism. He has published internationally on these topics in journals such as Discourse & Communication, Critical Discourse Studies, Journal of Language and Politics, Topoi. His recent publications include the monograph Authoritarianism on the front page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece (John Benjamins, 2023) and the thematic section Critical perspectives on migration in discourse and communication (Studies in Communication Sciences, 2021; with Jolanta Drzewiecka & Sara Greco). He is currently serving as Editor for the CADAAD Journal – Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines.
• Soft hate speech and denial of racism at Euro 2020
  Critical Discourse Studies07 January 2025By Samuel Bennett Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poznań, PolandSamuel Bennett is a critical discourse analyst working on cross-discipline linguistic research. He is an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Working with different linguistic and discursive methodologies, his research centres around discursive constructions of migrant integration, (non)belonging and exclusion, populist politics, and online communication, with a focus on the UK. His methodological approach is also strongly informed by his involvement in immigration, community building, and empowerment charities for over twenty years in four countries. He is currently researching the connection between discursive constructions of colonialism and current debates about belonging and national values and is currently writing a book (OUP) entitled: Myths & Sanctioned Ignorance in British migration discourse: Towards a linguistic sociology of absences. He is the author of Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse (Bloomsbury 2018), along with several articles and chapters in highly respected journals and edited volumes. Samuel is also the current chair of CADAAD (Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines) and co-editor of the Journal of Language & Politics.
• Zooming in on the study of soft hate speech: an introduction to this special issue
  Critical Discourse Studies19 December 2024By Dimitris Serafis Stavros Assimakopoulos a Department of Communication and Information Studies, Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlandsb Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta, Msida, MaltaDimitris Serafis is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. His research interests lie at the intersection of critical discourse studies, social semiotics and multimodality, and argumentation studies, with his current focus being on topics such as racism, hate speech, populism and authoritarianism. He has published internationally on these topics in journals such as Discourse & Communication, Critical Discourse Studies, Journal of Language and Politics, Topoi. His recent publications include the monograph Authoritarianism on the front page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece (John Benjamins, 2023) and the Critical perspectives on migration in discourse and communication (Studies in Communication Sciences, 2021; with Jolanta Drzewiecka & Sara Greco). He is currently serving as Editor for the CADAAD Journal – Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines.Stavros Assimakopoulos is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology of the University of Malta. His research lies at the interface of linguistics with philosophy, cognitive psychology and critical theory. He is the author of numerous papers in the fields of pragmatics and (critical) discourse studies and is currently serving as special issue editor for the Journal of Pragmatics and as editor for the CADAAD Journal. His recent publications include: Online Hate Speech in the European Union: A Discourse-Analytic Perspective (Springer, 2017; with Fabienne H. Baider & Sharon Millar), Pragmatics at its Interfaces (Mouton de Gruyter, 2017) and Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics (John Benjamins, 2017; with Istvan Kecskes).
• The Greek left-wing and the ‘Jewish problem’: analysing antizionism and antisemitism as forms of soft hate speech
  Critical Discourse Studies13 December 2024By Salomi Boukala Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, Greece and Newcastle University, UKSalomi Boukala is Assistant Professor of Critical Discourse Analysis at Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences and visiting scholar at Newcastle University. She is a specialist on Greek political discourse and has published widely in the fields of argumentation and Critical Discourse Studies. She is the author of European Identity and The Representation of Islam in the Mainstream Press: Argumentation and Media Discourse (Palgrave, 2019) and co-author of the forthcoming book The Language of Politics and the Greek Paradigm (Springer, 2025). In 2020, she co-edited a volume on Critical Discourse Analysis that is the first book on the field being published in Greece by Nissos Academic Publishing. Her research interests fall within the areas of the discursive construction of political and (supra)national identities, political rhetoric, discriminatory discourse, ethnographic approaches and media discourse.
• A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of language ideologies in parliamentary debates about the recognition of Irish sign language
  Critical Discourse Studies12 December 2024By Robyn Cunneen Maria Rieder Department of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, University of Limerick, Limerick, IrelandRobyn Cunneen is a PhD researcher at the University of Limerick’s School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, studying the recognition of Irish Sign Language (ISL), sign language ideologies, and discursive representations of the Deaf community. Her previous work explored the ISL Recognition Campaign and language ideologies within the Deaf community.Maria Rieder is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick whose research focuses on media and social protest, intercultural communication, inequality and minority communities, with an emphasis on the role of language in power and social conflict. She founded the Tell Your Own Story Project.
• Ten Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics: Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis
  Critical Discourse Studies05 December 2024By Yanmin Zhang School of Foreign Languages, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, ChinaYanmin Zhang is an associate professor of linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages at Nanjing Institute of Technology. Her research interests lie in the construction and communication of threat in public discourses, approached with insights drawn from critical cognitive linguistics. Specifically, her recent scholarly endeavors have focused on discursive strategies and their legitimizing effects, employing a triangulation methodology. She has published articles in journals such as Foreign Modern Languages and Chinese Social Sciences Today.
• Internalised misogyny and intragroup discrimination: a critical discourse analysis of anti-gender equality comments on Nigerian female blogs
  Critical Discourse Studies05 December 2024By Diretnan Dikwal-Bot School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandDiretnan Dikwal-Bot is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the Department of English, Film, and Drama at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on digital media, critical discourse analysis and cultural politics. Her forthcoming book, exploring the online discursive interplay of gender inequality, is set to be published by Palgrave Macmillan
• Econarrative: ethics, ecology and the search for new narratives to live by
  Critical Discourse Studies03 December 2024By Fei Dai School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
• Curating activist journalism to defy China’s “mainstream” narrative on X (Twitter)
  Critical Discourse Studies19 November 2024By Altman Yuzhu Peng Chunyan Wu Yu Sun a Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UKb Faculty of Social Sciences, Northeastern University London, London, UKc School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UKAltman Yuzhu Peng (PhD, Newcastle University, UK) is Associate Professor in Intercultural Communication at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie at the intersections of critical discourse studies, feminism, media and cultural studies, and masculinity studies. Email: altman.peng@warwick.ac.uk.Chunyan Wu (PhD, Loughborough University, UK) is Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Northeastern University London. Her research interests focus on social media analysis, digital journalism, political communication, international communication, and media and cultural analysis. Email: chunyan.wu@nulondon.ac.uk.Yu Sun (PhD, University of Groningen, NL) is Lecturer in Media, Culture and Society at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include data activism and data publics, the public sphere, online deliberation, civic engagement, feminist studies, digital infrastructure, and social governance. Email: yu.sun@glasgow.ac.uk.
• Shedding light on the ‘invisible load’: an analysis of sight metaphors in parenthood podcasts
  Critical Discourse Studies15 November 2024By Giorgia Riboni Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne [Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures], Università di Torino [University of Turin], Torino, ItalyGiorgia Riboni is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Università di Torino. Her research interests lie mainly in the field of discourse analysis, with particular regard to new media communication. She has published a series of studies devoted to the discursive constructions of identities on social media platforms with a particular focus on the representation of amateurship and expertise and the notion of authenticity. In recent years, she has researched narratives, discourses and counter-discourses related to family and parenting. Privileged objects of these investigations are metaphors and their use, but also linguistic phenomena related to dialogism such as concessive constructs. She is also currently working on the concepts of pathologisation and medicalization and how the definition of illness becomes collectively shared in a given sociocultural context. In her studies, the qualitative methods characteristic of discourse analysis are often integrated with the quantitative research typical of corpus linguistics and combined with other theoretical tools. Her latest publications include the journal article ‘Disease mongering, overdiagnosis, and media practices: A critical discourse analysis of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and the motivational deficiency disorder (MoDeD) spoof’ (Text and Talk, 2024) and the monograph Discourses of authenticity on YouTube: From the personal to the professional (2020).
• Not for those of us who know war well: crisis, metaphor negotiation and collective memory in an era of war
  Critical Discourse Studies30 October 2024By Ksenija Bogetić Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, SloveniaKsenija Bogetić holds a PhD in Linguistics (University of Belgrade, 2018) and MA in English (University of Oxford, 2013), and works at the intersections of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, culture studies and cognitive linguistics. From October 2022, she has been a Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie WIDERA Fellow at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, leading a corpus-based project on crisis discourses in the post-Yugoslav area.
• Discursive struggles around constitutional reform: language and social change in Tunisia
  Critical Discourse Studies14 October 2024By Fethi Helal Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities, University of Manouba, Manouba, TunisiaFethi Helal is Head of the Department of English at the University of Manouba, Tunisia. His research interests include language policy and planning, sociolinguistics, intercultural academic rhetoric and discourse and critical discourse analysis. His work has appeared in such journals as Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication, International Multilingual Research Journal and others.
• Self-legitimation in selected speeches of Abubakar Shekau, the Boko Haram terrorists leader
  Critical Discourse Studies09 October 2024By Ayo Osisanwo a Institute of English Studies, Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg, Germanyb Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, NigeriaAyo Osisanwo, PhD, is an experienced research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt in the Foundation in the Institute of English Studies, Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg, Germany. He is a 2015 African Humanities Programme postdoctoral fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), New York; and was a resident fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is also a senior lecturer, Department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has published in Language Matters, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse and Society, Discourse and Communication, Journal of Asian & African Studies, African Identity, Howard Journal of Communication, Mediální Studia, Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communication, Research in English and Applied Linguistics, World Journal of English Language, Journal of Linguistic Association of Nigeria, Ibadan Journal of Humanistic/English Studies, among others. He has also authored, contributed to and co-edited some books.
• The discursive construction of tradition and modernity in counter-homophobic discourses in China
  Critical Discourse Studies08 October 2024By Xuekun Liu School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaXuekun Liu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Central China Normal University. He earned his PhD from the University of Hong Kong. His research investigates public discourses in Chinese online spaces. He has published in journals such as Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse, Context & Media, Lingua, International Journal of Communication and Social Science & Medicine.
• Mapuche women in the city: celebrating their process of ethnogenesis
  Critical Discourse Studies20 September 2024By Evelyn Matus Teresa Oteíza Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileEvelyn Matus is a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Her research focuses on the discursive construction of the ethnicity of Mapuche women in the city. Her topics are related to decolonial studies, feminism, ethnicity, and especially interethnic and intercultural relations with special emphasis on the phenomena of racism and discrimination against ethnic minorities and indigenous women from a socio-semiotic perspective. Matus has published in journals such as Discurso & Sociedad, Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso (RALED) and participates in a research project on the engagement system in Spanish whose principal researcher is Teresa Oteíza.Teresa Oteíza is a Full Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Her interests include the areas of Critical Discourse Studies, Critical Multimodal Discourse Studies, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Educational Linguistics, Discourse of History and School Literacy. She is currently working on the project ‘engagement system in Spanish: linguistic resources to build dialogicity in the discourse-semantic stratum of language’ (National Funds for Science and Technology Development, Chile). She has published the books El discurso pedagógico de la historia: Un análisis lingüístico sobre la construcción ideológica de la historia de Chile (1970-2001) in 2006, En (re)construcción: Discurso, identidad y nación en los manuales escolares de historia y de ciencias sociales, (edited with Derrin Pinto) in 2011, and What to Remember, What to Teach: Human Rights Violations in Chile’s Recent Past and the Pedagogical Discourse of History, published by Equinox in 2023.
• Spicebags, slippery masks and ‘Free Staters’: anti-republican anti-populism in contemporary Irish political discourse
  Critical Discourse Studies20 September 2024By Gary Hussey Liam Farrell a School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Irelandb Independent Scholar, Manchester, UKGary Hussey is a social theorist who studies, amongst other questions, post-foundational approaches to the relationships between violence and the political. He is currently writing a monograph on the spatial dynamics of violence in the north of Ireland from the mid-nineteenth to the later twentieth century. Gary is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Sociology, University of College Dublin.Liam Farrell is an interdisciplinary humanities scholar and post-foundational critical theorist interested in aesthetics, democratic equality, the (postcolonial) histories of populism and republicanism, and the politics of decoloniality and radical democracy. Liam has taught philosophy, politics, and sociology at the Universities of Brighton, Sussex, Limerick and Galway. Currently he is an independent writer and theorist based in Manchester, UK.
• Hegemony and the politics of labour: towards a discourse theory of value in contemporary capitalism
  Critical Discourse Studies13 September 2024By Alex Luke Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• ‘Can women have it all?’ Transitions in media representations of Jacinda Ardern’s leadership and identity by a global newsroom
  Critical Discourse Studies11 September 2024By Małgorzata Chałupnik Jai Mackenzie Louise Mullany Sara Vilar-Lluch a School of English, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UKb Faculty of Arts, Society and Professional Studies, Birmingham Newman University, Birmingham, UKc School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UKMałgorzata Chałupnik is Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Professional Communication working in the School of English at the University of Nottingham. Her expertise is the area of discourse analysis, focusing in particular on business and health(care) communication and language, gender and sexuality.Jai Mackenzie is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Writing and Humanities at Birmingham Newman University. Her research focuses primarily on the ways in which gendered, sexual and familial roles, relationships and practices are (re)produced and mediated in a range of contexts. She has undertaken a range of collaborative and single-authored research in this area, and her publications include the monographs Language, Gender and Parenthood Online (Routledge, 2019) and Connected Parenting (Bloomsbury, 2023). Jai is a member of the editorial board for Discourse, Context & Media.Louise Mullany is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham (UK). She has research expertise in the sociolinguistics of inequality in public life and has published a number of books, articles and chapters with international publishing houses in this area. Her most recent work focuses on gender-based violence and hate crime in public spaces. She was winner of a Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community in 2021 (with L. Trickett, Nottingham Trent University, UK) for work on gender-based violence and hate crime.Sara Vilar-Lluch is a Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at Cardiff University, UK. Her main research interests are in the areas of discourse analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, the expression of evaluation and emotion, and metaphor analysis, with a particular focus on health communication. Prior to Cardiff, she held research and teaching positions at the University of Nottingham.
• Incorporating cross-linguistic and time-based dimensions to Critical Metaphor Analysis: a specialised hands-on analytical approach
  Critical Discourse Studies09 September 2024By Yufeng Liu Dechao Li Jieyun Feng a Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UKb Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of Chinac Department of Business English, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaDr. Yufeng Liu, is a Postdoctoral Senior Research Associate at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. Her research interests lie in the intersection of metaphor, translation and communication studies. She has published articles in journals such as Discourse & Society, Social Semiotics, Journalism and Lingua, as well as some book chapters published by Routledge and Springer.Dr. Dechao Li, is a Professor at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His main research areas include corpus-based translation studies, empirical approaches to translation process research. He has published over 50 articles in journals such as Interpreting, Discourse & Society, Target, as well as some book chapters published by Routledge, Springer and Wayne State University Press.Dr. Jieyun Feng, is a Professor at the School of Business English, University of International Business and Economics in China. Her research interests include intercultural business studies, discourse analysis, and Belt and Road intercultural communication. Her recent publications appear in Argumentation, Journal of Critical Arts, South – North Cultural and Media Studies, and IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.
• 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’
  Critical Discourse Studies29 July 2024By Rafael Verbuyst a History Department, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgiumb Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South AfricaRafael Verbuyst holds a joint PhD in History and Anthropology. He is currently a Junior Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University's History Department and a Senior Research Affiliate at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg. His research focuses on the revival of indigenous identity in post-apartheid South Africa, land (re)claims, settler colonialism, decolonization and resistance, ethnographic methodology, the political uses of the past and the concept of indigeneity. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa since 2014. He is the author of Khoisan Consciousness: An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Town (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022).
• Preserving choice: weaving femininity and autonomy through egg freezing discourse on Xiaohongshu
  Critical Discourse Studies23 July 2024By Jingshen Ge Weiqi Tian a College of Liberal Arts, Journalism and Communication, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, People’s Republic of Chinab College of Foreign Languages, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, People’s Republic of ChinaJingshen Ge is now an associate professor in the College of Liberal Arts, Journalism and Communication at Ocean University of China. His research interests lie at the intersections of critical discourse studies, feminism, media and cultural studies.Weiqi Tian is now a lecturer in Foreign Language College at Xinjiang University and fellow of Key Research Center of Humanities and Social Sciences in Colleges and Universities，Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. Her research interests include Critical Discourse Studies, Corpus Linguistics, media and cultural studies.
• Indigenous resurgence, collective ‘reminding’, and insidious binaries: a response to Verbuyst’s ‘settler colonialism and therapeutic discourses on the past’
  Critical Discourse Studies11 July 2024By Scott Burnett Nettly Ahmed Tahn-dee Matthews Junaid Oliephant Aylwyn Walsh a African Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USAb Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, Graaff-Reinet, South Africac Support Centre for Land Change, Graaff-Reinet, South Africad School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, Leeds, UKScott Burnett is Assistant Professor of African Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. His work focuses on the reproduction of hegemonic raced and gendered orders in environmental discourse, as well as reactionary white masculinity on social media. He is the author of White belongings: Race, land, and property in post-apartheid South Africa (Lexington, 2022).Nettly Ahmed is a field worker at the Support Centre for Land Change (SCLC). She identifies as a Khoi-San woman, and her work with Indigenous communities in the Karoo focuses on water, land, belonging, heritage, and the ways in which people make sense of themselves in a hostile country. She is currently working towards a degree in Development Studies.Tahn-dee Matthews is the managing director of Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba. She is an energetic social activist whose community connections in Graaff-Reinet and the broader Karoo serve as the basis for the storytelling work that she does together with Junaid Oliephant and Nettly Ahmed of SCLC. As comfortable in front of the camera as behind it, Matthews specializes in social action research and video ethnographic methodologies.Junaid Oliephant, a.k.a. Blaqsheep, is the creative director of Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba. A passionate videographer and photographer, his latest films include Rol hom op jou tong (2022) and Thyspunt: Khoisan Heritage (2020). He counters the exclusion of radical narratives on mainstream media platforms by making his films available on the Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba YouTube channel.Aylwyn M. Walsh is Professor at the University of Leeds in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, where she is director of research. Her book Prison Cultures: Performance, Resistance, Desire (2019) was shortlisted for the David Bradby prize. She produces practice research and works across cultural studies and performance studies.
• The rise of large language models: challenges for Critical Discourse Studies
  Critical Discourse Studies11 July 2024By Mathew Gillings Tobias Kohn Gerlinde Mautner a Institute for English Business Communication, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austriab Department of Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, GermanyMathew Gillings is an Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Before moving to Vienna, he completed his PhD in Linguistics at Lancaster University. His research interests include the studying the discourse of corporate wrongdoing, deception, and politeness in the workplace. He is a co-author of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CUP, 2023) and the author of Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Deception Detection (Routledge, 2024).Tobias Kohn is Professor of Computer Science Education at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and a Quondam Fellow at Hughes Hall College, University of Cambridge. His primary research interest is in compilers, interpreters, programming languages, and education, with a particular focus on error detection in program code.Gerlinde Mautner is Professor of English Business Communication at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She pursues research interests located at the interface of language, society, business and the law. Her work also has a strong methodological focus, concerned in particular with the relationship between corpus linguistics and discourse studies.
• The pragmatics of hypocrisy
  Critical Discourse Studies10 July 2024By Huihui Jiang School of English Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China
• Fossil-fueled stories: an ecolinguistic critical discourse analysis of the South African government’s naturalisation of fossil fuels in the context of the climate crisis
  Critical Discourse Studies05 July 2024By Julia Laurie Miché Thompson Department of African Studies and Linguistics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South AfricaJulia Laurie is a PhD student and ad hoc lecturer in the Department of African Studies and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town. Her PhD research focuses on discourses of load shedding in the context of the climate emergency and energy inequality in South Africa. Her research interests include ecolinguistics, critical discourse studies and digitally mediated communication.Miché Thompson is a senior lecturer in linguistics at the Department of African Studies and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her current area of research focuses on critical race theory and the politics of identity in South Africa, in which she critically engages with categories of race and belonging in post-Apartheid South Africa.Other key areas of research are broadly within the sociolinguistics of migration. This research focuses on the Chinese diaspora in South Africa in the economic domain, while also drawing on recent debates around China's political engagement in South Africa.
• Demands as the black box of discourse theory: the German integration debate, demanding a ‘leading culture’ and the mainstreaming of the far-right
  Critical Discourse Studies03 July 2024By Julius Schneider Department of Government, University of Essex, Colchester, United KingdomJulius Schneider is a Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, where teaches courses in Political Theory and is affiliated with the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis. In his research, he investigates the rise of the far-right in Germany from a post-structuralist, discourse-theoretical perspective. This perspective enables him to analyse the construction of (far-right) political identities, with a special focus on the role of language and the media. Another strand of research revolves around local activism and community resilience practices in times of crisis. His other research interests lie in theories of political representation, social movements, post-Marxism, democratic theory and critical political economy.
• ‘Hosting refugees is the most rewarding experience’: migrant identity and affective positioning in curated NGO stories
  Critical Discourse Studies10 June 2024By Sofia Lampropoulou Korina Giaxoglou Paige Johnson a Department of English, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UKb School of Languages & Applied Linguistics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UKSofia Lampropoulou is Reader in English Language at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests lie in sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis, and specifically how social, racial and gender inequalities are manifested through discourse. Her publications include articles in (among others): Discourse and Society, Language and Communication, Discourse, Context and Media, Journal of Pragmatics. She is external collaborator on the project ‘Tracing Racism in Anti-raCist discourse: a critical approach to European public speech on the migrant and refugee crisis’ (TRACE/ HFRI-FM17-42), funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation.Korina Giaxoglou is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University. Her research interests lie at the intersections of linguistic anthropology, the sociolinguistics of narrative, and (mediated) discourse analysis. Her research monograph on social media mourning was published in July 2020 from Routledge Research. She is external collaborator on the project ‘Tracing Racism in Anti-raCist discourse: a critical approach to European public speech on the migrant and refugee crisis’ (TRACE/ HFRI-FM17-42), funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation.Paige Johnson is a PhD researcher in English Language at the University of Liverpool, funded by the Duncan Norman Charitable Trust. Her research explores how unequal relations of power, gender, and race are shaped by discourse from a (critical) discourse analytic perspective. Her PhD thesis takes up the narrative and affective positioning paradigms to explore how racist discourses are produced by anti-racist texts in the UK.
• Fat girl on TV: humor, embodiment and the aberration of fatness in neoliberal media
  Critical Discourse Studies07 June 2024By Maeve Eberhardt University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USAMaeve Eberhardt is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Vermont. Her research focuses on how power is maintained, reproduced, and challenged through linguistic practices. She is currently working on a larger project on the discursive construction of the female body in popular culture.
• Discourses of perfection: representing cosmetic procedures and beauty products in UK lifestyle magazines
  Critical Discourse Studies08 May 2024By Fengji ZhangSchool of Foreign Languages, East China Normal University, China
• Risk discourse and responsibility
  Critical Discourse Studies06 May 2024By Haohan MengCollege of Foreign Languages, National University of Defence Technology, Nanjing, China
• Metaphor and argumentation in climate crisis discourse
  Critical Discourse Studies23 April 2024By Zilong ZhongResearch Institute of Foreign Languages, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China

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