Critical Discourse Studies

• 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
• ‘Post-fascism’, or how the far right talks about itself: the 2022 Italian election campaign as a case study
  Critical Discourse Studies15 April 2024By Katy BrownGeorge Newtha Department of Media Studies, Maynooth University, Maynooth Co. Kildare, Irelandb Department of Politics, Languages, and International Studies, University of Bath, Claverton Down, UKKaty Brown (she/her) is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University. Her research focuses on the mainstreaming of the far right, centring principally on the role that mainstream actors play in normalising far-right discourse. Her current project examines the effects of media reporting on the far right across Ireland, France, Italy and the UK.George Newth (he/him) is Lecturer in Politics at University of Bath. His research focuses on the normalisation of the far right via discourses of common sense, populist and far right articulations of regionalism and nationalism, and the history of the Lega Nord and Lega per Salvini Premier.
• Analysing the language of political conflict: a study of war rhetoric of Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky
  Critical Discourse Studies09 April 2024By Innocent ChiluwaJurate Ruzaitea Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UKb Department of Foreign Language, Literary and Translation Studies, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, LithuaniaInnocent Chiluwa is a Professor in Applied linguistics (discourse studies), media and communication studies. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University. His research interests include discourse studies, media and conflict; social movement studies; social media and society; online activism and protest, terrorism and political violence. He is on the Editorial Boards of Discourse & Society (SAGE), Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Routledge), Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (Taylor & Francis), and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature).Jūratė Ruzaitė is a Professor at the Department of Foreign Language, Literary and Translation Studies and a Senior Researcher at the Centre of Intercultural Communication and Multilingualism at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. She is the Associate Editor of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Journal and a Board Member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, language and ideology, hate speech, propaganda, and disinformation.
• Johnsonism and crisis management: a critical narrative analysis of the UK Prime Minister’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
  Critical Discourse Studies05 April 2024By Alma-Pierre BonnetLinguistics Research Center – Corpus, Discourse and Societies (CEL), Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, FranceAlma-Pierre Bonnet is a Senior Lecturer in British studies at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, France. His research interests centre around political communication and political strategy. His current research focuses on the use of storytelling and narratives in political discourse, in particular through the use of critical narrative analysis.
• Evaluating the American-Chinese trade war on Chinese social media: discourses of nationalism and rectifying a humiliating past
  Critical Discourse Studies01 April 2024By Gwen BouvierQiang GengWenting Zhaoa Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of Chinab Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of ChinaGwen Bouvier (PhD, University of Wales) is a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai International Studies University, Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications. Her main research interests are digital communication and civic debate on social media. Professor Bouvier's publications have drawn on critical discourse analysis, multimodality based on social semiotics, and online ethnography. She is the Associate Editor for Social Semiotics and Book Review Editor for Discourse & Society and the Journal of Multicultural Discourses.Geng Qiang is a Professor of Translation Studies at the Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications of Shanghai International Studies University. His main research interests are corpus-based translation studies, translation history in modern China and discourse analysis. His recent publication, apart from 60 articles on topics related to translation studies and discourse analysis, is Belief and Technique: Imaginary Construction of China’s Socialist Translation Discourse (Xiamen University Press, 2023, in Chinese).Wenting Zhao is a PhD student at Örebro University. She has done research on social media communications about motherhood and women's health. Her main research focus now is related to health communications on social media, specifically children and women's health.
• Constructing Africa in Chinese international news reporting: peace or conflict journalism?
  Critical Discourse Studies01 April 2024By Valerie A. CooperInnocent Chiluwaa Department of Media and Communication, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealandb Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UKValerie Cooper is a lecturer in Media and Communication at the Victoria University of Wellington -Te Herenga Waka, New Zealand. Her research focuses on global power dynamics in communication, including communication for development, public diplomacy and media representations. She is especially interested in these dynamics across the Asia Pacific region and the African continent. She conducted her PhD research in Hong Kong and South Africa, where she examined Chinese and American media outlets acting as public diplomacy mechanisms in the Global South.Innocent Chiluwa is a professor in Applied linguistics (discourse studies), media and communication studies. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University. His research interests include discourse, media, and conflict; social movement studies; social media and society; online activism and protest, terrorism and political violence. He is on the Editorial Boards of Discourse & Society (SAGE), Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Routledge), Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (Taylor & Francis), and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature).
• Gendered expectations and the framing of Afghan women in peacebuilding: a critical discourse analysis
  Critical Discourse Studies01 April 2024By Federica FornaciariLaine GoldmanDepartment of Arts & Humanities, National University, San Diego, CA, USADr. Federica Fornaciari is Full Professor in the Department of Arts & HUmanities at National University in San Diego, California. She received a doctorate in Communication from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a MA in Journalism and Mass Communication from Marshall University. Her research and teaching revolve around digital identities, privacy issues, frame theory, equality, and media representation.Dr. Laine Goldman is Full Professor in the Department of Arts and Humanities at National University in San Diego, California. She received a dual master’s in Film and Telecommunications from Ohio University and a doctorate in Social Sciences from Tilburg University, in the Netherlands. Laine is a social scientist interested in media representation, the new freelance workforce, and organizational change and empowerment.
• Snyder and Habermas on the war in Ukraine: a critical discourse analysis of elite media discourse in Germany
  Critical Discourse Studies01 April 2024By Helmut GruberDepartment of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaHelmut Gruber is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies at Vienna University. His research interests focus on (social) media and political communication (esp. political speeches), genre studies, conflict communication, and computer-mediated-communication under a socio-pragmatic perspective as well as on coherence structures in (students’) academic writing. He has widely published on all these (and some more) topics. He is editor-in-chief of Pragmatics (John Benjamins).
• The ‘Black Pete’ debate in Flemish newspapers: from conflict to moderation
  Critical Discourse Studies01 April 2024By Martina TemmermanBelinda TournetDepartment of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, BelgiumMartina Temmerman is an Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She is the director of the master’s in journalism programme in the Department of Applied Linguistics, where she teaches linguistic discourse analysis and journalistic writing classes. She is a member of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies. Her research focuses on the linguistic analysis of journalistic texts.Belinda Tournet obtained a master’s degree in journalism from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium in 2021. She works as a specialist in political communication and she is an Associated Member of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies.
• Investigating the language of conflict and peace in critical discourse studies
  Critical Discourse Studies01 April 2024By Innocent ChiluwaHeriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UKInnocent Chiluwa is a professor in Applied Linguistics (discourse studies), media and communication studies. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. His research interests include discourse studies, media and conflict; social movement studies; social media and society; online activism and protest, terrorism and political violence. He is on the Editorial Boards of Discourse & Society (SAGE), Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Routledge), Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (Taylor & Francis), and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature).
• Representations of gender in conspiracy theories: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis
  Critical Discourse Studies29 March 2024By Kristen FleckensteinDepartment of English, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USAKristen Fleckenstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Coastal Carolina University. She holds a PhD in Linguistics and a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests are centered on the discursive construction of identity, particularly as related to gender and stance.
• Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: a Hallidayan transitivity analysis
  Critical Discourse Studies29 March 2024By Dana W. MuwafiShehdeh FarehNajib JaradDepartment of Foreign Languages, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesDana W. Muwafi is a PhD student of linguistics and translation at the University of Sharjah. Her research interests include (critical) discourse analysis, pragmatics, and the sociology of translation.Shehdeh Fareh is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sharjah. His research interests include contrastive linguistics, translation and TEFL. He authored a series of books on teaching English as a foreign language, a textbook for teaching English to students of medicine and health science, published more than 40 articles in prestigious journals and translated over 20 books from English into Arabic and vice versa.Najib Jarad is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Sharjah (UAE). His main research interests lie in the field of synchronic and diachronic syntax, grammaticalization, vocabulary learning and teaching, and critical discourse studies.
• The potential of eye tracking data to strengthen CDA’ explanatory power: the case of multimodal critical discourse analysis of advertising persuasion
  Critical Discourse Studies20 March 2024By Yixiong ChenCsilla Weningera School of Foreign Languages, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, People’s Republic of Chinab English Language & Literature Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, SingaporeCsilla Weninger is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Her research examines the social, cultural and ideological dimensions of discourse and is motivated by a theoretical interest in shedding light onto the connections between situated language use and broader contextual factors.Yixiong Chen is affiliated with Southwest University of Science and Technology, China where he works as an associate professor. Yixiong received his Ph.D. degree from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (2021). His research interests include viewer perception of advertising information and implications for multimodal critical analysis of advertising.
• Discursive bridges: a socio-hermeneutical analysis of meaning shifts
  Critical Discourse Studies07 March 2024By Marc Barbeta-ViñasSociology Department, Edifici B, carrer de la Fortuna campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainMarc Barbeta-Viñas, PhD in Sociology (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013) and specialist in qualitative research methods, sociology of consumption and culture, and experience in different fields of research (agrarian studies, inequalities, gender, fatherhood). Currently works as a sociology professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat de Girona. Previously, he has been researcher in different research groups of the sociology department of the UAB. As a result of this research, he has published in national and international journals. He has also collaborated on collective books and has recently edited a book with the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC, in Spain). Sociology Department, Edifici B, carrer de la Fortuna campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona, Spain.
• Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China
  Critical Discourse Studies23 February 2024By Le CaoDepartment of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• Discourses of disruption in Asia: creating and contesting meaning in the time of COVID-19
  Critical Discourse Studies29 January 2024By Baoqin WuSchool of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Normal University
• The ethnocratic shikun: housing discourse in support of nation-building
  Critical Discourse Studies19 January 2024By Matan FlumThe Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, London, UKMatan Flum is a PhD candidate at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London (UCL). His research interests include critical urban studies, critical whiteness studies and critical discourse studies.
• Support group or transgender lobby? Representing Mermaids in the British press
  Critical Discourse Studies19 December 2023By Aimee BaileyJai Mackenziea School of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UKb School of Applied Arts and Humanities, Birmingham Newman University, Birmingham, UKAimee Bailey is Lecturer in English Language in the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at De Montfort University. She is a queer feminist linguist, primarily interested in the construction of gender and sexuality in mediated contexts using corpus linguistic and discourse analytic approaches.Jai Mackenzie is 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. Jai is convenor of the Language, Gender and Sexuality special interest group, which sits within the British Association of Applied Linguistics. She is a member of the editorial board for Discourse, Context and Media.
• ‘So they hit each other’: gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial
  Critical Discourse Studies12 December 2023By Kerry ReidyKeeley AbbottSamuel ParkerSchool of Social Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UKKerry Reidy worked in the West Midlands Sector for over 12 years, holding senior positions within charities that deliver services for some of the region's most vulnerable and marginalised communities. She graduates Birmingham City University in summer 2023 with a distinction in MSc Psychology and Qualitative Research Methods, most recently applying critical discourse analysis to the social construction of gender and violence.Dr Samuel Parker is a Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Prior to this they were at Birmingham City University and taught modules in qualitative research methods and applied social psychology. Sam's research takes a critical social psychological perspective, often using discourse analysis to investigate topics such as migration, asylum and sexuality.Keeley Abbott is an Associate Professor in Social Psychology. Keeley's career to date has been characterised by an interest and awareness around issues related to equality, diversity and inclusivity. This is based on her research focus related to sexualities, sexual health and sex education, specifically relating to themes of inequalities, social exclusion and social justice. She has extensive experience designing, navigating and undertaking qualitative research both with young people and adults. She has a PhD, MSc in research methods and Post Graduate qualification in discourse analysis.
• Blessing or curse? Recontextualizing ‘996’ in China’s overwork debate
  Critical Discourse Studies09 December 2023By Ming LiuYunqiao Chena Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kongb Department of English, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang, People’s Republic of ChinaMing Liu is an assistant professor at Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests cover critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, systemic functional linguistics and intercultural communication. His recent publications have appeared in some international journals, such as Language & Communication, Journal of Language and Politics, Discourse & Communication, Text & Talk, Discourse, Context & Media, Lingua and Critical Arts.Yunqiao Chen is a doctoral candidate at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests cover critical discourse studies and corpus linguistics.
• Audience labour, discourse dynamics and challenges for analysis
  Critical Discourse Studies09 December 2023By Phil Grahama Griffith University, Brisbane, Australiab University of the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, AustraliaPhil Graham is an Australian musician and academic. He is an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University’s Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI) and Emeritus Professor at University of the Sunshine Coast. Phil is one of four founding co-editors of Critical Discourse Studies, alongside Norman Fairclough, Jay Lemke, and Ruth Wodak. His research interests include political economies of language and media, music, public pedagogies, and creative industries.
• Phil graham: critical insights into the futurity of discourse and the discourse of futurity
  Critical Discourse Studies06 December 2023By Patricia DunmireKent State UniversityPatricia Dunmire is Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Kent State University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in argumentation, propaganda, and discourse studies. Her research has been published in several journals, including Discourse & Society, Critical Discourse Studies, and the Journal of Language and Politics, as well as in several edited volumes. She is author of The Great Nation of Futurity: The Discourse and Temporality of American National Identity (2023, Oxford) and Projecting the Future Through Political Discourse: The Case of the Bush Doctrine (2011, Benjamins).
• Saying ‘Criminality’, meaning ‘immigration’? Proxy discourses and public implicatures in the normalisation of the politics of exclusion
  Critical Discourse Studies02 December 2023By Hugo EkströmMichał KrzyżanowskiDavid JohnsonDepartment of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenHugo Ekström specialises in critical discourse analysis of how mediated communication fosters mainstreaming of the far-right. He received his MA in Digital Media and Society from Uppsala University, Sweden, where he has also been Research Assistant in at Department of Informatics and Media since 2022. Since 2023 he is also a PhD Candidate in Media and Communications at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Info: https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/hitta-person/hugoekstromMichał Krzyżanowski is one of the leading international experts in critical discourse research of normalization of the politics of exclusion and anti-immigration rhetoric in the context of far-right, illiberalism and neoliberalism. He holds a Chair in Media and Communications at Uppsala University, Sweden, where he is also Deputy Head & Associate Head (Research) at Department/School of Informatics & Media as well as Director of Research at Uppsala University Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR). Info: https://www.katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id = N20-1042David Johnson specialises in social media analytics, data mining methods, and data infrastructures in social and life sciences research. He is an Associate Professor (Docent) of Information Systems at Department/School of Informatics & Media, Uppsala University, Sweden. Info: https://www.katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id = N18-1553.
• Dual discursive articulation: languages of persuasion and resistance in street library community
  Critical Discourse Studies28 November 2023By Yasraf Amir PiliangTri SulistyaningtyasGhina Zoraya Azhara Department of Design and Visual Culture, Faculty of Art and Design, Institute of Technology Bandung, Bandung, Indonesiab Department of Literacy, Media and Culture, Faculty of Art and Design, Institute of Technology Bandung, Bandung, IndonesiaYasraf A Piliang is a Professor of Design and Culture at the Postgraduate Program of Art and Design Sciences, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB). His research focuses on semiotics, art and design discourses and cultural studies.Tri Sulistyaningtyas is a lecturer and researcher at literacy, media, and culture research group, Faculty of Fine Art and Design, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB). Her research focuses on discourse, socio-pragmatics, and cultural studies.Ghina Zoraya Azhar is a postgraduate student at the Postgraduate Program of Art and Design Sciences, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB). Her research focuses on discourse analysis and cultural studies.
• Languaging, human projects, selves, and societies of selves
  Critical Discourse Studies21 November 2023By Paul J. ThibaultDepartment of Nordic and Media Studies, University of Agder, Kristiansand S., NorwayPaul J. Thibault completed his PhD under Michael Halliday's supervision in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney in 1984. He was Professor in linguistics and communication studies at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway 2004-2023. He has held academic posts in Australia, China, Denmark, Italy, and Hong Kong. His research interests and publications are in the areas of applied and general linguistics, development, distributed language and cognition, graphics and interactivity, human-animal interaction, learning, multimodality, narrative, social theory, learning theory and teaching and learning in higher education, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and systemic-functional linguistics. He published a two-volume project, Languaging: Distributed language, affective dynamics, and the human ecology (Routledge, 2021). He is also currently working on two new books entitled, respectively, The Linguistic Imagination and Languaging, Action, World. He is on the editorial boards of seven international journals. He is developing theoretical frameworks and methodological tools for the study of human learning in higher education using the perspectives of distributed language and cognition, eye tracking, interactivity, and Multimodal Event Analysis. He is also developing the idea of multimodal ecological literacy. He believes that the predominantly mechanistic theories of human cognition and semiosis need to be replaced by a new account of what it means to be a living, feeling, and embodied human self in the human ecology. He enjoys astronomy, bushwalking, fishing, herpetology, and music.
• Phil Graham and axiological discourse analysis: after neoliberalism
  Critical Discourse Studies20 November 2023By Allan LukeQueensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AustraliaAllan Luke is an Australian and Canadian teacher, writer and musician. He taught primary and secondary school in British Columbia and is Emeritus Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His books include: Literacy, Schooling and Social Justice (Routledge, 2018), Educational Policy, Narrative and Discourse (Routledge, 2018), Bourdieu and Chinese Education (Routledge, 2018), Curriculum, Syllabus Design and Equity (Routledge, 2013) and Literacy, Textbooks and Ideology (Taylor & Francis, 1988).
• Abrogating Article 370 and Kashmir’s exceptionalism: a critical analysis of India’s bodies politic
  Critical Discourse Studies20 November 2023By Aditi BhatiaDepartment of English and Communication, Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong KongDr Aditi Bhatia was previously an Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and currently a member of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English. Her main interest is in (critical) discourse analysis that draws on the Discourse of Illusion theoretical framework, with a focus on identity-construction and argumentation in political and media discourses. She has been published in various journals including Discourse & Society, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Language and Politics, New Media & Society, as well as two monographs, Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2015), and Digital Influencers and Online Expertise: The Linguistic Power of Beauty Vloggers (Routledge, 2023). Her most recent research is focused on the discursive construction of Hindu nationalism and diaspora identity in digital mediascapes.
• Rethinking ethics in AI policy: a method for synthesising Graham’s critical discourse analysis approaches and the philosophical study of valuation
  Critical Discourse Studies17 November 2023By Nadira TalibSchool of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, AustraliaNadira Talib is the author of Is It Time to Let Meritocracy Go? Examining the Case of Singapore (Routledge), which presents transdisciplinary methods for constructing a flexible philosophical–analytical model that integrates elements of music, art, and water–fluid dynamics through which to apply the analytic principles of critical discourse analysis for the interpretation of metaphors across historical policy texts from 1979 to 2019. This book offers an original re-examination of problems related to neo-liberal economic structural reforms, ethics, and equity. Her journal publications are featured in ScienceDaily, Bookforum, and in an editorial review of ‘The Top 100 Cited Discourse Studies’ (2015–2019) in the subject area of ‘linguistics and language’.
• Redescribing fossil-fuel investments: how hegemony challengers ‘invert’ arguments in the Norwegian public discourse on climate risk
  Critical Discourse Studies14 November 2023By Tine S. HandelandLiv SunnercrantzDepartment of Media and Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, NorwayTine Sizov Handeland is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Media and Social Sciences, University of Stavanger. Her research focus is on the discursive framing of petroleum policies, social movements addressing the legitimacy of fossil fuel production, and narratives on the role of fossil fuels in a low-carbon transition.Liv Sunnercrantz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Social Sciences, University of Stavanger. Her work on hegemony and rhetoric is primarily positioned within post-foundational discourse theory and the sociology of intellectuals, with a current research focus on affect and populist rhetoric in Nordic media.
• Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics
  Critical Discourse Studies02 November 2023By Yaru ZhaoSchool of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
• Responding to questions at press conferences: confrontational maneuvering by Chinese spokespersons
  Critical Discourse Studies01 November 2023By Mila Ida NurhidayahUniversitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia
• Settler colonialism and therapeutic discourses on the past: a response to Burnett et al.’s ‘a politics of reminding’
  Critical Discourse Studies01 November 2023By Rafael Verbuysta History Department, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgiumb Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South AfricaRafael Verbuyst is an anthropologist and historian. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University’s History Department. He has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork among Khoisan activists since 2014. Rafael’s research interests are Khoisan activism, indigeneity, land claims, settler colonialism and ethnographic methodology. His work has appeared in journals such as Anthropology Southern Africa, The European Journal of Development Research, Journal of Southern African Studies, and Social Dynamics. His monograph, Khoisan Consciousness: An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Town, was published by Brill in 2022.
• ‘Trapping my way up’: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Black Sherif’s songs
  Critical Discourse Studies13 October 2023By Emmanuel Mensah BonsuDepartment of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, GhanaEmmanuel Mensah Bonsu is an MPhil candidate at the Department of English, University of Cape Coast. His research interests include Academic Discourse, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, English for Specific/Academic Purposes, and Sociolinguistics. He is a member of the Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG) and the West Africa Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group (WASFLIG).
• ‘From there everything changed’: conversion narrative in the biomimicry movement
  Critical Discourse Studies11 October 2023By Fransina StradlingValerie Hobbsa University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdomb University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United KingdomFransina Stradling is a Research Assistant in Corpus Linguistics for the Centre for Biomimetic Societal Futures at the University of Huddersfield. She is also a PhD researcher in Cognitive Stylistics at the same university, examining linguistic triggers underlying empathy with fictional characters.Valerie Hobbs is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Sheffield, where she teaches and researches on religious language. Her most recent book, No Love in War (Mayfly Books), documents everyday violence in Christian Dominionist communities in the United States.
• ‘Vicious, vitriolic, hateful and hypocritical’: the representation of feminism within the manosphere
  Critical Discourse Studies15 September 2023By Jessica Aiston
• The politics of climate change metaphors in the U.S. discourse: conceptual metaphor theory and analysis from an ecolinguistics and critical discourse analysis perspective
  Critical Discourse Studies15 September 2023By Yang Hu
• How to ‘decaffeinate’ a legislative report: emerging discourses on the climate change-migration nexus within the European Parliament
  Critical Discourse Studies14 September 2023By Mert Söyler
• Sensegiving doesn’t always make sense: framing the implementation of performance-based funding in Ohio
  Critical Discourse Studies11 September 2023By Amanda (Mandie) Maxwell
• A multimodal and ethnographic approach to textbook discourse
  Critical Discourse Studies06 September 2023By Shimiao Guan
• ‘For business it boils down to one thing’: affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse
  Critical Discourse Studies06 September 2023By Joseph Comer

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