Critical Discourse Studies

• 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
• Discourse, intersectionality, critique: theory, methods and practice
  Critical Discourse Studies13 July 2023By Eleonora Esposito
• Intersecting hostilities around the European migration crisis: the case of Carola Rackete and the Sea-Watch 3
  Critical Discourse Studies13 July 2023By Eleonora Esposito
• Examining gendered discourses from an African locale: towards an intrasectional feminist critical discourse analysis
  Critical Discourse Studies04 July 2023By Nancy Henaku
• ‘Sorry, You’re Not A Winner’: considering critical relativism, competing interests and lateral power struggle in ethical critique
  Critical Discourse Studies04 July 2023By Lexi Webster
• ‘Sorry, You’re Not A Winner’: considering critical relativism, competing interests and lateral power struggle in ethical critique
  Critical Discourse Studies04 July 2023By Lexi WebsterUniversity of Southampton, Southampton, UKDr Lexi Webster is the Deputy Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton. Lexi’s research primarily combines corpus linguistics and socio-cognitive discourse studies to explore identity constructions, behaviours and cognitive models, including the implications they have for actors, institutions and social structures. Thus far, this research has extended primarily to an exploration of gender and sexuality in online discourses, focusing on the connections and divisions that are (re)constructed between and within social groups and social contexts.
• Intersectionalisation as meta-discursive practice: complicated power dynamics in Pink Dot’s movement-building
  Critical Discourse Studies28 June 2023By Michelle M. Lazar
• Gender equality in the name of the state: state feminism or femonationalism in civic orientation for newly arrived migrants in Sweden?
  Critical Discourse Studies28 June 2023By Simon Bauer
• The discursive construction of intersectionality in public policy implementation
  Critical Discourse Studies26 June 2023By MariaCaterina La Barbera
• ‘A threat to national unity, an emancipator’: discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities
  Critical Discourse Studies13 May 2023By Ayo Osisanwo
• Critical Discourse Analysis: a practical introduction to power in language
  Critical Discourse Studies09 May 2023By Huihui Jiang
• The hybrid discourse of the ‘European Green Deal’: road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly
  Critical Discourse Studies26 April 2023By Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
• Politicized or popularized? News values and news voices in China’s and Australia’s media discourse of climate change
  Critical Discourse Studies17 April 2023By Changpeng Huan
• Negotiating climate change in public discourse: insights from critical discourse studies
  Critical Discourse Studies12 April 2023By Guofeng Wang
• How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
  Critical Discourse Studies10 April 2023By David Machin
• Positioning as discursive struggle for equity: a critical discourse analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of African countries
  Critical Discourse Studies06 April 2023By Xufeng Zhu
• Linguistic polyphony in UN speeches on climate change: an analysis of implicit argumentation
  Critical Discourse Studies04 April 2023By Guofeng Wang
• Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives
  Critical Discourse Studies16 March 2023By Nana Pang
• The discursive construction of a new reality in Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech
  Critical Discourse Studies10 March 2023By Mario Bisiada
• Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles
  Critical Discourse Studies10 March 2023By Vanessa Tafi
• ‘New’ Dutch Civic Integration: learning ‘Spontaneous Compliance’ to address inherent difference
  Critical Discourse Studies20 February 2023By Nadine Blankvoort
• Conspiracy theory discourses
  Critical Discourse Studies19 February 2023By Richard J. Whitt
• Intensifying resistance through complexification: a positive discourse analysis of the portrayal of Amazighs in a selected Moroccan EFL textbook
  Critical Discourse Studies07 February 2023By Khalid Said
• ‘Real men score’: masculinity in contemporary advertising discourse
  Critical Discourse Studies02 February 2023By Anna Islentyeva
• An ‘attractive alternative way of wielding power’? Revealing hidden gender ideologies in the portrayal of women Heads of State during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Critical Discourse Studies23 January 2023By Carolin Debray
• Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis
  Critical Discourse Studies23 January 2023By Yifan Chen
• Hierarchies among intertextual references: reading Reggaeton Ilustrado’s digital humour through the colonial matrix of power
  Critical Discourse Studies18 January 2023By Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera
• ‘It’s probably still written by a white person’: challenging assumptions about racial identity in a critical professional development course
  Critical Discourse Studies05 January 2023By Audrey Lucero
• Anti-populist fantasies: interrogating Veja’s discursive constructions, from Lula to Bolsonaro
  Critical Discourse Studies28 December 2022By Sebastián Ronderos
• Textbooks as ‘Neoliberal artifacts’: a critical study of knowledge-making in ELT industry
  Critical Discourse Studies28 December 2022By Asma Nizamani
• Scroll culture and authoritarian populism: how Turkish and Greek online news aggravate ‘refugee crisis’ tensions
  Critical Discourse Studies21 December 2022By Lyndon C. S. Way

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