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A contrario     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
AAS Open Research     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Abant Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
About Performance     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Access     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 25)
ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 12)
ACCORD Occasional Paper     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
Acta Humana     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Actes de la Journée des Sciences et Savoirs     Open Access  
Adelphi series     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Administrative Science Quarterly     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 206)
Administrative Theory & Praxis     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
Adultspan Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Advances in Appreciative Inquiry     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Advances in Arts, Social Sciences and Education Research     Open Access   (Followers: 23)
Advances in Southeast Asian Studies     Open Access  
Advocate: Newsletter of the National Tertiary Education Union     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
África     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Africa Spectrum     Open Access   (Followers: 18)
African Affairs     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 69)
African Renaissance     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
African Research Review     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
African Social Science Review     Open Access   (Followers: 8)
Afrika Focus     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Ágora : revista de divulgação científica     Open Access  
Akademik Hassasiyetler     Open Access  
AKADEMOS     Open Access  
Al-Mabsut : Jurnal Studi Islam dan Sosial     Open Access  
AL-Qadissiya Magzine for Human Sciences     Open Access  
Aleph : UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Aletheia : Revista de Desarrollo Humano, Educativo y Social Contemporáneo     Open Access  
Algarrobo-MEL     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Alinteri Journal of Social Sciences     Open Access  
Alliage     Free  
Ambigua : Revista de Investigaciones sobre Género y Estudios Culturales     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
American Communist History     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Anais Eletrônicos do Congresso Epistemologias do Sul     Open Access  
ANALES de la Universidad Central del Ecuador     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Anales de la Universidad de Chile     Open Access  
Análisis     Open Access  
Analysis     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Andamios. Revista de Investigacion Social     Open Access  
Anduli : Revista Andaluza de Ciencias Sociales     Open Access  
Ankara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi     Open Access  
Ankara University SBF Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Annals of Humanities and Development Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 8)
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 44)
Anthropocene Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 9)
Apuntes : Revista de Ciencias Sociales     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Arbejdspapirer : Professionshøjskolen Metropol     Open Access  
Arbetsliv i omvandling     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Arbor     Open Access  
Argomenti. Rivista di economia, cultura e ricerca sociale     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Argumentos : Revista do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da Unimontes     Open Access  
Argumentos. Revista de crítica social     Open Access  
Around the Globe     Full-text available via subscription  
ArtefaCToS : Revista de estudios sobre la ciencia y la tecnología     Open Access  
Articulo - Journal of Urban Research     Open Access   (Followers: 7)
Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Asian Journal of Population Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 8)
Asian Journal of Quality of Life     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Asian Journal of Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences     Open Access  
Asian Social Science     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
Astrolabio, Nueva Época     Open Access  
Atatürk Dergisi     Open Access  
Atatürk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi     Open Access  
Aurum Journal of Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Australasian Review of African Studies, The     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Australian Aboriginal Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 10)
Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 5)
Australian Journal of Emergency Management     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 20)
Australian Journal on Volunteering     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Australian Population Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Bandung : Journal of the Global South     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
BARATARIA. Revista Castellano-Manchega de Ciencias sociales     Open Access  
Barn : Forskning om barn og barndom i Norden     Open Access  
Basic and Applied Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 44)
Bayero Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences     Open Access  
Behavioural Sciences Undergraduate Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Berkeley Undergraduate Journal     Full-text available via subscription  
Bhakti Persada : Jurnal Aplikasi IPTEKS     Open Access  
Big Data & Society     Open Access   (Followers: 42)
Bildhaan : An International Journal of Somali Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi     Open Access  
Black Sea Journal of Public and Social Science     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Black Women, Gender & Families     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 22)
BMC Medical Ethics     Open Access   (Followers: 19)
Bodhi : An Interdisciplinary Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Body Image     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 17)
BOGA : Basque Studies Consortium Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Border Crossing : Transnational Working Papers     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Borderlands Journal : Culture, Politics, Law and Earth     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Brain and Cognition     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 43)
British Review of New Zealand Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
BU Academic Review     Open Access  
Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Búsqueda     Open Access  
Caderno CRH     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Cadernos de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas     Open Access  
Cadernos de Estudos Sociais     Open Access  
Cadernos de Saúde     Open Access  
Cahiers Jean Moulin     Open Access   (Followers: 22)
California Italian Studies Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 7)
California Journal of Politics and Policy     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Cambio : Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali     Open Access  
Caminho Aberto : Revista de Extensão do IFSC     Open Access  
Campos en Ciencias Sociales     Open Access  
Canadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Canadian Social Science     Open Access   (Followers: 10)
Caradde : Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat     Open Access  
Carbon Capture Science & Technology     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Caribbean Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 10)
Castalia : Revista de Psicología de la Academia     Open Access  
Catalan Social Sciences Review     Open Access  
Catalyst : A Social Justice Forum     Open Access   (Followers: 10)
Catholic Social Science Review     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Challenges     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Chandrakasem Rajabhat University Journal of Graduate School     Open Access  
Changing Societies & Personalities     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Children & Young People Now     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 5)
China Journal of Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Chinese Journal of Social Science and Management     Open Access  
Chinese Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Cidadania em Ação : Revista de Extensão e Cultura: Notícias     Open Access  
Ciencia e Interculturalidad     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Ciência ET Praxis     Open Access  
Ciencia y Sociedad     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Ciencia, Cultura y Sociedad     Open Access  
Ciencia, Técnica y Mainstreaming Social     Open Access  
Ciencias Holguin     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Ciências Sociais Unisinos     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Ciencias Sociales y Educación     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Ciencias Sociales y Religión/Ciências Sociais e Religião     Open Access  
CienciaUAT     Open Access  
Científic@ : Multidisciplinary Journal     Open Access  
Circular Economy and Sustainability     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Citizen Science : Theory and Practice     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Citizenship Teaching & Learning     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Ciudad Paz-ando     Open Access  
Civilizar Ciencias Sociales y Humanas     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Claroscuro     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
CLIO América     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Cogent Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Colección Académica de Ciencias Sociales     Open Access  
Communication, Politics & Culture     Open Access   (Followers: 15)
Communities, Children and Families Australia     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Community Empowerment     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Compendium     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Comuni@cción     Open Access  
ConCiencia     Open Access  
Connections     Open Access  
Contemporary Journal of African Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Contemporary Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
CONTRA : RELATOS desde el Sur     Open Access  
Contribuciones desde Coatepec     Open Access  
Convergencia     Open Access  
Cooperativismo y Desarrollo     Open Access  
Corporate Reputation Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Creative and Knowledge Society     Open Access   (Followers: 10)
Critical Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Critical Studies on Terrorism     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 59)
CTheory     Open Access  
Cultura Latinoamericana     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Cultura y Representaciones Sociales     Open Access  
Cultural Trends     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 15)
Culturales     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Culturas. Revista de Gestión Cultural     Open Access  
Culture Scope     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Current Research in Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Cywilizacja i Polityka     Open Access  
Dalat University Journal of Science     Open Access  
Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat     Open Access  
Demographic Research     Open Access   (Followers: 14)
Derecho y Ciencias Sociales     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Desacatos     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Desafios     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Desde El Sur     Open Access  
Desenvolvimento em Questão     Open Access  
Developing Practice : The Child, Youth and Family Work Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 16)
Development     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales y Sociales     Open Access  
DIFI Family Research and Proceedings     Open Access  
Digital Geography and Society     Open Access  
Dinamisia : Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat     Open Access  
Discourse & Society     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 58)
Discover Social Science and Health     Open Access   (Followers: 15)
Discursos del Sur, revista de teoría crítica en Ciencias Sociales     Open Access  
Distinktion : Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)

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  • Book review: Anne-Mette Hermans, Discourses of Perfection: Representing
           Cosmetic Procedures and Beauty Products in UK Lifestyle Magazines

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      Authors: Helen Ringrow
      Pages: 668 - 670
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Volume 34, Issue 5, Page 668-670, September 2023.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-08-31T07:30:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231152300
      Issue No: Vol. 34, No. 5 (2023)
       
  • A discourse analysis of critical commenting online: A study of comments on
           a self-mockery event

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      Authors: Xiaoyi Bi
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      This paper examines critical comments hidden behind the humorous topic of self-mockery. Based on a discourse analysis of 51 critical comments identified by GooSeeker of a self-mockery event from Weibo, this paper aims to unpack how the commenters actively exploit the relevancy of a topic to fulfill socio-political functions. Three strategies are found to be key in enabling them to accomplish socio-political functions: immoralizing the peripheral party, deauthorizing privilege and irrationalizing competitiveness, the meanings of which are discursively constructed across the critical comments. In this process, the self-mockery event serves as a weapon of social power to formulate critique and articulate discontent without breaking a consistent performance. The creative (re)appropriation in use is believed to be triggered by the policy of the platform and user’s self-motivated interactional practice. These findings are expected to have implications for understanding comments as a social behavior at the nexus of language and social power.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-09-27T11:38:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231199260
       
  • ‘It will never be well with SARS’: A discourse analytic study of the
           #EndSARS protests on social media

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      Authors: Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      This paper analyses the discursive strategies used by #EndSARS protesters in their tweets and Facebook comments to construct SARS officers, hold the Nigerian government accountable and demand social change. Informed by social media critical discourse analysis (SMCDA) and social movement theory, the analysis revealed three strategies: constructing SARS as oppressors, representing the Nigerian government as insensitive and issuing a clarion call for action. The analysis shows that these strategies enabled the protesters to construct the victim-aggressor categorisation, thereby legitimising their resistance to police brutality and demand for change. The study also highlights how the protesters deployed local linguistic resources and ideologies to appeal to the emotions of other Nigerians to join the protest. The study demonstrates how digital political mobilisation can galvanise reform in Nigeria, where leaders and law enforcement agencies are held accountable for their (in)actions. This study contributes to the developing interdisciplinary studies on SMCDA and digital activism.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-09-25T09:16:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231200994
       
  • Music as symbolic action

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      Authors: Phil Graham, Andy Ward
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      The aim of this paper is to describe and exemplify a theoretical perspective for the analysis of music as symbolic action in critical studies of discourse. We use deployments of music by legislatures in Australia, the UK, and the USA as exemplar cases to develop foundations for a critical, non-semiotic perspective that sees music work as gestalt complexes of physical and cultural forces that move people towards or away from specific actions and attitudes. In presenting our perspective we critique some semiotic assertions about music that are commonplaces in discourse studies and elsewhere. Our cases draw on news reports and scholarly discourse about the use of music as a means of torture in warfare and as a means of purifying urban public spaces by keeping youth and homeless people out of them at night.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-09-19T07:40:49Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231195713
       
  • Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about
           the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability

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      Authors: Elena Semino, Tara Coltman-Patel, William Dance, Zsófia Demjén, Claire Hardaker
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      Experimental studies have shown that narratives can be effective persuasive tools in addressing vaccine hesitancy, including regarding the vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is transmitted via sexual contact and can cause cervical cancer. This paper presents an analysis of a thread from the online parenting forum Mumsnet Talk where an initially undecided Original Poster is persuaded to vaccinate their child against HPV by a respondent’s narrative of cervical cancer that they describe as difficult to share. This paper considers this particular narrative alongside all other narratives that precede the decision announced on the Mumsnet thread. It shows how producing pro-vaccination narratives about HPV involves challenges regarding ‘tellability’ – what makes the events in a narrative reportable or worth telling. We suggest that this has implications for the context-dependent nature of tellability, the role of parenting forums in vaccination-related discussions, and narrative-based communication about vaccinations more generally.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-09-08T11:28:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231181075
       
  • Book review: Jonathan Charteris-Black, Metaphors of Coronavirus: Invisible
           Enemy or Zombie Apocalypse'

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      Authors: Julia T. Williams Camus
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-09-04T06:37:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231196638
       
  • Digital resistance: Discursive construction of polarization and otherness
           in Oduduwa secessionists’ social media discourse

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      Authors: PraiseGod Aminu
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      This paper investigates the discursive strategies employed by Oduduwa secessionists to construct polarization and otherness on Twitter. Using the socio-cognitive approach to CDA combined with social media CDA, the study illustrates how socio-cultural and spatiotemporal contexts are embedded in digital performances of resistance. Findings show that the secessionists employ four main discursive strategies, namely: (1) vitriolic socio-cognitive labels and coinages; (2) generalization and ethnocentrism; (3) language of threat; and (4) use of Yoruba language to legitimize their resistance, accentuate their ideological stances, construct polarization and otherness, and do social mobilization. These strategies are achieved via discursive, linguistic, and stylo-orthographic resources made available by digital technology. The paper concludes that the discursive strategies employed by the secessionists do not directly reflect polarization but are simply constitutive of it.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-08-26T11:19:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231194171
       
  • Book review: Political Myth-Making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist
           Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction and Promotion of the
           African Dream

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      Authors: G Edzordzi Agbozo
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-08-23T11:37:46Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231192167
       
  • Rule 1: Remember the human. A socio-cognitive discourse study of a Reddit
           forum banned for promoting hate based on identity

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      Authors: Jane Dilkes
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      Detecting internet hate speech automatically is an important but difficult task that is recognised as ethically problematic. In comparison to typical computer science approaches, the current study focuses on psychologically meaningful aspects of language, and not on terms pre-defined as hateful. Data consists of the naturally occurring discourse of a gender critical feminist group banned from the Reddit discussion platform for promoting hate based on identity; this is compared with discourse of a feminist group from Reddit, that has not been banned. Notable psychologically meaningful terms of the gender critical group include third-person plural pronouns, and metonymic acronyms that reference the gender critical outgroup, which may represent outgroup derogation, and outgroup homogeneity. It is noted that the banned forum, which is shown to be an online community, may be responding to threats to identity in recognised ways. It is concluded that a socio-cognitive discourse approach to hate speech detection may help address related ethical concerns, including potential social injustice.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-08-14T07:35:22Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231190344
       
  • Book review: Complicity in Discourse and Practice

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      Authors: Tom Van Hout
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-08-12T08:22:01Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231192772
       
  • From criticism to conspiracies: The populist discourse of COVID-19
           sceptics in Germany’s Querdenken community on Telegram

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      Authors: Rémi Almodt
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      Telegram is a central space for unifying far-right actors and ideology, activists and movements, alternative media, conspiracies, and Coronavirus scepticism. While much research has focused on network dynamics and topic modelling, there is a scarcity of large scale, in-depth content analyses. The present research examines this environment through a semi-automated content analysis of German COVID-19 protest movement Querdenken on Telegram, to determine discursive features of the politicisation of this public health crisis within Querdenken’s communities. The analysis of 1.4 million chat messages shows that key elements of right-wing populist discourse can be detected in several sub-communities. The people and the homeland are antagonised by the corrupt, oppressive elite. Within this environment, politicised anti-COVID-19 restrictions narratives combine with populist discourse, distributed from Querdenken channels via general information channels, connecting to activist, protest, news, lawyer, and doctor-themed chats. Within these channels, external links lead towards publications promoting far-right ideology and conspiracies.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-08-09T06:29:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231191971
       
  • ‘Italians locked at home, illegal migrants free to disembark’: How
           populist parties re-contextualized the anti-immigration discourse at the
           time of COVID-19 pandemic

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      Authors: Dario Lucchesi, Vincenzo Romania
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      By drawing on a Critical Discourse Studies perspective, we analyze language and discursive strategies used by 36 Italian populist right-wing politicians in constructing the narration of immigration during the covid-19 period on their Facebook pages, combining Corpus Linguistics and the analysis of the discursive argumentation. The main aim is to verify a potential discursive construction between immigration and the spread of the virus also considering the change of the government and the role assumed by different parties. Results suggest that the connection between migration and pandemic has not been traduced in a discourse able to systematically blame migrants as vehicles for the virus, rather politicians operated a re-contextualization of past discursive strategies based on the ‘us’ versus ‘them’ dichotomy. Moreover, lexicon and argumentative analysis identified interesting differences between parties especially with the change of government and the new conformation of the alliance. The article shows elements of continuity concerning the political discourse on immigration, but it also stressed important outputs concerning the politicization process showing that pandemic constitutes a critical ‘politicizing moment’ that operated as a mechanism of further normalization of anti-immigration discourse.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-08-08T07:17:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231190504
       
  • Can space be conceptualized in a different way in political discourse' An
           extended application of Discourse Space Theory

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      Authors: Qian Ma, Qiufang Wen
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      Political discourse can be considered as consisting of conflictual discourse and cooperative discourse in view of the relationship between power entities. From the perspective of spatial conceptualization in cognitive discourse analysis, cooperative discourse is supposed to be different from conflictual one in terms of the spatial representation, with Chilton’s Discourse Space Theory, which mainly conceptualizes space as an inside/outside dichotomy, only accounting for the latter instead of the former. This paper attempts to further apply Chilton’s three-dimensional model to involve the alternative way of spatial conceptualization with different kind of construals and to compare the differences of the two types of political discourse in the construction of discourse space. Taking the speeches by two state leaders for the purposes of cooperation and accusation respectively as the cases in point, this paper concludes that cooperative discourse displays an outward-extensive discourse space representation as opposed to the inward-contractive discourse space representation of conflictual discourse. This study contributes to expand the scope of discourse space analysis, which is primarily for antagonistic relations only, to incorporate cooperative relations with an extended application of DST based on alternative ways of spatial conceptualization and an elaboration on the dynamics of its three dimensions, and hence to shed some lights on political discourse studies.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-07-28T09:49:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231188956
       
  • Value frames in discourse supporting transgender athlete bans

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      Authors: Kimberly Martin, Elizabeth Rahilly
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      American states began passing legislation that would ban transgender girls from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity in 2020. During legislative debate, supporters of transgender athlete bans adopted rhetoric that framed their arguments in terms of commonly held values. ‘Value frames’ establish connections between people and spoken values and have a powerful effect on the way that opinions about public policy are formed. We conduct a discourse analysis of video and audio footage from committee testimony and chamber debate from 18 US states to identify the major discursive themes used by the bans’ supporters. Themes include gender simplicity, male advantage, protecting women and preventing change. Our discussion and analysis connects these themes to long-standing value frames used by political elites, namely tradition, fairness and equal opportunity. The conclusion addresses the implications of this discourse for shaping the public’s understanding of sex and gender.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-07-26T10:10:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231187058
       
  • Book review: Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press

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      Authors: Hanna Limatius
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-07-13T04:44:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231185242
       
  • Book review: The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis

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      Authors: Barbara Johnstone
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-07-10T06:54:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231186517
       
  • Book review: Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and
           Beyond

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      Authors: Carmen Helena Guerrero
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-07-05T05:38:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231185028
       
  • Book review: Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies

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      Authors: Zhenghao Rong
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-07-03T10:21:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231185244
       
  • Book review: Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and
           Society in Contemporary China

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      Authors: Yanfei Fang
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-07-01T07:26:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231185030
       
  • Book review: How to do Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal
           Introduction

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      Authors: Helen Ringrow
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-07-01T07:25:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231185029
       
  • Afro-diasporan racial discourse in Germany

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      Authors: Samsondeen Ajagbe
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      This paper investigates the racial discourse in the Afro-diaspora group in Germany. It uses the ‘discourse-historical approach’ – a strand of Critical Discourse Analysis – for the three-dimensional analysis of language biographical data of 67 African migrants in Germany. The study provides African migrants’ accounts of racism, identifies four discursive strategies, and then examines the semantics of a counter-racialisation term developed to cope with racism. The study finds Afro-diaspora racial discourse as a site for confronting the racism problem, legitimising the race idea, and contingent on migrants’ access to material resources in Germany. Furthermore, the term ‘fake-oyinbo’ indicates an ability to use simple linguistic terms in an intended way of racial categorisation within race relations thinking. The paper concludes that Afro-diasporans’ racial discourse is a ‘grassroots’ minority discourse revealing a counter-racialisation linguistic action while explaining and justifying the condition of the ordinary black minority.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-06-27T10:20:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231179670
       
  • ‘I have controlled so much’: Discourse of prison violence

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      Authors: Jing-ying Guo
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      Prison violence has been considered a threat to not only the safety of inmates, staff, and visitors but the day-to-day functioning of the prisons, and therefore is strictly forbidden and immediately punished. However, some inmates still turn to violence, which raises doubts about whether these inmates are naturally violent and impossible to change. This paper, based on in-depth interviews with 27 inmates who have committed violence and remained in solitary confinement in prisons in Zhejiang Province, China, examines how the inmates make sense of and describe their violent experiences. It is found that these inmates make efforts to construct their victims as deserving, acts as controlled, and punishment as acceptable through employing discursive strategies such as resorting to traditional values, conditional sentences, and repetition. In so doing, these inmates seek to redefine who they are not, how they should not be treated and what prison life should not be like. This paper could open up ways of better understanding why violence could be reduced but impossible to be eliminated completely in the prison context.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-06-06T08:42:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231178230
       
  • “A radical point of view”: The discursive construction of the
           political identity of student activists

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      Authors: Sylvia Sierra
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      Recently there has been renewed interest in the intersection of identity and epistemics in social interaction, yet epistemics has still rarely been analyzed in political identity construction. This paper combines research on identity from a sociocultural linguistic perspective with epistemics using Conversation Analysis. The focus here is on understanding how a small group of student activists construct their shared political identities through epistemic stances towards their academic majors and career goals. Through a discourse analytic study of conversational data among these activists, I demonstrate the validity of the relationality principle of identity in accounting for how identities are constructed as related to one another. Furthermore, I examine the relational process of authentication in epistemic stances to legitimate claims to knowledge regarding political and academic identities, as well as alignment of stances in building group solidarity and shared political identity.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-06-06T07:03:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231174983
       
  • (De)legitimation of COVID-19 vaccination narratives on Facebook comments
           in Romania: Beyond the co-occurrence patterns of discursive strategies

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      Authors: Camelia Cmeciu
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      The postmodern medical paradigm has empowered online users in the (de)legitimating process of health-related topics. By employing a co-occurrence analysis, this study identifies the thematic patterns used by Romanian online users in their multimodal comments to the #storiesfromvaccination Facebook campaign run by the Romanian government. The findings show that the commenters assessed source credibility through two thematic patterns: ‘source exemplarity’ and ‘source distrust’. Health experts were more legitimized than laypersons and role models as sources in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Two thematic patterns emerged in the assessment of vaccination, namely: ‘immunization – past and present challenges’ and ‘vaccination supporter versus opponent cleavage’. In the discussion on immunization, a polarization between a nostalgic longing for the past and a present corrupted medical and political system prevailed, whereas the important feature of discursive antagonism could be observed in the latter thematic pattern. The co-occurrences of (de)legitimation strategies are explained with reference to the political and medical context, along with the challenges of social media usage in online vaccination communication campaigns.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-05-26T12:42:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231174793
       
  • Book review: Approaches to Discourse Analysis

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      Authors: Emma Putland
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-05-10T07:31:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231174319
       
  • Dispatching First Responders: Language Practices and the Dispatcher’s
           Operational Role in Radio Encounters With Police Officers

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      Authors: Steven E Clayman, Heidi Kevoe-Feldman
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      The delivery of emergency services is often contingent on social processes launched when someone calls to request help. While initial encounters between civilian callers and institutional call-takers have been extensively studied, little is known about subsequent encounters between dispatchers and first responders. This paper examines police radio dispatch calls and the language practices enacting the dispatcher’s operational role. It sketches the technological constraints and communicative challenges of the two-way radio medium, and the overall activity structure of radio dispatch. It then focuses on the design of dispatchers’ instructions to officers. The instruction has a recurrent base form but may be expanded with optional material addressing atypical or specialized circumstances. Accordingly, dispatchers are not passive conduits of information transfer; working within the constraints of the radio medium, they elaborate and reframe the available information in ways that triage the problem and aid in its downstream management.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-05-10T07:29:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231164763
       
  • ‘[P]aying back to the community and to the British people’: Migration
           

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      Authors: Sofia Lampropoulou, Paige Johnson
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      This study explores migrant identity construction in the curated stories of UK-based charity organisations. Drawing upon the paradigms of critical discourse analysis and narrative positioning, we demonstrate how the construction of migrant identities as successful, fulfilled, grateful and resilient reproduce a migration as transaction discourse. We problematise these representations as prerequisites to migrants’ acceptance, given that they not only speak to the neoliberal, neo-assimilatory paradigm of wider integration debates in UK public discourse, but also conflict with the overtly philanthropic aims of the charity organisations. The curated stories are, thus, transformed into sites of liquid racism in their entanglement of declared antiracist, covertly racist, positionings of migrants in the UK context. Our work contributes to the body of research that aims to scrutinise the largely unexamined work of institutionalised social actors who aim to ‘do the right thing’ by calling for greater reflexivity and the need for critical dialogue in order to unpack the embeddedness of antiracism in racism.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-05-08T06:16:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231170974
       
  • ‘Relatively civilized, relatively European’: Offence and online
           (de)normalization of media racism

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      Authors: Thulfiqar Hussein Altahmazi, Raith Zeher Abid
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      The paper explores the interplay of offence, (de)normalization and moral conflict triggered by media racism. The paper is premised on the assumption that public interventions to moral transgressions occasion moral conflicts in which transgressions can be (de)normalized through impoliteness, more specifically the acts of offence taking and causing. A YouTube video discussing the racist media coverage of the Ukrainian refugee crisis was analyzed along with a sizable amount of related user-generated comments. The analysis showed that offence taking and offence causing have morally restorative and (de)normalizing functions in moral conflict. This highlights the fact that the relationship between morality and impoliteness is much more complex than is usually theorized, wherein impoliteness is often perceived as a morally norm-disruptive behavior or a negatively valenced evaluation thereof. Not only can impoliteness be morally justified in moral conflicts, it can also be a necessary form of restorative public intervention. This necessitates greater attention to (de)normalization in (im)politeness theorizing.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-05-04T10:25:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231173264
       
  • Reacting to homophobia in a French online discussion: The fuzzy boundaries
           between heteronormativity and homophobia

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      Authors: Simo Määttä, Samuel Vernet
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      This article analyzes how participants of an online discussion thread related to a YouTube video on homophobia expressed their opposition to homophobia. Both the video and the 403 posts in the discussion thread are in French. On the surface, the data are characterized by strong antagonism between the stances that support and those that are critical of LGBTQ persons. However, a closer look at the posts expressing a pro-LGBTQ stance reveals considerable variation among them: they range from an open deconstruction of homophobia to more ambivalent positions that draw on ideologies circulating within the heteronormative order and are naturalized in the everyday discourse of spontaneous online interactions. We analyze five categories of posts expressing different forms of pro-LGBTQ stances to highlight their fuzzy boundaries with homophobic stances. The analysis draws on argumentative discourse analysis, focusing on process types used to construct arguments and topoi, as well as deictic elements through which the authors of these posts express their distance vis-à-vis homophobia and LGBTQ persons.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-05-02T11:58:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231168760
       
  • Misogyny in election discourse: Analysing the 2019 General Elections in
           India

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      Authors: Aparna Vincent, Ria Kumari
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
      This article examines misogynist comments on women politicians as part of the campaign discourse for the 2019 General Elections in India. The objective is to understand and critically examine the broad patterns of misogynist discourse during election times and the socio-cognitive interface that enables such misogyny. Using a Critical-Feminist-Socio-Cognitive-Discourse Analysis, which combines Lazar’s Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis and Van Dijk’s Socio-Cognitive Approach, we analyse the explicit stating and implied underpinnings of 22 misogynist comments and identify 4 broad patterns and 8 sub-patterns. We argue that, while sharing similarities with global patterns and stereotypes of misogyny, election misogyny in India originates in socio-cognitive and cultural tropes unique to its patriarchal society. When reproduced in misogynist verbal attacks directed at female politicians, these historically rooted misogynist tropes further reinforce the dominant patriarchal culture and add to the attempts to delegitimize Indian women’s political representation and agency.
      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-04-24T05:02:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231166239
       
  • Book review

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      Authors: Jens Maeße
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-03-06T04:52:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265231152726
       
  • Book review

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      Authors: Gülşah Türk-Yiğitalp
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-03-06T04:51:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265221150672
       
  • Book review: Translation as a Set of Frames

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      Authors: Qi Pan
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-03-06T04:48:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265221141582
       
  • Book review: All Bullshit and Lies': Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and
           the Judgment of Untruthfulness

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      Authors: Marta Dynel
      Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Discourse & Society
      PubDate: 2023-01-11T05:44:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/09579265221140234
       
 
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