Discourse & Society

Book review: Complicity in Discourse and Practice

Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print.

From criticism to conspiracies: The populist discourse of COVID-19 sceptics in Germany’s Querdenken community on Telegram

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 an…

By Rémi Almodt, 1 year ago

‘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

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 cov…

By Dario Lucchesi, 1 year ago

Discourse & Society

Can space be conceptualized in a different way in political discourse? An extended application of Discourse Space Theory

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 cogn…

By Qian Ma, 1 year ago

Discourse & Society

Value frames in discourse supporting transgender athlete bans

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 ban…

By Kimberly Martin, 1 year ago