Discourse &Society, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 89-106, January 2022. Societies are undergoing enormous upheavals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. High levels of psychological distress are widespread, yet little is known about the exact impacts a…
Discourse &Society, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 56-73, January 2022. Metaphors are powerful mechanisms by which to rally exclusionary nationalist sentiment without necessarily appearing racist. However, sometimes those metaphors are challenged, invert…
Discourse &Society, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 3-33, January 2022. This paper investigates the topics and affiliations associated with the hashtag #AllCatsAreBeautiful on the social media platform Twitter. Drawing on concepts from social semiotics (s…
Discourse &Society, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 34-55, January 2022. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) increasingly recognises the role played by multiple semiotic modes in the discursive construction of social identities and inequalities. One embodie…
Discourse &Society, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 74-88, January 2022. Sexism and sexist ideology have significant negative consequences for female victims of sexual assault and other crimes. Thus, uncovering how language is used as a discursive tool fo…
Discourse &Society, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 107-125, January 2022. Adopting the Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, this study investigates the ideology reflected by the anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China, the power dynamics reveal…
Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print. While ecolinguistics studies interactions between language and the natural world, the theme of genetic modification highlights challenges in developing frameworks for the analysis of ecological discourses. Given …