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Discourse & Society

Between rebellion and compliance: Discursive practices of 985 waste youth in China

Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print. During the pandemic, students from elite Chinese universities (Project 985), facing failure or unemployment, began labelling themselves as985 waste. Scholars debate whether it signals rebellion against meritocrac…

By Yanni Sun, 2 weeks ago
Discourse & Society

‘You’re Dead!’: Utilizing aggression as a propaganda technique in Russian political talk shows

Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print. This study investigates the strategic use of aggression as propaganda in Russian political talk shows from 2000 to 2023. Employing a mixed-method approach, it analyzes changes in aggression levels, targets, and p…

By Petr Gulenko, 2 weeks ago
Discourse & Society

“When peace and freedom broke apart”: A rhetoric of values in early Cold War discourse

Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print. This project examines the role values played in early US Cold War discourse, focusing on the use and function of the morphemefreein President Truman’s and President Eisenhower’s State of the Union addresses. I ex…

By Patricia L. Dunmire, 2 weeks ago
Discourse & Society

Event conceptualization in news coverage of pro-life protests: A multimodal analysis of language and image

Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print. This study investigates how anti-abortion protests during 2017–2022 are represented in U.S. media through analyses of language, image, and language-image relations. Using Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive…

By Hikaru Suzuki, 2 weeks ago

Empowering Through Femvertising? Exploring the Post-feminist Discourses in Indian Internationally Award-winning Advertisements Vis-à-Vis the World

Journal of Creative Communications, Ahead of Print. This study examined the presence and implications of post-feminist discourses in internationally award-winning femvertisements featuring Indian women and sociocultural themes. Using Windels et al.’s (…

By Kavitha Venkatasubramany Iyer, 2 weeks ago
Literature Compass

“English Literature After #MeToo: Global Perspectives”: Introduction

Literature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2025.

By nKate Hext, nJulie Choin, 2 weeks ago
Discourse & Communication

Older adults’ resistance to engaging in reminiscence therapy: A multimodal perspective

Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print. This study employs multimodal conversation analysis to examine the precursors of resistance displays during Reminiscence Therapy (RT) sessions, the format of the resistance exhibited by Chinese older adults…

By Zhongquan Ma, Lihe Huang, 2 weeks ago
Discourse & Communication

Book review: Catherine Bouko, Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media

Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print.

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Discourse & Society

Book review: Le Cheng and David Machin, The Law and Critical Discourse Studies

Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print.

By Shengjiao Tian, Cuiying LiChongqing Jiaotong University, China, 3 weeks ago
Discourse & Society

The rhetoric of externalizing migration policies: The cases of British and Italian sovereignty by proxy

Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print. This paper conducts a Critical Discursive Analysis of the institutional rhetoric employed by the British and Italian Prime Ministers to legitimize their respective migration externalization policies – the Rwanda …

By Franco Zappettini, 3 weeks ago

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