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“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–2022
Michał Krzyżanowski & Hugo Ekström
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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What does it mean to redefine prosperity? A theory of definition for pathways to sustainable futures
Nikolay Mintchev
Published online: 16 May 2024
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Fire, police cars and barricade tape: exploring visual securitisation in Sweden Democrats’ Instagram posts
Salma Bouchafra
Published online: 15 May 2024
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A panorama of linguistic landscape studies
by Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz, Bristol, Jackson, Multilingual Matters, 2023, xv+452 pp., $84.89 (hardcover), ISBN 9781800417151
Rui Guo
Published online: 12 May 2024
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(Re)framing online news through paratexts: a multisemiotic analysis of The New York Times in Chinese
Yuan Ping & Kefei Wang
Published online: 08 May 2024
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Intercultural competence and pragmatics
edited by Gila A. Schauer, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, xxiv + 168 pp., ISBN 9783031444715 (hbk), ISBN 978-3-031-44472-2 (ebk)
Yunyun Zhou & Hua Tan
Published online: 06 May 2024
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Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory
by Gerard J. Steen, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023, 355 pp., £95.65 (hardback), ISBN 978-9-027-21385-3
Yuchen Liu & Xuekun Liu
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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Breakdown of knowledge authority: semiotic analysis of an anti-vax conspiracy theory influencer on Twitter
Heidi Campana Piva
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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Fair or biased? A corpus-based study of Australia’s early COVID-19 media representation of China
Yiming Xia, Changpeng Huan & Alexandra García Marrugo
Published online: 13 Apr 2024
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“The trash is ruining the picture”: social media, sustainability, and the semiotics of pristine nature
Sean P. Smith
Published online: 13 Apr 2024
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Econarrative: ethics, ecology, and the search for new narratives to live by
by Arran Stibbe, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, 288 pp., £ 22.49 (Ebook), ISBN 9781350263130
Zirui Xiong
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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The power of algorithms and the rise of experience economy: “the digital mind. semiotic studies of digital culture”
by Kristian K. Bankov. Cham: Springer, Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress series, 2022. pp. vii-xxx, 226., $92.32 (Hardcover), Book review by Hristina Ambareva
Hristina Ambareva
Published online: 26 Mar 2024
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Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks
Jun Yu & Yifan Zhu
Published online: 05 Mar 2024
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Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: theory and application
by Thu Ngo, Susan Hood, J.R. Martin, Clare Painter, Bradley A. Smith & Michele Zappavigna, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, xiv + 265pp., £26.09 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781350074910
Faksi Rana Al-Kahfi, Galang Adhitia Mahardhika, Muhammad Fardiansyah Irwan & Astri Winandari Berlin
Published online: 27 Feb 2024
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War on feminism: an analysis of metaphorical representations on Weibo
Kai Bao
Published online: 27 Feb 2024
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The development of L2 interactional competence: a multimodal study of complaining in French interactions
by Klara Skogmyr Marian, Oxon, Routledge, 2023, xv + 254 pp., (eBook), ISBN: 978-1-003-27121-5.
Zhen Li & Guodong Yu
Published online: 23 Feb 2024
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Kongish: translanguaging and the commodification of an urban dialect
by Tong King Lee, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 82 pp., £15 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-009-28112-6
Junjie Ma
Published online: 21 Feb 2024
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“Ps. I’ll find you.” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile
Sol Rojas-Lizana
Published online: 09 Feb 2024
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“(scream)(wriggle)(dismally crawl)” – parentheses as semiotic resources for translanguaging and trans-semiotic practices on Chinese micro-blogging
Yi Zhang, Luoxiangyu Zhang, Wei Ren & Yuanbo Liu
Published online: 30 Jan 2024
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Discourses that undermine union movements: a multimodal analysis of union-busting videos
Theresa Catalano & Julia Schleck
Published online: 19 Jan 2024
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Interfacing the semiosis of affect and crowdsourced spatialities in the context of post-panoptic surveillance. A case study of Safecity app
Rania Magdi Fawzy
Published online: 29 Dec 2023
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Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
edited by Andrea Cossu and Jorge Fontdevila, Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2023, xiii + 212 pp., £26.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781529211757
Haoda Feng & Gang Zeng
Published online: 29 Dec 2023
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Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”
Emma Putland, Chris Chikodzore-Paterson & Gavin Brookes
Published online: 14 Dec 2023
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The chop suey letterform in historical Los Angeles Chinatowns
Yu Li
Published online: 13 Dec 2023
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Translation, adaptation and digital media
by John Milton and Silvia Cobelo, London, Routledge, 2023, 322 pp., £34.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-429-26201-2
Zilong Zhong
Published online: 06 Dec 2023
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Conducting sentiment analysis
by Lei Lei and Dinlin Liu, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, iv++104 pp., $20.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-108-82921-2
Yaru Zhao
Published online: 06 Dec 2023
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New research on cohesion and coherence in linguistics
by Delu Zhang and Rushan Liu, London and New York, Routledge, 2022, xxix+300pp., US$ 136 (hbk), ISBN 9781032039893
Lu Li & Junqin Huang
Published online: 06 Dec 2023
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Semiotic analysis of university prospectuses in Pakistan: marketization, identity, and power dynamics
Ambreen Shahnaz & Nazia Suleman
Published online: 27 Nov 2023
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Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China
by Dezheng (William) Feng, London, Routledge, 2023, 274pp., $42.36 (e-book), ISBN 1-000-85294-6
Yuxuan Mu
Published online: 27 Nov 2023
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Fighting whom? A critical approach to marketing communication of skin whitening product in Taiwan
Yi-Jing Lee
Published online: 06 Nov 2023
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Discourse, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic: a multimodal discourse analysis approach
edited by Sabine Tan and Marissa K.L.E, New York, Routledge, 2022, 276 pp., USD $160 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-76707-5
Xi Wang & Xinru Chen
Published online: 11 Oct 2023
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Language ideologies in a Finnish university student union’s Facebook communication practices
Mai Shirahata, Malgorzata Lahti & Marko Siitonen
Published online: 11 Oct 2023
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“All sisters must experience the endorphin rush!” A virtual discourse-ethnographic study on neoliberalism female fitness community on Bilibili
Jingshen Ge & Weiqi Tian
Published online: 09 Oct 2023
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Fueling divisions: a multimodal analysis of Canadian petro-nationalism in the social media discourse of “oil sands strong”
Weiqi Tian & Jingshen Ge
Published online: 05 Oct 2023
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Review of Language, Discourse and Anxiety
by Luke Collins and Paul Baker, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, p. xiii+264, $105.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-009-25008-5
Min Xie & Wen Li
Published online: 05 Oct 2023
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Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecolinguistic study of news reports on the northward migration of a herd of Asian elephants
Zirui Xiong & Yong Wang
Published online: 25 Sep 2023
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Guided to Guider: the “∼ed” and “∼er” roles in professional development materials for guided Reading
Maria Nicholas & David Kellogg
Published online: 15 Sep 2023
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A new way to justice? Multimodal meaning construction in videoconferencing technology-based online criminal courts in China
Ziyu Wang & Matthew M. Chew
Published online: 24 Aug 2023
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The geosemiotics of ethno-political graffiti in Kosovo: polyphony, emplacement and heteroglossia
Uranela Demaj & Mieke Vandenbroucke
Published online: 03 Aug 2023
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Examining the role of television programmes in legitimising inherited wealth and privilege for the super-rich in a society that values meritocracy
Philippa Carr, Simon Goodman, Adam Jowett & Jackie Abell
Published online: 28 Jul 2023
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Analyzing the meaning of social images during pandemic lockdown
Juan R. Coca, Claudio J. Rodríguez H, Juan A. Roche-Cárcel & Alberto Soto-Sánchez
Published online: 27 Jul 2023
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Investigating the relation between mind and semiotic systems: a review Linguistic relativity today
Danesi, Marcel. 2021. Linguistic Relativity Today: Language, Mind, Society, and the Foundations of Linguistic Anthropology. New York/London: Routledge, 160 pp., USD $170 (hardback), ISBN 9780367431730.
Hongying Xu
Published online: 13 Jul 2023
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The moral metaphor system: a conceptual metaphor approach
by Ning Yu, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, xiii + 310 pp., £75 (hardback), ISBN: 9780192866325
Jie Huang
Published online: 11 Jul 2023
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Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation
edited by Binhua Wang and Jeremy Munday, London and New York, Routledge, 2020, xii + 228 pp., ￡120 (hardback), ISBN 9780367421755
He He & Bing Xiong
Published online: 03 Jul 2023
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Corpus-assisted Ecolinguistics
by Robert Poole, London, Bloomsbury, 2022, xvi + 224 pp., £ 85.50 (Ebook), ISBN 9781350138551
Zirui Xiong
Published online: 03 Jul 2023
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Language choice and identity in the linguistic landscape of Barcelona
Marguerite Morlan & Steven Byrne
Published online: 15 Jun 2023
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The politicization of place: chronotopes, authenticity, and semioscaping Fujialu as a site of “red tourism” in China
Songqing Li
Published online: 25 May 2023
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Review of introducing relational political analysis political semiotics as a theory and method
by Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xvii, 319 pages, with notes, index, bibliography, €25.00 (Hardcover), ISBN 978-3-030-48779-9
Kristian Bankov
Published online: 25 May 2023
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Anti-Black sentiments in Chinese Weibo discourse: a critical discourse historical analysis
Jiapei Gu & Janet Ho
Published online: 11 May 2023
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Misrepresenting autism in university promotional videos advocating robot therapy: a multimodal critical discourse analysis
Ian Roderick
Published online: 01 May 2023
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