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The abnormalisation of social justice: The ‘anti-woke culture war’ discourse in the UK by Cammaerts, Bart

“…In this article, the so-called ‘anti-woke’ culture war is deconstructed through the notions of metapolitics in fascist discourses – linked to the Gramscian…”
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COVID-19 memes going viral: On the multiple multimodal voices behind face masks by Dynel, Marta

“…Advancing the concept of multimodal voicing as a tool for describing user-generated online humour, this paper reports a study on humorous COVID-19 mask memes…”
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Why do news values matter? Towards a new methodological framework for analysing news discourse in Critical Discourse Analysis and beyond by Bednarek, Monika, Caple, Helen

“…This article introduces a new framework for the analysis of news discourse to scholars in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and beyond. It emphasises the…”
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Shameless normalisation of impoliteness: Berlusconi’s and Trump’s press conferences by Wodak, Ruth, Culpeper, Jonathan, Semino, Elena

“…This paper applies the notions of impoliteness and shameless normalisation to potentially impolite behaviours produced by Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi in…”
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A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press by BAKER, PAUL, GABRIELATOS, COSTAS, KHOSRAVINIK, MAJID, KRZYŻANOWSKI, MICHAŁ, MCENERY, TONY, WODAK, RUTH

“…This article discusses the extent to which methods normally associated with corpus linguistics can be effectively used by critical discourse analysts. Our…”
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What gets lost in Twitter ‘cancel culture’ hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns by Bouvier, Gwen, Machin, David

“…Twitter campaigns attacking those who make racist or xenophobic statements are valuable, raising the public profile of opinions that will not tolerate racism…”
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The need for a social and affordance-driven multimodal critical discourse studies by Machin, David

“…Given the way multimodality as a field has expanded, becoming more diverse and complex, it is important to pause to identify exactly which concepts, theories…”
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The men and women, guys and girls of the ‘manosphere’: A corpus-assisted discourse approach by Krendel, Alexandra

“…This study investigates how the lemmas woman, girl, man and guy are used to discursively represent and construct gender identities in an anti-feminist forum on…”
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Metaphors of migration over time by Taylor, Charlotte

“…This paper aims to cast light on contemporary migration rhetoric by integrating historical discourse analysis. I focus on continuity and change in…”
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The normalization of far-right populism and nativist authoritarianism: discursive practices in media, journalism and the wider public sphere/s by Krzyzanowski, Michal, Ekström, Mats

“…This article postulates broadening as well as deepening the agenda for critical research on the role of discursive practices in media, journalism and the wider…”
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Strategies of legitimization in political discourse: From words to actions by Reyes, Antonio

“…From an interdisciplinary framework anchored theoretically in Critical Discourse Analysis and using analytical tools from Systemic Functional Linguistics, this…”
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Emotion in politics: Affective-discursive practices in UKIP and Labour by Breeze, Ruth

“…Recent political trends in many countries have sparked renewed interest in populism. Despite general agreement that the affective/emotive aspects of political…”
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Recontextualisation of neoliberalism and the increasingly conceptual nature of discourse: Challenges for critical discourse studies by Krzyzanowski, Michal

“…This article highlights that by focusing on concepts, many contemporary discourses increasingly turn towards (re/definitions of) various abstract ideas while…”
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Discursive pragmatics of justification in terrorist threat texts: Victim-blaming, denying, discrediting, legitimating, manipulating, and retaliation by Etaywe, Awni

“…This article explores the under-researched area of discursive tactics employed in terrorist threat texts that exploit moral values to constantly justify…”
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Struggles over legitimacy in the Eurozone crisis: Discursive legitimation strategies and their ideological underpinnings by Vaara, Eero

“…This article focuses on the discursive underpinnings of the legitimacy crisis that the Eurozone as a transnational institution is facing. By adopting a…”
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Narrating the ‘new normal’ or pre-legitimising media control? COVID-19 and the discursive shifts in the far-right imaginary of ‘crisis’ as a normalisation strategy by Krzyzanowski, Michal, Krzyzanowska, Natalia

“…This article highlights how the recent discourse of ‘the new normal’ – re-initiated and widely used in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in national and…”
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War against our Children: Stance and evaluation in #BringBackOurGirls campaign discourse on Twitter and Facebook by Chiluwa, Innocent, Ifukor, Presley

“…The #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign on Twitter and Facebook was not only a global campaign for the release of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by…”
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Performative and ideological populism: The case of charismatic leaders on Twitter by Kissas, Angelos

“…Taking Donald Trump’s and Jeremy Corbyn’s use of Twitter as paradigmatic case studies, this article demonstrates that the charismatic leader features as a…”
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ChatGPT-4 as a journalist: Whose perspectives is it reproducing? by Breazu, Petre, Katsos, Napoleon

“…The rapid emergence of generative AI models in the media sector demands a critical examination of the narratives these models produce, particularly in relation…”
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Correlation, collocation and cohesion: A corpus-based critical analysis of violent jihadist discourse by Brookes, Gavin, McEnery, Tony

“…This article explores the language of violent jihad, focussing upon lexis encoding concepts from Islam. Through the use of correlation statistics, this article…”
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