Politicalization of public health crisis – metaphorically “out-grouped” Chinese authorities in their domestic COVID-19 campaign

2024-9-8

How emoji make meaning and enact ambient affiliation: a social semiotic account of emoji-text relations in TikTok comments

2024-8-30

The communicative linguistic landscape: Production formats and designed environments

2024-8-27

An introduction to language and social justice: what is, what has been, and what could be

2024-8-27

Designing learning with digital technologies: perspectives from multimodality in education

2024-8-25

“They will not erase the blood, of those who fell here”: a multimodal analysis of the music video as a site of (post)memory and resistance against negationism in post-dictatorial Chile

2024-8-21

Harnessing comics as minoritarian interventions in the representation of conflicts and their everyday: the case of <i>Vanni</i> and <i>Welcome to the New World</i>

2024-8-19

Paratextual mediation and (re)framed narratives: a case study of <i>Ganxiao liuji</i>

2024-7-24

(Non) representation and normalized losses of the other in pro-migrant media texts: what is at stake in migrant visibility?

2024-7-18

Political protest landscapes in Catalonia: language choice, utopian/dystopian discourse and “Catalans”-“Spaniards” identities

2024-7-9

Shaping Holocaust remembrance through Nazi photographs. A multimodal analysis of Israeli schoolbooks

2024-7-8

Semiotics for Latour, Latour for semiotics. Tracing a network of relations across disciplinary boundaries <b>Inchiesta sulle reti di senso. Bruno Latour nella svolta semiotica</b> , by Paolo Peverini, Milan, Meltemi, 2023, 192 pp., €15, ISBN 978-8-855-19809-7

2024-6-18

Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation <b>Towards responsible machine translation: ethical and legal considerations in machine translation</b> , edited by Helena Moniz and Carla Parra Escartín, Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland, Springer, 2023, 233 pp., €129.99 (hardcover/softcover), ISBN 978-3-031-14688-6

2024-6-17

Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China <b>Multimodality in translation studies: media, models, and trends in China</b> , edited by Li Pan, Xiaoping Wu, Tian Luo and Hong Qian, London &amp; New York, Routledge, 2023, xiv + 268 pp., £135.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-032-64617-6, ISBN 978-1-032-65099-9 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-032-65097-5 (ebk)

2024-6-12

“No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–2022

2024-6-3

What does it mean to redefine prosperity? A theory of definition for pathways to sustainable futures

2024-5-16

Fire, police cars and barricade tape: exploring visual securitisation in Sweden Democrats’ Instagram posts

2024-5-15

A panorama of linguistic landscape studies <b>A panorama of linguistic landscape studies</b> , by Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz, Bristol, Jackson, Multilingual Matters, 2023, xv+452 pp., $84.89 (hardcover), ISBN 9781800417151

2024-5-12

(Re)framing online news through paratexts: a multisemiotic analysis of <i>The New York Times</i> in Chinese

2024-5-8

Intercultural competence and pragmatics <b>Intercultural competence and pragmatics</b> , edited by Gila A. Schauer, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, xxiv + 168 pp., ISBN 9783031444715 (hbk), ISBN 978-3-031-44472-2 (ebk)

2024-5-6

Breakdown of knowledge authority: semiotic analysis of an anti-vax conspiracy theory influencer on Twitter

2024-4-16

Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory <b>Slowing metaphor down: elaborating deliberate metaphor theory</b> , by Gerard J. Steen, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023, 355 pp., £95.65 (hardback), ISBN 978-9-027-21385-3

2024-4-16

“The trash is ruining the picture”: social media, sustainability, and the semiotics of pristine nature

2024-4-13

Fair or biased? A corpus-based study of Australia’s early COVID-19 media representation of China

2024-4-13

Econarrative: ethics, ecology, and the search for new narratives to live by <b>Econarrative: ethics, ecology, and the search for new narratives to live by</b> , by Arran Stibbe, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, 288 pp., £ 22.49 (Ebook), ISBN 9781350263130

2024-4-11

The power of algorithms and the rise of experience economy: “the digital mind. semiotic studies of digital culture” <b>The power of algorithms and the rise of experience economy: “the digital mind. semiotic studies of digital culture”</b> 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

2024-3-26

Culture-specific “items” in multimodal translation: translating Spring Festival traditions into LEGO bricks

2024-3-5

Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: theory and application <b>Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: theory and application</b> , by Thu Ngo, Susan Hood, J.R. Martin, Clare Painter, Bradley A. Smith &amp; Michele Zappavigna, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, xiv + 265pp., £26.09 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781350074910

2024-2-27

War on feminism: an analysis of metaphorical representations on Weibo

2024-2-27

The development of L2 interactional competence: a multimodal study of complaining in French interactions <b>The development of L2 interactional competence: a multimodal study of complaining in French interactions</b> , by Klara Skogmyr Marian, Oxon, Routledge, 2023, xv + 254 pp., (eBook), ISBN: 978-1-003-27121-5.

2024-2-23

Kongish: translanguaging and the commodification of an urban dialect <b>Kongish: translanguaging and the commodification of an urban dialect</b> , by Tong King Lee, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 82 pp., £15 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-009-28112-6

2024-2-21

“ <i>Ps. I’ll find you</i> .” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile

2024-2-9

“(scream)(wriggle)(dismally crawl)” – parentheses as semiotic resources for translanguaging and trans-semiotic practices on Chinese micro-blogging

2024-1-30

Discourses that undermine union movements: a multimodal analysis of union-busting videos

2024-1-19

Interfacing the semiosis of affect and crowdsourced spatialities in the context of post-panoptic surveillance. A case study of Safecity app

2023-12-29

Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination <b>Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination</b> , edited by Andrea Cossu and Jorge Fontdevila, Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2023, xiii + 212 pp., £26.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781529211757

2023-12-29

Artificial intelligence and visual discourse: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of AI-generated images of “Dementia”

2023-12-14

The chop suey letterform in historical Los Angeles Chinatowns

2023-12-13

New research on cohesion and coherence in linguistics <b>New research on cohesion and coherence in linguistics</b> , by Delu Zhang and Rushan Liu, London and New York, Routledge, 2022, xxix+300pp., US$ 136 (hbk), ISBN 9781032039893

2023-12-6

Conducting sentiment analysis <b>Conducting sentiment analysis</b> , by Lei Lei and Dinlin Liu, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, iv++104 pp., $20.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-108-82921-2

2023-12-6

Translation, adaptation and digital media <b>Translation, adaptation and digital media</b> , by John Milton and Silvia Cobelo, London, Routledge, 2023, 322 pp., £34.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-429-26201-2

2023-12-6

Semiotic analysis of university prospectuses in Pakistan: marketization, identity, and power dynamics

2023-11-27

Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China <b>Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China</b> , by Dezheng (William) Feng, London, Routledge, 2023, 274pp., $42.36 (e-book), ISBN 1-000-85294-6

2023-11-27

Fighting whom? A critical approach to marketing communication of skin whitening product in Taiwan

2023-11-6

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2023-10-20

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2023-10-20

Language ideologies in a Finnish university student union’s Facebook communication practices

2023-10-11

Discourse, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic: a multimodal discourse analysis approach <b>Discourse, modes, media and meaning in an era of pandemic: a multimodal discourse analysis approach</b> , edited by Sabine Tan and Marissa K.L.E, New York, Routledge, 2022, 276 pp., USD $160 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-76707-5

2023-10-11

“All sisters must experience the endorphin rush!” A virtual discourse-ethnographic study on neoliberalism female fitness community on Bilibili

2023-10-9

Fueling divisions: a multimodal analysis of Canadian petro-nationalism in the social media discourse of “oil sands strong”

2023-10-5