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Mask communication: The development of the face covering as a semiotic resource through government public health posters in England and Wales 面罩传播:英格兰和威尔士政府公共卫生海报中面罩作为一种符号资源的发展

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100651

Angela Smith , Michael Higgins

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Translingual online identities in the global South: The construction of local ‘gang cultures’ in the social media spaces of Balkan and South Korean artists 全球南方的翻译语言网络身份:巴尔干和韩国艺术家的社交媒体空间中当地“帮派文化”的建构

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100653

Eldin Milak , Ana Tankosić

引用次数: 2

Men of today, soyboys of tomorrow: Constructions of masculinities in YouTube responses to Gillette’s The Best Men Can Be 今天的男人，明天的男孩:YouTube上对吉列《最好的男人》的回应中男性气概的建构

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100628

Mandie Iveson , Federica Formato

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引用次数: 4

Digital rockets: Resisting necropolitics through defiant languaging and artivism 数字火箭:通过挑衅的语言和艺术主义抵制死亡政治

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100630

Daniel Silva , Junot Maia

引用次数: 4

Magical women: Representations of female characters in the Witcher video game series 魔法女性:《巫师》系列电子游戏中女性角色的表现

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100627

Frazer Heritage

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引用次数: 4

“What have you done?” Accounting for Covid-19 lockdown breaches on talk radio “你做了什么?”在谈话电台上解释Covid-19封锁的漏洞

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100639

Marina N. Cantarutti, Rosina Márquez Reiter

引用次数: 0

‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community “真正的男人烤蔬菜，而不是死动物”:一个纯素食网络社区中男性的话语表现

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100640

Gavin Brookes , Małgorzata Chałupnik

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“So-called influencers”: Stancetaking and (de)legitimation in mediatized discourse about social media influencers “所谓的影响者”:关于社交媒体影响者的媒介话语中的立场和(去)合法性

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100629

Olivia Droz-dit-Busset

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引用次数: 3

All you need is guitar pedals: The communicative construction of material culture in YouTube product reviews 你所需要的只是吉他踏板:YouTube产品评论中物质文化的交流建构

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100626

Will Gibson

引用次数: 0

‘Am I being unreasonable to vaccinate my kids against my ex’s wishes?’ – A corpus linguistic exploration of conflict in vaccination discussions on Mumsnet Talk’s AIBU forum “我不顾前任的意愿给孩子接种疫苗是不合理的吗?”——在Mumsnet Talk的AIBU论坛上对疫苗接种讨论中冲突的语料库语言探索

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100624

Tara Coltman-Patel, William Dance, Z. Demjén, D. Gatherer, Claire Hardaker, E. Semino

引用次数: 6