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{"title":"Book review: Nancy Xiuzhi Liu, Candace Veecock and Shixin Ivy Zhang (eds), <i>Chinese News Discourse: From Perspectives of Communication, Linguistics and Pedagogy</i>","authors":"Restisary Nduka, Tri Lutfi Widayati, Eva Reh Ulina Aritonang","doi":"10.1177/17504813231210091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231210091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135820042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Rob Cover, <i>Identity and Digital Communication: Concepts, Theories, Practices</i>","authors":"Kaiwen Yang, Ya Sun","doi":"10.1177/17504813231210096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231210096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135820037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Representation of social actors in economic and financial crimes reports in selected Nigerian newspapers","authors":"Adesina B Sunday, Olufunke O Fagunleka","doi":"10.1177/17504813231204734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231204734","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the representation of social actors in news reports on economic and financial crimes in four Nigerian newspapers: Punch, The Guardian, The Nation and ThisDay. Theo van Leeuwen’s socio-semantic inventory for the representation of social actors and Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) served as the theoretical framework. Five socio-semantic categories were applied in the news reports: functionalisation, backgrounding and suppression, activation and passivation, personalisation and impersonalisation and nomination and categorisation. Only the accused were both nominated and categorised. They were nominated when the reference is to people of high status and categorised when the reference is to ordinary or middle-class people. All the other social actors were nominated because of their roles in the fight against economic and financial crimes. The study shows that language is a medium for hidden meaning in the reportage of economic and financial crimes.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135510794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Arm your community’: Ideology in vaccine advertising campaigns across countries","authors":"Anna Islentyeva, Torben Scheffler","doi":"10.1177/17504813231205010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231205010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper represents a comparative study that explores the governmental vaccine advertising campaigns that were authorised by two English-speaking and two German-speaking countries – namely Australia, Britain, Austria and Germany – within the context of the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The data set in question comprises 40 vaccination posters issued by each country’s respective government between January 2021 and July 2022, all of which were displayed in public spaces. The study aims to explore how national governments use their ideological foothold to persuade their respective populations to take action against the virus by getting vaccinated, thus demonstrating how ideology and persuasion are interrelated in governmental vaccine campaigns across countries. In terms of methodology, this comparative study employs primarily methods of Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA). The strategies identified in the four countries under investigation concentrate largely on two key strategies: (1) providing a sense of community and solidarity; (2) issuing warnings and eliciting a sense of fear. The discourses of the German-speaking countries gravitate towards the discursive strategy of community, with Austria constituting a notable exception. In contrast, the Anglophone discourse in Britain and Australia employs strategies involving fear and warning, although their campaigns differ in terms of the intensity of the discourse they employ.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135511759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Berta García-Orosa, Sara Pérez-Seijo and Ángel Vizoso, <i>Emerging Practices in the Age of Automated Digital Journalism: Models, Languages, and Storytelling</i>","authors":"Dandi Saputra, Hanifa Paramitha Siswanti, Naurah Lisnarini","doi":"10.1177/17504813231193228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231193228","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135888954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The discursive construction of organizational legitimacy in higher education: Multimodal discourse analysis on Chinese business schools","authors":"Zhang Xu, Liu Shubo","doi":"10.1177/17504813231195971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231195971","url":null,"abstract":"Applying a Multimodal Discourse Analysis framework, this study focuses on university websites to explore how organizational legitimacy is constructed through discursive strategies. Our findings show that under authoritative administrative logic and market logic, universities construct two organizational identities: policy followers and product/service suppliers, and use exemplification and authorization strategies respectively through visual discourse to legitimate the identities. To avoid potential conflicts between the legitimacy claims associated with these two identities, universities apply a decoupling strategy to isolate the two identities, along with both explicit and implicit expressions, through the intertextuality between visual and verbal discourses. The constitutive characteristics of universities’ website discourse reveal the complexity of Chinese institutional context in higher education field and the constitutive influence of the institutional background on organizational discourse and legitimation strategies.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135918295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Restoration of positive self-image: Ideological circles in the mediatization of government-migrant worker relations during Covid 19","authors":"Michelle M Lazar, Aaron Tham, Wesley Wang","doi":"10.1177/17504813231205823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231205823","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on migrant workers (MWs) during Covid-19 in Singapore. A second wave of Covid-19 transmissions in MW dormitories in 2020 had cast a spotlight on this vulnerable population, amidst inter/national criticisms of the national government for oversight. From a critical discourse studies perspective, we examine how the national newspaper attempted to restore a positive self-image of the Singapore government, through the discursive mobilization of ‘ideological circles’. These ideological circles involve, variously, positive and negative discursive presentational strategies of the Singapore government, its MWs, selected regional governments, and their MWs. The study unpacks the ideological mechanisms at work in the restoration of the government’s reputation as well as examines the implications for MWs in Singapore as perpetual ‘others’.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136209468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Nicole Mockler, <i>Constructing Teacher Identities: How the Print Media Define and Represent Teachers and Their Work</i>","authors":"Xin Lyu, Zhuokai Lyu","doi":"10.1177/17504813231193230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231193230","url":null,"abstract":"Aijmer K (1997) I think – an English modal particle. In: Swan T and Westvik OJ (eds) Modality in Germanic Languages: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp.1–47. Cheshire J (2007) Discourse variation, grammaticalisation and stuff like that. Journal of Sociolinguistics 11(2): 155–193. Corrales DM, Wells AE, Radecki Breitkopf C, et al. (2018) Internet use by gynecologic oncology patients and its relationship with anxiety. Journal of Health Communication 23(3): 299–305. Davies P, Peacock C and Scullard P (2010) Googling children’s health: Reliability of medical advice on the Internet. Archives of Disease in Childhood 95: 580–582. Guan B (2010) Collective behaviour and gender difference: Examples from vague language (in Chinese). Contemporary Language Studies 12: 35–38. Hofstede G (1980) Culture’s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values. Beverley Hills: Sage. Hofstede G (1983) National cultures revisited. Behavior Science Research 18(4): 285–305. Mashiach R, Seidman GI and Seidman DS (2002) Use of mifepristone as an example of conflicting and misleading medical information on the Internet. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 109(4): 437–442. Miller SM (1987) Monitoring and blunting: Validation of a questionnaire to assess styles of information seeking under threat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 52(2): 345–353. Miller SM and Mangan CE (1983) Interacting effects of information and coping style in adapting to gynecologic stress: Should the doctor tell all? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 45(1): 223–236. Mo PK, Malik SH and Coulson NS (2009) Gender differences in computer-mediated communication: A systematic literature review of online health-related support groups. Patient Education and Counseling 75(1): 16–24. Walther JB, Jang JW and Hanna Edwards AA (2018) Evaluating health advice in a web 2.0 environment: The impact of multiple user-generated factors on HIV advice perceptions. Health Communication 33(1): 57–67. Zhang G (2011) Elasticity of vague language. Intercultural Pragmatics 8: 571–599. Zhang G (2015) Elastic Language: How and Why We Stretch Our Words. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135397028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Arnulf Deppermann and Michael Haugh (eds), Action Ascription in Interaction","authors":"Chengtuan Li, Jing Han","doi":"10.1177/17504813231197502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231197502","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43438599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Tan S and Marissa KL.E (eds), Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach","authors":"Shuoyu Fang","doi":"10.1177/17504813231192794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231192794","url":null,"abstract":"This book, edited by Sabine Tan and Marissa K. L. E, makes a significant contribution to the Routledge Studies in Multimodality series organized by Kay O’Halloran. The purpose of this edited volume is to investigate the different meanings that emerged from a mass of discourses, modes, and media during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book comprises 12 chapters, arranged in four main parts after an introductory chapter. Part I (Chapters 2–3) contributes to the use of semiotic modes in static multimodal media about the COVID-19 pandemic. Abdel-Raheem (Chapter 2) uses a large corpus of Arab political cartoons to examine the metaphorical process of transforming real-world events into pictorial acts. The author presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of frequent speech acts, with a special focus on the evaluative and performative qualities of metaphor. The procedural steps for identifying (verbo-)pictorial metaphors as well as nonverbal performatives are well explained. In the analysis of cartoons, the judging behavior can be interpreted as either positive or negative. In Chapter 3, E and Tan use a multimodal social semiotic approach to examine how Singaporeans are informed about the COVID-19 virus through the comic book medium. In addition to providing a broad overview of COVID-19-related communication practice, the chapter discusses the role of comics, pertaining to their advantages and disadvantages to communicate messages about public health. This chapter examines how five comics that reflect important themes from the COVID-19 Chronicles dataset have arranged semiotic components and used text and images in tandem in metafunctional ways. Part II (Chapters 4–5) focuses on the use of new media technologies in education and public health communication. Lim and Toh (Chapter 4) reflect on the various ways that three types of semiotic technologies, that is, video lectures, digital games, and social media, are employed to create meaning in online learning environments. The analysis follows the ‘designing learning’ considerations pertaining to knowledge representation, pedagogic interaction, and learning experience (Lim et al., 2021). By exploring the gains and losses in digital learning, the chapter highlights the significance of designing effective 1192794 DCM0010.1177/17504813231192794Discourse & CommunicationBook reviews book-review2023","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43297304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}