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{"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":"17 1","pages":"685 - 687"},"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}

{"title":"Book review: Grace Qiao Zhang and Ming-Yu Tseng, Elasticity in Healthcare Communication","authors":"Haniva Yunita Leo","doi":"10.1177/17504813231192792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231192792","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"688 - 691"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42735339","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: Devan Rosen (ed.), The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media","authors":"Marina Rospitasari, Narita Pratiwi, Hendra Zebua","doi":"10.1177/17504813231185716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231185716","url":null,"abstract":"the authors admit, one of the limitations of the research is that ‘some important intellectual discussions taking place outside Western academia may still be under-represented, partly reflecting our own limitations’ (2). Their research has thrown up many questions in need of further analysis as to the institutional discourses of international organizations in non-Western languages, such as Chinese and Arabic. The authors call the reader’s attention to other researchers as they argue that ‘in order to actually see how hegemonic this ideology in non-Western documents should be analyzed’ and expressing the hope that ‘other scholars will feel inspired to undertake this investigation’ (18). All that said, the book makes significant theoretical contributions to both discourse and translation studies and will be useful for researchers and students in critical discourse analysis, translation studies and political studies.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"546 - 550"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45574293","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: Rein Ove Sikveland, Heidi Kevoe-Feldman and Elizabeth Stokoe, Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis","authors":"Polina Mesinioti","doi":"10.1177/17504813231185714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231185714","url":null,"abstract":"those readers who are not familiar with stylistics and its analytical tools, and are also an inspiration and enlightenment for scholars engaged in interdisciplinary research in stylistics, discourse analysis and ecolinguistics. In general, this book discusses the stories we live by focusing on ecocentrism in an interdisciplinary perspective, which will be of interest to linguists, biologists, academic researchers and sustainability officers working in environmental agencies and organizations.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"541 - 543"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47884870","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: Daniela Francesca Virdis, Ecological Stylistics: Ecostylistic Approaches to Discourses of Nature, the Environment and Sustainability","authors":"Shimiao Guan","doi":"10.1177/17504813231185708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231185708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"538 - 541"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41966210","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: M. Cristina Caimotto and Rachele Raus, Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-Shaping of Ideological Discourse","authors":"Yuan Ping","doi":"10.1177/17504813231185715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231185715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"543 - 546"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46473423","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":"News packaging during a pandemic: A computational analysis of news diffusion via Facebook","authors":"Jonathan Hendrickx, Annelien Van Remoortere, M. Opgenhaffen","doi":"10.1177/17504813231177280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231177280","url":null,"abstract":"Facebook remains the most important platform where social media editors package and try to ‘sell’ media outlets’ online news articles to audiences. In one of the first studies of its kind, we assess how this practice was effectuated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use computational analysis to determine the polarity, subjectivity and use of some linguistics features in the status messages of 140,359 Facebook posts of 17 mainstream and alternative news titles from Flanders (Belgium) between March 2020 and 2021. Among other things, we find that status messages score considerably higher than headlines in terms of polarity and subjectivity, and that they, along with the use of question and interrogation marks, peaked in the first months of the pandemic. We contextualise our findings within existing scholarship and wider trends in increasingly digitised and globalised media societies.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43471774","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":"#Stand with women in Afghanistan: Civic participation, symbolism, and morality in political activism on Twitter","authors":"Gwen Bouvier, David Machin","doi":"10.1177/17504813231174802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231174802","url":null,"abstract":"At the time of writing, it had become common to find trending social media hashtags where users were expressing their feelings about current social and political issues through a range of symbolic gestures, such as striking a pose, wearing a garment, or changing their personal icon. Scholars had begun to consider such gestures in regard to whether they constitute a meaningful form of civic participation or activism. In the present paper, we seek to contribute to this literature by using multimodal critical discourse analysis to examine the contents of one Twitter hashtag where users participate in this form of activism: #StandWithWomenlnAfghanistan. Aligning with emerging scholarship on the nature of online affective publics, the analysis shows that those tweeting do not align with clear and specific issues, causalities, or solutions based on contextual understanding. On the one hand, symbolic gestures can be thought of as vernaculars that support a heterogeneous, fuzzy, and incoherent set of meanings. Yet on the other hand, across the posts using this hashtag, we find a discourse where injustice and solutions are based on notions of individual identity and freedom of expression rooted in the liberal democratic traditions of the European Enlightenment, here brought to bear on the hugely diverse and specific lives of women in Afghanistan. For many scholars, it is such ethnocentrism that underpins the very imperialist imagining of Afghanistan that led to, and legitimized, the invasion and occupation in the first place.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135643532","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":"A corpus-based study on aviation English from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics","authors":"Wen Zhao","doi":"10.1177/17504813231171644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231171644","url":null,"abstract":"Aviation English (AE) is a distinct register of English used by pilots and air traffic controllers. As it is one of the contributing factors to aviation safety, ICAO and its Member States’ aviation authorities require the airspace users to have the proficiency in using AE effectively. In recent years, the training and testing have gained more attention, but little work has been done to describe its linguistic features. The study set out to describe AE from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics with an aim to illustrate its linguistic features as compared to conversational English (CE). To achieve this goal, the corpora of CE and AE communications between native English speakers from the United States were respectively constructed and then scrutinized to demonstrate that AE has a significant difference from CE in functional-semantic aspects. The findings of this study reveal how distinct AE with CE in terms of speech functions. Some pedagogical implications were then proposed for enhancing AE training to cultivate the students’ competence in semantics and interaction.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"630 - 661"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44457922","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":"Multimodal intertextuality and persuasion in advertising discourse","authors":"Chunyan Xing, D. Feng","doi":"10.1177/17504813231170579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231170579","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an integrated social semiotic framework for analyzing intertextuality in multimodal advertising discourse. Following the distinction between manifest intertextuality and interdiscursivity, our model entails the three interrelated components of explicating what the intertextual sources are, how they are constructed with multimodal resources, and how they interact with the promotional discourse. Analysis of 30 popular video advertisements shows the fundamental role of character voices and different social semiotic activities in achieving the purpose of promoting products and services. Through intertextual devices, the advertisements construct multiple identities, including authoritative and peer ones, to evoke different reading positions. In particular, the identity of middle-class urbanites sharing their experiences and values with the audience is dominant. The intertextual devices achieve promotional, relational, and entertainment functions, and the promotional function is realized through sharing, recreating, expounding, and reporting activities, while the recommending activities only occupy a very small portion of the screen time of the advertisements. The framework of multimodal intertextuality provides a useful lens for explicating the complex meaning-making resources, their communicative functions, and hidden ideologies in advertising discourse, which can further provide new insight into the social reality.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"613 - 629"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42728857","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}