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Political alliance with COVID-19: Macedonian politics and the strategic use of the pandemic 与COVID-19的政治联盟:马其顿政治和对流行病的战略利用

IF 2.2 1区文学

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265221088156

Aleksandar Takovski

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Book review: Gwynne Mapes, Elite Authenticity: Remaking Distinction in Food Discourse 书评：Gwynne Mapes，《精英真实性：重塑食品话语中的独特性》

IF 2.2 1区文学

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265221077472b

Kelsi Matwick, Keri Matwick

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Bloody widows? Discourses of tradition and gender in Ghanaian politics 血腥寡妇？加纳政治中的传统与性别话语

IF 2.2 1区文学

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265221088160

G. Diabah

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引用次数: 5

‘It was Never Just About the Statue’: Ethos of historical figures in public debates on contested cultural objects “这不仅仅是关于雕像”：历史人物在有争议的文物公开辩论中的民族主义

IF 2.2 1区文学

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265221088143

Martin Pereira-Fariña, M. Koszowy, Katarzyna Budzynska

引用次数: 3

Accounting for discrimination through categorization work: An examination of the target-of-discrimination group members’ practices 通过分类工作核算歧视:对歧视目标群体成员实践的考察

IF 2.2 1区文学

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265221088161

T. Zhang

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Preempting the past: How the future space unfolds in political discourse of Iran 抢占过去：伊朗政治话语中的未来空间如何展开

IF 2.2 1区文学

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265221088142

Ali Basarati

引用次数: 1

Book review: Lisa Nahajec, Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts: A Textual and Communicative Perspective 书评:《书面文本中的否定、期望与意识形态:一个文本与交际的视角》

IF 2.2 1区文学

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265221077472d

Laura Hidalgo-Downing

引用次数: 0

Book review: Elena dell’Agnese, Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse 书评：Elena dell'Agnese，《生态批判地缘政治：大众文化与环境话语》

IF 2.2 1区文学

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265221077472e

Ruijie Zhang

引用次数: 1

‘Sorry everything’s in bags’: The accountability of selling bread at a market during the COVID-19 pandemic “对不起，所有东西都装在袋子里了”：新冠肺炎大流行期间在市场卖面包的责任

IF 2.2 1区文学

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048732

A. Weatherall, Emma Tennent, F. Grattan

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引用次数: 3

The master’s tools: Media repurposing of exclusionary metaphors to challenge racist constructions of migrants 大师的工具:媒体重新利用排他性隐喻来挑战对移民的种族主义建构

IF 2.2 1区文学

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048681

C. Martin, F. Fozdar

引用次数: 4