The article sets out a framework for analysing the way discourses construct legitimation for social practices in public communication as well as in everyday interaction. Four key categories of legitimation are distinguished: 1) ‘authorization’, legitimation by reference to the authority of tradition, custom and law, and of persons in whom institutional authority is vested; 2)…
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Discourse & Communication is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Discourse & Communication, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Discourse Analysis in Language Studies Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Social Media and Politics Media Studies and Communication |
| ISSN | 1750-4813 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.6 |
| h-index | 55 |
| i10-index | 304 |
| Total citations | 13,752 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com |
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Twitter is a linguistic marketplace (Bourdieu, 1977) in which the processes of self-branding and micro-celebrity (Marwick, 2010) depend on visibility as a means of increasing social and economic gain. Hashtags are a potent resource within this system for promoting the visibility of a Twitter update (and, by implication, the update’s author). This study analyses the…
In recent versions of professional genre analysis, context has assumed increasingly critical importance, thus redefining genre as a configuration of text-internal and text-external factors. The emphasis on text-external properties of genre has brought into focus the notion of interdiscursivity as distinct from intertextuality, which is primarily viewed as appropriation of text-internal resources. Drawing evidence from…
As a way of comparing qualitative and quantitative approaches to critical discourse analysis (CDA), two analysts independently examined similar datasets of newspaper articles in order to address the research question ‘How are different types of men represented in the British press?’. One analyst used a 41.5 million word corpus of articles, while the other focused…
This article uses a discourse analytic perspective to analyse sex and relationship advice in a best-selling women’s magazine. It identifies three different interpretative repertoires which together structure constructions of sexual relationships: the intimate entrepreneurship repertoire, organized around plans, goals and the scientific management of relationships; men-ology, in which women are instructed in how to learn…