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Discourse & Communication Template

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About the Discourse & Communication format

Discourse & Communication is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–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 inDiscourse Analysis in Language Studies Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Social Media and Politics Media Studies and Communication
ISSN1750-4813
Citation impact (2-yr)1.6
h-index55
i10-index304
Total citations13,752
Top institutions publishing hereHong Kong Polytechnic University
Journal websitewww.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Discourse & Communication per year

29
2014
54
2015
42
2016
52
2017
49
2018
50
2019
38
2020
33
2021
42
2022
62
2023
92
2024
38
2025

Citation impact of Discourse & Communication by publication year

278
2014
870
2015
541
2016
1.1K
2017
739
2018
669
2019
449
2020
531
2021
367
2022
266
2023
234
2024
17
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Discourse & Communication

Legitimation in discourse and communication

Theo van Leeuwen · 1 Feb 2007

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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The linguistics of self-branding and micro-celebrity in Twitter: The role of hashtags

Ruth Page · 1 May 2012

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…

Interdiscursivity in professional communication

Vijay K. Bhatia · 1 Feb 2010

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…

Picking the right cherries? A comparison of corpus-based and qualitative analyses of news articles about masculinity

Paul Baker, Erez Levon · 3 Feb 2015

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…

Mediated intimacy and postfeminism: a discourse analytic examination of sex and relationships advice in a women’s magazine

Rosalind Gill · 1 Nov 2009

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…

Discourse & Communication template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Discourse & Communication format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Discourse & Communication template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Discourse & Communication use?
Discourse & Communication uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Discourse & Communication, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Discourse & Communication?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Discourse & Communication document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Discourse & Communication template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Discourse & Communication format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
Who publishes Discourse & Communication?
Discourse & Communication is a multidisciplinary journal published by SAGE. DocuGuru's Discourse & Communication template matches SAGE's official submission format.
Can I export a submission-ready Discourse & Communication PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Discourse & Communication template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
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