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Discourse & Society Template

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About the Discourse & Society format

Discourse & Society is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, 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 & Society, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies Discourse Analysis in Language Studies Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Multilingual Education and Policy Rhetoric and Communication Studies
ISSN0957-9265
Citation impact (2-yr)1.08
h-index125
i10-index827
Total citations76,084
Top institutions publishing hereLancaster University
Journal websitesagepub.com
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Papers published in Discourse & Society per year

84
2014
65
2015
54
2016
84
2017
54
2018
63
2019
45
2020
42
2021
56
2022
61
2023
80
2024
70
2025

Citation impact of Discourse & Society by publication year

2.2K
2014
1.3K
2015
1K
2016
1.5K
2017
579
2018
676
2019
745
2020
651
2021
844
2022
281
2023
181
2024
39
2025

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

Most-cited papers in Discourse & Society

Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis

Teun A. van Dijk · 1 Apr 1993

This paper discusses some principles of critical discourse analysis, such as the explicit sociopolitical stance of discourse analysts, and a focus on dominance relations by elite groups and institutions as they are being enacted, legitimated or otherwise reproduced by text and talk. One of the crucial elements of this analysis of the relations between power…

4,968 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires: Conversation Analysis and Post-Structuralism in Dialogue

Margaret Wetherell · 1 Jul 1998

This article focuses on Schegloff's (1997) comments on critical discourse analysis and evaluates their force in relation to the analysis of a segment of a group discussion with three young white middle-class men concerning an episode in one of the participant's recent sexual history. The post-structuralist-influenced writings of Laclau and Mouffe (1985, 1987) are presented…

1,986 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press

Paul Baker, Costas Gabrielatos, Majid KhosraviNik et al. · 1 May 2008

This article discusses the extent to which methods normally associated with corpus linguistics can be effectively used by critical discourse analysts. Our research is based on the analysis of a 140-million-word corpus of British news articles about refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and migrants (collectively RASIM). We discuss how processes such as collocation and concordance analysis…

1,886 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Marketization of Public Discourse: The Universities

Norman Fairclough · 1 Apr 1993

This paper sets out the author's view of discourse analysis and illustrates the approach with an analysis of discursive aspects of marketization of public discourse in contemporary Britain, specifically in higher education. It includes a condensed theoretical account of critical discourse analysis, a framework for analysing discursive events, and a discussion of discursive practices (including…

1,798 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Discourse and manipulation

Teun A. van Dijk · 1 May 2006

‘Manipulation’ is one of the crucial notions of Critical Discourse Analysis that require further theoretical analysis. This article offers a triangulated approach to manipulation as a form of social power abuse, cognitive mind control and discursive interaction. Socially, manipulation is defined as illegitimate domination confirming social inequality. Cognitively, manipulation as mind control involves the interference…

1,286 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Discourse & Society template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Discourse & Society format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Discourse & Society 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 & Society use?
Discourse & Society 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 & Society, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Discourse & Society?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Discourse & Society 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 & Society template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Discourse & Society format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
Who publishes Discourse & Society?
Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary journal published by SAGE. DocuGuru's Discourse & Society template matches SAGE's official submission format.
Can I export a submission-ready Discourse & Society PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Discourse & Society template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
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