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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🚨 | NEW ISSUE 25(1) See more new articles: - The good, the bad, and the ugly - Navigating the ideological tide - The discursive representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Austrian news coverage - Reporting the others’ speech, uncovering China’s world dream

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🚨 | NEW ISSUE 25(1) Explore new articles featured in our journal: - Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore - Social media, politics, and the rise of the anti-refugee far-right in Turkey - “The rock of stability?”

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🚨 | NEW ARTICLES Check out three articles published in our journal: · ‘A resilient Europe?' · Racialising the resilient brain · The role of gender in the evaluation of politicians in an online debate

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🚨 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS Weiwei Yu and Jia Yu review Sofia Rüdiger & Daria Dayter’s @universitypress.cambridge.org ‘Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language’ 👉Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25283.yu 👉Book: bit.ly/4teH6qT

Book cover: Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🚨 | NEW ARTICLES Dive into three articles published in our journal: - Resilience in Finnish security and defence rhetoric - Racialised vocabularies of resilience — inequality, body and mind, refusal - Metaphorical framing of democracy

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🚨 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS Junwei Zhu and Shuzhen Jiang review Uma Pradhan & Mohini Gupta’s @routledgebooks.bsky.social ‘Language Education, Politics and Technology in South Asia’ 👉Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25258.zhu 👉Book: bit.ly/4qdVOvA

Book cover: ‘Language Education, Politics and Technology in South Asia’

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🚨 | NEW ARTICLES Explore three articles from our journal: · Leadership in numbers · Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey · Embodied resilience and political resistance

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Sten Hansson @stenhansson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

📢 OUT NOW: Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies (2026) www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies
Edited by Bernhard Forchtner and Franco Zappettini

Featuring a series of engaging conversations with key figures in the field, this accessible Handbook outlines the crucial concepts of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). Mapping the existing literature, contributors use qualitative and quantitative research to invite new engagements with CDS and to provide insight into primary debates.

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLE⁣ ✨ ⁣ “𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬”⁣ by Lydia Catedral, Danilo Reyes, Zhaohe Shi and Eunice Wong⁣ ⁣ 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24257.cat

Article: "We are workers, we are not slaves"

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEW Maka Julios-Costa reviews Samuel Bennett’s @oxunipress.bsky.social ‘Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse’ 👉 Review: dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25282.jul 👉 Book: bit.ly/3M2LAQn

Book cover: Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLE⁣ ⁣ “𝐀 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫”⁣ by Christina Gerken⁣ ⁣ 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25012.ger

Article: "A closed border is a compassionate border"

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📢 The sixth issue of Vol. 24 of the Journal of Language and Politics is now out: bit.ly/47VuCL5 🧵 Catch up on our threads introducing the new articles and book reviews: • Articles: bit.ly/4oDDw6Y • Book reviews: bit.ly/4oFkTzL

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS | 24(6) Derya Yüksek reviews Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer’s @routledgebooks.bsky.social ‘Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach’ 👉 Review: dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25052.yuk 👉 Book: bit.ly/4i6KBuF

Book cover: "Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach"

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

✨🚨 | NEW ISSUE 24(6)⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 ‘𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞’⁣⁣ by Gijs Lambrechts and Benjamin De Cleen ⁣⁣ 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24155.lam

Article: Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

📢 The fifth issue of Vol. 24 of the Journal of Language and Politics is now out: bit.ly/4nCov4b 🧵 Catch up on our previous threads introducing the articles and book reviews: • Articles: bit.ly/3Loa0n2 • Book reviews: bit.ly/4oQfR35

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS Jingyi Song & Zi Yang review Hansun Zhang Waring & Nadja Tadic’s @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social 'Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction’ 👉 Review: dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24245.son 👉 Book: bit.ly/4ozZdnZ

Book cover: Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLES Explore new research featured in our journal: - Capturing power in diplomatic language use - The power of old ideas newly expressed - Far-right discourse in Brazil - Populism and contingency - Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification bit.ly/4oyApgl

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS Yuan Ping reviews Lijuan Du’s @routledgebooks.bsky.social ‘Chinese Political Discourse in Translation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis' 👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25229.pin 👉 Book: bit.ly/47tdEog

Book cover: Chinese Political Discourse in Translation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLES Check out 2 articles we have recently published: - Traditional beliefs as target and weapon - ‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLES Check out 3 articles we have recently published: - Could generative AI become a ghostwriter for the US president? - “Thoughts & prayers,” conspiracy theories, and laughing emojis - No one needs to teach Macedonians what Europe is

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS Fei Gao and Xin Li review Denise Merkle and Brian James Baer's @routledgebooks.bsky.social 'The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship' 👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25190.gao 👉 Book: bit.ly/46KiTOP

Book cover: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS Lingyu Yi and Zhongqing He review Farah Ali’s ‘Policy, Media, and the Shaping of Spain-Morocco Relations: Discursive Representations of Migration to Ceuta and Melilla’ (Palgrave Macmillan) 👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25161.yi 👉 Book: bit.ly/42Sgr7L

Book cover: "Policy, Media, and the Shaping of Spain-Morocco Relations: Discursive Representations of Migration to Ceuta and Melilla"

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLES Check out 3 articles we’ve published this month: - The American abortion debate - Recontextualizing the “community with a shared future for mankind” - The language of power or the power of language? bit.ly/4kNz6Zv

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Journal of Language and Politics | John Benjamins

The Journal of Language and Politics (JLP) represents an interdisciplinary and critical forum for analysing and discussing the various dimensions in the interplay between language and politics. It loc...

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS Paige Johnson reviews Charlotte Taylor, Simon Goodman and Stuart Dunmore’s @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social ‘The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities’ 👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25164.joh 👉 Book: bit.ly/460B0kC

Book cover: 'The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities'

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLE “𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬?” Gendered mediation in comments to newspapers about how male and female government leaders handle money by Karen Dacy and Lesley Stirling 👉 doi.org/10.1075/jlp....

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLES Take a look at four articles we published last month: - Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press - The Tennessee three - Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention - What’s in a name? bit.ly/4kNz6Zv

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Journal of Language and Politics | John Benjamins

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🚨 | NEW OA ARTICLE 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 Symbolic politics in AfD’s European elections campaign by @uselesssimo.bsky.social 👉https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24202.sal

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLE 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨-𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 An intertextual analysis of online news on COVID-19 by Dimitris Trimithiotis and Theodosia Demetriou 👉https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24054.tri

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLE 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 Symbolic violence through metaphors in abortion news discourse by Yafei Zhu and Jidong Zhang 👉https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24133.zhu

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Mohamed Salhi, PhD @uselesssimo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Publication Alert 🚨 Happy to share this article in @jlanpol.bsky.social, examining AfD's EP campaign's exploitation of election surprises, symbolic resources, and convergence with "liberals" - ultimately driving the party's mainstreaming process. Open access: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24202.sal

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLE 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭? Discursive constructions of a deceased business leader in Chinese digital mourning discourse by Ming Liu, Cindy S. B. Ngai & Han Li 👉 doi.org/10.1075/jlp....

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS Derya Yüksek reviews Nico Carpentier & Jeffrey Wimmer's 'Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach' 👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.... 👉 Book: bit.ly/43PXG6t

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLE ‘𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥’ 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 The impact of rhetorical style, message tone, and voters’ ideological outlook on political perception by Aimee Pavia Meader & Matthew Wood Hayes 👉 doi.org/10.1075/jlp....

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

💻 | NEW BLOG POST Thomas Jacobs tells us about his JLP article on the benefits of bringing discourse theory and strategic communication into conversation bit.ly/42gJ915

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Interview with Thomas Jacobs: Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication

Thomas Jacobs discusses his JLP article on discourse theory and strategic communication

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLE 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐝𝐞 Discourses on “Mainstreaming” social service provision for multicultural communities in Australia from 1996 to 2021 by Enqi Weng, Matteo Vergani and Fethi Mansouri 👉 doi.org/10.1075/jlp....

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLE 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐞 by Marissa K. L. E and Sabine Tan 👉 doi.org/10.1075/jlp....

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚨 | NEW ARTICLE “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲?” A critical narrative analysis of Keir Starmer’s storytelling as opposition leader (2020–2024) by Alma-Pierre Bonnet 👉 doi.org/10.1075/jlp....

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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

As first published as a special issue in Critical Discourse Studies

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Journal of Language and Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

✨🚨 | NEW ISSUE 24(2) 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐛𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 The evolution of moral appeals in national conventions by Jennifer Lin 👉 doi.org/10.1075/jlp....

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