Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
About the Book Series
Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse publishes high quality original research monographs broadly in the area of critical discourse studies. It seeks theoretically innovative and empirically rigorous research that advances our critical understanding of the interrelations of discourse and social processes, including all aspects of power relations (such as maintenance and perpetuation of dominance; negotiations of power and resistance; as well as solidarity formations for group empowerment). The series supports interdisciplinary research, and welcomes investigations of new topics, domains, issues, frameworks and methods, as well as fresh perspectives on established ones, from a variety of international and cultural contexts. A broad understanding of "discourse" is adopted in the series to include systematic and explicit analyses of spoken/written language and other modes of semiosis (e.g. visual images, sounds, gestures and actions).
The Discourse of Dehumanization
1st Edition
By Małgorzata Waśniewska
December 04, 2025
This book revisits social-psychological theories of dehumanization and Albert Bandura’s theory of moral disengagement through the lens of discourse analysis, offering a new framework for the linguistic analysis of dehumanization. The volume foregrounds the importance of integrating insights into ...
Discourse in the Digital Age: Social Media, Power, and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleonora Esposito, Majid KhosraviNik
April 13, 2025
This collection makes the case for existing critical discourse analysis theory and methods to meaningfully engage with the communicative parameters, power dynamics, and technological affordances of contemporary digital spaces. This book lends a critical focus on discursive practices operating ...
Postdigital Disconnects: The Discursive Formation of Technology in Education
1st Edition
By Marion Mathier
November 07, 2024
This book employs a critical discourse ethnographic approach to map the production of social meaning in digital media in education, drawing on insights from Switzerland to unpack the disconnects that arise in thinking postdigitally and ways forward for rethinking socio-cultural approaches. Grounded...
Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality
1st Edition
By Joseph Comer
May 31, 2023
This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans promoting global LGBTQ equality. Examining the means by which particular discourses of progress and hope are circulated globally, it offers unique insights into how LGBTQ livelihoods, relationships, and social ...
Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics
1st Edition
By Stefanie Ullmann
May 31, 2023
Drawing on approaches from critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and cognitive linguistics, this book critically examines metaphorical language used in global media coverage and political statements on the events of the Arab Spring. The volume begins by summarising key events of the ...
Multimodal Legitimation: Understanding and Analysing Political and Cultural Discourse
1st Edition
By Rowan R. Mackay
May 31, 2023
This volume meditates on the various meanings of legitimation and expands on the notion that language can be used to gain or preserve it by demonstrating the added impact of other modes in specific examples of political and institutional discourse. The book draws on a multilayered framework that ...
Discourses of Denial: The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor
1st Edition
By Thomas Discenna
July 12, 2019
Discourses of Denial explores the myriad ways that the labor of those employed by universities is situated as somehow distinct from ordinary labor. Focusing on a variety of sites where academic labor is discursively constructed in popular consciousness including among the professoriate itself, its ...
Discourse and Democracy: Critical Analysis of the Language of Government
1st Edition
By Michael Farrelly
April 25, 2018
In this new study, Farrelly gives a critical examination of democracy as it is conceived and practiced in contemporary advanced liberal nations. The received wisdom on democracy is probelmatized through a close analysis of discourse in combination with critical theories of democracy and of ...
Discourses of Ideology and Identity: Social Media and the Iranian Election Protests
1st Edition
By Chris Featherman
February 06, 2018
In this monograph, Chris Featherman adopts a discourse analytical approach to explore the ways in which social movement ideologies and identities are discursively constructed in new and old media. In the context of his argument, Featherman also considers current debates surrounding the role that ...
Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations
1st Edition
Edited
By Tommaso M. Milani
April 21, 2016
This volume showcases cutting-edge research in the linguistic and discursive study of masculinities, comprising the first significant edited collection on language and masculinities since Johnson and Meinhof’s 1997 volume. Overall, the chapters are linked together by a critical analytical ...
Analysing Fascist Discourse: European Fascism in Talk and Text
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Wodak, John E. Richardson
June 23, 2015
This book focuses primarily on continuities and discontinuities of fascist politics as manifested in discourses of post-war European countries. Many traumatic pasts in Europe are linked to the experience of fascist and national-socialist regimes in the 20th century and to related colonial and ...
Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change: Contextualising Positive Discourse Analysis
1st Edition
By Tom Bartlett
May 21, 2015
In this study, Bartlett presents a theoretical and descriptive development in the discipline of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) extending the recent trend away from critiques of hegemonic practices and towards the description of alternative and minority practices that has been labelled Positive ...