This article presents a scenario-based experiment designed to test the effects of trust-
building strategies, realised in stance-taking acts, which a previous corpus-based study …

In Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies (CL-CDS), metaphor is identified as a key
index of ideology and an important device in the legitimation of social action. From this …

The British Miners' Strike of 1984–1985 represents one of the most pivotal periods in British
industrial relations. The significance of media stance towards the miners remains a …

We are witnessing the collapse of democracies in many parts of the world and a general
tendency to the resurgence of right-wing and left-wing populisms led by authoritarian …

This chapter introduces one cognitive school of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) in the form
of cognitive linguistic approaches. Cognitive Linguistic CDS (CL-CDS) is characterised by …

In contrast to symbol-manipulation approaches, Cognitive Linguistics offers a modal rather
than an amodal account of meaning in language. From this perspective, the meanings …

At the centre of populism is a problem of meaning. We could simply say it is a semiotic
problem, but I would like to go further, and say that it'sa cognitive problem, one intrinsic to …

This paper conceptualizes the recent translation practices in online news sites as cross-
lingual and multimodal recontextualization, examining their roles in creating coherent …

I analyze multimodal viewpoint construction in comics to engage with how modalities
function within the medium as a specific discourse context with distinct conventions and …

The discursive study of religion is a growing field that attracts increasing numbers of
students and researchers from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds. This volume is the …