Journal of Language and Politics

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

13 March 2026

From socialism to neoliberalism: Shifting educational ideologies in Serbian as a foreign language textbooks in Yugoslavia and Serbia

Ana Kuzmanovic Jovanovic | 27 pp.

4 March 2026

Representation of social class in Korean ELT materials: A visual analysis

Christopher A. Smith and Csilla Weninger | 18 pp.

Review of Moore & Hauser (2025): Political Illustration: The Visual Language of Propaganda, Censorship, and Dissent

Qian Wang and Qing Zhang | 4 pp.

26 February 2026

From capitalist production to neoliberal lifestyle: The visual representation of social relations in Uruguayan ELT textbooks from 1933 to 2023

Germán Canale | 21 pp.

Representing societies in language teaching textbooks: Localized ideologies in language learning materials

David Machin, Lili Zhang and Christopher A. Smith | 23 pp.

22 January 2026

The role of gender in the evaluation of politicians in an online debate: Evidence from a natural experiment

Natalia Zawadzka-Paluektau | 21 pp.

Review of Frawley (2024): Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age

Qian Zhang and Ke Li | 5 pp.

16 December 2025

Metaphorical framing of democracy: How Nigerian military dictators and civilian leaders talk to gain legitimacy

Godswill Uchechukwu Chigbu and Kathleen Ahrens | 25 pp.

25 November 2025

Leadership in numbers: The pragmatics of We in Singapore’s NDR speeches (2004–2023)

Khin Wee Chen and Ali A. Al-Kandari | 28 pp.

Review of Scotto di Carlo (2025): A Critical Discourse Analysis of Violence against Women: From D.A.R.V.O. to Institutional Courage

Xin Zhong and Wei Huang | 4 pp.

20 November 2025

Review of Claridge (2025): News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press

Huiling Chen and Yiting Liu | 4 pp.

Review of Rüdiger & Dayter (2025): Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language

Weiwei Yu and Jia Yu | 7 pp.

Review of Wang & Huan (2025): Negotiating Climate Change in Public Discourse: Insights from Critical Discourse Studies

Xiaoshu Yuan | 4 pp.

Review of Pradhan & Gupta (2025): Language Education, Politics and Technology in South Asia: Shaping Inclusive Societies, Identities, and Futures

Junwei Zhu and Shuzhen Jiang | 5 pp.

31 October 2025

Review of Bennett (2025): Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences

Maka Julios-Costa | 4 pp.

17 October 2025

“A closed border is a compassionate border” A critical analysis of U.S. immigration reform discourse

Christina Gerken | 20 pp.

22 September 2025

Traditional beliefs as target and weapon: A case study of family planning banners in China

Hongjie Dong, Dewei Che and Adams Bodomo | 22 pp.

19 September 2025

Review of Ajšić (2025): Modeling Metalinguistic Discourse and Language Ideologies

Shufan Guo and Zhongqing He | 4 pp.

Review of Newth (2024): Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective

Amy King | 4 pp.

“Thoughts & prayers,” conspiracy theories, and laughing emojis: Facebook comments on the attempted assassination of President Trump

Justin B. Phillips and Andrea Carson | 20 pp.

Review of Du (2025): Chinese Political Discourse in Translation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis

Yuan Ping | 4 pp.

Could generative AI become a ghostwriter for the US president?

Jacques Savoy | 23 pp.

15 September 2025

Review of Merkle & Baer (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship

Fei Gao and Xin Li | 4 pp.

Review of Hart (2025): Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics

Lili Gui and Shaohua Wang | 5 pp.

The language of power or the power of language? Presidential rhetoric and leadership

Valentyna Ushchyna and Magdalena Szczyrbak | 24 pp.

5 September 2025

The American abortion debate: The war of morality Republicans and Democrats talked into being

Sophie Frankpitt | 30 pp.

Recontextualizing the “community with a shared future for mankind” A comparative discourse analysis of Singaporean and Pakistani news media

Ziqian Tang | 26 pp.

30 June 2025

“Serial rorters or mere mortals?” Gendered mediation in comments to newspapers about how male and female government leaders handle money: An Australian study

Karen Dacy and Lesley Stirling | 23 pp.

30 April 2025

Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press: How headlines changed the narrative, if they did at all

Federica Cominetti and Francesca Belotti | 25 pp.

What’s in a name? Names as ideological transmitters of the Salafi‑Jihadi worldview

Kurstin Gatt | 21 pp.

Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention: A multi-modal argumentation analysis

Eva Emilia Hamamé Ahumada, Cristóbal Sandoval, Sebastián Peredo and Fortunato Morales | 21 pp.

Surprises, symbols, and mainstreaming: Symbolic politics in AfD’s European elections campaign

Mohamed Salhi | 23 pp.

1 April 2025

Entrepreneur or capitalist? Discursive constructions of a deceased business leader in Chinese digital mourning discourse

Ming Liu, Cindy S.B. Ngai and Han LI | 26 pp.

Beyond the law: Symbolic violence through metaphors in abortion news discourse

Yafei Zhu and Jidong Zhang | 25 pp.

20 March 2025

‘Presidential’ is in the ear of the beholder: The impact of rhetorical style, message tone, and voters’ ideological outlook on political perception

Aimee Pavia Meader and Matthew Wood Hayes | 23 pp.

8 August 2024

Shaping gender policies at the COPs: A critical discourse analysis

Dora Matejak | 20 pp.

5 August 2024

How quotation marks do mockery in online politicized discourse

Jessica S. Robles and Bingjuan Xiong | 24 pp.

2 July 2024

Discourse and transformation: A discourse-historical approach to understanding energy in China’s diplomatic discourse

Xiangyi Jiang and Chenxia Zhang | 27 pp.

Subjects and metadata

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Pragmatics