Journal of Language and Politics

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Editor-in-Chief

Michał Krzyżanowski | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Co-editors

Samuel Bennett | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

Bernhard Forchtner | University of Leicester

Michelle M. Lazar | National University of Singapore

Franco Zappettini | Sapienza University of Rome

Associate Editors

Katy Brown | Manchester Metropolitan University

Pedro Camelo | Uppsala University

Review Editor

Pedro Camelo | Uppsala University

Founding Editors

Paul Chilton | University of Warwick

Ruth Wodak | Lancaster University & University of Vienna

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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 locates at the intersection of several social science disciplines including communication and media research, linguistics, discourse studies, political science, political sociology or political psychology. It focuses mainly on the empirically-founded research on the role of language and wider communication in all social processes and dynamics that can be deemed as political. Its focus is therefore not limited to the ’institutional’ field of politics or to the traditional channels of political communication but extends to a wide range of social fields, actions and media (incl. traditional and online) where political and politicised ideas are linguistically and discursively constructed and communicated.

Articles submitted to JLP should bring together social theory, sociological concepts, political theories, and in-depth, empirical, communication- and language-oriented analysis. They have to be problem-oriented and rely on well-informed contemporary as well as historical contextualisation of the analysed social and political dynamics. Methodologies can be qualitative, quantitative or mixed, but must in any case be systematic and anchored in relevant social science disciplines. They may focus on various dimensions of political communication in general and of political language/discourse in particular.

Michal Krzyzanowski (jlanpol.editor@gmail.com) is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Language and Politics. Co-Editors Bernhard Forchtner (bf79@leicester.ac.uk) and Michelle Lazar (ellmml@nus.edu.sg) take care of New Article Submissions; Co-Editor Franco Zappettini (franco.zappettini@uniroma1.it) manages Publishing and Production; and Co-Editor Samuel Bennett (sbennett@amu.edu.pl) coordinates the Special Issues. JLP Associate & Review Editor is Pedro Camelo (pedro.camelo@im.uu.se).

JLP welcomes review papers of any research monograph or edited volume which takes a critical and analytical approach to the study of language and politics, as broadly conceived above. If you are interested in reviewing any recent, relevant text please email the JLP Reviews Editor and we can arrange for a book copy to be sent to you.

JLP publishes its articles Online First.

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ISSN: 1569-2159 | E-ISSN: 1569‑9862

https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp

13 March 2026

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

Ana Kuzmanović Jovanović

4 March 2026

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

Christopher A. Smith & Csilla Weninger

Catherine A. Moore & Megan Hauser. 2025. Political Illustration: The Visual Language of Propaganda, Censorship, and Dissent

Reviewed by Qian Wang & Qing Zhang

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

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

David Machin, Lili Zhang & Christopher A. Smith

3 February 2026

Resilience in labour markets, a curse? The prolonged cycle of resilience among highly skilled black Africans in Finland

Frank Ojwang | JLP 25:2 (2026) pp. 257–274

22 January 2026

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

Natalia Zawadzka-Paluektau

Ashley Frawley. 2024. Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age

Reviewed by Qian Zhang & Ke Li

5 January 2026

‘A resilient Europe’? The representation of European society in the national recovery and resilience plans

Monica Colombo | JLP 25:2 (2026) pp. 194–214

Racialising the resilient brain: The eugenic underpinnings of US military neurobiological discourse

Claes Tängh Wrangel & Julian Reid | JLP 25:2 (2026) pp. 275–294

16 December 2025

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

Godswill Uchechukwu Chigbu & Kathleen Ahrens

Racialised vocabularies of resilience: Inequality, body and mind, refusal

Marjo Lindroth, Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen & Claes Tängh Wrangel | JLP 25:2 (2026) pp. 175–193

5 December 2025

Embodied resilience and political resistance: Transformative voices from today’s social justice movements

Susanna Jussila | JLP 25:2 (2026) pp. 215–234

Resilience in Finnish security and defence rhetoric: Examining colonial underpinnings

Marjo Lindroth, Helmi Rantala & Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen | JLP 25:2 (2026) pp. 235–256

25 November 2025

“We are workers, we are not slaves”: The importance of grassroots discourses on decent work for migrant domestic workers

Lydia Catedral, Danilo Reyes, Zhaohe Shi & Eunice Wong | JLP 25:3 (2026) pp. 459–480

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

Khin Wee Chen & Ali A. Al-Kandari

Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey

Lyndon C. S. Way, Stephen McLoughlin & Irem Inceoglu | JLP 25:3 (2026) pp. 331–357

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

Reviewed by Xin Zhong & Wei Huang

20 November 2025

Claudia Claridge. 2025. News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press

Reviewed by Huiling Chen & Yiting Liu

Sofia Rüdiger & Daria Dayter (Eds.). 2025. Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language

Reviewed by Weiwei Yu & Jia Yu

Guofeng Wang & Changpeng Huan (eds.). 2025. Negotiating Climate Change in Public Discourse: Insights from Critical Discourse Studies

Reviewed by Xiaoshu Yuan

Uma Pradhan & Mohini Gupta (Eds.). 2025. Language Education, Politics and Technology in South Asia: Shaping Inclusive Societies, Identities, and Futures

Reviewed by Junwei Zhu & Shuzhen Jiang

31 October 2025

S. Bennett. 2025. Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences

Reviewed by Maka Julios-Costa

28 October 2025

Navigating Brexit through fear: An appraisal analysis of 2016–2024 British Prime Ministerial discourse

Simona Dianová & Monika Brusenbauch Meislová | JLP 25:3 (2026) pp. 295–330

17 October 2025

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

Christina Gerken

29 September 2025

‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’: Citizen jurors’ discursive framing of trust in international trade policy

Justyna A. Robinson, L. Alan Winters, Rhys J. Sandow, Sandra Young & Caitlin Hogan | JLP 25:3 (2026) pp. 405–429

25 September 2025

No one needs to teach Macedonians what Europe is: Macedonian opinion makers’ defensive Europeanization of the past amid Bulgaria-North Macedonia bilateral dispute

Ivan Nikolovski | JLP 25:3 (2026) pp. 430–458

22 September 2025

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

Hongjie Dong, Dewei Che & Adams Bodomo

19 September 2025

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

Justin Bonest Phillips & Andrea Carson

Could generative AI become a ghostwriter for the US president?

Jacques Savoy

Adnan Ajšić. 2025. Modeling Metalinguistic Discourse and Language Ideologies

Reviewed by Shufan Guo & Zhongqing He

George Newth. 2024. Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective

Reviewed by Amy King

Lijuan Du. 2025. Chinese Political Discourse in Translation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis

Reviewed by Yuan Ping

15 September 2025

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

Valentyna Ushchyna & Magdalena Szczyrbak

Denise Merkle & Brian James Baer (eds.). 2024. The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship

Reviewed by Fei Gao & Xin Li

Christopher Hart. 2025. Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics

Reviewed by Lili Gui & Shaohua Wang

Michelle Lam Sut I. 2023. A Corpus-assisted Multimodal Analysis to Policy Addresses of Macao SAR Government: Two Decades of Change in Macao

Reviewed by Zeyuan Jiang, Zining Zhu & Zhanting Bu | JLP 25:3 (2026) pp. 488–493

Farah Ali. 2024. Policy, Media, and the Shaping of Spain-Morocco Relations: Discursive Representations of Migration to Ceuta and Melilla

Reviewed by Lingyu Yi & Zhongqing He | JLP 25:3 (2026) pp. 481–484

5 September 2025

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

Sophie Frankpitt

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

Ziqian Tang

Charlotte Taylor, Simon Goodman & Stuart Dunmore. 2025. The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities

Reviewed by Paige Johnson | JLP 25:1 (2026) pp. 162–165

Robert Harvey. 2025. The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions

Reviewed by Xinyi Wu & Tingting Hu | JLP 25:3 (2026) pp. 485–487

Yanning Huang. 2024. The Class and Gender Politics of Chinese Online Discourse: Ambivalence, Sociopolitical Tensions, and Co-option

Reviewed by Xiaowen Zhao | JLP 25:1 (2026) pp. 170–173

4 July 2025

Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár. 2025. Language and Politics: A Cross-cultural Pragmatic Perspective

Reviewed by Zheng Wang | JLP 25:1 (2026) pp. 166–169

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 & Lesley Stirling

19 May 2025

Genevieve Guenther. 2024. The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It

Reviewed by Yunyou Wang | JLP 24:6 (2025) pp. 962–965

30 April 2025

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

Federica Cominetti & Francesca Belotti

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

Kurstin Gatt

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

Eva Emilia Hamamé Ahumada, Cristóbal Sandoval, Sebastián Peredo & Fortunato Morales

The Tennessee three: Mapping the discursive boundaries of inequality in statehouse political debate

Kerry Ann McKeon | JLP 25:3 (2026) pp. 383–404

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

Mohamed Salhi

22 April 2025

When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy: an intertextual analysis of online news on COVID-19

Dimitris Trimithiotis & Theodosia Demetriou | JLP 25:3 (2026) pp. 358–382

1 April 2025

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

Ming Liu, Cindy S. B. Ngai & Han Li

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

Yafei Zhu & Jidong Zhang

G. Arnall & K. Chenoweth (1st ed.). 2025. Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics

Reviewed by Yaru Chen | JLP 24:4 (2025) pp. 707–711

Teun Van Dijk. 2024. Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right

Reviewed by George Newth | JLP 24:6 (2025) pp. 958–961

27 March 2025

Nico Carpentier & Jeffrey Wimmer. 2025. Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach

Reviewed by Derya Yüksek | JLP 24:6 (2025) pp. 954–957

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 & Matthew Wood Hayes

10 March 2025

Navigating the ideological tide: Discourses on “Mainstreaming” social service provision for multicultural communities in Australia from 1996 to 2021

Enqi Weng, Matteo Vergani & Fethi Mansouri | JLP 25:1 (2026) p. 97

27 February 2025

“The rock of stability?”: A critical narrative analysis of Keir Starmer’s storytelling as opposition leader (2020–2024)

Alma-Pierre Bonnet | JLP 25:1 (2026) pp. 50–70

Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore

Marissa K. L. E & Sabine Tan | JLP 25:1 (2026) pp. 1–20

3 February 2025

Cornelia Ilie (ed.). 2024. Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis

Reviewed by Stephen Coleman | JLP 24:5 (2025) pp. 832–835

Isabel Íñigo-Mora & Cristina Lastres-López (eds). 2024. Discourse Approaches to an Emerging Age of Populist Politics

Reviewed by Xinyi Zeng & Gaoqiang Lu | JLP 24:5 (2025) pp. 828–831

23 January 2025

The discursive representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Austrian news coverage: 2010–2015–2020

Marie-Antoinette Goldberger & Miroslav Janík | JLP 25:1 (2026) pp. 119–140

17 January 2025

The good, the bad, and the ugly: Anti-Ukrainian narratives on Polish Twitter

Maria Lipińska & Dariusz Jemielniak | JLP 25:1 (2026) pp. 71–96

10 January 2025

Supplementing the tropes: Poststructuralist discourse theory and rhetorical political analysis

Alan Finlayson | JLP 24:1 (2025) pp. 50–68

Hansun Zhang Waring & Nadja Tadic (eds.). 2024. Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction

Reviewed by Jingyi Song & Zi Yang | JLP 24:5 (2025) pp. 824–827

7 January 2025

When performance studies meet discourse theory: The political performance analysis protocol as an interdisciplinary methodological tool

Théo Aiolfi | JLP 24:1 (2025) pp. 115–141

“A massive field of action”: Feminist anti-essentialism and political discourse theory

Jenny Gunnarsson Payne | JLP 24:1 (2025) pp. 142–162

Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication: A long-expected party

Thomas Jacobs | JLP 24:1 (2025) pp. 25–49

The (anti-)political logic of authoritarian institutionalism: Party politics and authoritarian consolidation in Russia

Seongcheol Kim | JLP 24:6 (2025) pp. 934–953

From social awareness to authoritarian other: The conservative weaponization of woke in Canadian parliamentary discourse

Patrick McCurdy, Kaitlin Clarke & Bart Cammaerts | JLP 24:6 (2025) pp. 910–933

Reporting the others’ speech, uncovering China’s world dream: The case of the Chinese Dream in The New York Times

Zhaoyang Sharon Mei | JLP 25:1 (2026) pp. 141–161

Community organising and radical democracy: From praxis to theory and back again

Julius Schneider, Rebecca Warren & Jason Glynos | JLP 24:1 (2025) pp. 69–90

6 January 2025

“We pursue justice”: Legitimation strategies in the public-facing communications of philanthropic foundations in global sustainability governance

Mark Dehlsen, Agni Kalfagianni & Carole-Anne Sénit | JLP 24:6 (2025) pp. 861–888

Studying affect through discourse theory: Towards a methodology of practice

Emmy Eklundh & Sebastián Ronderos | JLP 24:1 (2025) p. 91

17 December 2024

Discourse theory and the turn to practice: Lessons from the populist moment

Benjamin De Cleen, Jason Glynos, Jana Goyvaerts & Yannis Stavrakakis | JLP 24:1 (2025) pp. 1–24

13 December 2024

Shi-xu. 2024. The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies

Reviewed by Junfang Mu & Xiaohan Li | JLP 24:4 (2025) pp. 703–706

9 December 2024

Eric Louis Russell. 2024. Fighting Words: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression

Reviewed by Feng Mao & Zi Ling | JLP 24:4 (2025) pp. 698–702

Claire Chambers & Ipek Demir (ed.). 2024. Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Reviewed by Shuping Ren & Bin Zhu | JLP 24:4 (2025) pp. 694–697

5 December 2024

Social media, politics, and the rise of the anti-refugee far-right in Turkey

İbrahim Efe & Osman Ülker | JLP 25:1 (2026) pp. 21–49

Capturing power in diplomatic language use: The case of a closed-door mediatory negotiation and its aftermath during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár, Tadej Todorović, Matjaž Klemenčič, David Hazemali, Tomaž Onič & Katja Plemenitaš | JLP 24:5 (2025) pp. 713–740

Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’: Nationalism and populism in Vlaams Belang’s discourse about farmers

Gijs Lambrechts & Benjamin De Cleen | JLP 24:6 (2025) pp. 837–860

Corine Tachtiris. 2024. Translation and race

Reviewed by Yang Xu | JLP 24:3 (2025) pp. 541–544

26 November 2024

Bernhard Forchtner (Ed.). 2023. Visualising far-right environments: Communication and the politics of nature

Reviewed by Gijs Lambrechts | JLP 24:3 (2025) pp. 533–536

Manuela Romano. 2024. Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts

Reviewed by Siyi Zhou & Yumei Liu | JLP 24:3 (2025) pp. 537–540

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Complete backset (Vols. 1‒24; 2002‒2025)	108 issues; 17,328 pp.	EUR 10,296.00	EUR 11,534.00
Volume 24 (2025)	6 issues; 960 pp.	EUR 609.00	EUR 821.00
Volume 23 (2024)	6 issues; 960 pp.	EUR 591.00	EUR 746.00
Volume 22 (2023)	6 issues; 960 pp.	EUR 574.00	EUR 678.00
Volumes 19‒21 (2020‒2022)	6 issues; avg. 960 pp.	EUR 574.00 per volume	EUR 665.00 per volume
Volume 18 (2019)	6 issues; 960 pp.	EUR 563.00	EUR 652.00
Volume 17 (2018)	6 issues; 960 pp.	EUR 547.00	EUR 633.00
Volume 16 (2017)	6 issues; 852 pp.	EUR 471.00	EUR 546.00
Volume 15 (2016)	6 issues; 852 pp.	EUR 471.00	EUR 530.00
Volume 14 (2015)	6 issues; 852 pp.	EUR 471.00	EUR 515.00
Volume 13 (2014)	4 issues; 852 pp.	EUR 405.00	EUR 430.00
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