Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is an inter-disciplinary approach to language in use, which
aims to advance our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social …

A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a
rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis. The second edition of this …

Can firms deceive their stakeholders, by failing to deliver on their commitments to undertake
sustainability practices without being detected? Extant theory posits that, due to information …

This book investigates linguistic strategies of threat construction and fear generation in
contemporary public communication, including state political discourse as well as non …

This study investigates cases of language 'policing'as educational language policies, and
the way that these are represented across different policy levels. Focusing on UK schools …

In contemporary linguistics, both cognitive and critical approaches to language have been
elaborated in some detail. Unfortunately, the two perspectives have seldom converged …

Contrary to what practice suggests, social media platforms may not be an appropriate forum
for communicating with civil society about sustainability issues such as climate change …

This article presents a corpus-based analysis of stance in annual and corporate social
responsibility (CSR) reports. It investigates how companies use stance expressions to …

This paper gives a critical overview of the analytical approaches dominating the field of
discourse studies in the last three decades, from the perspective of their philosophical and …

This article explores the discursive patterns of legitimization of anti-immigration policies
adopted by the Polish right-wing government which has been ruling the country since …