Journal of Language and Politics
jlanpol.bsky.social
Journal of Language and Politics
@jlanpol.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary journal exploring the interplay between language and politics: https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp
📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS | 24(6)

Derya Yüksek reviews Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer’s @routledgebooks.bsky.social ‘Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach’

👉 Review: dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25052.yuk
👉 Book: bit.ly/4i6KBuF
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
✨🚨 | NEW ISSUE 24(6)⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 ‘𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞’⁣⁣
by Gijs Lambrechts and Benjamin De Cleen
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👉 dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24155.lam
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📢 The fifth issue of Vol. 24 of the Journal of Language and Politics is now out: bit.ly/4nCov4b

🧵 Catch up on our previous threads introducing the articles and book reviews:

• Articles: bit.ly/3Loa0n2
• Book reviews: bit.ly/4oQfR35
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS

Jingyi Song & Zi Yang review Hansun Zhang Waring & Nadja Tadic’s @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social 'Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction’

👉 Review: dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24245.son
👉 Book: bit.ly/4ozZdnZ
October 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🚨 | NEW ARTICLES

Explore new research featured in our journal:

- Capturing power in diplomatic language use
- The power of old ideas newly expressed
- Far-right discourse in Brazil
- Populism and contingency
- Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification

bit.ly/4oyApgl
October 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS

Yuan Ping reviews Lijuan Du’s
@routledgebooks.bsky.social
‘Chinese Political Discourse in Translation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis'

👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25229.pin
👉 Book: bit.ly/47tdEog
October 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🚨 | NEW ARTICLES

Check out 2 articles we have recently published:

- Traditional beliefs as target and weapon
- ‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’
October 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🚨 | NEW ARTICLES

Check out 3 articles we have recently published:

- Could generative AI become a ghostwriter for the US president?
- “Thoughts & prayers,” conspiracy theories, and laughing emojis
- No one needs to teach Macedonians what Europe is
October 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS

Fei Gao and Xin Li review Denise Merkle and Brian James Baer's @routledgebooks.bsky.social 'The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship'

👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25190.gao
👉 Book: bit.ly/46KiTOP
October 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS

Lingyu Yi and Zhongqing He review Farah Ali’s ‘Policy, Media, and the Shaping of Spain-Morocco Relations: Discursive Representations of Migration to Ceuta and Melilla’ (Palgrave Macmillan)

👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25161.yi
👉 Book: bit.ly/42Sgr7L
October 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🚨 | NEW ARTICLES

Check out 3 articles we’ve published this month:

- The American abortion debate
- Recontextualizing the “community with a shared future for mankind”
- The language of power or the power of language?

bit.ly/4kNz6Zv
Journal of Language and Politics | John Benjamins
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 loc...
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September 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
📕 | NEW BOOK REVIEWS

Paige Johnson reviews Charlotte Taylor, Simon Goodman and Stuart Dunmore’s
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social ‘The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities’

👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25164.joh
👉 Book: bit.ly/460B0kC
September 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
💻 | NEW BLOG POST

Karen Dacy discusses her recent JLP article on gendered comments about women politicians' handling of money
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Interview with Karen Dacy: Linguistic study reveals discrimination against women in politics beyond traditional gender stereotypes
In this interview, Karen Dacy discusses her co-authored Journal of Language and Politics article with Lesley Stirling ‘Serial rorters or mere mortals? Gendered mediation in comments to newspapers abo...
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August 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
💻 | NEW BLOG POST

Eva Emilia Hamamé Ahumada, Cristóbal Sandoval, Sebastián Peredo and Fortunato Morales tell us about their recent JLP article
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Interview with Hamamé Ahumada, Sandoval, Peredo and Morales: Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention
We hear from the authors of recent Journal of Language and Politics article, Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention: A multi-modal argumentation analysis.
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July 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
💻 | NEW BLOG POST

Kerry Ann McKeon shares the key findings from her recent JLP article
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Interview with Kerry Ann McKeon: The Tennessee three
In this interview, Kerry Ann McKeon discusses her Journal of Language and Politics article, The Tennessee three: Mapping the discursive boundaries of inequality in statehouse political debate. She hig...
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July 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
🚨 | NEW ARTICLE

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

by Karen Dacy and Lesley Stirling

👉 doi.org/10.1075/jlp....
July 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
💻 | NEW BLOG POST

Aimee Pavia Meader and Matthew Wood Hayes discuss their recent JLP article about interpretations of presidential messaging
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Interview with Aimee Pavia Meader and Matthew Wood Hayes: ‘Presidential’ is in the ear of the beholder
Aimee Pavia Meader and Matthew Wood Hayes tell us about their recent Journal of Language and Politics article, '‘Presidential’ is in the ear of the beholder: The impact of rhetorical style, message to...
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July 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
💻 | NEW BLOG POST

Dimitris Trimithiotis and Theodosia Demetriou talked to us about their recent JLP article about pro-vaccine discourses and vaccine hesitancy
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Interview with Dimitris Trimithiotis and Theodosia Demetriou: When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy
Dimitris Trimithiotis and Theodosia Demetriou talk about their JLP article, 'When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy: an intertextual analysis of online news on COVID-19.'
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June 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🚨 | NEW ARTICLES

Take a look at four articles we published last month:

- Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press
- The Tennessee three
- Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention
- What’s in a name?

bit.ly/4kNz6Zv
Journal of Language and Politics | John Benjamins
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 loc...
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June 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
💻 | NEW BLOG POST

Mohamed Salhi gives a flavour of what you can expect from his recently published JLP article:
bit.ly/4mNbXaZ

@uselesssimo.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🚨 | NEW OA ARTICLE

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

by @uselesssimo.bsky.social

👉https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24202.sal
May 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🚨 | NEW ARTICLE

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

by Dimitris Trimithiotis and Theodosia Demetriou

👉https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24054.tri
May 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨 | NEW ARTICLE

𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰
Symbolic violence through metaphors in abortion news discourse

by Yafei Zhu and Jidong Zhang

👉https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24133.zhu
May 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
💻 | NEW BLOG POST

Marissa K.L.E and Sabine Tan share key findings from their JLP article on environmental conservation and urban development in Singapore
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Interview with Marissa K.L.E and Sabine Tan: Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore
Marissa K.L.E and Sabine Tan talk to us about their recent Journal of Language and Politics  article, 'Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singa...
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May 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Reposted by Journal of Language and Politics
Publication Alert 🚨

Happy to share this article in @jlanpol.bsky.social, examining AfD's EP campaign's exploitation of election surprises, symbolic resources, and convergence with "liberals" - ultimately driving the party's mainstreaming process.

Open access: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24202.sal
May 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM