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Discourse Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal for the study of text and talk. Publishing outstanding work on the structures and strategies of written and spoken discourse, special attention is given to cross-disciplinary studies of text and talk in linguistics, anthropology, ethnomethodology, cognitive and social psychology, communication studies and law. View full journal description

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Neurodivergent recipient design and intersubjectivity – A re-examination of perspective-taking in autism

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The cooperative coaching client: Clients’ responding activities to wh-questions for solution generation in coaching

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Book review: Liu, D., Abstract Entity Anaphora in Argumentative Texts. Pragmatic Features and Referent Interpretation

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Book review: Levinson, S. C., The Interaction Engine: Language in Social Life and Human Evolution

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Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach

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Topic modelling in corpus-based discourse analysis: Uses and critiques

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Framing and social movements

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Analyzing frame analysis: A critical review of framing studies in social movement research

  • Teun A van Dijk
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Framing and social movements

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Multimodal engagement strategies in science dissemination: A case study of TED talks and YouTube science videos

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Framing and related concepts in interactional sociolinguistics

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