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Journal of Language and Politics

Volume 25, Issue 6 (2026)

Expected December 2026. ca. 160 pp.

Publishing status: In production

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

Table of Contents

This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.

Beyond the law: Symbolic violence through metaphors in abortion news discourse Yafei Zhu and Jidong Zhang	795–819
Which energy, whose South? How economic expert discourses construct the energy transition in the Italian Mezzogiorno Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta	820–841
Normalization of ecological civilization in Chinese news media: A dynamic topic modeling-assisted critical discourse analysis Jianguo Wu and Min Ou	842–869
Could generative AI become a ghostwriter for the US president? Jacques Savoy	870–892
Expanding a performative perspective on sustainability communication: Applying trans- and counterformative speech acts Dr. Peter Winkler and Franzisca Weder	893–914
Political implicatures in Russian online media discourse Alexey Tymbay	915–939
Review of Du (2025): Chinese Political Discourse in Translation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis Yuan Ping	940–943
Review of Ajšić (2025): Modeling Metalinguistic Discourse and Language Ideologies Shufan Guo and Zhongqing He	944–947
Review of Bennett (2025): Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences Maka Julios-Costa	948–951

Subjects and metadata

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics