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  1. Introducing the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies

    Article • January 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Franco Zappettini, Dr Bernhard Forchtner

  2. The rhetoric of externalizing migration policies: The cases of British and Italian sovereignty by proxy

    Article • Discourse & Society, November 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  3. Europhobia as a trajectory to hate speech normalisation? A diachronic analysis of Brexit media propaganda

    Article • Critical Discourse Studies, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  4. Communication Strategies on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan

    Article • International Journal of Strategic Communication, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  5. The Institutionalization of Hatred Politics in the Mediterranean: Studying Corpora of Online News Portals During the European ‘Refugee Crisis’

    Article • Topoi, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  6. Book review: Franco Zappettini and Michal Krzyżanowski (eds), Brexit as a Social and Political Crisis: Discourses in Media and Politics

    Article • Discourse Studies, June 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  7. (De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis

    Article • Journal of Language and Politics, March 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  8. Taking the left way out of Europe

    Article • Journal of Language and Politics, February 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  9. Reimagining Europe and its (dis)integration

    Article • Journal of Language and Politics, February 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  10. Emotionalisation of contemporary media discourse: A research agenda

    Article • Russian Journal of Linguistics, December 2021, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  11. The UK as victim and hero in the Sun’s coverage of the Brexit ‘humiliation’

    Article • Russian Journal of Linguistics, December 2021, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  12. The mediatisation of Brexit: Actors, agendas and allegories

    Article • European Journal of Communication, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  13. Euroscepticism between Populism and Technocracy: The Case of Italian Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle

    Article • Journal of Contemporary European Research, May 2021, UACES

    Dr Franco Zappettini, Marzia Maccaferri

  14. “Brexit” as a Social and Political Crisis

    Article • April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  15. The tabloidization of the Brexit campaign

    Article • Journal of Language and Politics, November 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  16. The Brexit referendum: how trade and immigration in the discourses of the official campaigns have legitimised a toxic (inter)national logic

    Article • Critical Discourse Studies, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  17. The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis

    Article • Critical Discourse Studies, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  18. The official vision for ‘global Britain’

    Article • February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  19. Conclusions

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  20. Exploring Identities in Discourse: Conceptual Tools

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  21. Notes

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  22. Results

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  23. Introduction

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  24. Unpacking Transnationalism

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  25. Operationalizing the Methodological Approach

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  26. Discussing and Summarizing the Findings

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  27. European Identities in Discourse

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  28. Transnationalism as an Index to Construct European Identities: An Analysis of ‘Transeuropean’ Discourses

    Article • August 2017, Emerald

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  29. Transnationalism as an Index to Construct European Identities: an Analysis of ‘Transeuropean’ Discourses

    Article • January 2017, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  30. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines

    Article • Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, September 2016, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  31. ‘Mixing’ and ‘Bending’: The recontextualisation of discourses of sustainability in integrated reporting

    Article • Discourse & Communication, August 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  32. ‘A badge of Europeanness’

    Article • Journal of Language and Politics, December 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  33. Bottom-up Perspectives on Multilingual Ideologies in the EU: The Case of a Transnational NGO

    Article • Journal of Contemporary European Research, December 2014, UACES

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  34. Incorporating Materiality Considerations into Analyses of Absence from Sustainability Reporting

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  35. NETWORKED IDENTITIES

    Article • Critical Discourse Studies, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Franco Zappettini, Dr Lisa J McEntee-Atalianis

  36. The discursive construction of European identities. A multi-level approach to discourse and identity in the transforming European Union

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  37. Review of Contesting Europe’s Eastern Rim Cultural Identities in Public Discourse by Ljiljana Saric, Andreas Musolff, Stefan Manz, and Ingrid Hudabiunigg

    Article • Journal of Language and Politics, August 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Franco Zappettini

  38. Article • John Benjamins

    Dr Franco Zappettini