Focus & Scope

The Journal of Critical Issues and Discourse Studies (JCIDS) is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing multidisciplinary research on the interplay between language, discourse, power, and society. The journal aims to promote critical inquiry and innovative perspectives on how discourse shapes, and is shaped by, contemporary social, political, cultural, and ideological issues.

JCIDS welcomes original research articles, theoretical contributions, case studies, and critical reviews that explore the dynamic role of discourse in understanding and addressing pressing global and local challenges.

The journal encourages submissions in (but not limited to) the following areas:

• Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): Investigations into how discourse reproduces, sustains, or challenges ideologies, identities, and social structures.
• Sociopolitical and Media Discourse: Analyses of political communication, journalism, propaganda, digital and social media discourses.
• Identity, Gender, and Intersectionality in Discourse: Studies on how language constructs, negotiates, and represents identities, particularly among marginalized groups.
• Educational and Pedagogical Discourses: Critical examinations of curriculum, classroom interaction, educational policy, and language ideologies in education.
• Environmental, Health, and Crisis Discourse: Discourses on climate change, pandemics, global emergencies, and public health communication.
• Discourse and Globalization: Analyses of migration, transnationalism, neoliberalism, and global governance from a discourse perspective.
• Language, Power, and Resistance: Studies on discourses of domination, activism, resistance, and struggles for social justice.
• Review Papers (Systematic Literature Reviews, Scoping Reviews, Bibliometric Studies): Comprehensive reviews that critically map current debates and trends in discourse studies.