Sahar Rasoulikolamaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1266476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sahar Rasoulikolamaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sahar |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasoulikolamaki |
| SIGNATURE | RASOULIKOLAMAKI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2893-1838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Selling international style healthy-branded foods in Malaysia
Scholars in food and nutrition studies have urged for more research on how global diets are entering into new territories around the world, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, about which less is known. In particular, there is concern as diet-related disease tends to escalate after the arrival of supermarkets and ultra-processed foods. In this region, there has been growing government promotion of, and public interest in, healthy eating. How…
Multimodal stance-taking and ideological alignment in online far-right anti-immigration discourse
With rising political polarisation, far-right digital spaces have become fertile ground for amplifying xenophobic discourse. Adopting a critical multimodal analytic approach to stance analysis, we examined anti-immigration posts and comments related to the US context in the QAnon+ Telegram channel from January 2021 to October 2022 to show that radicalisation in this context is not merely a matter of extreme opinions, but of the performative multi…
Shaping learners’ national imaginary through discourse of resilience in locally-developed Iranian ELTtextbooks
Education in post-revolutionary Iran has long served as a means to reinforce the state ideology. This study examines the overt and covert presence of state socio-political agenda in a series of Iranian locally-produced English language textbooks (ELT) ( Vision ) by analyzing textual and visual representations of Iranian and global societies, employing Machin and Mayr’s Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA). Findings reveal a distinctive f…
Statelessness and the semiotics of benign visibility in Malaysian news media
This study examines how stateless children are visually represented in Malaysian mainstream news media and what these images communicate about belonging, (in)visibility and exclusion. Drawing on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) and informed by theories of myth, visuality, and spectatorship, it analyses 69 news images published between June 2023 and June 2025 across five major Malaysian outlets. The study identifies two dominant visua…
From Delegitimisation to Conditional Legitimacy
This article presents a multimodal framing analysis of media coverage of protests following Quran burnings by far-right activists in Sweden and the Netherlands. Rather than focusing narrowly on anti-Muslim bias, the study examines how centre-left and right-leaning news outlets construct the legitimacy or illegitimacy of these protests. Drawing on framing theory and social semiotics, we developed a codebook to analyse how textual and visual elemen…
The Discursive Construction of Victimhood in Anti- and Pro-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric on Malaysian Social Media
While symbolic elites have traditionally monopolized victimhood discourse through discursive power, social media has disrupted these dynamics by enabling ordinary individuals to deploy such discourse, creating a landscape where victimhood emerges as a contested terrain of ideological values. Despite substantial scholarly attention to the invocation of victimhood in justifying dominant ideologies within institutional and top-down contexts, literat…
A multimodal analysis of (de)legitimation through argumentation in extremist discourse
Even after the demise of its territorial caliphate in 2019, ISIS persists as a potent threat, adapting to new technologies and maintaining its status as an active insurgency. Amidst the backdrop of the terror group’s demonstrated resilience, this paper examines its practice of (de)legitimation and language of persuasion through a multimodal argumentation analysis. It combines the argumentation strategies ( topoi ) proposed by Discourse-Historical…
A critical enthymematic deconstruction of anti/pro LGBTQ+ arguments on Malaysian social media
Malaysian social media platforms have been a dynamic space where both supporters and opponents of LGBTQ+ rights voice their opinions, either contesting or reinforcing discriminatory sentiments. We conducted an enthymematic deconstruction of arguments on two popular Malaysian social media platforms, expanding the concept of topoi within the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to explore how various standpoints are (de)legitimised. The findings sho…
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments
To better understand QAnon’s anti-immigration rhetoric, the study conducted a meta-discursive analysis of one of the group’s active Telegram channels by drawing on Hyland’s (2005) model of interaction. Specifically, engagement markers in their immigration-related discourse were analyzed to see how they contribute to endorsing the group’s macro conspiratorial arguments. The results illustrate a complex rhetorical manipulation and nearly unanimous …
In-group and out-group identity construction in extremist discourse
ISIS has seemingly been successful in mobilizing advocates from heterogenous backgrounds. Such diversity is symptomatic of the organization’s heavy investment in strategic messaging and identity construction to gain legitimacy. This study examined the multimodal discursive properties of ISIS’s narrative in its communique, Dabiq. It undertook a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the representation of in-group and out-group actors implementi…
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in Isis's Online Magazine, Dabiq
This paper is a multimodal critical discourse study of self-representation in ISIS’s e-magazine, Dabiq, employing Social Movement Theory and Van Leeuwen’s Socio-semantic Inventory. By analyzing the linguistic and non-linguistic features in the representation of social actors and actions in Dabiq, ISIS’s implied ideology at the macro level, which is to convince the prospective recruits and at the same time, to legitimize its brutality, is revealed…
How Isis represented enemies as ineffectual in Dabiq
This paper is a multimodal critical discourse study of other-representation in ISIS’s magazine, Dabiq, It focuses on both the micro-level analysis of actor and action representation, and the macro-structure of negative other-depiction in Dabiq from both textual and visual perspectives. Through in-depth examination of linguistic and non-linguistic elements, the study aimed to unfold ISIS’s ideology at the global level, which is to construct its de…
In-group and out-group identity construction in extremist discourse
ISIS has seemingly been successful in mobilizing advocates from heterogenous backgrounds. Such diversity is symptomatic of the organization’s heavy investment in strategic messaging and identity construction to gain legitimacy. This study examined the multimodal discursive properties of ISIS’s narrative in its communique, Dabiq. It undertook a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the representation of in-group and out-group actors implementi…
A critical enthymematic deconstruction of anti/pro LGBTQ+ arguments on Malaysian social media
Malaysian social media platforms have been a dynamic space where both supporters and opponents of LGBTQ+ rights voice their opinions, either contesting or reinforcing discriminatory sentiments. We conducted an enthymematic deconstruction of arguments on two popular Malaysian social media platforms, expanding the concept of topoi within the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to explore how various standpoints are (de)legitimised. The findings sho…
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments
To better understand QAnon’s anti-immigration rhetoric, the study conducted a meta-discursive analysis of one of the group’s active Telegram channels by drawing on Hyland’s (2005) model of interaction. Specifically, engagement markers in their immigration-related discourse were analyzed to see how they contribute to endorsing the group’s macro conspiratorial arguments. The results illustrate a complex rhetorical manipulation and nearly unanimous …
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in Isis's Online Magazine, Dabiq
This paper is a multimodal critical discourse study of self-representation in ISIS’s e-magazine, Dabiq, employing Social Movement Theory and Van Leeuwen’s Socio-semantic Inventory. By analyzing the linguistic and non-linguistic features in the representation of social actors and actions in Dabiq, ISIS’s implied ideology at the macro level, which is to convince the prospective recruits and at the same time, to legitimize its brutality, is revealed…
How Isis represented enemies as ineffectual in Dabiq
This paper is a multimodal critical discourse study of other-representation in ISIS’s magazine, Dabiq, It focuses on both the micro-level analysis of actor and action representation, and the macro-structure of negative other-depiction in Dabiq from both textual and visual perspectives. Through in-depth examination of linguistic and non-linguistic elements, the study aimed to unfold ISIS’s ideology at the global level, which is to construct its de…
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments
To better understand QAnon’s anti-immigration rhetoric, the study conducted a meta-discursive analysis of one of the group’s active Telegram channels by drawing on Hyland’s (2005) model of interaction. Specifically, engagement markers in their immigration-related discourse were analyzed to see how they contribute to endorsing the group’s macro conspiratorial arguments. The results illustrate a complex rhetorical manipulation and nearly unanimous …
In-group and out-group identity construction in extremist discourse
ISIS has seemingly been successful in mobilizing advocates from heterogenous backgrounds. Such diversity is symptomatic of the organization’s heavy investment in strategic messaging and identity construction to gain legitimacy. This study examined the multimodal discursive properties of ISIS’s narrative in its communique, Dabiq. It undertook a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the representation of in-group and out-group actors implementi…
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in Isis's Online Magazine, Dabiq
This paper is a multimodal critical discourse study of self-representation in ISIS’s e-magazine, Dabiq, employing Social Movement Theory and Van Leeuwen’s Socio-semantic Inventory. By analyzing the linguistic and non-linguistic features in the representation of social actors and actions in Dabiq, ISIS’s implied ideology at the macro level, which is to convince the prospective recruits and at the same time, to legitimize its brutality, is revealed…
A multimodal analysis of (de)legitimation through argumentation in extremist discourse
Even after the demise of its territorial caliphate in 2019, ISIS persists as a potent threat, adapting to new technologies and maintaining its status as an active insurgency. Amidst the backdrop of the terror group’s demonstrated resilience, this paper examines its practice of (de)legitimation and language of persuasion through a multimodal argumentation analysis. It combines the argumentation strategies ( topoi ) proposed by Discourse-Historical…
A critical enthymematic deconstruction of anti/pro LGBTQ+ arguments on Malaysian social media
Malaysian social media platforms have been a dynamic space where both supporters and opponents of LGBTQ+ rights voice their opinions, either contesting or reinforcing discriminatory sentiments. We conducted an enthymematic deconstruction of arguments on two popular Malaysian social media platforms, expanding the concept of topoi within the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to explore how various standpoints are (de)legitimised. The findings sho…
The Discursive Construction of Victimhood in Anti- and Pro-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric on Malaysian Social Media
While symbolic elites have traditionally monopolized victimhood discourse through discursive power, social media has disrupted these dynamics by enabling ordinary individuals to deploy such discourse, creating a landscape where victimhood emerges as a contested terrain of ideological values. Despite substantial scholarly attention to the invocation of victimhood in justifying dominant ideologies within institutional and top-down contexts, literat…
Selling international style healthy-branded foods in Malaysia
Scholars in food and nutrition studies have urged for more research on how global diets are entering into new territories around the world, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, about which less is known. In particular, there is concern as diet-related disease tends to escalate after the arrival of supermarkets and ultra-processed foods. In this region, there has been growing government promotion of, and public interest in, healthy eating. How…
Multimodal stance-taking and ideological alignment in online far-right anti-immigration discourse
With rising political polarisation, far-right digital spaces have become fertile ground for amplifying xenophobic discourse. Adopting a critical multimodal analytic approach to stance analysis, we examined anti-immigration posts and comments related to the US context in the QAnon+ Telegram channel from January 2021 to October 2022 to show that radicalisation in this context is not merely a matter of extreme opinions, but of the performative multi…
Shaping learners’ national imaginary through discourse of resilience in locally-developed Iranian ELTtextbooks
Education in post-revolutionary Iran has long served as a means to reinforce the state ideology. This study examines the overt and covert presence of state socio-political agenda in a series of Iranian locally-produced English language textbooks (ELT) ( Vision ) by analyzing textual and visual representations of Iranian and global societies, employing Machin and Mayr’s Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA). Findings reveal a distinctive f…
Statelessness and the semiotics of benign visibility in Malaysian news media
This study examines how stateless children are visually represented in Malaysian mainstream news media and what these images communicate about belonging, (in)visibility and exclusion. Drawing on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) and informed by theories of myth, visuality, and spectatorship, it analyses 69 news images published between June 2023 and June 2025 across five major Malaysian outlets. The study identifies two dominant visua…
From Delegitimisation to Conditional Legitimacy
This article presents a multimodal framing analysis of media coverage of protests following Quran burnings by far-right activists in Sweden and the Netherlands. Rather than focusing narrowly on anti-Muslim bias, the study examines how centre-left and right-leaning news outlets construct the legitimacy or illegitimacy of these protests. Drawing on framing theory and social semiotics, we developed a codebook to analyse how textual and visual elemen…
Politics (8 works) · Ideology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Critical discourse analysis (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works)