ABSTRACT
Studies of social movements since the 1990s have taken a more ‘cultural’ turn, paying more attention to beliefs, ideologies, values, emotions, and discourse, though largely ignoring the relevant advances in cognitive science and discourse studies in the last decades. Besides many other forms of protest, such as manifestations, occupations, or strikes, text and talk are pervasive as a repertoire of contentious action, as in recruitment, manifestos, declarations, slogans, websites, meetings, assemblies, storytelling, facebook posts, tweets, songs, press releases, and much more. Critical of framing studies in social movement research, this chapter offers a more explicit framework for the study of social movement discourse.
