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Reference and Identity in Public Discourses
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This volume explores the concepts of reference and identity in public discourses. Its contributions study discourse-specific reference and labelling patterns, both from a historical and present-day perspective, and discuss their impact on self- and other-representation in the construction of identity. They combine multiple methodological approaches, including corpus-based quantitative as well as qualitative ones, and apply them to a range of text types that are or were (intended to be) public, such as letters, newspapers, parliamentary debates, and online communication in the form of reader comments, discussion pages, and tweets. In addition to English, the languages studied include Polish as well as European and Latin American Spanish. The volume is aimed at researchers from different research paradigms in linguistics and related disciplines, such as media communication or the social and cultural sciences, who are interested in the interplay of reference and identity.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 306] 2019. vi, 284 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 October 2019
Published online on 24 October 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Pragmatic explorations of reference and identity in public discoursesMinna Nevala and Ursula Lutzky | pp. 1–16
- Part I. Public discourses in the history of English
- Two miserable creatures or those atrocious criminals? Evaluative reference in the Mannings murder reportingMinna Nevala | pp. 19–41
- The Prince and the Sassenach: Constructing group homogeneity through labels (and anachronisms) in Late Modern times and beyondMarina Dossena | pp. 43–65
- “Right trusty and well-beloved”: The socio-pragmatics of gender, power and stance in sixteenth-century English lettersImogen Marcus and Mel Evans | pp. 67–96
- Kinship references in the British Parliament, 1800–2005Jukka Tyrkkö | pp. 97–124
- Part II. Public discourses in Present-Day English
- “Thanks for the donds”: A corpus linguistic analysis of topic-based communities in the comment section of The GuardianAndrew Kehoe and Matt Gee | pp. 127–158
- From ‘country’ to ‘confederation’ – debating terms of reference for the EU on a Wikipedia talk pageSusanne Kopf | pp. 159–180
- After we #VoteLeave we can #TakeControl: Political campaigning and imagined collectives on Twitter before the Brexit voteSylvia Jaworska and Tigran Sogomonian | pp. 181–202
- Part III. Public discourses around the world
- To be or not to be … a patient: Identity construction of healthcare professionals and patients in public online diabetes-related interactionBarbara De Cock | pp. 205–225
- What’s in a diminutive? The pragmatics of the Spanish diminutive in a televised political interview and its reverberations in online commentsBettina Kluge | pp. 227–250
- From Poland to #SanEscobar: On strategies subverting political discourse on TwitterNadine Thielemann | pp. 251–280
- Index | pp. 281–284
“With a strong background provided in the introductory chapter, this volume is accessible, even for those who do not have specialties in Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, or Sociolinguistics. [...] This monograph remains an important breakthrough for scholars working in the two interconnected areas of Pragmatics, namely, reference and identity. Because of the detailed and clear introduction, it can certainly be used as a first orientation by those new to the importance of reference terms for identity work.”
Krisda Chaemsaithong, Hanyang University, in Journal of Pragmatics Volume 167 (2020).
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