In:Reference and Identity in Public Discourses
Edited by Ursula Lutzky and Minna Nevala
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 306] 2019
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
IntroductionPragmatic explorations of reference and identity in public discourses1
Minna Nevala
Ursula Lutzky
Part I.Public discourses in the history of English
Two miserable creatures or those atrocious criminals? Evaluative reference in the Mannings murder reporting19
Minna Nevala
The Prince and the Sassenach: Constructing group homogeneity through labels (and anachronisms) in Late Modern times and beyond43
Marina Dossena
“Right trusty and well-beloved”: The socio-pragmatics of gender, power and stance in sixteenth-century English letters67
Imogen Marcus
Mel Evans
Kinship references in the British Parliament, 1800–200597
Jukka Tyrkkö
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 Guardian127
Andrew Kehoe
Matt Gee
From ‘country’ to ‘confederation’ – debating terms of reference for the EU on a Wikipedia talk page159
Susanne Kopf
After we #VoteLeave we can #TakeControl: Political campaigning and imagined collectives on Twitter before the Brexit vote181
Sylvia Jaworska
Tigran Sogomonian
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 interaction205
Barbara De Cock
What’s in a diminutive? The pragmatics of the Spanish diminutive in a televised political interview and its reverberations in online comments227
Bettina Kluge
From Poland to #SanEscobar: On strategies subverting political discourse on Twitter251
Nadine Thielemann
