Raluca Mihaela Levonian
List of John Benjamins publications in which Raluca Mihaela Levonian is involved.
Articles
2019 Chapter 10. “The people” in the discourse of the Romanian government and opposition: Between populism and the quest for democracy Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum, Zienkowski, Jan and Ruth Breeze (eds.), pp. 257–284 | Chapter
This article analyzes the discourse of the government and opposition parties in Romania, between 2011 and 2012. It examines the construction of “the people” as a popular subject, by applying both quantitative and qualitative analysis. The results show that the government tended to present “the… read more
2017 What does ‘emergency’ mean? Corrections in Romanian and Italian political interviews Language and Dialogue 7:2, pp. 213–235 | Article
This article analyzes political interviews, focusing on the corrections made by the interviewees in their answers, from a comparative perspective. The data included both Romanian and Italian language interviews, published in print and online media. Two criteria for the classification of… read more
2015 Friends and foes: The construction of national and supra-national identities in contemporary Romanian public discourse Language and Dialogue 5:3, pp. 408–429 | Article
This paper investigates the construction of Romanian national identity after the fall of the communist regime through the use of the discourse-historical approach advanced by Wodak (e.g. Wodak et al. 2009). The object of the analysis is represented by a corpus of eleven speeches issued by the… read more