Nicolina Montesano Montessori
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicolina Montesano Montessori is involved.
Articles
2021 Towards webs of equivalence and the political nomad in agonistic debate: Contributions from CDA and scales theory Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice, De Cleen, Benjamin, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža (eds.), pp. 129–144 | Article
Discourse theorists often defend their discursive stance on ‘reality’ and the material with reference to Laclau and Mouffe’s quote that, while an “earthquake or the falling of a brick…exist externally to thought,” they cannot “constitute themselves as objects outside any discursive conditions of… read more
2019 Chapter 5. The articulation of ‘the people’ in the discourse of Podemos Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum, Zienkowski, Jan and Ruth Breeze (eds.), pp. 123–147 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the construction of pueblo ‘people’ and patria ‘homeland’ in the Spanish discourse of Podemos and the party’s relation to la gente ‘the people’ between June 2016 and its second political conference, Vistalegre II (February 2017). The discursive analysis focuses on figures… read more
2014 The Potential of Narrative Strategies in the Discursive Construction of Hegemonic Positions and Social Change From Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines, Kaal, Bertie, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof (eds.), pp. 171–188 | Article
This chapter illustrates ways in which narrative strategies contribute to the construction of hegemonic processes of social change. Narratives have transformational power because they shape new imaginaries about social life, help to legitimate them and create consensus. It is argued that effective… read more