Christoph Schubert
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christoph Schubert is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2950-578X | E‑ISSN 2950‑5798
Titles
Introduction to Discourse Studies: New edition
Jan Renkema and Christoph Schubert
This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international… read more[Not in series, 219] 2018. xv, 453 pp.
Cognitive Perspectives on Political Discourse
Edited by Pascal Fischer and Christoph Schubert
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 13:2 (2014) v, 170 pp.
2026 Suspense creation in horror film trailers: A case study of telecinematic discourse Journal of Language and Pop Culture 2:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
The promotional objective of horror film trailers is substantially supported by the creation of suspense, which emotionally involves audiences and arouses thrilling expectations about the upcoming feature film. This paper aims to examine suspense in this telecinematic genre by studying the… read more
2023 Tarantino’s eloquent villains: A pragma-stylistic approach to suspense Interdisciplinary approaches to the language of pop culture, Montoro, Rocío and Valentin Werner (eds.), pp. 119–143 | Article
Suspense as an aesthetic effect is a key narrative strategy of thriller movies, serving the function of entertainment for wide audiences. As the plot unfolds, arcs of suspense rely on triggering an appealing sense of anticipation that calls for a resolution. The present study examines the… read more
2022 Strategic functions of linguistic impoliteness in US primary election debates Journal of Language and Politics 21:3, pp. 391–412 | Article
Since presidential primary debates in US election campaigns serve the function of identifying the most promising nominee for the subsequent presidency, they constitute a highly adversarial multilogue. Debaters do not only exchange factual arguments but also use diverse forms of impoliteness… read more
2014 Introduction: Cognitive perspectives on political discourse Cognitive Perspectives on Political Discourse, Fischer, Pascal and Christoph Schubert (eds.), pp. 205–217 | Introduction
2014 I haven’t spoken to him about it: Evidentiality in White House press briefings Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue, Zuczkowski, Andrzej (ed.), pp. 58–75 | Article
White House press briefings have the function of providing journalists with first-hand information on present activities of the US-American administration. The Press Secretary, currently Jay Carney, mainly draws on indirect reportative evidentialiy, referring to recent utterances by the President.… read more
2014 Cognitive categorization and prototypicality as persuasive strategies: Presidential rhetoric in the USA Cognitive Perspectives on Political Discourse, Fischer, Pascal and Christoph Schubert (eds.), pp. 313–335 | Article
Cognitive categorization is an indispensable instrument for organizing human experience. Owing to the obvious appeal of clear-cut categories in ideological discourse, polarization frequently serves as a strategy of political persuasion. The success of such rhetoric corroborates the allure of… read more
2012 Follow-up questions in White House press briefings: Metacommunication in cohesion and framing Language and Dialogue 2:3, pp. 449–463 | Article
The paper explores the structures and functions of follow-up questions in White House press briefings from the perspectives of both text linguistics and cognitive discourse analysis. On the one hand, I investigate the characteristic types of cohesion in follow-ups at the lexicogrammatical level in… read more
2011 Review of Coventry, Tenbrink & Bateman (2009): Spatial Language and Dialogue Language and Dialogue 1:2, pp. 328–333 | Review
2010 Narrative sequences in political discourse: Forms and functions in speeches and hypertext frameworks Narrative Revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media, Hoffmann, Christian R. (ed.), pp. 143–162 | Article
In political speeches, narrative functions as a device that supports the fundamental persuasive intention by presenting an ideologically biased selection of past events. On the basis of this premise, it is possible to distinguish between four central functions fulfilled by political narrative… read more