Derek Wallace
List of John Benjamins publications in which Derek Wallace is involved.
2023 Identifying the discursive trajectory of social change – a systematic discourse theoretical framework Journal of Language and Politics 22:2, pp. 245–267 | Article
This article has two main objectives. One, to advance methodological development in both discourse theory and media and communications research by proposing an eclectic, replicable methodology. Two, to demonstrate how to apply that methodology to furnish both ontic and ontological explanations… read more
2020 “A very good dialogue”? The oral consideration stage in UN human rights monitoring Language and Dialogue 10:2, pp. 171–193 | Article
This article builds on previous research on the communicational practices of the United Nations human rights monitoring system (Wallace 2017). Treaties such as those responsible for women’s and children’s rights lack direct enforcement mechanisms, so interest falls on the means by which treaty… read more
2017 What the Convention requires: Intertextual conduct in nation states’ non-binding agreements with the UN Journal of Language and Politics 16:6, pp. 809–829 | Article
How can conduct be enforced when governmental relations are entirely reliant on linguistic exchange? This is the question at stake in such jurisdictions as the United Nations when nations sign up to legally non-binding commitments. The few commentators in this area hold that non-enforceability… read more
2016 Governmentality through intertextuality: Strategic planning discourse in the administration of tertiary education Studies of Discourse and Governmentality: New perspectives and methods, McIlvenny, Paul, Julia Zhukova Klausen and Laura Bang Lindegaard (eds.), pp. 297–322 | Article
In this chapter I analyse texts composed and exchanged within the New Zealand
tertiary education domain in order to explore the “will to govern” (Miller and
Rose 2008: 29) in its contemporary manifestation. Using intertextuality as the
principle framework, the analysis is grounded in a detailed… read more