Cornelia Ilie
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cornelia Ilie is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1877-6884
Journal
Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Maria Sifianou
ISSN 2213-1272 | E‑ISSN 2213‑1280
Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
The goal of this volume is to explore and make sense of the overall scope, implications and consequences of shifting discourses of war, peace and neutrality across time and space, in relation to conflict-ridden geopolitical environments characterised by power struggles, political polarizations,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 355] 2026. vi, 319 pp. + index
Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
Spotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in different countries and socio-political circumstances, the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics’ (misleading information and fake news), public policy… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 339] 2024. vi, 311 pp.
Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively researched ones: South-Korean talk shows, Japanese interviews, Chinese… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 323] 2021. vi, 316 pp.
Democracy and Discriminatory Strategies in Parliamentary Discourse
Edited by Karin Bischof and Cornelia Ilie
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 17:5 (2018) vi, 127 pp.
Pragmatics and its Interfaces
Edited by Cornelia Ilie and Neal R. Norrick
This volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the cross-disciplinary role and impact of Pragmatics in relation to several areas of study that it interfaces with. Pragmatics has contributed significant insights to a range of disciplines, just as these disciplines have contributed to it. Borrowing… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 294] 2018. vi, 313 pp.
Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives
Edited by Cornelia Ilie and Giuliana Garzone
Featuring multidisciplinary and transcultural investigations, this volume showcases state-of-the-art scholarship about the impact of argumentation-based discourses and field-specific argumentation practices in a wide range of communities of practice belonging to the media, social, legal and… read more[Argumentation in Context, 10] 2017. vi, 345 pp.
European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse strategies and interaction practices
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
In the European tradition, parliaments are central political institutions that play a crucial role in the development of democratic societies. No other institution regularly offers a public arena for open deliberation and dissent, for discussing opposite points of view and for reaching compromise… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 38] 2010. vi, 378 pp.
Language and Ideology: Volume 2: descriptive cognitive approaches
Edited by René Dirven †, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie
Together with its sister volume on Theoretical Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. This volume shows that descriptive tools which cognitive linguistics developed for the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 205] 2001. vi, 267 pp.
2026 War-peace dialectic revisited: From neutrality to post-neutrality discourses in Sweden Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 63–95 | Chapter
The increasingly blurred distinction between war and peace described by Leonard (2021) as an alternation of two interrelated labels, i.e. ‘unpeace’ and ‘unwar’, is crucially relevant to the need to reevaluate the interdependence of the closely related concepts of neutrality, non-alignment and… read more
2026 Discursive (mis)representations of war and peace in cross-national and historical perspectives Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 1–27 | Chapter
2026 The long, unsuccessful war: Discourses of Russian defeat following the Russo-Japanese war, 1905–present Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 124–154 | Chapter
Shortly before the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904, Russia’s Interior Minister, Viacheslav von Plehve, sought means to unify the country. He is often credited with advocating for a “short, victorious war” to achieve this end. Contrary to expectations, the war, lasting 19 months, ended in a… read more
2024 Chapter 3. Manipulating citizens’ beliefs and emotions: Consensus-seeking and dissensus-generating tactics in crisis management Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 85–118 | Chapter
In times of crisis, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, social divisions caused by dissensus about controversial government policies escalate due to widespread uncertainty and anxiety, fuelled by the proliferation of covert and overt manipulative strategies in official discourses. Like citizens in… read more
2024 Crisis manipulation: Discourse- and argumentation-based approaches Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 1–23 | Chapter
2021 Questions we (inter)act with: Interrelatedness of questions and answers in discourse Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 1–32 | Chapter
2021 Discussion, dispute or controversy? Paradigms of conflict-driven parliamentary practices New perspectives on conflict, pp. 237–270 | Article
As parliamentary debates increasingly display rising levels of political conflict, the polarized and aggressive polemical exchanges in Prime Minister’s Questions are impacting the current agenda-setting and consequently public perceptions and assessments. To get a deeper understanding of the… read more
2021 Evasive answers vs. aggressive questions: Parliamentary confrontational practices in Prime Minister’s Questions Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 35–70 | Chapter
The goal of this investigation is to scrutinize the interplay of parliamentary questions and answers in the notoriously polarized PMQs (Prime Minister’s Questions), in terms of three pragmatic criteria: topical focus, addressed target(s), and pursued goal(s). A pragma-rhetorical analysis… read more
2018 Democracy and discriminatory strategies in parliamentary discourse Democracy and Discriminatory Strategies in Parliamentary Discourse, Bischof, Karin and Cornelia Ilie (eds.), pp. 585–593 | Editorial
2018 Pragmatics vs rhetoric: Political discourse at the pragmatics-rhetoric interface Pragmatics and its Interfaces, Ilie, Cornelia and Neal R. Norrick (eds.), pp. 85–119 | Chapter
Pragmatics and rhetoric display a range of commonalities and convergences in that both are concerned with discursive and extra-discursive strategies that enable the negotiation and re-negotiation of context-situated meaning, and the co-performance of interpersonal and institutional relationships… read more
2018 “Behave yourself, woman!”: Patterns of gender discrimination and sexist stereotyping in parliamentary interaction Democracy and Discriminatory Strategies in Parliamentary Discourse, Bischof, Karin and Cornelia Ilie (eds.), pp. 594–616 | Article
After a record number of women were elected to the House of Commons in 1997, many incidents of sexism and abusive behaviour were reported. The aim of this article is twofold: on the one hand, to scrutinize the mechanisms and effects of sexist discrimination and stereotyping of women MPs in the… read more
2018 Introduction: Pragmatics and its interfaces Pragmatics and its Interfaces, Ilie, Cornelia and Neal R. Norrick (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Introduction
2017 Chapter 4. Questioning the questionable: Arguments and counter-arguments in political accountability interviews Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia and Giuliana Garzone (eds.), pp. 73–98 | Chapter
The aim of this chapter is to identify and scrutinize the mechanisms of overt and covert argumentation and counter-argumentation that underlie the question-answer turn-taking structure in a political accountability interview conducted as part of the BBC HARDtalk programmes. The political… read more
2017 Cross-disciplinary perspectives on context-specific argumentation practices Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia and Giuliana Garzone (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2015 Follow-ups as multifunctional questioning and answering strategies in Prime Minister’s Questions The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups, Fetzer, Anita, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin (eds.), pp. 195–218 | Article
In parliamentary interaction, more than in other types of institutional dialogue, follow-ups indicate how UK Members of Parliament (MPs) negotiate not only the pros and cons of topic-related issues, but also their status, roles and power positions. While a follow-up is normally conditioned by… read more
2012 Representing gender in parliamentary dialogue: Are there any cross-cultural stereotypes? (Re)presentations and Dialogue, Cooren, François and Alain Létourneau (eds.), pp. 59–82 | Article
To understand the emergence of gender roles in parliamentary interaction, it is useful to compare the ways in which female and male MPs use and misuse addressing strategies. Behaviours and interactional performances are interpreted in significant ways: by being acknowledged and appreciated, by… read more
2010 Introduction European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse strategies and interaction practices, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 1–25 | Article
2010 Identity co-construction in parliamentary discourse practices European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse strategies and interaction practices, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 57–78 | Article
2010 Managing dissent and interpersonal relations in the Romanian parliamentary discourse European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse strategies and interaction practices, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 193–222 | Article
2005 An integrated approach to the analysis of participant roles in totalitarian discourse: The case of Ceausescu’s Agent roles Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, language, mind, Saussure, Louis de and Peter J. Schulz (eds.), pp. 191–211 | Article
2004 Insulting as (un)parliamentary practice in the British and Swedish parliaments: A rhetorical approach Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse, Bayley, Paul (ed.), pp. 45–86 | Article
2003 Discourse and metadiscourse in parliamentary debates Parliamentary Discourse, pp. 71–92 | Article
Oral metadiscourse is envisaged in the present study as a set of rhetorically structured communicative and interactional strategies used by speakers to signal, highlight, mitigate, or cancel parts of their ongoing discourse and their varying relevance to different addressees and/or audience… read more
2001 Introduction Language and Ideology: Volume 2: descriptive cognitive approaches, Dirven, René †, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Miscellaneous
2001 Unparliamentary language: Insults as cognitive forms of ideological confrontation Language and Ideology: Volume 2: descriptive cognitive approaches, Dirven, René †, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie (eds.), pp. 235–264 | Article