Rachelle Vessey
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rachelle Vessey is involved.
2024 The language of sexual violence and impropriety: A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
In Canada, which has two official languages, sexual violence and impropriety have been identified as problems in the military for at least 25 years (see Duval-Lantoine 2022). In the military’s efforts to address these problems, the institutional language has been identified as problematic… read more
2023 Parallel digital monolingualism: A Canadian case study of language ideologies and hashtags in multilingual digital discourse Internet Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 107–128 | Article
This paper examines the role of hashtags in the formation of affinity spaces linked to divergent linguistic cultures in the Canadian digital context. The linguistic cultures tend to accommodate certain language ideologies, which manifest through distinct forms of practical and discursive… read more
2020 Language ideological debates about linguistic landscapes: The case of Chinese signage in Richmond, Canada Journal of Language and Politics 19:5, pp. 786–808 | Article
In 2013, Richmond city council was presented with a petition calling for the regulation of all language signs, drawing national attention to the amount of Chinese-only signage. The signage debate has become well-known in Canada as a result of the media, which has provided a platform for debate… read more
2018 A corpus-driven comparison of English and French Islamist extremist texts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 23:3, pp. 255–278 | Article
Using corpus linguistics and qualitative, manual discourse analysis, this paper compares English and French extremist texts to determine how messages in different languages draw upon similar and distinct discursive themes and linguistic strategies. Findings show that both corpora focus on… read more
2016 Language ideologies in social media: The case of Pastagate Journal of Language and Politics 15:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
When inspectors from the Office québécois de la langue francçaise (OQLF) objected to the use of the word “pasta” in a Montreal restaurant in February 2013, a backlash in news and social media erupted internationally. Ensuing pressure led to the resignation of the OQLF head and a revision of OQLF… read more