Nadine Thielemann

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nadine Thielemann is involved.

Titles

Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management

Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Daniel Weiss

The present volume offers a fresh perspective on political top-down crisis communication across several countries during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes how leaders address the growing awareness of the dangerous impact of social restrictions, along with the controversies… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 102] 2023. vi, 301 pp.

Understanding Conversational Joking: A cognitive-pragmatic study based on Russian interactions

Nadine Thielemann

This book examines the diverse forms of conversational humor with the help of examples drawn from casual interactions among Russian speakers. It argues that neither an exclusively discourse-analytic perspective on the phenomenon nor an exclusively cognitive one can adequately account for… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 310] 2020. x, 287 pp.

Approaches to Slavic Interaction

Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Peter Kosta

This volume provides an overview of current research priorities in the analysis of face-to-face-interaction in Slavic speaking language communities. The core of this volume ranges from discourse analysis in the tradition of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis to newer methods of… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 20] 2013. xi, 318 pp.

Thielemann, Nadine 2023 The social media campaign for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine: International persuasive communication at the intersection of public diplomacy, strategic narratives and propaganda Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management, Thielemann, Nadine and Daniel Weiss (eds.), pp. 230–255 | Chapter

Focusing on the Twitter account @sputnikvaccine, the chapter analyses the social media campaign launched for the release of Sputnik V, the Russian anti-Covid vaccine, as an instance of international persuasive communication. It seeks to reveal how the campaign acts as an agent of public… read more

Thielemann, Nadine and Daniel Weiss 2023 Introduction and overview Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management, Thielemann, Nadine and Daniel Weiss (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter

Thielemann, Nadine 2019 From Poland to #SanEscobar: On strategies subverting political discourse on Twitter Reference and Identity in Public Discourses, Lutzky, Ursula and Minna Nevala (eds.), pp. 251–280 | Chapter

Using the example of the hashtag #SanEscobar, which was triggered by a slip of the tongue made by the then Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Witold Waszczykowski, the chapter shows how Twitter provides a discourse arena for the subversion of political discourse. A multimodal discourse analysis of… read more

Thielemann, Nadine 2013 Humor as staging an utterance Approaches to Slavic Interaction, Thielemann, Nadine and Peter Kosta (eds.), pp. 257–278 | Article

In this paper conversational humor is understood as a discourse modality actively contextualized by speakers in order to indicate that an utterance is not meant seriously. The paper focuses on the contextualization cue (Gumperz 1982) of animated speech which is accounted for in terms of shifted… read more

Thielemann, Nadine and Peter Kosta 2013 Introduction and overview Approaches to Slavic Interaction, Thielemann, Nadine and Peter Kosta (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article

Thielemann, Nadine 2011 Displays of “new” gender arrangements in Russian jokes The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 147–172 | Article

Jokes can reflect dominant and changing gender norms as well as arrangements active in a speech community. Analyses of Russian jokes from the Soviet era have so far revealed a male, and often also misogynist, perspective and a jocular perpetuation of gender norms and arrangements of rural Russia… read more