Inger Lassen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Inger Lassen is involved.

Titles

Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures

Edited by Danijela Majstorović and Inger Lassen

This innovative book critically examines patriarchal hegemonies from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It challenges the Anglo-American bias of much gender and language research to date by including rich new data and insights from scholars working in countries such as… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 45] 2011. vi, 307 pp.

Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten critical studies

Edited by Inger Lassen, Jeanne Strunck and Torben Vestergaard

While ideology has been treated widely in CDA-literature, the role played by the interaction of text and image in multiplying meaning and furthering ideological stances has not so far received a lot of attention. Mediating Ideology in Text and Image offers a number of approaches to such analysis,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 18] 2006. xii, 254 pp.

Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals: A survey of style and grammatical metaphor

Inger Lassen

Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of… read more

[Document Design Companion Series, 4] 2003. xviii, 183 pp.

Lassen, Inger and Anders Horsbøl 2016 Governing citizen engagement: A discourse studies perspective Studies of Discourse and Governmentality: New perspectives and methods, McIlvenny, Paul, Julia Zhukova Klausen and Laura Bang Lindegaard (eds.), pp. 73–94 | Article

This chapter sets out to explore tensions between bottom-up and top-down processes from a governmentality perspective. Using a discourse studies approach, we investigate how forms of public participation in a local climate mitigation project can be viewed as an instance of governmentality in the… read more

Lassen, Inger 2011 Stereotyping gender: Discursive constructions of social identities in a Danish bank Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures, Majstorović, Danijela and Inger Lassen (eds.), pp. 249–271 | Article

This paper takes its starting point in the problem faced by a specific Danish bank that women are grossly underrepresented in management positions, in spite of the great measure of initiatives taken over more than a century to ensure equal opportunities in Denmark. Danish women got the vote in 1915. read more

Majstorović, Danijela and Inger Lassen 2011 Gender imbalances revisited: Introduction Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures, Majstorović, Danijela and Inger Lassen (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article

Lassen, Inger 2009 Gendered discursive constructions of bank manager positions: Conflicting social identities Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies, Renkema, Jan (ed.), pp. 293–310 | Article

Lassen, Inger 2006 De-naturalizing ideology: Presupposition and Appraisal in biotechnology press releases Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten critical studies, Lassen, Inger, Jeanne Strunck and Torben Vestergaard (eds.), pp. 97–118 | Article

Lassen, Inger 2003 Imperative readings of grammatical metaphor: A study of congruency in the imperative Grammatical Metaphor: Views from systemic functional linguistics, Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie, Miriam Taverniers and Louise J. Ravelli (eds.), pp. 279–308 | Article

Lassen, Inger 2002 Stylistic dilemmas in document design Document Design 3:1, pp. 32–53 | Article

In technical discourse, the majority of texts are found to be accessible only to a specialist audience, and the feeling is prevalent with some technical genres that they would lose their generic integrity if part of their complexity was removed, since such a change would jeopardize the… read more