Ellen Breitholtz
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ellen Breitholtz is involved.
Articles
2025 “We could shoot him…”: Interpretations of offensive humour ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 208–232 | Article
In everyday dialogue, people often say things that may be or are taken as offensive by their hearers. Whether or not these utterances are actually taken as offensive is highly context sensitive. Particularly important are social aspects such as the personae of the speaker and audience. Different… read more
2025 The utility of (political) dogwhistles – a life cycle perspective Journal of Language and Politics 24:2, pp. 214–234 | Article
The term dogwhistle refers to an expression conveying a message to a subset of an audience which is not perceived by the rest of the group, in addition to a primary meaning directed at the group at large. We follow up on previous work in linguistics and political communication on defining… read more