Paige Johnson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paige Johnson is involved.
Articles
2024 (Re)contextualizing the ‘anti-woke’ discourse: Attitudes towards gender-inclusive language in English and French on X (formerly Twitter) Discourses of Discrimination: Language aggression in the construction of otherness, Alvanoudi, Angeliki and Marianthi Georgalidou (eds.), pp. 12–34 | Article
This study examines how ‘anti-woke’ discourse is drawn upon by French and English-speaking X (formerly Twitter) users to abnormalize gender-inclusive language practices from a Critical Discourse Analytic (CDA) perspective (Fairclough 2010). Using strategies and tools drawn from the Discourse… read more
2024 Chapter 8. “Wouldn’t it be better for me to earn my own money and pay taxes?”: Liquid racism and the ‘ideal’ refugee in UK charity representations of migrant stories Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 202–224 | Chapter
This study concentrates on migrant representations in stories posted on the websites of UK charity organizations. Drawing upon critical discourse analytic and narrative positioning tools, we examine migrant identity navigation in the past and present that, predominantly, leads to the… read more