Ronald R. Jacobsen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ronald R. Jacobsen is involved.
Articles
2025 The metapragmatic act of debating in the media Pragmatics and Society 16:6, pp. 806–827 | Article
The aim of this paper is to lay the theoretical foundation of the metapragmatic act of debating, and to present evidence that it provides a better approach to mediated debate than existing theoretical notions of metapragmatic acts and intertextuality in the media. To achieve this goal, it… read more
2016 Reformulating the question in US Presidential debates: A device for adjusting the question and the subsequent answer to one's audience Pragmatics and Society 7:3, pp. 391–412 | Article
This paper analyzes the role of question reformulations in the 2004 US presidential debates. While formulations used for questioning have received quite some attention in the literature, no studies, to my knowledge, with the exception of Clayman (1993), have been concerned with question… read more