Göran Eriksson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Göran Eriksson is involved.
Articles
2016 Humour, ridicule and the de-legitimization of the working class in Swedish Reality Television Multimodality, Politics and Ideology, Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen (eds.), pp. 304–321 | Article
Drawing on tools from Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis this paper analyses the editing techniques in a Swedish docu-soap showing that humour is used to ridicule the working-class participants, representing them as slow, inflexible, undynamic and unstylish. The paper places this within… read more
2013 Managing ideological differences in joint political press conferences: A study of the strategic use of the personal pronoun ‘we’ Journal of Language and Politics 12:3, pp. 315–334 | Article
This study focuses on Swedish political press conferences and explores the discursive efforts of politicians to express unity despite diverging ideological views. It concerns the use of the first person pronoun ‘we’ (Swedish. we) and is influenced by both dialogue theory and linguistic theories,… read more