Alan Floyd

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alan Floyd is involved.

Title

Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist perspectives

Edited by Esperanza Morales-López and Alan Floyd

Conflicts are inherent to human society, but most of them do not concern us directly as participants or eyewitnesses. How we see social conflicts depends on how they are presented to us.This volume gathers together writings by contemporary specialists in different fields, from different… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 71] 2017. xiii, 293 pp.

Articles

Morales-López, Esperanza and Alan Floyd 2025 Citizens’ polarised discourses on climate change and mobility: The conflict with Barcelona mayor Ada Colau Pragmatics and Society 16:6, pp. 873–891 | Article

The purpose of this paper is to analyse a conflict between a group of Barcelona residents and the then mayor, Ada Colau, concerning the transformation of an area of the city into a green zone, which would involve the loss of public parking spaces. For data-gathering and analysis we have used… read more

Floyd, Alan 2017 Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist perspectives, Morales-López, Esperanza and Alan Floyd (eds.), pp. 107–132 | Chapter

In the present study, I consider Western media discourse concerning human migration as construction. Its language is shown to be ideologically slanted to the disadvantage of migrants. Mainstream media outlets during recent decades have reported on events in such a biased and selective way that they… read more