Naomi Truan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Naomi Truan is involved.
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E‑ISSN 1877‑9646
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The Politics of Person Reference: Third-person forms in English, German, and French
Naomi Truan
This book, the first systematic exploration of the third person in English, German, and French, takes a fresh look at person reference within the realm of political discourse. By focusing on the newly refined speech role of the target, attention is given to the continuity between second and third… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 320] 2021. xvii, 279 pp.
2023 “I am a real cat”: French-speaking cats on Twitter as an enregistered variety and community of practice Internet Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 67–106 | Article
This paper is an exploration of the variety of French-speaking cats on Twitter. Among the many creative phenomena that the internet has produced, animal-related language varieties, the language used by pets, have been explored as early as the 2000s, yet with a strong and almost exclusive focus… read more
2021 Narratives of dialogue in parliamentary discourse: Constructing the ethos of the receptive politician Journal of Language and Politics 20:4, pp. 563–584 | Article
This paper puts forward an argument about the relation between narratives and constructed dialogue in political discourse. Narratives of dialogue are special cases of constructed dialogue that emphasize the embeddedness of the speaker, displayed as a discourse participant engaging in a… read more
2019 Chapter 8. The discursive construction of the people in European political discourse: Semantics and pragmatics of a contested concept in German, French, and British parliamentary debates Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum, Zienkowski, Jan and Ruth Breeze (eds.), pp. 201–228 | Chapter
Who are the people? As a semantically underspecified noun, the lexeme “people” and related terms such as “citizen(s)” or “constituent(s)” lead to various representations and are filled with competing meanings. By undertaking a cross-linguistic analysis of the semantic value of nouns denoting… read more
2016 Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. 2013. Clusivity: A New Approach to Association and Dissociation in Political Discourse Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest, Flowerdew, John and Rodney H. Jones (eds.), pp. 657–660 | Review