Bertie Kaal
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bertie Kaal is involved.
Journal
Title
From Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines
Edited by Bertie Kaal, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof
From Text to Political Positions addresses cross-disciplinary innovation in political text analysis for party positioning. Drawing on political science, computational methods and discourse analysis, it presents a diverse collection of analytical models including pure quantitative and qualitative… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 55] 2014. xi, 333 pp.
2024 The diachronic and cross-linguistic use of trade metaphors in U.S.-China governmental discourse: A socio-cognitive approach Metaphor and the Social World 14:1, pp. 130–153 | Article
This article compares diachronic and cross-linguistic uses of source domains for framing the target domain of trade in governmental discourses under the presidencies of Bill Clinton, Jiang Zemin, Donald Trump, and Xi Jinping. Taking a socio-cognitive approach, we examine trade metaphor use… read more
2021 Chapter 4. The reality of technological worldviews: Time and space frames of reference in the world of self-driving cars The Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 75–98 | Chapter
There appears to be a silent shift in technological discourse, from adapting technology to people’s needs to adapting people’s needs to new technologies. This shift in ‘direction-of-fit’ is effected by spatio-temporal text-world builders. The analysis of a technological article on self-driving… read more
2014 From Text to Political Positions: The Convergence of Political, Linguistic and Discourse Analysis From Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines, Kaal, Bertie, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof (eds.), pp. 297–324 | Article
This chapter explores how three methods of political text analysis can complement each other to differentiate parties in detail. A word-frequency method and corpus linguistic techniques are joined by critical discourse analysis in an attempt to assess the ideological relation between election… read more
2014 Foreword From Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines, Kaal, Bertie, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Foreword



