David Atkinson
List of John Benjamins publications in which David Atkinson is involved.
Articles
2018 Democratic credentials and the ‘other(s)’ in the discourse of the Spanish Partido Popular, 1977–2015 Journal of Language and Politics 17:1, pp. 5–23 | Article
In this paper we argue that aspects of the discourse of the governing party in Spain at the time of writing, the Partido Popular, and its predecessor (1976–1989), Alianza Popular, reveal a marked continuity in its self-presentation and its representation of its adversaries, spanning the entire… read more
2006 Catalan on the Internet and the .ct and .cat campaigns Languages of the Internet, Menezes, Claudio (ed.), pp. 239–249 | Article
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, divides the World Wide Web geographically, assigning country suffixes to states to be used in web addresses for sites on their territory. This paper reports on the campaign in Catalonia to have the right to use .ct as the territorial… read more
2006 Linguistic normalisation and the market: Advertising and linguistic choice in El Periódico de Catalunya Language Problems and Language Planning 30:3, pp. 239–260 | Article
Language planning and policy in Catalonia has been a focus of much interest and discussion over the past three decades. In this article we go beyond issues of policy in order to examine what happens when an influential constituency in the linguistic landscape of Catalonia, namely advertisers, have… read more