Claudia Ortu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Claudia Ortu is involved.
Articles
2024 The place of feelings: Empathetic discourse as a strategy for trade union organising Moving towards Peace, Compassion and Empathy through Semiotic Enquiry: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024), Thomson, Elizabeth A., Awni Etaywe, Ingrid Wijeyewardene and Penny Wheeler (eds.), pp. 200–218 | Article
This article describes the semiotic resources deployed during the creation, in 2021, of the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU): the trade union that represents the workforce of the tech giant Alphabet Inc. The focus is on how the union shapes and develops its identity as one of “empathetic workers who… read more
2015 Trade unions in South Africa and the discourse of the neoliberal state Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses, Dedaić, Mirjana N. (ed.), pp. 201–219 | Article
Whether South Africa is a Developmental or a Neoliberal State has been a topic of great debate among social scientists. This chapter offers the perspective of discourse analysis on the debate by assessing the influence of the global discourses associated with the two competing state models above on… read more