Jan Sebera

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jan Sebera is involved.

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Sebera, Jan and Wei-lun Lu 2018 Chapter 3. Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership discourse: The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold War speeches Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and functional perspectives, Pelclová, Jana and Wei-lun Lu (eds.), pp. 65–84 | Chapter
This chapter investigates Churchill’s Cold War speeches as a case of how cognitive and corpus linguistics may serve as a useful tool for analyzing how political leaders legitimize their agendas via linguistic means. We find that Churchill’s rhetoric makes extensive use of the source domains person,… read more
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