Martha Sylvia Cheng
List of John Benjamins publications in which Martha Sylvia Cheng is involved.
Articles
2016 The sliding scales of repentance: Understanding variation in political apologies for infidelity Journal of Argumentation in Context 5:2, pp. 157–171 | Article
This paper investigates the apologies of four US politicians whose marital infidelities were made public. The paper notes the variations in the use of religious language, representations of the transgressions, and metadiscourse. These variations can be calibrated to political ethos, the nature of… read more
2008 8. Ethos and narrative in online educational chat Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text, Johnstone, Barbara and Christopher Eisenhart (eds.), pp. 195–226 | Article