Douglas Mark Ponton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Douglas Mark Ponton is involved.
Articles
2025 Revisiting the rhetorical construction of political consent: ‘We-strategies’ and pronouns in British and Russian Covid-19 discourse Journal of Language and Politics 24:3, pp. 437–459 | Article
How political leaders construct consent is a constant theme of studies in political rhetoric and theories of persuasion. We explore how populist linguistic strategies combine with traditional consensus-building to align populations with the speakers’ messages. We observe similarities and… read more
2016 Kratochvíl, Petr & Tomáš Doležal. 2015. The European Union and the Catholic Church. Political Theology of European Integration Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest, Flowerdew, John and Rodney H. Jones (eds.), pp. 643–645 | Review
2010 The female political leader: A study of gender-identity in the case of Margaret Thatcher Journal of Language and Politics 9:2, pp. 195–218 | Article
This work examines the linguistic construction of gender identity in the discourse of Margaret Thatcher. Identity is defined in the terms of Bucholtz and Hall (2005) as an ‘emergent’ phenomenon, depending on local contexts of interaction. In analysing the contributions by media figures to… read more