Journal of Language and Politics

Volume 7, Issue 1 (2008)

2008. iii, 176 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.7.1

Table of Contents

Articles
Testing sincerity: Henry Kissinger’s February 1973 encounter with the Chinese leadership Gavan Duffy and Evelyn Goh	1–30
(Small) Enterpreneurs first! Analysis of the economic discourse of the Vlaams Belang Hilde Coffé	31–52
Language as social practice: Persian newspapers in post-revolutionary Iran Mohammad Amouzadeh	53–70
A political action against popular opinion: Aznar’s final speech before the Spanish Parliament justifying the war in Iraq (December 2003) David Pujante and Esperanza Morales-López	71–98
Discourse structure and political performance in adversarial parliamentary questioning Ben Fenton-Smith	97–118
Ballistic missile defense and articulation theory: An analysis of technology using a cultural studies approach Tina Sikka	119–136
Discussion papers
The limits of objective reporting Raphael Cohen-Almagor	136–155
‘Veto the war but let no French head fall’: Linguistic avoidance strategies in Jacques Chirac’s pre-Iraq war interview transcripts Eric A. Anchimbe	156–170
Reviews
Review of He (2006): Translation as Manipulated by Power Relations Reviewed by Xu Jianzhong	171–174
Review of Xianbin (2006): The Politics of Translation: Translation Studies and Cultural Studies (in Chinese) Reviewed by Xu Jianzhong	175–176

Subjects

Linguistics

Discourse studies