Marta Andersson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marta Andersson plays a role.
2024 The language of threat: An analysis of Swedish online alternative newspaper reports on BLM protests Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper examined news reports published by a Swedish alternative newspaper in connection with the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in June 2020. The primary objective was to assess the role of strategic employment of distinctive linguistic features in shaping a portrayal of the protests… read more
2024 Chapter 4. “Oh wow! We getting ready for my funeral?”: The prosody of self- and other-directed impoliteness in Jeffree Star’s YouTube product reviews Influencer Discourse: Affective relations and identities, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 100–127 | Chapter
This paper investigates the prosodic differentiation between self-deprecation and impoliteness targeting others in YouTube video product reviews by Jeffree Star, a well-known social media (hence SM) influencer. The results show that low pitch values, longer durations, and descending melodic… read more
2022 ‘So many “virologists” in this thread!’: Impoliteness in Facebook discussions of the management of the pandemic of Covid-19 in Sweden – the tension between conformity and distinction Pragmatics 32:4, pp. 489–517 | Article
This paper embarks on a functional analysis of impolite language use in discussions about the response to the pandemic of Covid-19 on the official Facebook page of the Swedish national public television broadcaster in the spring of 2020. Having combined the existing models of impoliteness… read more
2019 Chapter 11. Subjectivity of English connectives: A corpus and experimental investigation of result forward causality signals in written language Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse, Loureda, Óscar, Inés Recio Fernández, Laura Nadal and Adriana Cruz (eds.), pp. 299–318 | Chapter
The current study sets out to investigate naturally produced English causal relations from the point of view of conceptual and linguistic features that contribute to their intended interpretations as Volitional or Non-volitional result. These features include two discourse connectives: as a result… read more