Yeliz Demir
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yeliz Demir plays a role.
Articles
2017 Chapter 10. Multi-participant TV debate as an argumentative activity type Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia and Giuliana Garzone (eds.), pp. 229–258 | Chapter
Television debates are a tool of public deliberation through which ordinary citizens can get involved in deliberative democracy. They are argumentative events in which standpoints about a controversial issue are raised, defended, and criticized. By adopting the pragma-dialectical approach to… read more
2016 Maneuvering strategically in a press conference to diminish political responsibility for a critical event: The case of the soma mine disaster Journal of Argumentation in Context 5:2, pp. 191–217 | Article
It is an essential requirement of democracy that politicians provide account of their words and actions to the public. However, being able to account is especially important when a politician or the party he/she is representing is assumed responsible for a critical event that has undesirable… read more