John Wilson

List of John Benjamins publications for which John Wilson plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles

Wilson, John and Anthea Irwin 2015 Chapter 1. “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”: Margaret Thatcher and the discourse of leadershipDiscourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, Wilson, John and Diana Boxer (eds.), pp. 19–42 | Article
Margaret Thatcher was the first woman to become Prime Minister of the UK. It has been claimed, however, that she did little for the cause of women. Part of the problem is Thatcher made clear that while she was a woman she thought of herself as a politician first. In this chapter we consider the… read more
Wilson, John and Diana Boxer 2015 Conclusion: Women as political leaders: What now?Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, Wilson, John and Diana Boxer (eds.), pp. 345–352 | Article
Wilson, John and Diana Boxer 2015 Discourse, politics and womenDiscourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, Wilson, John and Diana Boxer (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
Wilson, John and Heather Walker 2015 Pragmatic markers as implicit emotive anchoring: Modality as evidence of trauma in the 1641 depositionsPragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 248–269 | Article
This chapter analyses pragmatic markers within survivor depositions taken after the 1641 rebellion in Ireland. Specifically, we are concerned with those markers which modify or delimit evidentiality, that is degrees of commitment to participant claims or statements. In this way we re-evaluate the… read more
This study examines how the pre-war debate of the U.S. decision to invade Iraq was discursively constructed in pro- and anti-war newspaper op/ed argumentation. Drawing on insights from argumentation theory, and using these within a framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, we explore fallacious… read more
Wilson, John and Karyn Stapleton 2010 AuthoritySociety and Language Use, Jaspers, Jürgen, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Article
Wilson, John and Karyn Stapleton 2007 Narratives on lesser-used languages in Europe: The case of Ulster ScotsThe Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life, Millar, Sharon and John Wilson (eds.), pp. 173–196 | Article
Wilson, John and Karyn Stapleton 2007 AuthorityHandbook of Pragmatics: 2007 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
Wilson, John and Sharon Millar 2007 IntroductionThe Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life, Millar, Sharon and John Wilson (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Miscellaneous
Wilson, John and Karyn Stapleton 2002 Nation-State, devolution and the parliamentary discourse of minority languagesParliamentary Discourse, pp. 5–30 | Article
Devolution in the UK has engendered debates about which language (or languages) should be the language of parliament in the respective regional institutions. Simultaneously, the European Union, while officially endorsing cultural and linguistic diversity, is moving towards a supranational state… read more
Wilson, John 1997 AuthorityHandbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Article
Wilson, John 1997 Metalinguistic Negation and Textual Aspects of Political DiscoursePolitical Linguistics, Blommaert, Jan † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Article