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
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
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