Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders
Edited by John Wilson and Diana Boxer
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 63] 2015. vi, 360 pp.
John Wilson
List of John Benjamins publications for which John Wilson plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life
Edited by Sharon Millar and John Wilson
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 26] 2007. viii, 200 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2015 Chapter 1. “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”: Margaret Thatcher and the discourse of leadership Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, Wilson, John and Diana Boxer (eds.), pp. 21–42 | 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
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
2015 Discourse, politics and women Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, Wilson, John and Diana Boxer (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2015 Pragmatic markers as implicit emotive anchoring: Modality as evidence of trauma in the 1641 depositions Pragmatic 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
2012 Argumentation and fallacy in newspaper op / ed coverage of the prelude to the invasion of Iraq Journal of Language and Politics 11:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
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
2010 Authority Society and Language Use, Jaspers, Jürgen, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Article
2007 Narratives on lesser-used languages in Europe: The case of Ulster Scots The Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life, Millar, Sharon and John Wilson (eds.), pp. 173–196 | Article
2007 Authority Handbook of Pragmatics: 2007 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
2007 Introduction The Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life, Millar, Sharon and John Wilson (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Miscellaneous
2003 Nation-State, devolution and the parliamentary discourse of minority languages Parliamentary 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
2000 What Do You Have in Mind? Beliefs Knowledge and Pragmatic Impairment Pragmatics in Speech and Language Pathology: Studies in clinical applications, Müller, Nicole (ed.), pp. 29–52 | Article
1997 Authority Handbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Article
1997 Metalinguistic Negation and Textual Aspects of Political Discourse Political Linguistics, Blommaert, Jan † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Article