Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nuria Lorenzo-Dus plays a role.
Journals
ISSN 2542-3851 | E-ISSN 2542-386X
ISSN 2213-1272 | E-ISSN 2213-1280
Book series
2022 Chapter 4. “Go ahead and ‘debunk’ truth by calling it a conspiracy theory”: The discursive construction of conspiracy theoryness in online affinity spaces Conspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 71–98 | Chapter
To help fill in the research gap on conspiracy theorizing online (Varis 2019), this chapter addresses two research questions: the discursive construction of conspiracy theoryness in online affinity spaces (Gee 2005) and the extent to which these discursive constructions are aligned with those… read more
2018 Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises: A news values approach Crisis and the Media: Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres, Patrona, Marianna (ed.), pp. 151–176 | Chapter
This chapter examines the visual construction of social actors (elite and non-elite) in all the news stories about political crises published by the British broadsheet The Independent between 2008 and 2014. Our findings show that the practices involved in the construction of political crises are… read more
2018 Othering the West in the online Jihadist propaganda magazines Inspire and Dabiq Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 6:1, pp. 79–106 | Article
This paper examines how the jihadist terrorist groups Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State discursively construct ‘the West’ as an alien, aberrant ‘other’ in their respective online propaganda magazines Inspire and Dabiq over a 5 year period (2010–2015). The analysis integrates insights from… read more
2013 Despierten, Latinos (‘Wake up, Latinos’): Latino Identity, US Politics and YouTube Journal of Language and Politics 12:4, pp. 558–582 | Article
This study examines the schemata underlying the social dimensions and relationships associated with the processes of Latino identity construction in 500 YouTube postings in response to the Obama Reggaeton video. According to Van Dijk (1998), such schemata allow members of a given group to provide… read more
2013 A cross-cultural investigation of email communication in Peninsular Spanish and British English: The role of (in)formality and (in)directness Pragmatics and Society 4:1, pp. 1–25 | Article
This paper examines the email discursive practices of particular speakers of two different languages, namely Peninsular Spanish and British English. More specifically, our study focuses on (in)formality and (in)directness therein, for these lie at the heart of considerable scholarly debate… read more
2011 Chapter 10. “I have one question for you Mr. President”: Doing accountability in “citizen interviews” Talking Politics in Broadcast Media: Cross-cultural perspectives on political interviewing, journalism and accountability, Ekström, Mats and Marianna Patrona (eds.), pp. 201–222 | Chapter
2008 Natural versus elicited data in cross-cultural speech act realisation: The case of requests in Peninsular Spanish and British English Spanish in Context 5:2, pp. 246–277 | Article
This paper explicitly addresses the ‘elicited versus natural data debate’ in cross-cultural speech act realisation research through critical discussion of an empirical study of comparable request sequences by Spanish and British undergraduates to one of their lecturers. Elicited (discourse… read more
2004 5. Role-plays and the assessment of oral proficiency in Spanish Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish, Márquez Reiter, Rosina and María Elena Placencia (eds.), pp. 79–98 | Chapter