Jay M. Woodhams

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jay M. Woodhams plays a role.

Articles

Woodhams, Jay M. 2020 “What we do and don’t do”: Defining team in the discourse of academic learning advisers’ post-consultation notes Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43:1, pp. 52–78 | Article

Academic language and learning advisers are employed by many Australasian universities to help students develop their academic literacies, that is, the knowledge and skills needed to be successful at university both within and beyond disciplinary contexts. At the Academic Skills and Learning… read more

Woodhams, Jay M. 2015 A. Egan-Sjölander and J. Gunnarsson-Payne (eds.) (2011). Tracking Discourses: Politics, Identity and Social Change. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. ISBN: 978-91-85509-39-3 (hb), pp. 342, EUR 40. Journal of Language and Politics 14:2, pp. 314–317 | Article

Woodhams, Jay M. 2012 A journey towards employment: Metaphorical representations of social welfare in New Zealand Metaphor and the Social World 2:1, pp. 41–60 | Article

Metaphor plays a prominent role in political rhetoric, often used to simplify complex issues and encourage familiarity with various topics (Mio, 1997). Its persuasive and manipulative uses in political discourse are also well documented (Charteris-Black, 2005). Studies of political discourse based… read more