Isabela Fairclough
List of John Benjamins publications for which Isabela Fairclough plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2211-4742 | E-ISSN 2211-4750
2019 Deontic power and institutional contexts: The impact of institutional design on deliberation and decision-making in the UK fracking debate Environmental Argumentation, Lewiński, Marcin and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün (eds.), pp. 136–171 | Article
In this article I study the constraints and opportunities available to decision-makers in an institutional context (a county council), by analyzing the deliberative process that led to the rejection of an application for exploratory fracking. Drawing on a corpus of 130,000 words, I intend to… read more
2012 Chapter 2. Values as premises in practical arguments: Conceptions of justice in the public debate over bankers’ bonuses Exploring Argumentative Contexts, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 23–42 | Article
The paper focuses on a fragment of the public debate (in the UK) on whether or not the inequality of high pay and bonuses for bankers should be tolerated or not in the wake of the financial crisis. Our discussion builds on the view of the structure of practical arguments we advance in our… read more
2009 Legitimation and strategic maneuvering in the political field Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering, Eemeren, Frans H. van (ed.), pp. 131–151 | Article
2008 Branding and strategic maneuvering in the Romanian presidential election of 2004: A critical discourse-analytical and pragma-dialectical perspective Branding Political Entities in a Globalised World, Mitsikopoulou, Bessie (ed.), pp. 372–390 | Article
In this paper I analyse differences in the legitimation strategies used by and on behalf of the two presidential candidates in the elections of December 2004 in Romania, using a combination of Critical Discourse Analysis and pragmadialectics. These differences are seen to lie primarily in the… read more