H. José Plug

List of John Benjamins publications for which H. José Plug plays a role.

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Wackers, Dunja Y.M., H. José Plug and Gerard J. Steen 2020 Violence metaphors for cancer: Pragmatic and symptomatic arguments againstMetaphor and the Social World 10:1, pp. 121–140
The use of violence metaphors for cancer has been widely criticised both in academic and non-academic contexts (see Harrington, 2012; Semino et al., 2015). Whereas previous research on violence metaphors for cancer has focused on the use and functions of these metaphors by and for different… read more | Article
Impartiality is one of the core values underlying the administration of justice. A complaint about a judge’s supposed lack of impartiality may be filed on the grounds of the judge’s verbal behavior. In this article I will analyze complaints that concern the judge’s use of rhetorical questions… read more | Article
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Political cartoons may be understood as instances of visual or multimodal argumentative discourse. When a political cartoon is a subject of controversy, the criticism of the cartoon may therefore be aimed at the argumentation. For the purpose of a systematic analysis of visual and multimodal… read more | Chapter
An important topic in the debate about transparency of the administration of justice includes the communicative function of judicial decisions. This function should be conceived as the judge’s aim to have his argumentation understood (the communicative effect), as well as to have it accepted (the… read more | Article
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