David Machin

Breazu, Petre and David Machin 2024 Humanitarian discourse as racism disclaimer: The representation of Roma in Swedish press Journal of Language and Politics 23:6, pp. 783–807 | Article

Roma communities remain Europe’s most marginalized and disadvantaged population, facing increasing discrimination, especially after the 2015 refugee crisis. European media often portrays them as criminals or anti-social, furthering misunderstanding and social exclusion. This article examines… read more

Cotal San Martin, Vladimir and David Machin 2021 The legitimization of the use of sweat shops by H&M in the Swedish press Journal of Language and Politics 20:2, pp. 254–276 | Article

In the Swedish news-media we find sporadic critical, or reflective, reporting on the production conditions of Swedish ‘sweat-shop’ factories in the Global South, used to supply Transnational Corporations (TNCs). In this paper we carry out a critical discourse analysis, in particular using Van… read more

Ledin, Per and David Machin 2016 Strategic diagrams and the technologization of culture Multimodality, Politics and Ideology, Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen (eds.), pp. 322–336 | Article

Strategic diagrams are becoming ubiquitous across all forms of social practices, used to map out core elements and processes in private and public institutions and also for more localized and individual activities – where, for example, so that it reads: where, for example, early years school… read more

Ledin, Per and David Machin 2016 Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden: How it recontextualizes and fragments scholarly practices and work processes Pragmatics 26:4, pp. 653–674 | Article

Studies in CDA have revealed the nature of the marketized language that now infuses universities and other public institutions, but there is no comprehensive study as to how this language enters the everyday practices of the university through different levels of steering documents and meetings.… read more

Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen 2016 Multimodality, politics and ideology Multimodality, Politics and Ideology, Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen (eds.), pp. 243–258 | Article

This journal’s editorial statement is clear that political discourse should be studied not only as regards parliamentary type politics. In this introduction we argue precisely for the need to pay increasing attention to the way that political ideologies are infused into culture more widely, in… read more

Krzyżanowski, Michał, David Machin and Ruth Wodak 2014 Journal of Language and Politics – Looking to the Future Journal of Language and Politics 13:1, pp. v–vi | Editorial

Abousnnouga, Gill and David Machin 2011 Visual discourses of the role of women in war commemoration: A multimodal analysis of British war monuments Journal of Language and Politics 10:3, pp. 322–346 | Article

Discourses of war are disseminated and legitimised not only through speeches and written texts, but through visual semiotic resources. One important vehicle for this has been the war monument. Evidence shows that from WW1 in Europe and the US monuments have been used systematically by authorities… read more

Machin, David 2007 Visual discourses of war: Multimodal analysis of photographs of the Iraq occupation Discourse, War and Terrorism, Hodges, Adam and Chad Nilep (eds.), pp. 123–142 | Chapter

Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen 2007 Computer games as political discourse: The case of Black Hawk Down The Soft Power of War, Chouliaraki, Lilie (ed.), pp. 109–128 | Article

The paper analyses how the March 1993 American intervention in Somalia is represented in the movie Black Hawk Down and the computer game of the same name. Using a discourse historical approach, the paper combines three methods: (1) analysis of the ‘special operations discourse’ that underlies both… read more

Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen 2005 Computer games as political discourse: The case of Black Hawk Down The Soft Power of War: Legitimacy and community in Iraq war discourses, Chouliaraki, Lilie (ed.), pp. 119–141 | Article

The paper analyses how the March 1993 American intervention in Somalia is represented in the movie Black Hawk Down and the computer game of the same name. Using a discourse historical approach, the paper combines three methods: (1) analysis of the ‘special operations discourse’ that underlies both… read more

Journal

Journal of Language and Politics (JLP)

Edited by Michał Krzyżanowski

Title

Multimodality, Politics and Ideology

Edited by David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen