David Machin
List of John Benjamins publications for which David Machin plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1569-2159 | E-ISSN 1569-9862
Title
Multimodality, Politics and Ideology
Edited by David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 15:3 (2016) v, 126 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
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
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 | Article
2016. Strategic diagrams and the technologization of culture. Multimodality, Politics and Ideology, Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen (eds.), pp. 322–336
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 | Article
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
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. In… read more | Article
2016. Multimodality, politics and ideology. Multimodality, Politics and Ideology, Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen (eds.), pp. 243–258
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 | Article
2014. Journal of Language and Politics – Looking to the Future. Journal of Language and Politics 13:1, pp. v–vi
Editorial
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
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 | Article
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
2007. Computer games as political discourse: The case of Black Hawk Down. The Soft Power of War, Chouliaraki, Lilie (ed.), pp. 109–128
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 | Article
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
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 | Article