Linda Pillière
List of John Benjamins publications for which Linda Pillière plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chapter 12. London past and present: The Museum of London’s multi-faceted presentation of the city Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey (eds.), pp. 229–252 | Chapter
Cities rely on their historical monuments and past cultural heritage to project their image, and city museums are one means used to achieve this goal. However, the city of the twenty-first century is socially and culturally heterogeneous. How then, can a city museum interact both with the… read more
2018 Chapter 8. The point of banter in the television show Pointless The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter, Jobert, Manuel and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 141–164 | Chapter
This paper explores banter within the television quiz show Pointless. Building on previous theories of banter, I suggest that the composite nature of the phenomenon can usefully be analysed within an interactional pragmatic model, such as that proposed by Lecercle (1999). Using this model to… read more