Andreja Vezovnik
List of John Benjamins publications for which Andreja Vezovnik plays a role.
Articles
2021 “Symbolic photographs” as floating and empty signifiers: Iconic transformation of news photography Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice, De Cleen, Benjamin, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža (eds.), pp. 145–161 | Article
The article discusses the use of “symbolic photographs” – images in news reporting which have no direct connection to reported events – in news reporting. Such images deviate not only from the self-professed journalistic norm of factual reporting but also fundamentally challenge the act of… read more
2013 Representational Discourses on the Erased of Slovenia: From Human Rights to Humanitarian Victimization Journal of Language and Politics 12:4, pp. 606–625 | Article
In 1992, the Slovenian Ministry of Interior Affairs deprived 25,000 ex-Yugoslavians of their citizenship. This symbolic act of violence is the most severe symptom of the Slovenian transition towards democracy. Since 1995 this group of erased citizens is known as the Erased of Slovenia. This… read more