Karen L. Adams
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karen L. Adams plays a role.
2018 Chapter 12. Mediated campaign debate subgenre and their importance for analytic considerations Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse, Kranert, Michael and Geraldine Horan (eds.), pp. 281–300 | Chapter
Mediated political debates are among the most widely followed campaign events in the United States, with the bulk of research focusing on presidential and vice-presidential races. A comparison of these debates to those for gubernatorial executive offices proves useful. Non-presidential debates… read more
2015 Chapter 9. Governors debating: The role of situational, discourse and transportable identities Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders, Wilson, John and Diana Boxer (eds.), pp. 217–250 | Article
An analysis of 21 women campaigning for the office of governor in 10 different states over a twenty-four year period in the US shows how they position themselves as ready for executive leadership. In interactive televised debates, they construct identities designed as convincing, knowledgeable and… read more
1999 Deliberate dispute and the construction of oppositional stance Pragmatics 9:2, pp. 231–248 | Article
1998 Exploring the Nostratic Hypothesis Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence, Salmons, Joseph C. and Brian D. Joseph (eds.), pp. 61–84 | Article
1991 Joshua A. Fishman on Language Planning: “Brotherhood’ does Not Mean Uniformity” Focus on Language Planning: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman, Marshall, David F. (ed.), pp. 7–28 | Article
1986 Numeral Classifiers in Austroasiatic Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983, Craig, Colette G. (ed.), pp. 241–262 | Article