Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist perspectives
Edited by Esperanza Morales-López and Alan Floyd
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 71] 2017. xiii, 293 pp.
Alan Floyd
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alan Floyd plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2017 Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist perspectives, Morales-López, Esperanza and Alan Floyd (eds.), pp. 107–132 | Chapter
In the present study, I consider Western media discourse concerning human migration as construction. Its language is shown to be ideologically slanted to the disadvantage of migrants. Mainstream media outlets during recent decades have reported on events in such a biased and selective way that they… read more
Citizens’ polarised discourses on climate change and mobility: The conflict with Barcelona mayor Ada Colau Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
The purpose of this paper is to analyse a conflict between a group of Barcelona residents and the then mayor, Ada Colau, concerning the transformation of an area of the city into a green zone, which would involve the loss of public parking spaces. For data-gathering and analysis we have used… read more