Bertie Kaal

List of John Benjamins publications for which Bertie Kaal plays a role.

Journal

Title

From Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines

Edited by Bertie Kaal, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
This article compares diachronic and cross-linguistic uses of source domains for framing the target domain of trade in governmental discourses under the presidencies of Bill Clinton, Jiang Zemin, Donald Trump, and Xi Jinping. Taking a socio-cognitive approach, we examine trade metaphor use… read more
There appears to be a silent shift in technological discourse, from adapting technology to people’s needs to adapting people’s needs to new technologies. This shift in ‘direction-of-fit’ is effected by spatio-temporal text-world builders. The analysis of a technological article on self-driving… read more
Elfrinkhof, Annemarie van, Isa Maks and Bertie Kaal 2014 From Text to Political Positions: The Convergence of Political, Linguistic and Discourse AnalysisFrom Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines, Kaal, Bertie, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof (eds.), pp. 297–324 | Article
This chapter explores how three methods of political text analysis can complement each other to differentiate parties in detail. A word-frequency method and corpus linguistic techniques are joined by critical discourse analysis in an attempt to assess the ideological relation between election… read more
Kaal, Bertie, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof 2014 ForewordFrom Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines, Kaal, Bertie, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Foreword