Bertie Kaal

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

Journal

International Journal of Language and Culture (IJoLC)

Edited by Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha

ISSN 2214-3157 | E-ISSN 2214-3165

Title

From Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines

Edited by Bertie Kaal, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 55] 2014. xi, 333 pp.

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles (4) | Order by:

Tan, Xiaojuan, Alan Cienki and Bertie Kaal 2024 The diachronic and cross-linguistic use of trade metaphors in U.S.-China governmental discourse: A socio-cognitive approach Metaphor and the Social World 14:1, pp. 130–153 | Article

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

Kaal, Bertie 2021 Chapter 4. The reality of technological worldviews: Time and space frames of reference in the world of self-driving cars The Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 75–98 | Chapter

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 Analysis From 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 Foreword From Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines, Kaal, Bertie, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Foreword