Philip Graham

List of John Benjamins publications for which Philip Graham plays a role.

Journal

This paper puts forward an argument about the relation between utopian thought and political discourse. It demonstrates how utopias frame normative discourse in general and political discourse in particular. The argument is informed by Kenneth Burke’s theory of the negative command and its place… read more
This paper analyses the Australian Values Education Program (VEP) within the framework of late-classical political economy. Using analytical methods from systemic functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis, we demonstrate that the VEP is an unwitting restatement of the principles of… read more
Graham, Philip and Allan Luke 2007 The language of neofeudal corporatism and the war on IraqThe Soft Power of War, Chouliaraki, Lilie (ed.), pp. 11–37 | Article
Beginning from recent critical work on globalisation, many critical scholars have extended the analytic vocabulary of ‘advanced’, ‘fast’ and ‘postmodern’ capitalism to explain the geopolitics of the Iraq War. This article offers a counterclaim: that current geopolitical economy can be more usefully… read more
Graham, Philip and Allan Luke 2005 The language of neofeudal corporatism and the war on IraqThe Soft Power of War: Legitimacy and community in Iraq war discourses, Chouliaraki, Lilie (ed.), pp. 11–39 | Article
Beginning from recent critical work on globalisation, many critical scholars have extended the analytic vocabulary of ‘advanced’, ‘fast’ and ‘postmodern’ capitalism to explain the geopolitics of the Iraq War. This article offers a counterclaim: that current geopolitical economy can be more… read more