Damon M. Mayaffre
List of John Benjamins publications for which Damon M. Mayaffre plays a role.
Articles
2017 Constructing ‘the French people’ – On Sarkozy’s populism Journal of Language and Politics 16:5, pp. 683–705 | Article
Election campaigns represent a particular moment of political practice in democracies where political strategy and political discourse become one activity. Campaigns take effect through the speeches of candidates communicated to the electorate. This article analyses speeches of Nicolas Sarkozy’s… read more
2013 Quantitative approaches to political discourse: Corpus linguistics and text statistics Speaking of Europe: Approaches to complexity in European political discourse, Fløttum, Kjersti (ed.), pp. 65–84 | Article
The present chapter proposes to build bridges between political discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. We intend to bring to light methodological benefits arising from the synergy of (political) discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, pointing to fruitful contribution from French text… read more