Publications

Publication details [#53106]

Flowerdew, John and Solomon Leong. 2010. Presumed knowledge in the discursive construction of socio-political and cultural identity. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (8) : 2240–2252.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | identity negotiation | knowledge | language and culture | presupposition

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Drawing on discourse analysis and cultural studies, this paper examines the role of presumed knowledge in socio-political and cultural identity construction in the discourse of the Ta Kung Pao Hong Kong newspaper.