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Identity and difference in politics among nations: A semiotic approach

‘Signs make difference.’ ‘Difference makes signs.’ These two statements on the relation between ‘signs’ and ‘difference’ play an important role in the national politics and in the relationships among Nations...

Keywords: Nation, international politics, difference, identity, unity, plurality, community, intercultural society

04/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Political ideology and the language of the European constitution

This paper interrogates the conditions of possibility of the European constitution and asks where we must search for these conditions...

Keywords: European constitution, politics, ideology, democracy, security, communication-production, globalization, identity, alterity, international relationships

04/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

The emergence of the identity of a fictional expert advice-giver in an American Internet advice column

This paper is a contribution to research on the expression of expert advice-giving (e.g., Heritage and Sefi 1992; Silverman et al...

Keywords: advice, identity, expertise, directives, mitigation, humor, Internet language

01/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter

Divide and rule: The power of adversarial subjectivities in the discourse of divorce

In this paper I analyze some of the texts used in the legal procedures of divorce in England and Wales...

Keywords: critical discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, language and power, family law, identity, bureaucratic discourse

12/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter

(Im)Politeness, Face and Perceptions of Rapport: Unpackaging their Bases and Interrelationships

This paper takes rapport (Spencer-Oatey 2000, 2002) as its central concern, since (im)politeness is typically associated in some way with harmonious/conflictual interpersonal relations...

Keywords: face, politeness, rapport, values, identity, culture

01/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter