Effective and Epistemic stance in British political discourse on immigration and refugee humanitarian crises
In recent years, Europe has witnessed a rapid succession of immigration and humanitarian crises involving refugees, which have prominently emerged in the heart of political... Read More
Criteria for annotating epistemic and effective stance: A proposal for discourse on immigration and humanitarian crises involving refugees
This presentation concerns the criteria used for annotating stance in the research project “Stance Strategies in Immigration and Racism-Related Discourse: Analysis and Applications in Affective... Read More
The tangled intercultural web we weave: Humour online
Humour, and especially language-based humour, is very much about ambiguity, about not being quite sure that our interlocutor is joking or being serious. A remark... Read More
“I am hope”. Excitable speech acts in The Sandman. A stylistic and multimodal analysis
In 2022, Netflix released the first season of the US series The Sandman, based on Neil Gaiman’s homonymous work published by DC Comics between 1988... Read More
Shakespearean Pragmatics: Richard III’s (im)polite behaviour
This contribution aims to situate itself in the field of historical pragmatics. It applies some pragmatic theories to Shakespeare’s Richard III for the double purpose... Read More