A Linguistic Analysis Of Diplomatic Discourse

Author : Germana D’Acquisto
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443874854

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A Linguistic Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse by Germana D’Acquisto Pdf

This book explores the language used by the United Nations Resolutions on the Question of Palestine. The corpus used in this analysis includes sixty-six Security Council Resolutions (2965 words) and forty General Assembly Resolutions (2529 words) from 1948 to 2006 related to the most relevant events of the conflict. In particular, the study investigates the role of the English verbal system in relation to modality in the institutional language of the United Nations and the different pragmatic purposes of its normative text types, taking into account the communicative interaction between the legal authority, the United Nations, and the addressees, Member States and the International Community. It discusses the use of prescriptive and performative verbs used to express different degrees of obligation in the United Nations documents.

Author : Jovan Kurbalija,Hannah Slavik
Publisher : Diplo Foundation
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Diplomacy
ISBN : 9789990955156

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Language and Diplomacy by Jovan Kurbalija,Hannah Slavik Pdf

Author : Junfeng Zhang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443883139

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Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence by Junfeng Zhang Pdf

Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence focuses on the construction and translation of diplomatic discourse (DD) for conveying a message suggesting uncertainty and capable of being read in a number of ways. After a summary and an analysis of its characteristics, the book provides a definition of DD, showing that implicit DD is marked with an interpersonal prominence among its three meta-functions from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The book then gives a definition of implicitness, proposes a lexical model and identifies Lexicogrammatical Metaphor (LGM) as the linguistic mechanism of generating implicitness in DD via intralingual translation, and if necessary, interlingual translation. After this, a case study of DD generated around the 2001 Sino-US Air Collision incident is provided, which is used to establish a descriptive and explanatory three-dimensional model that is capable of providing textual accounts of translational treatments in intralingually configuring implicitness in DD and interlingually re-expressing it. This model consists of three components, namely linguistic composition, interactional dynamics, and perlocutionary imaging. Among them, perlocutionary imaging prevails over the other two in constructing and translating implicitness in DD.

Author : Ray T. Donahue,Michael H. Prosser
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015040619549

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Diplomatic Discourse by Ray T. Donahue,Michael H. Prosser Pdf

This work seeks to provide insight into the role that discourse and rhetorical analysis plays in the crucial area of international conflict resolution and diplomatic process.

Author : Justin Schuster,Eric Stern
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781329056275

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Diplomatic Discourse by Justin Schuster,Eric Stern Pdf

Throughout the summer of 2013, The Politic-Yale University's Undergraduate Political Journal-created Diplomatic Discourse, a collection of over 100 interviews with United States Ambassadors, examining careers in the Foreign Service and contemporary issues facing American policy overseas. More than 50 Yale students conducted interviews over the telephone, via Skype and email, and in person at embassies worldwide. From France to Fiji, Mongolia to Mexico, Haiti to the Holy See, these are the stories of the men and women on the frontlines of American foreign policy. Since 1947, The Politic has provided an outlet for the politically inclined on Yale's campus with past Editors including Fareed Zakaria, Gideon Rose and Robert Kagan. The Politic features long-form, investigative articles focusing on topics of domestic and international significance and interviews with the world's foremost public servants, policy makers and intellectuals, including President Obama, President Ford, Secretary Kerry, and many more.

Author : Bernd Heine,Heiko Narrog
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191664793

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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis by Bernd Heine,Heiko Narrog Pdf

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the task in hand. Distinguished scholars from all over the world explain the rationale and aims of over thirty explanatory approaches to the description, analysis, and understanding of language. Each chapter considers the main goals of the model; the relation it proposes from between lexicon, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; the way it defines the interactions between cognition and grammar; what it counts as evidence; and how it explains linguistic change and structure. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis offers an indispensable guide for everyone researching any aspect of language including those in linguistics, comparative philology, cognitive science, developmental philology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, computational science, and artificial intelligence. This second edition has been updated to include seven new chapters looking at linguistic units in language acquisition, conversation analysis, neurolinguistics, experimental phonetics, phonological analysis, experimental semantics, and distributional typology.

Author : Mohamed Ali A. Al Mulla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Communication in politics
ISBN : UOM:39015061323153

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Avoiding Misunderstanding in Diplomatic Communication by Mohamed Ali A. Al Mulla Pdf

Author : Patricia Friedrich
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783095490

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English for Diplomatic Purposes by Patricia Friedrich Pdf

English is used in diplomatic contexts worldwide, including in situations where none of the interlocutors are native-speakers. This ground-breaking volume brings together the perspectives of researchers and practitioners to discuss the needs of those using and learning English for Diplomatic Purposes. Chapter authors use concepts from sociolinguistics, World Englishes, Peace Linguistics and English as a Lingua Franca. Combined with this theoretical background is a pragmatic understanding of the work of diplomacy and the realities of communication, as well as exercises designed to help students, teachers and practicing diplomats reflect on, and develop, their language use. This book represents an important first step in the opening-up of English for Diplomatic Purposes as a distinct field of study and learning, and as such will be required reading for those working and studying in this area.

Author : Iver B. Neumann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801462993

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At Home with the Diplomats by Iver B. Neumann Pdf

The 2010 WikiLeaks release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables has made it eminently clear that there is a vast gulf between the public face of diplomacy and the opinions and actions that take place behind embassy doors. In At Home with the Diplomats, Iver B. Neumann offers unprecedented access to the inner workings of a foreign ministry. Neumann worked for several years at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he had an up-close view of how diplomats conduct their business and how they perceive their own practices. In this book he shows us how diplomacy is conducted on a day-to-day basis. Approaching contemporary diplomacy from an anthropological perspective, Neumann examines the various aspects of diplomatic work and practice, including immunity, permanent representation, diplomatic sociability, accreditation, and issues of gender equality. Neumann shows that the diplomat working abroad and the diplomat at home are engaged in two different modes of knowledge production. Diplomats in the field focus primarily on gathering and processing information. In contrast, the diplomat based in his or her home capital is caught up in the seemingly endless production of texts: reports, speeches, position papers, and the like. Neumann leaves the reader with a keen sense of the practices of diplomacy: relations with foreign ministries, mediating between other people’s positions while integrating personal and professional into a cohesive whole, adherence to compulsory routines and agendas, and, above all, the generation of knowledge. Yet even as they come to master such quotidian tasks, diplomats are regularly called upon to do exceptional things, such as negotiating peace.

Author : Faiz Sathi Abdullah,Mardziah Hayati Abdullah,Tan Bee Hoon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443808101

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Critical Perspectives on Language and Discourse in the New World Order by Faiz Sathi Abdullah,Mardziah Hayati Abdullah,Tan Bee Hoon Pdf

The papers in this book explore language use in a broad range of discourse fields. They provide theoretical perspectives on global orientations to social, political and economic transformations in the “New World Order” (NWO), and extend these with studies on the impacts of such transformations at the local, national, regional and global levels. The discussions highlight current concerns among academics and political commentators about the potential social impact of representations of the NWO in language and discourse. The present work is important in raising social consciousness towards the central role that language and discourse play in the construction of shifting/multiple identities. In this way, the roles of critical discourse analysis and indeed that of the analysts themselves are emancipative and socially transformative. The value of such consciousness-raising for potential social action in language user empowerment terms cannot be overstressed, particularly given the ascendant position of the English language in the NWO. This collection is a significant contribution to the ongoing critical discussion on global order discourse.

Author : Adriana Bolívar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317192459

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Political Discourse as Dialogue by Adriana Bolívar Pdf

We are witnessing the collapse of democracies in many parts of the world and a general tendency to the resurgence of right-wing and left-wing populisms led by authoritarian leaders. This book centres on the political dialogue in one of these democracies. The focus is on Venezuela, the rich Latin American oil producing country, and its transformation from a stable democracy to a very unstable and controversial revolution in which the dialogue has been occupied by only one party for 18 years. The central characters of the book are Hugo Chávez, who remained in power for 14 years as the main speaker and controller, and the people who either followed or opposed him in Venezuela and other countries. Contrary to critical analyses which are mainly based on social representations that conceive dialogue as implicit or normative, this book proposes a dialogue-centred approach, which articulates linguistics, conversation analysis, socio-pragmatics and political science from a critical perspective, and offers the theoretical foundations and procedures for analysing micro dialogues between specific persons and the macro social dialogue, which unveils the processes of domination and resistance to power. The book will be useful for scholars and students of linguistics, media, communication studies and political science wishing to learn more about dialogue in political interaction.

Author : Ben Tonra
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719060028

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Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy by Ben Tonra Pdf

This text reviews a variety of approaches to the study of the European Union's foreign policy. Much analysis of EU foreign policy contains implicit theoretical assumptions about the nature of the EU and its member states, their inter-relationships, the international system in which they operate and the nature and direction of European integration. In many instances such assumptions, given that they are not discussed openly, curtail rather than facilitate debate. The purpose of this book is to open up this field of enquiry so that students, observers and analysts of EU foreign policy can review a broad range of tools and theoretical templates from which the development and the trajectory of the EU's foreign policy can be studied.

Author : Caterina Carta,Jean-Frederic Morin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317140252

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EU Foreign Policy through the Lens of Discourse Analysis by Caterina Carta,Jean-Frederic Morin Pdf

Leading scholars in discourse analysis and European foreign policy join forces in this book, marking a real breakthrough in the literature. Not only do they offer original perspectives on European foreign policy, but they bring together various theories on foreign policy discourses that remain too often isolated from each other. This theoretical diversity is clearly reflected in the book’s four-pronged structure: Part I - Post-structuralist Approaches (with contributions from Thomas Diez, Henrik Larsen and Beste Isleyen); Part II - Constructivist Approaches (with contributions from Knud Erik Jørgensen, Jan Orbie, Ferdi de Ville, Esther Barbé , Anna Herranz-Surrallés and Michal Natorski); Part III - Critical Discourse Analytical Approaches (with contributions from Senem Aydin-Düzgit, Amelie Kutter, Ruth Wodak, Salomi Boukala and Caterina Carta); Part IV - Discursive Institutionalist Approaches (with contributions from Ben Rosamond, Antoine Rayroux and Vivien A. Schmidt). The volume is the first full-length study on how to apply different discourse analytical approaches and methodologies to European foreign policy. The paperback edition makes for a unique selling point as a course text.

Author : Mira Kadrić,Sylvi Rennert,Christina Schäffner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000411362

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Diplomatic and Political Interpreting Explained by Mira Kadrić,Sylvi Rennert,Christina Schäffner Pdf

*First comprehensive student guide in English to the practice of political and diplomatic interpreting *includes a wide range of interviews with practising interpreters and diplomats and includes an introductory chapter from a diplomat, thus providing a truly inter-professional approach to the subject. *ideal as a core text for political and diplomatic interpreting modules and as recommended reading for a section of Public service Interpreting modules

Author : Laura Louise Aull
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294539

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How Students Write: A Linguistic Analysis by Laura Louise Aull Pdf

Broad generalizations about "people today" are a familiar feature of first-year student writing. How Students Write brings a fresh perspective to this perennial observation, using corpus linguistics techniques. This study analyzes sentence-level patterns in student writing to develop an understanding of how students present evidence, draw connections between ideas, relate to their readers, and, ultimately, learn to construct knowledge in their writing. Drawing on both first-year and upper-level student writing, the book examines the discourse of students at different points in their education. It also distinguishes between argumentative and analytic essays to explore the way school genres and assignments shape students' choices. In focusing on sentence-level features such as hedges ("perhaps") and boosters ("definitely"), this study shows how such rhetorical choices work together to open or close opportunities for thoughtful exchanges of ideas. Attention to these features can help instructors foster civil discourse, design effective assignments, and expose and question norms of higher education.