Matthew Evans
List of John Benjamins publications for which Matthew Evans plays a role.
Articles
2017 Representing “terrorism”: The radicalisation of the May 2013 Woolwich attack in British press reportage Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres, Kopytowska, Monika (ed.), pp. 171–192 | Article
This chapter uses critical stylistics to analyse the British press’s use of the term “terrorism” in their reporting of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby outside the military barracks in Woolwich, London on 22nd May 2013. It considers academic definitions of “terrorism” and compares these to the use… read more
2015 The rise of choice as an absolute ‘good’: A study of British manifestos (1900–2010) Journal of Language and Politics 14:6, pp. 751–777 | Article
In this article we report on a corpus-based study of the lexical item ‘choice’. ‘Choice’ was previously found to be a keyword in Jeffries and Walker’s (2012) study of political discourse from the New Labour years, occurring more frequently in newspaper articles during that period (1998–2007) than… read more
2015 Representing “terrorism”: The radicalisation of the May 2013 Woolwich attack in British press reportage Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres, Kopytowska, Monika (ed.), pp. 128–150 | Article
This paper uses critical stylistics to analyse the British press’s use of the term “terrorism” in their reporting of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby outside the military barracks in Woolwich, London on 22nd May 2013. It considers academic definitions of “terrorism” and compares these to the use of… read more