Sharon Millar

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sharon Millar plays a role.

Titles

Hate speech: Definitions, interpretations and practices

Edited by Fabienne H. Baider, Sharon Millar and Stavros Assimakopoulos

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 11:2 (2020) v, 165 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles

Baider, Fabienne H., Sharon Millar and Stavros Assimakopoulos 2020 Introduction: Defining, performing and countering hate speechHate speech: Definitions, interpretations and practices, Baider, Fabienne H., Sharon Millar and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 171–176 | Introduction
Millar, Sharon, Rasmus Nielsen, Anna Vibeke Lindø and Klaus Geyer 2020 The use of hyperlinking as evidential practice in Danish online hate speechHate speech: Definitions, interpretations and practices, Baider, Fabienne H., Sharon Millar and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 241–261 | Article
Using data from readers’ comments to news articles from a national Danish newspaper, the article addresses the nature and function of hyperlinks as evidential practice in relation to xenophobic hate speech. Hyperlinks refer to the use of URL addresses to link to websites; hate speech is… read more
Millar, Sharon 2015 Blathering Beauties: The use of pragmatic markers on an Irish beauty blogPragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 292–317 | Article
Investigations of Irish English have not ventured into cyberspace to any great degree so this chapter represents a preliminary exploration into the virtual universe of Irish English. A case-study approach is adopted, trawling data from an Irish beauty website, www.beaut.ie, and specifically the… read more
The chapter addresses Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s performance of leadership through an analysis of her use of 1st person pronouns in two news interviews, one in Danish and the other in English. The analysis reveals a preference for the collective perspective, particularly in the Danish interview.… read more
Millar, Sharon, Sylvie Cifuentes and Astrid Jensen 2013 Chapter 5. A social representational perspective on languages and their management in the Danish corporate sectorExploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism: The DYLAN project, Berthoud, Anne-Claude, François Grin and Georges Lüdi (eds.), pp. 101–120 | Article
The chapter reports the main results from an investigation into the social representations of multilingualism in the Danish corporate sector. Within the framework of social representation theory, which seeks to understand the nature of social knowledge and thinking, interview data from 12 Danish… read more
Millar, Sharon 2007 Rhetoricians at work: Constructing the European Union in DenmarkThe Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life, Millar, Sharon and John Wilson (eds.), pp. 113–130 | Article
Wilson, John and Sharon Millar 2007 IntroductionThe Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life, Millar, Sharon and John Wilson (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Miscellaneous
Millar, Sharon 2003 Children and linguistic normativitySocial Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill, Britain, David and Jenny Cheshire (eds.), pp. 287–297 | Article
Millar, Sharon 1998 Language prescription: a success in failure's clothing?Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics, Hogg, Richard M. and Linda van Bergen (eds.), pp. 177 ff. | Article