Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist perspectives
Edited by Esperanza Morales-López and Alan Floyd
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 71] 2017. xiii, 293 pp.
Esperanza Morales-López
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esperanza Morales-López plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations
Edited by Carolina Plaza-Pust and Esperanza Morales-López
[Studies in Bilingualism, 38] 2008. xvi, 389 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 Form-function dialectics in the analysis of irony in political discourse Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 34:2, pp. 527–554 | Article
In this paper, I analyze the construction of the trope of irony in a political interview, more specifically the interview with a Spanish politician on television in 2013. Its context is the emergence of the 15M, a citizen’s protest movement against the cuts imposed by the European Union and the… read more
2020 Discursive constructions on Spanish languages: Towards overcoming the conflict framework Journal of Language and Politics 19:2, pp. 311–330 | Article
The analysis of the different ideological constructions around the languages of Spain shows two main metaphors that support the linguistic conflict experienced in the last three or four decades: the container metaphor (languages conceived as entities that are completely independent of each other)… read more
2019 Chapter 5. The articulation of ‘the people’ in the discourse of Podemos Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum, Zienkowski, Jan and Ruth Breeze (eds.), pp. 123–147 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the construction of pueblo ‘people’ and patria ‘homeland’ in the Spanish discourse of Podemos and the party’s relation to la gente ‘the people’ between June 2016 and its second political conference, Vistalegre II (February 2017). The discursive analysis focuses on figures of… read more
2017 Epilogue Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist perspectives, Morales-López, Esperanza and Alan Floyd (eds.), pp. 273–284 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 12. Cognitive frames, imaginaries and discursive constructions: Post-15M discourses with reference to eco-social alternatives Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist perspectives, Morales-López, Esperanza and Alan Floyd (eds.), pp. 249–272 | Chapter
In this paper, I analyse the discourse construction of the “Integral Catalan Cooperative” (or CIC), a social group which emerged in Catalonia a year before the outbreak of the 15M social movement, but which became consolidated after this group pitched their tents in the Plaza de Cataluña in… read more
2017 Chapter 11. Discourses of social movements in Southern Europe: The slogans of 15M Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist perspectives, Morales-López, Esperanza and Alan Floyd (eds.), pp. 227–248 | Chapter
In this chapter, we analyse the 15M social movement, which occupied the public squares of Spain’s large cities on 15 May 2011 (hence its name of the 15M or the indignados movement). This group emerged in the wake of the anti-austerity movements in Iceland and Greece, and the Arab Spring. The main… read more
2008 Sign bilingualism in Spanish deaf education Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations, Plaza-Pust, Carolina and Esperanza Morales-López (eds.), pp. 223–276 | Article
This chapter is part of a larger research project that approaches the study of the sociolinguistic and socio-discursive changes that have taken place over the last decade in the Spanish Deaf community in the light of contact with the wider European and worldwide deaf movement. In the research… read more
2008 Sign bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations, Plaza-Pust, Carolina and Esperanza Morales-López (eds.), pp. 333–379 | Article
In this chapter, we adopt a cross-disciplinary perspective on sign bilingualism and explore the dynamics of its development and maintenance in the light of the insights provided in the contributions to this volume and current assumptions in the field of contact linguistics. We offer a critical… read more
2008 A political action against popular opinion: Aznar’s final speech before the Spanish Parliament justifying the war in Iraq (December 2003) Journal of Language and Politics 7:1, pp. 71–98 | Article
This paper analyses the last speech delivered in the Spanish Parliament (on 2 December 2003) by President Aznar, in which he attempts to discursively uphold the reasons for his decision to support Bushs Administration (although with a small number of troops), and prove his interpretation of events. read more
2000 Spanish public Radio: Fictionalization of Events in the Presentation of conflictive News ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 127/128, pp. 71–99 | Article
The main hypothesis sustained in this paper maintains that language is not a mere reflection of external reality but that language also powerfully contributes to it constitution. In this sense, the analysis shows the different symbolic constructs the interviewer establishes in the presentation of… read more