"This volume explores the concepts of reference and identity in public discourses. Its contributions study discourse-specific reference and labelling patterns, both from a historical and present-day perspective, and discuss their impact on self- and other-representation in the construction of identity. They combine multiple methodological approaches, including corpus-based quantitative as well as qualitative approaches, and apply them to a range of text types that are or were (intended to be) public, such as letters, newspapers, parliamentary debates, and online communication in the form of reader comments, discussion pages and tweets. In addition to English, the languages studied include Polish as well as European and Latin American Spanish. The volume is aimed at researchers from different research paradigms in linguistics and related disciplines, such as media communication or the social and cultural sciences, who are interested in the interplay of reference and identity"--.

• Reference and Identity in Public Discourses
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Pragmatic explorations of reference and identity in public discourses
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Identity
  • 3. Reference
  • 4. Studies
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Part1. Public discourses in the history of English
• ‘Two miserable creatures’ or ‘those atrocious criminals?’ Evaluative reference in the Mannings murder reporting
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Social representation and evaluative reference
  • 3. Crime news in nineteenth-century Britain: The Mannings murder in focus
  • 4. The data and method
  • 5. Evaluative reference to the Mannings
    • 5.1 Degree of evaluation
    • 5.2 Explicit evaluation
    • 5.3 Implicit evaluation
  • 6. Conclusions on the Mannings murder reporting
    • 6.1 General trends
    • 6.2 Culprits, creatures, or criminals?
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• The Prince and the Sassenach: Constructing group homogeneity through labels (and anachronisms) in Late Modern times and beyond
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What’s in a name? Nicknames, memorability and pragmatics
    • 2.1 Labels in the language of entertainment
    • 2.2 Labels in the language of (political) history
  • 3. The case of “The Forty-five”: ‘Young Pretender, Chevalier’, or ‘Bonnie Prince’?
  • 4. Labels, bias, and public discourse
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• “Right trusty and well-beloved”: The socio-pragmatics of gender, power and stance in sixteenth-century English letters
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 Stance and subjectivity
    • 2.2 Historical correspondence
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Analysis
    • 4.1 Pronominal distribution: EWL and PCEEC
    • 4.2 Holograph and scribal identities in the EWL
    • 4.3 Letter recipient and function in EWL
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Kinship references in the British Parliament, 1800–2005
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical background
  • 3. The Hansard Corpus as a linguistic resource
  • 4. Operationalization of the queries and analyses
  • 5. Findings
    • 5.1 Overall trends
    • 5.2 Cluster analysis and some significant trends
  • 6. Tentative conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Part 2. Public discourses in Present-Day English
• “Thanks for the donds”: A corpus linguistic analysis of topic-based communities in the comment section of ‘The Guardian’
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The relationship between comments and article topic
    • 2.1 Distribution of comments across Guardian sections
    • 2.2 Distribution of comments by article topic
  • 3. Commenter behaviour
    • 3.1 Interactions between commenters
    • 3.2 Topic-based commenter communities
    • 3.3 The nature of user interactions
    • 3.4 Argumentation and discussion
    • 3.5 Terms of address
    • 3.6 Dond(s): An example of in-group lexis
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• From ‘country’ to ‘confederation’ – debating terms of reference for the EU on a Wikipedia talk page
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The European Union and Wikipedia as a public sphere
  • 3. Data and methodology
  • 4. Data discussion
    • 4.1 The EU as country
      • 4.1.1 The EU is not a country
      • 4.1.2 The EU is a country
    • 4.2 The EU as federation
      • 4.2.1 The EU is not a federation
      • 4.2.2 The EU is a federation
    • 4.3 The EU as confederation
      • 4.3.1 The EU is not a confederation
      • 4.3.2 The EU is a confederation
    • 4.4 The EU as community and union – the Wikipedia article
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• After we #VoteLeave we can #TakeControl: Political campaigning and imagined collectives on Twitter before the Brexit vote
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The role of pronouns in political persuasion
  • 3. Data and methods
  • 4. Results and discussion
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Outlook
  • References
• Part 3. Public discourses around the world
• To be or not to be … a patient: Identity construction of healthcare professionals and patients in public online diabetes-related interaction
  • 1. Context and research aims
    • 1.1 Context
    • 1.2 Research aims
  • 2. Methodology and corpus
  • 3. Analysis
    • 3.1 Patient identity
    • 3.2 Relatives’ identity
    • 3.3 Healthcare professional identity
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• What’s in a diminutive? The pragmatics of the Spanish diminutive in a televised political interview and its reverberations in online comments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Spanish diminutive
  • 3. Power relations and roles in political interviews
  • 4. Address terms in the political news interview
  • 5. Analysis of the ‘Anita incident’: Public roles and media format
    • 5.1 The long-term face needs of Pastor and Correa
    • 5.2 The media format ‘Los desayunos de TVE’
    • 5.3 ‘Anita’ and ‘Presidente’ in the political interview
    • 5.4 Post-interview reframing of the incident by Ana Pastor, her colleagues, and Rafael Correa
  • 6. Public reaction to the interview, 2012–2018
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Journalistic sources
  • YouTube videos and TVE website
• From Poland to #SanEscobar: On strategies subverting political discourse on Twitter
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 San Escobar as an Internet phenomenon
    • 1.2 Research questions
    • 1.3 Structure of the chapter
  • 2. Analysing hashtags and collecting data
  • 3. Analytic framework and methodology
    • 3.1 Frames and frame-based discourse analysis
    • 3.2 Coding procedure and identification of frames
  • 4. Conceptualising San Escobar on Twitter
    • 4.1 San Escobar as a country
    • 4.2 The conceptualisation of PiS
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Index