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Mapping the language ideologies of organisational members: a Corpus Linguistic Investigation of the United Nations’ General Debates (1970-2016)
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Constraints of hierarchy on Meso-Actors’ agency: evidence from Vietnam’s Educational Language Policy Reform
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“Leave no one behind”: linguistic and digital barriers to the dissemination and implementation of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals
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A network model of language policy and planning: The United Nations as a case study
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How can linguists contribute to the refugee crisis? Issues and Responses
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Language policy and planning in international organisations
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Networked identities: changing representations of Europeanness
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Stance and metaphor: mapping changing representations of (organizational) identity
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The value of adopting multiple approaches and methodologies in the investigation of ethnolinguistic vitality
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The role of metaphor in shaping the identity and agenda of the United Nations: the imagining of an international community and international threat
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This article examines the representation of the United Nations in speeches delivered by its Secretary General. It focuses on the role of metaphor in constructing a common ‘imagining’ of international diplomacy and legitimising an international organisational identity. The SG legitimises the organisation, in part, through the delegitimisation of agents/actions/events constructed as threatening to the international community and to the well-being of mankind. It is a desire to combat the forces of menace or evil which are argued to motivate and determine the organisational agenda. This is predicated upon an international ideology of humanity in which difference is silenced and ‘working towards the common good’ is emphasised. This is exploited to rouse emotions and legitimise institutional power. Polarisation and antithesis are achieved through the employment of metaphors designed to enhance positive and negative evaluations. The article further points to the constitutive, persuasive and edifying power of topic and situationally-motivated metaphors in speech-making.
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Applied Linguistics and Communication (to 2020)
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481311418099 https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5120/1/D_%26_C_2011_Lisa_McEntee-Atalianis.pdf https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5120/
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Order in ‘polylogue’: an investigation of argumentational discourse units in diplomatic negotiation
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A lexical comparison of signs from Icelandic and Danish sign languages
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Language attitudes, shift and the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Greek Orthodox community in Istanbul
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