Discourse Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3 (June 2020), pp. 319-338 (20 pages) This article explores the comedic construction of national identity in Nigerian stand-up comedy. By national identity, I mean ...

A commentator on one of my recent posts on discourse asked a question about the discourse analysis of capitalism. Lacan had something interesting to say about that — he remarked that the discourse of ...

The aim of this paper is to introduce to the linguistic community some preliminary findings in the area of text planning which I hope will serve to lay the foundations of a computational theory of ...

In 2012, Professor Rom Harré defined positioning theory as being “… based on the principle that not everyone involved in a social episode has equal access to rights and duties to perform particular ...