University of Alberta

Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies

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RESEARCH

 

RESEARCH

Media Kiosk - Paris - 2004

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Pragmatics

Discourse analysis

Critical Discourse Analysis

Media discourse / Political discourse / Intercultural discourse

 

CURRENT PROJECT

 

Strategies for news presentations across media types and media systems:

Comparisons of American, French and German print and online news media 

 

(forthcoming)

 

 

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Selected Publications

 

Refereed Monographs

  • 2010; Editorials and the Power of Media - Interweaving of socio-cultural identities. Series: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 239 p. Abstract

  • 2006; The Spiral of 'Anti-Other Rhetoric' - Discourses of Identity and the International Media Echo. Series: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 280 p.  Abstract

Refereed papers: articles and book chapters

  • 2009; "Interpreters’ identities: An exploratory study of Vietnamese interpreters in Vietnam", with Nguyen van Nhan and Nathan Ménard; TranscUlturAl: An online journal of Translation and Cultural Studies; 1(2): 93-116;  http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/TC. Abstract

  • 2009; "Editorials' genre and media roles: Le Monde's editorials from1999 to 2001"; Journal of Pragmatics, 41(9): 1727-1748. Abstract

  • 2009; "Why investigate textual information hierarchy?". In Renkema, J. (Ed.), Discourse, of Course. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins; 113-126.  Abstract

  • 2007; "The power of the French 'ON' in editorials". RAEL (Revista electronica de linguistica aplicada); Volumen Monográfico 1 : Different Approaches to Newspaper Opinion Discourse, 32-48; http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/extrev?codigo=6978. Abstract

  • 2007; "Elites Dailies and Projections of Cultural Identities: A Comparison of Le Monde and The New York Times". In Bernardo Paniagua, J.M., Lopez Garcia, G., Sancho Cremades, P., Serra Alegre, E. (Eds.), Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Texts. Universitat de Valencia. 195-208. Abstract

  • 2007; "Construction or imposition of national identities in foreign policy editorials? ". In Manguero, M. (Ed.), Identity and Second Language Learning: Culture, Inquiry, and Dialogic Activity in Educational Contexts. Charlotte (NC): Information Age Publishing; 329-349. Abstract

  • 2006; "Collective memories and representations of national identity in editorials: Obstacles to a renegotiation of intercultural relations"; Journalism Studies; 7(5): 708-728. Abstract

  • 2004; "The role of paragraphs in the construction of coherence - Applied linguistics and translation studies"; International Review of Applied Linguistics; 42(3): 478-510. Abstract.

  • 2004; "Active participation within written argumentation: metadiscourse and editorialist's authority "; Journal of Pragmatics, 36(4): 687-714. Abstract.  

  • 2003; "Information sources as a persuasive strategy in editorials: Le Monde and The New York Times", Written Communication, 20(4): 478-510. Abstract.

  • 2002; "Human rights discourse and international relations: Le Monde's editorials on Russia "; Discourse & Society, 13(3): 373-408. Abstract.  

  • 2002; "The concept of Europe in Le Monde's editorials: Tensions in the construction of a European identity"; Journal of Language and Politics; 1(2): 279-325. Abstract.

  • 2002;  "Themes and Hierarchical Structure of Written Texts". In Max Louwerse & Will van Peer (Eds.), Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins; 171-187. Abstract.

  • 2000; "Pour une analyse critique du discours dans l'étude des relations internationales - Exemple d'application à des éditoriaux américains sur la guerre en Tchétchénie"; Études internationales; XXXI(3): 489-515. Russian translation:  "Лингвический aнализ политического дискурса : язык статей о чеченской войне в американской прессе",  Полис, 2001 (2): 93-112.  Abstract.

  • 1999; "The use of paragraphs in French and English academic writing"; Text, 19(3): 307-343. Abstract.

 

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COMMUNICATIONS

  • 2009; "Diversity of interactions within editorials and media identities: Le Monde from 1999 to 2001"; 11th International Pragmatics Conference; Melbourne. 

  • 2009; "Le Monde's editorials and the newspaper construction of its legitimacy"; Canadian Communication Association annual conference; Carleton University, Ottawa.

  • 2008; "Interpreters' identities: An exploratory study of Vietnamese interpreters in Vietnam"; with Nguyen van Nhan and Nathan Ménard; International Translation Day; University of Alberta.

  • 2008; "Interpreters' identity(ies) as 'human cultural bridges': A theoretical framework"; with Nguyen van Nhan and Nathan Ménard; International Professional Communication Conference; Concordia University, Montreal.

  • 2008; "The power of indefiniteness"; Highway Two Conference, University of Alberta.

  • 2007; "Intercultural competency: Personal and community identities"; So What? Series for Linking Research and Practice in the Voluntary Sector; Grant McEwan College, Edmonton. 

  • 2007; “A methodological framework for the study of editorials’ complex argumentation”; 10th International Pragmatics Conference; Göteborg.

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  • 2007; “Cultural identities: interactions and power relations”; Highway Two Conference, University of Calgary .

  • 2006; "An interdisciplinary methodological framework for the study of media identities"; Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines Conference, University of East Anglia.

  • 2006; "The Spiral of 'Anti-Other Rhetoric': Russia and the West from 1999 to 2001"; Top Paper of the Intergroup Communication Special Interest Group; 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Dresden.

  • 2005; "The Language of Media Diplomacy"; AILA Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  • 2005; "Construction or Imposition of National Identities in Foreign Policy Editorials?"; ISLS Conference, Montreal.

  • 2005; "A Franco-American 'love story' "; Highway Two Conference, University of Alberta.

  • 2004; "Elite Dailies and Projection of Cultural Identities: A Comparison of Le Monde and The New York Times"; First International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis, València.

  • 2004; "Type of Persuasive Force as a Typology Criterion for Editorials: A Model of Analysis"; Conference "Contrasting Text Types in the Press", University of Helsinki. 

  • 2003; "Typographie et structure hiérarchique formelle"; Journée d'étude de l'Association pour le traitement automatique des langues, Université de Paris 4.

  • 2003; "Technology Edge for Language and Culture Learners"; with Terry Butler and Tracy Chao; WorldCALL; Banff (AB).

  • 2003; "Collective Memories: Russia in French and American Editorials"; AAAL Conference; Arlington (VA).

  • 2003; "Building bridges, putting up walls: Le Monde's editorials on Russia "; invited keynote speaker; Second Graduate Conference, MLCS, University of Alberta.

  • 2002; "Le Monde's concept of Europe: Degrees of European belonging?"; ISSEI Conference, University of Wales - Aberystwyth .

  • 2002; "L'Europe du Monde: Le Monde's concept of Europe and the enlargement process"; Second International EU Symposium, "Re-imagining the European Union: Dynamics of Enlargement in the 21st century"; University of Alberta.

  • 2002; "Memories and the Other: Past, Present and Future in Editorials"; Highway Two Conference, University of Calgary.

  • 2001; "The disclosure of information sources by newspaper editorialists"; Conference on Language, the Media and International Communication; University of Oxford.

  • 2001; "The expansion of the French cultural space in Russia : Are Le Monde's editorials a modern form of Napoleonic campaign?"; Highway Two Conference; University of Alberta.

  • 2000; "Coherence and semantic chains"; Canadian Association for Translation Studies annual conference; University of Alberta.

  • 2000; "Coherence and the boundaries of sentences and paragraphs"; Canadian Association for Translation Studies annual conference; University of Alberta .

  • 1999; "Language Teaching and the Integration of Linguistics, Literature, Culture and Translation Studies";  symposium for the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics annual conference; University of Sherbrooke.

  • 1999; "Towards an harmonious co-ordination of a multi-sectioned language course"; Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics annual conference; University of Sherbrooke.

  • 1998; "Parameters of text description: A methodology in progress for the study of reading"; Alberta Linguistic Association; Banff ; with Ann Penningroth.

  • 1997; "An Integrative Model of Discourse Analysis"; Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse; Utrecht.

  • 1997; "Sur le rôle des paragraphes dans la structure discursive d'un texte argumentatif"; 16th International Congress of Linguists; Paris.

  • 1997; "La prise en compte de la structure typographique dans l'informatisation du traitement de la documentation juridique"; Colloquium: Aspects linguistique et informatique du traitement des documents juridiques; ACFAS Congress; Trois-Rivières.

  • 1997; "La pertinence du paragraphe en linguistique du texte"; ACFAS Congress; Trois-Rivières.

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