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A Discourse Perspective on Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Movement

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A Discourse Perspective on Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Movement

By: Davide Mazzi

There is no doubt that Daniel O’Connell can be hailed as a towering figure of nineteenth-century Irish politics. In this book, however, a different angle is taken on O’Connell’s centrality to Irish public discourse. Thus, rather than adding to the vast body of research works on O’Connell’s politics or the history of Catholic Emancipation and Repeal, this study provides a discourse perspective on the Liberator’s oratorical skills, along with the general perception of O’Connell as shaped by the press of his age. What rhetorical strategies did O’Connell implement in order to persuade the Catholics of Ireland that he was the man to make their voice heard by the British authorities?; How were O’Connell’s figure, his followers and his ideology assessed by nationalist and unionist print media? The volume addresses these research questions by combining the study of public speaking with news discourse within an integrated approach to the Irish public sphere in the early 1840s.

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1527578593

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A Discourse Perspective on Bunreacht na hÉireann

A Sound Constitution?

By: Davide Mazzi

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A Discourse Perspective on Bunreacht na hÉireann

A Sound Constitution?

By: Davide Mazzi

Constitutions tell us something about the shared values cherished by nations who adopt them. By reason of their significance for the countries where they are in force, constitutional texts may be approached from various perspectives, including political science and legal theory. In this book, a different angle is taken on the matter. As its object of study, the Constitution of Ireland is investigated from a discourse perspective. In particular, the volume fields the following research questions: Why has the Constitution been such a key document for the Republic?; What was and is the impact of the Constitution on Irish public discourse, at both a popular and a specialised level?; How was the Constitution represented and “argued” by the Irish press upon its enactment?; How has it entered the argumentation of Irish judges across the decades, as they have been required to pronounce on the compatibility of proposed legislation with its norms? By combining a wide range of analytical approaches, the book establishes a workable, integrated and highly flexible methodological framework for the study of the relationship between Ireland’s founding charter and the country’s public sphere.

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1527557944

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The Discourse of Well-Being in Late-Modern Ireland

A Case Study of Letters to the Editor

By: Davide Mazzi

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A Case Study of Letters to the Editor

By: Davide Mazzi

What makes individuals happy? What contributes to happy societies? What issues are perceived as critical to collective well-being? Psychologists, social and political scientists, and increasing numbers of economists have been preoccupied with questions like these for some time now. Rather than adding to available research from these areas, this book explores the concept of well-being through a different angle. It analyses people’s discourse of well-being on the basis of a collection of letters to the editor from three national newspapers from late-modern Ireland. In this vein, the study provides empirical evidence of major themes of well-being from letter writers’ viewpoint, and it sheds light on recognisable patterns of text structure and language use. In particular, the following research questions are addressed: What dimensions of social well-being can be isolated as the most important to readers–e.g., social justice, public health?; How does letter writers’ discourse tend to unfold in relation to each of them? Overall, the overview of voices from opinionated contemporary readers presented in the volume is meant to serve as a benchmark for an integrated approach to the Irish public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century.

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1527502155

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The Theoretical Background and Practical Implications of Argumentation in Ireland

By: Davide Mazzi

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The Theoretical Background and Practical Implications of Argumentation in Ireland

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While the association between the words “Ireland” and “argumentation” may not necessarily look particularly straightforward, this book shows that they are, in fact, closely connected. Specifically, the volume offers a linguistic perspective to suggest that the study of reasoned argument is likely to have a wide range of potential applications in the context of Irish public discourse. Taking two of the classic, favourite subjects of inquiry of contemporary argumentation theory, it addresses the issue of the construction of argumentation in the judiciary and in the politics of the Irish Republic. On the basis of three illustrative case studies, the book explores which methods can be used to identify distinctive aspects of the language at work in public settings where argumentation is the expected form of interaction, and the ways in which such methods can lead to an integrated approach to the study of argumentative language in Irish public discourse, in the interest of field scholars and practitioners alike.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443816566

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The 'other's' Gaze

The Discursive Construction of Journalists' Professional Identity Across Italy and the U.S.

By: Davide Mazzi

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The 'other's' Gaze

The Discursive Construction of Journalists' Professional Identity Across Italy and the U.S.

By: Davide Mazzi

The book combines the tools of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis in the attempt to investigate the discursive construction of professional identity on the part of journalists from Italy and the United States of America. More specifically, the ultimate objective of the study is to examine the discursive resources enabling journalists to construct their professional persona as experts exerting their authority in a community of practice, while they gaze at the 'other'. The analysis thus focuses on news articles from quality papers from Italy and the United States where each other's country is represented. With this primary aim in mind, the volume addresses the following leading questions: How is the 'other' (Italy in the US and the US in Italy) represented? How do journalists use language in order to craft their professional identity as they observe the 'other'? How is this operation subtly encoded in the language of texts traditionally credited with a balanced recount of facts, i.e., news articles?

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Universal-Publishers

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1612336000

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Travelling in the Middle Ages. Inns, routes and pilgrims

By: Davide Ribella

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Travelling in the Middle Ages. Inns, routes and pilgrims

By: Davide Ribella

A fascinating journey back in the centuries, to feel closer to a period often erroneously considered as dark and static. In this book, the author shows how those centuries really were, that is to say constantly on the move. Emperors, princes and popes with their armies but also, and mainly, merchants, bandits, pilgrims, people seeking their fortune or their social redemption and also women. All of them travelling long distances, in dangerous conditions, sometimes to the limit of human possibilities. The work is historical, accurate and includes references to tens of works and historiographers dealing with the subject of travelling in the Middle Ages, analyzing different trends. You are going to find out who departed in the Middle Ages and why, you will find plenty of information about roads, inns and different kinds of accommodation. It also includes a chapter about pilgrimage: both religious and judicial pilgrimages. A book for Middle Ages lovers but not only.

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1291509720

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The Discourse of Well-Being in Late-Modern Ireland

A Case Study of Letters to the Editor

By: Davide Mazzi

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A Case Study of Letters to the Editor

By: Davide Mazzi

What makes individuals happy? What contributes to happy societies? What issues are perceived as critical to collective well-being? Psychologists, social and political scientists, and increasing numbers of economists have been preoccupied with questions like these for some time now. Rather than adding to available research from these areas, this book explores the concept of well-being through a different angle. It analyses people's discourse of well-being on the basis of a collection of letters to the editor from three national newspapers from late-modern Ireland. In this vein, the study provides empirical evidence of major themes of well-being from letter writers' viewpoint, and it sheds light on recognisable patterns of text structure and language use. In particular, the following research questions are addressed: What dimensions of social well-being can be isolated as the most important to readers-e.g., social justice, public health?; How does letter writers' discourse tend to unfold in relation to each of them? Overall, the overview of voices from opinionated contemporary readers presented in the volume is meant to serve as a benchmark for an integrated approach to the Irish public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century.

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A Discourse Perspective on Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Movement

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The Theoretical Background and Practical Implications of Argumentation in Ireland

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Views of Place, Views of Irishness

Representing the Gaeltacht in the Irish Press, 1895-1905

By: Davide Mazzi

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Views of Place, Views of Irishness

Representing the Gaeltacht in the Irish Press, 1895-1905

By: Davide Mazzi

This book focuses on the representation of the Gaeltacht in the Irish press. It examines texts from a key moment in the history of Irish journalism, namely the decade between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth (1895−1905). Newspapers and periodicals have often been discussed with a view to their contents, or else they have served as supporting materials for scholars in Irish history. However, little to no interest has been taken so far in the language of the Irish press and the structure or discursive organisation of its news texts. In an attempt to contribute to filling this gap, this work is intended to carry out a corpus-based and discourse study of Irish news texts. The analysis fields the following general questions: How was the Gaeltacht represented in mainstream newspapers of the time? What aspects of Irish identity does the representation highlight, beyond the vivid description of remote places? In that regard, what are the concurring or competing voices of journalists engaging in the Irish public sphere? How do such voices actively shape news discourse in order to argue distinctive visions of Ireland?

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1789971934

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The Theoretical Background and Practical Implications of Argumentation in Ireland

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The 'other's' Gaze

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Travelling in the Middle Ages. Inns, routes and pilgrims

Travelling in the Middle Ages. Inns, routes and pilgrims

The Discourse of Well-Being in Late-Modern Ireland

The Discourse of Well-Being in Late-Modern Ireland

A Discourse Perspective on Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Movement

A Discourse Perspective on Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Movement

The Theoretical Background and Practical Implications of Argumentation in Ireland

The Theoretical Background and Practical Implications of Argumentation in Ireland

Views of Place, Views of Irishness

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