Alon LischinskyOxford Brookes University · School of History, Philosophy and Culture
Alon Lischinsky
BA (Hons), MAS, Ph. D.
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September 2009 - October 2011
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Frequent criticisms of pornography have argued that it reproduces hegemonic misogyny by emphasizing representations of females as passive, powerless and submissive. Nevertheless, attempts to substantiate such claims have been scarce. This article seeks to provide empirical evidence on this question through an analysis of the representation of sexua...
This primacy of the semiotic clearly suggests the usefulness of discourse-based approaches for branding scholarship (Turlow & Aiello, 2007:310), even if branding —like other aspects of corporate communication (Koller, 2008b:155)— has received relatively little attention from critical discourse scholars, and no comprehensive theorisation of “the con...
Although both academics and policy-makers still debate its exact causes and the extent of its consequences, the ongoing financial crisis is doubtlessly the most distinctive economic event of the late 2000s. But despite the importance of such large-scale economic phenomena, there has been little research on their discursive construction. This paper...
In this article we take the use of examples as a means to explore the processes of persuasion and consensus-construction involved in the legitimation of popular management knowledge. Examples, as concrete instances or events used to substantiate a wider argument, have been variedly regarded in different research traditions. Classical logic and rhet...
In a climate of growing public concern and monitoring of business’s impact on the environment, corporations and industry groups have developed increasingly sophisticated strategies to manage their environmental reputation and to influence the outcome of environmental debates in the public sphere. In this article, we provide an exploratory overview...
Behind the enthusiastic adoption of corpus-based approaches in discourse research lies the promise of an ability to explore data more completely and representatively. Traditional methods in discourse studies were primarily designed for delicacy and richness; given the complexity of the links between language use and its social context, and the wide...
This paper seeks to explore whether business organisations' claims to regard the natural environment as a stakeholder are consistent with the way in which the environment is represented in their corporate social responsibility reporting. It applies corpus linguistic methods to analyse statistical regularities and differences in the discursive const...
In a climate of growing public concern and monitoring of business' impact on the environment, corporations and industry groups have developed increasingly sophisticated strategies to manage their environmental reputation and to influence the outcome of environmental debates in the public sphere. In this project, we provide an exploratory descriptio...
With the growing importance of environmental issues in policy debates, access to complete, reliable and appropriately-designed information about environmental impacts is essential for social participation. Even strategies seeking to avoid the need for explicit political deliberation (e.g., market-based) have high informational needs. Policy instrum...
In this book, Williams sets out to provide an account of the role played by culture and language in the workplace practices and labour relations of the knowledge economy. Weaving together themes from industrial sociology, management studies, philosophy of science, linguistics and social theory, he builds an argument focused on parallel changes in t...
This paper presents a social semiotic analysis of racist discursive practices, as found in complex media comprising both visual and linguistic elements. Drawing from a corpus of 250 images sampled from social science high school textbooks published in Spain from 1995 to 2004, we explore how the ideological polarisation between us and them is differ...
Este trabajo propone un análisis sociosemiótico del racismo discursivo, tal como se presenta en textos complejos que combinan lo visual y lo verbal. A partir de un corpus de 250 imágenes obtenido de diez libros de texto de ciencias sociales de nivel medio publicados en España entre 1995 y 2004, explora cómo la ideología dominante produce representa...
Este artículo explora algunos de los mecanismos empleados en la argumentación acerca de la discriminación social, en particular el racismo en sus encarnaciones más novedosas centradas en la nacionalidad y la cultura. Antes que atender al discurso explícitamente racista, parte de la idea de que en un medio donde la expresión pública de esta clase de...
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Scholarly work on porn has led to increasing awareness of its diversity, but nevertheless remains largely focused on visual genres, and explorations of the language of contemporary porn remain scarce and uneven. In this project, I extend this line of research through an examination of the referential and predication strategies used for the representation of body parts in a large corpus of online erotica. A sample of the 300 most-read stories (approximately 5.4 million words) was collected from Literotica.com, one of the oldest and largest erotic fiction repositories online. I examine the frequency of body part terms and their collocational and colligational preferences, focusing especially on the way they index gender.
