Political formations, discourses and actions

Iithe Interpretation of Political Discourses

Predicting Persuasiveness in Political Discourses

In political speeches, the audience tends to react or resonate to signals of persuasive communication, including an expected theme, a name or an expression. Automatically predicting the impact of such discourses is a challenging task. In fact nowadays, with the huge amount of textual material that flows on the Web (news, discourses, blogs, etc.), it can be useful to have a measure for testing t...

A Critical Exploration of Political Discourses about

In the British setting, the deployment of the phrase ‘doing god’ has become increasingly 9 common to refer to an emerging trend whereby religion has acquired an increasingly prominent 10 role in political spaces and discourses. This was particularly prominent while David Cameron was 11 Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party. While historically, religion has not had a 12 prominent p...

Economic and Political Subjectivities in Public Discourses on Education

Projections based on historical relationships (bearing in mind the uncertainties of future projections) suggest that if all OECD countries could boost their average PISA scores by 25 points over the next two decades, the aggregate gain of OECD GDP would be USD 115 trillion over the lifetime of the generation born in 2010...Bringing all countries up to the OECD’s best performing education system...

Addressing Political “Confusion Syndrome” Discourses: A Critical Applied Linguistics Perspective

This paper aims at extending our understanding of a problematizing practice in Critical Applied Linguistics by exploring issues pertaining to political “confusion syndrome” Discourses. Central to this practice is how EFL teachers and learners depart from their reluctance to explore political issues. Being scaffolded with a working model of such Discourses and a suggested simulation practice, th...