Essays about: "illocutionary force"
Found 3 essays containing the words illocutionary force.
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1. Motives behind securitization : -a study on the securitization of terrorism
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)Abstract : Since securitization processes are agued to be able to create excessive power to actors, there are arguments that claim that securitization is a negative process. By combining aspects of the original securitization theory with Juha Vuoir’s theory of illocutionary force, this thesis makes an attempt at finding what different actors claimed was threatened in their respective securitization of the issue terrorism. READ MORE
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2. Enacting the Silence of Subaltern Women : Julie Otsuka and the Japanese Picture Brides
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : It is by now a truth universally acknowledged that the world’s subaltern women (in Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of the term) cannot make their voices heard, that what we think we know about them are mostly stereotypes of our own making. It is likewise acknowledged that literature has a privileged status when it comes to representing these women, given its unique prerogative to retrieve their traces and convey their subjectivity through imagining. READ MORE
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3. Facework in a Faceless Environment : A Contrastive Analysis of Hedges in Readers' Comments on Political and Personal Issues in E-newspapers
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : The present study investigates the use of hedging devices in the readers’ comment section of the newspaper The Guardian Online. Two comment sections were chosen for the contrastive study: ‘Politics’ in the subsection ‘Comment is free’ and the series ‘Problem solved’ in the subsection ‘Life and style’. READ MORE
