Malcolm N Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 4002353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malcolm N Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malcolm N |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Issues, controversies and difficult questions: Languages and intercultural communication, twenty years on
It has been just over twenty years since the inaugural conference of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) was held in Leeds in November 2000. The following March, the first carefully crafted, glossy issue of Language and Intercultural Communication (LAIC 1.1) with its distinctive, turquoise spiral logo landed in the mailboxes of association members. In this commemorative issue of LAIC, we therefore pr…
The ‘good’ interculturalist yesterday, today and tomorrow: Everyday life-theory-research-policy-practice
The word ‘intercultural’ has been in use in research and practice in different parts of the world for many decades. In daily life, it is less used compared to ‘competitors’ such as multicultural or
The Discourse of Security: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality
Researching the Intercultural: Intersubjectivity and the Problem with Postpositivism
In intercultural communication studies, the positivist preoccupation with objectivist, essentialist, solid large cultures has been replaced by a postmodern recognition that the intercultural is liquid and ideologically constructed. However, a postpositivist resistance to this paradigm change, while recognizing the dangers of essentialism, continues to be objectivist and fails to address the intersubjective nature of the ideological construction o…
The discourse of ‘thirdness’ in intercultural studies
This paper will carry out a theoretical and empirical inquiry into the ways in which the ‘discourse of thirdness’ is constituted within the field of intercultural studies. It will firstly critically review the autochthonous conceptualisations of the Third Space and other metaphors of ‘thirdness’ in language education. It will then use corpus analysis techniques to analyse a collection of research papers from the preeminent journals in the field, …
The emergence of a security discipline in the post 9-11 discourse of U.S. security organisations
This paper explores two views of the changes that have occurred in the U.S. security services as a result of their post 9/11 reform. The first is Bigo’s suggestion that agencies worldwide have become enmeshed in shared activity so as to constitute a new ‘field of (in)security’. A second, novel perspective is that the security services have developed many of the characteristics of a discipline or ‘discursive formation’, constructing intelligence b…
Arguments for exception in US security discourse
In his influential State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben proposes that, even in apparently liberal western democracies, the state will routinely use the contingency of national emergency to suspend civil liberties and justify expansion of military and police powers. We investigated rhetorical strategies deployed in the web pages of US security agencies, created or reformed in the aftermath of the 9/11 events, to determine whether they present argum…
Legitimizing Claims for ‘Crisis’ Leadership in Global Governance: The discourse of nuclear non-proliferation
This paper explores the discursive processes of legitimizing leadership claims in the context of the nuclear proliferation crisis. Three complementary analyses of texts are carried out: discourse analyses of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and relevant speeches by members of the US administration, as well as a corpus analysis of news media accounts of nuclear proliferation published in prominent US and UK broadsheets. Findings …
The discourse of Olympic security: London 2012
This article uses a combination of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics (CL) to investigate the discursive realization of the security operation for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Drawing on Didier Bigo’s (2008) conceptualization of the ‘ban-opticon’, it addresses two questions: (1) What distinctive linguistic features are used in documents relating to security for London 2012? (2) How is Olympic security realized as a discurs…
Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism: UK security discourse, 2001–2011
This paper analyses a corpus of UK policy documents which sets out national security policy as an exemplar of the contemporary discourse of counter-terrorism in Europe, the USA and worldwide. A corpus of 148 documents (c. 2.8 million words) was assembled to reflect the security discourse produced by the UK government before and after the 7/7 attacks on the London Transport system. To enable a chronological comparison, the two sub-corpora were def…
The Ethics of Intercultural Communication
For some time, the role of culture in language education within schools, universities and professional communication has received increasing attention. This article identifies two aporias in the discourse of intercultural communication (IC): first, that it contains an unstated movement towards a universal consciousness; second, that its claims to truth are grounded in an implicit appeal to a transcendental moral signified.These features constitut…
Making it Real: Authenticity, Process and Pedagogy
Authenticity has been a part of the intellectual resources of language teaching since the 1890s but its precise meaning and implications are contested. This commentary argues for a view of authenticity which recognizes the limits of the concept as a guide for pedagogic practice and acknowledges the fact that texts are processes rather than products. First, authenticity may help to decide what texts not to use in class but provides no guidance abo…
The Social Cognition of Medical Knowledge: With Special Reference to Childhood Epilepsy
This article arose out of an engagement in medical communication courses at a Gulf university. It deploys a theoretical framework derived from a (critical) sociocognitive approach to discourse analysis in order to investigate three aspects of medical discourse relating to childhood epilepsy: the cognitive processes that are entailed in relating different types of medical knowledge to their communicative context; the types of medical knowledge tha…
Cultural Relativism and the Discourse of Intercultural Communication: Aporias of Praxis in the Intercultural Public Sphere
The premise of much intercultural communication pedagogy and research is to educate people from different cultures towards open and transformative positions of mutual understanding and respect. This discourse in the instance of its articulation realises and sustains Intercultural Communication epistemologically – as an academic field of social enquiry, and judgementally – as one which locates itself on a moral terrain. By adopting an ethical stan…
Authenticity, Culture and Language Learning
In philosophy, authenticity has been used with two meanings: one entails the notion of correspondence; the other entails the notion of genesis (Cooper, 1983: 15). As in certain branches of philosophy, language teaching has perhaps clung too long to the first of these notions of authenticity at the expense of the other. This paper reviews four key conceptualisations of authenticity which have emerged in the field of applied linguistics: text authe…
Pedagogy, pathology and ideology: The production, transmission and reproduction of medical discourse
The discourse of any institutional field is composed of a variety of different genres. In medical discourse, three prevalent genres are the research article, the doctor—patient interview and the textbook. This article describes how the textual, interpersonal and ideational metafunctions of each genre operate in relation to their institutional context of situation. As a medical text is delocated and relocated from one institutional context to anot…
Changing values: What use are theories of language learning and teaching
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Canada, a New Moral Force in the World
Researching the Intercultural: Intersubjectivity and the Problem with Postpositivism
In intercultural communication studies, the positivist preoccupation with objectivist, essentialist, solid large cultures has been replaced by a postmodern recognition that the intercultural is liquid and ideologically constructed. However, a postpositivist resistance to this paradigm change, while recognizing the dangers of essentialism, continues to be objectivist and fails to address the intersubjective nature of the ideological construction o…
The Ethics of Intercultural Communication
For some time, the role of culture in language education within schools, universities and professional communication has received increasing attention. This article identifies two aporias in the discourse of intercultural communication (IC): first, that it contains an unstated movement towards a universal consciousness; second, that its claims to truth are grounded in an implicit appeal to a transcendental moral signified.These features constitut…
Pedagogy, pathology and ideology: The production, transmission and reproduction of medical discourse
The discourse of any institutional field is composed of a variety of different genres. In medical discourse, three prevalent genres are the research article, the doctor—patient interview and the textbook. This article describes how the textual, interpersonal and ideational metafunctions of each genre operate in relation to their institutional context of situation. As a medical text is delocated and relocated from one institutional context to anot…
The discourse of Olympic security: London 2012
This article uses a combination of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics (CL) to investigate the discursive realization of the security operation for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Drawing on Didier Bigo’s (2008) conceptualization of the ‘ban-opticon’, it addresses two questions: (1) What distinctive linguistic features are used in documents relating to security for London 2012? (2) How is Olympic security realized as a discurs…
Cultural Relativism and the Discourse of Intercultural Communication: Aporias of Praxis in the Intercultural Public Sphere
The premise of much intercultural communication pedagogy and research is to educate people from different cultures towards open and transformative positions of mutual understanding and respect. This discourse in the instance of its articulation realises and sustains Intercultural Communication epistemologically – as an academic field of social enquiry, and judgementally – as one which locates itself on a moral terrain. By adopting an ethical stan…
Authenticity, Culture and Language Learning
In philosophy, authenticity has been used with two meanings: one entails the notion of correspondence; the other entails the notion of genesis (Cooper, 1983: 15). As in certain branches of philosophy, language teaching has perhaps clung too long to the first of these notions of authenticity at the expense of the other. This paper reviews four key conceptualisations of authenticity which have emerged in the field of applied linguistics: text authe…
The ‘good’ interculturalist yesterday, today and tomorrow: Everyday life-theory-research-policy-practice
The word ‘intercultural’ has been in use in research and practice in different parts of the world for many decades. In daily life, it is less used compared to ‘competitors’ such as multicultural or
The discourse of ‘thirdness’ in intercultural studies
This paper will carry out a theoretical and empirical inquiry into the ways in which the ‘discourse of thirdness’ is constituted within the field of intercultural studies. It will firstly critically review the autochthonous conceptualisations of the Third Space and other metaphors of ‘thirdness’ in language education. It will then use corpus analysis techniques to analyse a collection of research papers from the preeminent journals in the field, …
Legitimizing Claims for ‘Crisis’ Leadership in Global Governance: The discourse of nuclear non-proliferation
This paper explores the discursive processes of legitimizing leadership claims in the context of the nuclear proliferation crisis. Three complementary analyses of texts are carried out: discourse analyses of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and relevant speeches by members of the US administration, as well as a corpus analysis of news media accounts of nuclear proliferation published in prominent US and UK broadsheets. Findings …
Changing values: What use are theories of language learning and teaching
Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism: UK security discourse, 2001–2011
This paper analyses a corpus of UK policy documents which sets out national security policy as an exemplar of the contemporary discourse of counter-terrorism in Europe, the USA and worldwide. A corpus of 148 documents (c. 2.8 million words) was assembled to reflect the security discourse produced by the UK government before and after the 7/7 attacks on the London Transport system. To enable a chronological comparison, the two sub-corpora were def…
The emergence of a security discipline in the post 9-11 discourse of U.S. security organisations
This paper explores two views of the changes that have occurred in the U.S. security services as a result of their post 9/11 reform. The first is Bigo’s suggestion that agencies worldwide have become enmeshed in shared activity so as to constitute a new ‘field of (in)security’. A second, novel perspective is that the security services have developed many of the characteristics of a discipline or ‘discursive formation’, constructing intelligence b…
Arguments for exception in US security discourse
In his influential State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben proposes that, even in apparently liberal western democracies, the state will routinely use the contingency of national emergency to suspend civil liberties and justify expansion of military and police powers. We investigated rhetorical strategies deployed in the web pages of US security agencies, created or reformed in the aftermath of the 9/11 events, to determine whether they present argum…
Canada, a New Moral Force in the World
Brian's Opinions
Changing values: What use are theories of language learning and teaching
Pedagogy, pathology and ideology: The production, transmission and reproduction of medical discourse
The discourse of any institutional field is composed of a variety of different genres. In medical discourse, three prevalent genres are the research article, the doctor—patient interview and the textbook. This article describes how the textual, interpersonal and ideational metafunctions of each genre operate in relation to their institutional context of situation. As a medical text is delocated and relocated from one institutional context to anot…
Authenticity, Culture and Language Learning
In philosophy, authenticity has been used with two meanings: one entails the notion of correspondence; the other entails the notion of genesis (Cooper, 1983: 15). As in certain branches of philosophy, language teaching has perhaps clung too long to the first of these notions of authenticity at the expense of the other. This paper reviews four key conceptualisations of authenticity which have emerged in the field of applied linguistics: text authe…
Cultural Relativism and the Discourse of Intercultural Communication: Aporias of Praxis in the Intercultural Public Sphere
The premise of much intercultural communication pedagogy and research is to educate people from different cultures towards open and transformative positions of mutual understanding and respect. This discourse in the instance of its articulation realises and sustains Intercultural Communication epistemologically – as an academic field of social enquiry, and judgementally – as one which locates itself on a moral terrain. By adopting an ethical stan…
The Social Cognition of Medical Knowledge: With Special Reference to Childhood Epilepsy
This article arose out of an engagement in medical communication courses at a Gulf university. It deploys a theoretical framework derived from a (critical) sociocognitive approach to discourse analysis in order to investigate three aspects of medical discourse relating to childhood epilepsy: the cognitive processes that are entailed in relating different types of medical knowledge to their communicative context; the types of medical knowledge tha…
Making it Real: Authenticity, Process and Pedagogy
Authenticity has been a part of the intellectual resources of language teaching since the 1890s but its precise meaning and implications are contested. This commentary argues for a view of authenticity which recognizes the limits of the concept as a guide for pedagogic practice and acknowledges the fact that texts are processes rather than products. First, authenticity may help to decide what texts not to use in class but provides no guidance abo…
The Ethics of Intercultural Communication
For some time, the role of culture in language education within schools, universities and professional communication has received increasing attention. This article identifies two aporias in the discourse of intercultural communication (IC): first, that it contains an unstated movement towards a universal consciousness; second, that its claims to truth are grounded in an implicit appeal to a transcendental moral signified.These features constitut…
The discourse of Olympic security: London 2012
This article uses a combination of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics (CL) to investigate the discursive realization of the security operation for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Drawing on Didier Bigo’s (2008) conceptualization of the ‘ban-opticon’, it addresses two questions: (1) What distinctive linguistic features are used in documents relating to security for London 2012? (2) How is Olympic security realized as a discurs…
Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism: UK security discourse, 2001–2011
This paper analyses a corpus of UK policy documents which sets out national security policy as an exemplar of the contemporary discourse of counter-terrorism in Europe, the USA and worldwide. A corpus of 148 documents (c. 2.8 million words) was assembled to reflect the security discourse produced by the UK government before and after the 7/7 attacks on the London Transport system. To enable a chronological comparison, the two sub-corpora were def…
Legitimizing Claims for ‘Crisis’ Leadership in Global Governance: The discourse of nuclear non-proliferation
This paper explores the discursive processes of legitimizing leadership claims in the context of the nuclear proliferation crisis. Three complementary analyses of texts are carried out: discourse analyses of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and relevant speeches by members of the US administration, as well as a corpus analysis of news media accounts of nuclear proliferation published in prominent US and UK broadsheets. Findings …
The emergence of a security discipline in the post 9-11 discourse of U.S. security organisations
This paper explores two views of the changes that have occurred in the U.S. security services as a result of their post 9/11 reform. The first is Bigo’s suggestion that agencies worldwide have become enmeshed in shared activity so as to constitute a new ‘field of (in)security’. A second, novel perspective is that the security services have developed many of the characteristics of a discipline or ‘discursive formation’, constructing intelligence b…
Arguments for exception in US security discourse
In his influential State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben proposes that, even in apparently liberal western democracies, the state will routinely use the contingency of national emergency to suspend civil liberties and justify expansion of military and police powers. We investigated rhetorical strategies deployed in the web pages of US security agencies, created or reformed in the aftermath of the 9/11 events, to determine whether they present argum…
The discourse of ‘thirdness’ in intercultural studies
This paper will carry out a theoretical and empirical inquiry into the ways in which the ‘discourse of thirdness’ is constituted within the field of intercultural studies. It will firstly critically review the autochthonous conceptualisations of the Third Space and other metaphors of ‘thirdness’ in language education. It will then use corpus analysis techniques to analyse a collection of research papers from the preeminent journals in the field, …
The Discourse of Security: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality
Researching the Intercultural: Intersubjectivity and the Problem with Postpositivism
In intercultural communication studies, the positivist preoccupation with objectivist, essentialist, solid large cultures has been replaced by a postmodern recognition that the intercultural is liquid and ideologically constructed. However, a postpositivist resistance to this paradigm change, while recognizing the dangers of essentialism, continues to be objectivist and fails to address the intersubjective nature of the ideological construction o…
The ‘good’ interculturalist yesterday, today and tomorrow: Everyday life-theory-research-policy-practice
The word ‘intercultural’ has been in use in research and practice in different parts of the world for many decades. In daily life, it is less used compared to ‘competitors’ such as multicultural or
Issues, controversies and difficult questions: Languages and intercultural communication, twenty years on
It has been just over twenty years since the inaugural conference of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) was held in Leeds in November 2000. The following March, the first carefully crafted, glossy issue of Language and Intercultural Communication (LAIC 1.1) with its distinctive, turquoise spiral logo landed in the mailboxes of association members. In this commemorative issue of LAIC, we therefore pr…
Sociology (15 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (7 works)