J W Unger

Biographic Data

ID732113
NAMEJ W Unger
GIVEN NAMESJ W
FAMILY NAMEUnger
SIGNATUREUNGER J W
AFFILIATIONSLancaster University
ORCID0000-0001-8059-9540
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Diffuse consecration

    Open AccessRebecca Braun, J W UngerARTICLEPoetics2023References: 9

    This article takes a fresh look at Pierre Bourdieu's notion of consecration by applying a mixed methods approach to the way authorship unfolds around the Nobel Prize. Drawing on both conceptual literary history and corpus-assisted discourse analysis, the case study of Herta Müller's 'unexpected' win in 2009 is taken as a starting point for establishing how different 'modes of authorship' play out in different contexts and at different scales. Con…

  • Researching Language and Social Media

    Ruth Page, David Barton et al.BOOKResearching Language and Social…2014

    Social Media is fast becoming a key area of linguistic research. This highly accessible guidebook leads students through the process of undertaking research in order to explore the language that people use when they communicate on social media sites.This textbook provides: An introduction to the linguistic frameworks currently used to analyse language found in social media contextsAn outline of the practical steps and ethical guidelines entailed …

  • Exploring ‘success’ in digitally augmented activism

    Open AccessAmanda Potts, Will Simm et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Context & Media2014Cited by: 3References: 10

  • Legitimating inaction

    Open AccessJ W UngerARTICLEEuropean Journal of Cultural…2010Cited by: 4References: 8

    The Scots language plays a key role in the political and cultural landscape of contemporary Scotland. From a discourse-historical perspective, this article explores how language ideologies about the Scots language are realized linguistically in a so-called ‘languages strategy’ drafted by the Scottish Executive, and in focus groups consisting of Scottish people. This article shows that although the decline of Scots is said to be a ‘tragedy’, focus…

  • Michael A. K. Halliday , On grammar

    Open AccessJ W UngerARTICLELanguage in Society2008

    Michael A. K. Halliday, On grammar . London: Continuum, 2002. Pp. x, 442. Hb $49.95. This is the first volume in a series entitled The collected works of M. A. K. Halliday . Halliday professes to be a “generalist” (p. 7), and this is clearly reflected in the range of titles in the series: The language of early childhood, Computational and quantitative studies , and Language and society , to name just three of the ten. Halliday's introduction in t…

  • Rhiannon Bury , Cyberspaces of their own

    Open AccessJ W UngerARTICLELanguage in Society2008

    Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of their own: Female fandoms online . New York: Peter Lang, 2005. Pp. x, 242. Pb $29.95. This is an ethnographic study of two all-female online communities, ostensibly founded to discuss certain television series and the male actors they feature. One of Rhiannon Bury's aims was to make her book accessible to the participants in her research, but although it is written in an accessible style, this is decidedly an academi…

  • Shi-Xu , A cultural approach to discourse

    Open AccessJ W UngerARTICLELanguage in Society2006References: 2

    Shi-Xu , A cultural approach to discourse . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. x, 233. Hb $69.95. This book presents Shi-xu's theoretical and methodological framework for discourse analysis, which he terms the Cultural Approach to Discourse (CAD), and critiques what he sees as the predominantly “Western” canon of social science research so far. Shi-xu argues, often convincingly and engagingly, that culture has a far more important role to…