Language Use in the Public Sphere

Manuel Casado is Chair Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Navarra (Spain), where he directs the interdisciplinary Research Project «Public Discourse: Persuasive and Interpretative Strategies» at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) and the Navarra Research Group on Discourse Analysis (GRADUN). He is a Corresponding Member of the Royal Spanish Academy. His research currently focuses on Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. Óscar Loureda is Chair Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), and since 2011 he has been the director of the University’s Iberoamerika-Zentrum. He is also a member of the Research Group «Discourse Particles and Cognition» in the Heidelberg University Language and Cognition Lab (HULC LAB). His research interests center on Semantics and Lexicography of Spanish, and on general theory of discourse (Text Linguistics, Text Grammar, Discourse Analysis). Inés Olza is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with GRADUN (Discourse Analysis Group, University of Navarra) in ICS (Institute for Culture and Society). She also works as a Lecturer in General and Spanish Linguistics at the Spanish National University for Distance Education (UNED, associated center in Pamplona). Her research focuses on the semantic-pragmatic analysis of phraseology and metalanguage (of Spanish and other languages), on multimodality, and on the argumentative use of figurative language in public discourse.

• Contents: Tomás Albaladejo: Rhetoric and discourse analysis – Manuel Casado-Velarde: Trust and suspicion as principles of discourse analysis – Lourdes Flamarique: Metaphor and argumentative logic - a crossroads between philosophy and the language sciences – Frank J. Harslem/Katrin Berty: «A ver, what do we have here?» - «Bueno, it’s no piece of cake». The challenge of translating discourse markers – Fernando López-Pan: The epideictic nature of prestige newspapers – Óscar Loureda: New perspectives in text analysis: introducing an integrated model of text linguistics – José Portolés/Jean Yates: The theory of argumentation in language and its application to discourse analysis – Jef Verschueren: The pragmatics of discourse in the public sphere – Alejandro G. Vigo: Discourse, coherence, truth – Ruth Breeze: Reporting public manifestations of religion: Sikhs, Muslims and Christians in the British press – Dolores Conesa: The dialectic of identity-difference – Diego Contreras: The crucifix and the Court in Strasbourg: press reaction in Italy to a European court decision – Patrick Duffley: Craving face: The debate over the Islamic veil in Quebec as reflected by the discourse of the three major political parties – Alberto Gil: Public discourse on the Internet: interactive control of the integration debate in German – Ramón González-Ruiz/Dámaso Izquierdo-Allegría: The debate about the veil in the Spanish press: interpersonal metadiscourse in the editorials of abc and El País (2002-2010) – Sira Hernández/Beatriz Gómez-Baceiredo: Who tells the story of ‘the war of religious symbols’? An analysis of Genette’s categories of voice and point of view in ABC, El Mundo and El País reports on the withdrawal of the crucifix and the prohibition of the veil in Spain – Carmen Llamas-Saíz/Concepción Martínez-Pasamar: Vocabulary and argumentation in the Spanish press discussion of about Islamic veil. Metaphorical projections of burka – Andrés Ollero: Religious symbols in public spaces: ethical-juridical argumentation – Inés Olza: Representation in the Spanish press of the political debate about wearing full Islamic veils in public spaces.

«This is a timely, scholarly edition that will have an impact beyond the academic community. As everyone has a vested interest in the fairness and sincerity of debates about religion in the public sphere, this volume is to be welcomed as a thorough, detailed scientific examination of what can be often emotive issues. Its dispassionate and rigorous style serves as a prompt to remind us that we ignore truth at our peril in an age when religious controversies will persist.»(Daniel Moulin, The Heythrop Journal 56, 2015)>BR>«Overall, this book is noteworthy for the broad sample of religious and cultural areas in which the central phenomenon of religious presence in the public sphere is explored. This clear and insightful volume should certainly help readers gain a deeper understanding of the issues in this debate, and provide the perspective needed in order to assess these difficult questions objectively.»(Ricardo-María Jiménez Yáñez, Corpora Vol. 12 1/2017)