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dc.contributor | Department of English | - |
dc.creator | Nartey, M | - |
dc.creator | Huang, H | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-18T03:03:25Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-18T03:03:25Z | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/80419 | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Language & Society, Research Committee 25 of the International Sociological Association | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2018 RC25 of the International Sociological Association, Language and Society | en_US |
dc.rights | Posted with permission of the publisher. | en_US |
dc.rights | The following publication Nartey, M., & Huang, H. (2018). Situated identities in the discourse of insurance : a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts. Language, discourse & society, 6 (2), 119-132 is available at https://www.language-and-society.org/volume-6-number-2-december-2018/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Critical discourse analysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Institutional discourse | en_US |
dc.subject | Insurance contract | en_US |
dc.subject | Positioning | en_US |
dc.subject | Situated identity | en_US |
dc.title | Situated identities in the discourse of insurance : a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts | en_US |
dc.type | Journal/Magazine Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 119 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 132 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 6 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en_US |
dcterms.abstract | This paper is a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts. It analyses the similarities and differences in the identities that emerge from the situatedness of the insured and the insurer in the contracts in order to determine the extent to which the sociocultural context within which the texts were conceived shape the texts. The study draws on the positioning theory and the notions of situated identity/situated meaning and is informed by analytic tools within critical discourse analysis. It found that in both the Chinese and British contracts, the insurer is linguistically and discursively situated as a powerful and resourceful ‘regulator’ (i.e. an active force) whereas the insured is mostly constructed in subjective and somewhat ‘weak/vulnerable’ terms. This similarity notwithstanding, the study found differences in terms of the kind of power relation, the level of formality or social distance and the dominant type of language evident in the two contracts. | - |
dcterms.accessRights | open access | en_US |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Language, discourse & society, Dec. 2018, v. 6, no. 2, p. 119-132 | - |
dcterms.isPartOf | Language, discourse & society | - |
dcterms.issued | 2018-12 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2239-4192 | en_US |
dc.description.validate | 201903 bcrc | en_US |
dc.description.oa | Version of Record | en_US |
dc.identifier.FolderNumber | a0288-n01 | en_US |
dc.description.pubStatus | Published | en_US |
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