Power in Language, Culture, Literature and Education

Werner Delanoy & Marta Degani
Power in Language, Culture, Literature and Education: Perspectives of English Studies


Part 1: Perspectives from English Linguistics

Alexander Onysko
Power to the Englishes? - Reflections on the Notion of Equality in World Englishes

Christopher Blake Shedd
Martin Luther King as a Wielder of Power. A Linguistic Analysis of Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Marta Degani
About Attributions of Power and Political Control: Crititical Reflections on Populism and its Challenges from Linguistic Perspectives

Vesna Lazovic
'Wherever You Go, Your Bank Travels with You': Personification as a Powerful Strategy in British and Serbian Online Bank Advertisements

Nikola Dobric & Günther Sigott
The Use of Error Profiles in Applied Linguistics - Empowering Language Instruction by Cataloguing Rating-negative Performance at the English Department, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Eva-Maria Graf, Frédérick Dionne & Melanie Fleischhacker
The Transformational Power of Questioning Practices in Coaching - Insights from Linguistic and Interdisciplinary Research

Part 2: Perspectives from Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

Alexa Weik von Mossner
The Power of Love: Reading The Silver Linings Playbook as Romantic Neuronovel

Marijana Mikic
Ecosocial Harm, Grief, and Communal Empowerment in Sherri L. Smith's Orleans

Carina Rasse
Feeling for Others: Environmental Justice, Emotion, and Moral Imagination in Lina Hogan's Solar Storms

Iris van der Horst
"I Am Husband Now in Master Frankford's Place": Abuse of Power in the Main Plot of Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness

Matthias Klestil
Unveiling Subjection, Practicing Subjectivation: Race, Power, and Strategies of Rewriting the Self in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

Ursula Posratschnig
The Story of Meat -

Marta Degani was appointed Associate Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Verona, Italy, in 2014 and currently also holds a position as Senior Scientist of English Linguistics at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Her current research focuses on the analysis of political discourse in the frameworks of cognitive semantics and critical discourse analysis, and the study of varieties of English and language contact in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Werner Delanoy is professor of English language education in the English Department at the University of Klagenfurt. His main areas of research are inter- and transcultural learning perspectives, cosmopolitanism and global citizenship education, English language education in a globalized modernity and contemporary British culture and literature.