A linguistic analysis of diplomatic discourse : UN resolutions on the question of Palestine / by Germana D'Acquisto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Acquisto, Germana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestine question (1948-).

Discourse analysis--Political aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (138 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

This book explores the language used by the United Nations Resolutions on the Question of Palestine. The corpus used in this analysis includes sixty-six Security Council Resolutions (2965 words) and forty General Assembly Resolutions (2529 words) from 1948 to 2006 related to the most relevant events of the conflict. In particular, the study investigates the role of the English verbal system in relation to modality in the institutional language of the United Nations and the different pragmatic purposes of its normative text types, taking into account the communicative interaction between the legal authority, the United Nations, and the addressees, Member States and the International Community. It discusses the use of prescriptive and performative verbs used to express different degrees of obligation in the United Nations documents.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Concluding Remarks

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4438-7485-X

OCLC:

990754739