Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Language, Context and Text: The Social Semiotics Forum
Volume Number: 6
Issue Number: 1
Issue Date: 05/09/2024

Subtitle: Special Issue: Moving towards Peace, Compassion and Empathy through Semiotic Enquiry

Main Text:

2024. vi, 225 pp.

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editors’ note
p. 1

Articles

Moving towards peace, compassion and empathy through semiotic enquiry
Awni Etaywe, Elizabeth A. Thomson & Ingrid Wijeyewardene | pp. 2–26

peace

Constructing resistance in the quest for social justice: A study of a fracturing in Thai hegemony
Ingrid Wijeyewardene | pp. 27–59

Acknowledging dispossession: A CDA/PDA perspective on discourse dealing with unceded land
J. R. Martin & Priscilla Angela T. Cruz | pp. 60–87

compassion

Compassion as appraisal, performative identity and moral affiliation: A corpus perspective and digital activist strategic communication analysis
Awni Etaywe | pp. 88–121

Feeling, thinking, acting: An intersemiotic study of empathy and compassion in vegan discourse
Daniel Lees Fryer | pp. 122–145

empathy

Empathic listening as a social semiotic practice within the tradition of Nonviolent Communication: A systemic functional analysis of choices in the systems of theme and information status
Elizabeth A. Thomson | pp. 146–175

From empathy to activism: An analysis of a letter to the Minister which resulted in successful outcomes for a person with severe intellectual disability and their family
Shoshana Dreyfus & Joshua Han | pp. 176–199

The place of feelings: Empathetic discourse as a strategy for trade union organising
Claudia Ortu | pp. 200–218

Book review

Andy Curtis. 2022. The new peace linguistics and the role of language in conflict
Reviewed by Awni Etaywe | pp. 219–225

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics