Pronominalization of social actors on universities’ websites: effectiveness and constitutiveness from a critical discourse analysis perspective

• Main Authors: Tharmalingam, Selvarajah, Al-Wedyan, Ali M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Macrothink Institute 2016
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/51798/1/Journal_of_Linguistics_Selva.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/51798/; http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijl/article/view/9639/pdf11
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Discursive construction of staff identities at universities’ websites is deliberately created to categorically identify the staff according to their positions. The constructions of these identities are normally implicit in nature. The study attempts to identify the power relations with regard to the...