This study focusses on a sample of NGO web texts and of UN documents in order to question the compatibility of the discourse of children’s rights with violations of legal principles such as the equal protection of the law. Lexical collocations, modality patterns and text-type configurations are explored within a framework of language as social action.

Pro-social Advocacy on the Web: The Case of Street Children.

CORTESE, Giuseppina
2004-01-01

Abstract

This study focusses on a sample of NGO web texts and of UN documents in order to question the compatibility of the discourse of children’s rights with violations of legal principles such as the equal protection of the law. Lexical collocations, modality patterns and text-type configurations are explored within a framework of language as social action.
2004
Intercultural Aspects of Specialized Communication
Peter Lang
283
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9783039103522
discourse analysis; English linguistics; intercultural conflict; linguistic construction of identity; genre; stance; corpus linguistics; concordancing; human rights; children's rights
G. CORTESE
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