Université de Fribourg

Kämpfen für die Sache Allahs : Zur Genese dschihadistischer Identitäten

Sheikhzadegan, Amir

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2020, vol. 1, no. 4, p. Article: 1.4

Despite the remarkable quantity and variety of the research on jihadist identities, the state of the research remains disparate and fragmented. That is why the insights gained only insufficiently contribute to a deepening of our understanding of this phenomenon. Such a convergence requires, in a first step, a systematization of the relevant theoretical models and studies. The present contribution...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

The Ethical Backlash of Corporate Branding

Palazzo, Guido ; Basu, Kunal

In: Journal of Business Ethics, 2007, vol. 73, no. 4, p. 333-346

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

The emergence of the identity of a fictional expert advice-giver in an American Internet advice column

Locher, Miriam A. ; Hoffmann, Sebastian

In: Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse Communication Studies, 2006, vol. 26, no. 1, p. 69-106

Université de Fribourg

Autochthony and activism among contemporary Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland, or: if ‘civic’ nationalists are ‘ethno’-cultural revivalists,what remains of the civic/ethnic divide?

Zenker, Olaf

In: Nations and Nationalism, 2009, vol. 15, no. 4, p. 696-715

This article argues for dissolving the civic–ethnic dichotomy into several analytical dimensions and suggests ‘autochthony’ and 'activism’ as two such alternatives. It does so by first presenting a case study of Irish language revivalism and identity discourses in the North of Ireland, in which locals turn out to be both ‘civic’ nationalists and ‘ethno’-cultural revivalists. The...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Parental discourse and identity management in the talk of indigenous and migrant speakers

Xenitidou, Maria ; Greco Morasso, Sara

In: Discourse & society, 2014, vol. 25, no. 1, p. 100-121

This article integrates discursive psychology and argumentation studies to discuss the regularities identified in two sets of data – focus group discussions amongst indigenous Greeks residing in Central Northern Greece and interviews with non-indigenous women with children, resident in the greater London area. The initial regularity identified consisted of participants talking as parents...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Auditing the identity of regional wine brands : the case of Swiss Merlot Ticino

Zamparini, Alessandra ; Lurati, Francesco ; Illia, Laura G.

In: International journal of wine business research, 2010, vol. 22, no. 4, p. 386-405

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a method by which to audit winemakers’ communication of regional wine brands and to illustrate the method’s conceptual basis through its empirical application to the Swiss wine Merlot Ticino. Design/Methodology/Approach – The audit is comprised of two parts: one captures producers’ intentions regarding the communication of the regional...