On August 25, 2017, student members of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a right-wing conservative organization who advocates for smaller government and free market enterprise, recruited on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) campus. Members of the UNL community protested nearby. Part of the protest was recorded on video and released to social media leading to harsh public criticism that accused the university of restricting free speech and being an unsafe environment for conservative students. Drawing on cognitive linguistics (e.g. metonymy, framing) and multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA), this paper explores how the TPUSA incident at UNL was recontextualized in local and national media discourse, the ways in which the social actors and events were framed, and its consequences. The authors show how these representations reinforce dominant neoliberal discourses (which correlate with right-wing discourses) that negatively impact public education, providing a necessary counter to a populist political climate in which anti-intellectualism reigns.

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错过（转折）点

2017 年 8 月 25 日，美国转折点 (TPUSA) 的学生成员在内布拉斯加大学林肯分校 (UNL) 校园招募，该组织是一个倡导小型政府和自由市场企业的右翼保守组织。UNL 社区的成员在附近抗议。部分抗议被录制成视频并发布到社交媒体上，导致公众严厉批评该大学限制言论自由并为保守派学生提供不安全的环境。本文利用认知语言学（例如转喻、框架）和多模态批判话语分析（MCDA），探讨了 UNL 的 TPUSA 事件如何在地方和国家媒体话语中重新语境化，社会参与者和事件的框架方式，以及其后果。