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Fortifying the otherness in Montenegrin political discourse Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Sanja Ćetković
Following the 2020 elections, Montenegro has experienced an upsurge in ‘patriotic’ political activism, largely supported by the party that lost control of the parliament after three decades of uncontested rule. The continuity and uniqueness of the Montenegrin dual identity, where the categories of Serb and Montenegrin are not mutually exclusive, have been undermined by nationalist aspirations to portray
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Reporting assassinations in the Ethiopian press Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Berhanu Asfaw Weldemikael
This paper aims at analyzing the reporting of assassinations in the Ethiopian press from a discourse analytical perspective. The study attempted to answer three questions: 1) How are assassinations represented in the press? 2) What identities are set up for those involved in the assassinations? And, finally, how is meaning communicated in various discursive structures and communicative events? To that
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Book review: Rowan R Mackay, Multimodal Legitimation: Understanding and Analysing Political and Cultural Discourse Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ico Maly
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Sustaining or overcoming distance in representations of U.S. drone strikes Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 John Oddo, Cameron Mozafari, Alexandra Kirsch
This article examines how U.S. news reports sustain or overcome distance between domestic audiences and the victims of U.S. drone strikes overseas. More specifically, we explain how language is used to construe distance in two different news stories about the same drone strike, enacting different political and affective relationships between Americans and the Pakistani victims of U.S. war. Drawing
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Thinking different as an act of resistance: Reconceptualizing the German protests in the COVID-19 pandemic as an emergent counter-knowledge order Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Florian Primig
Massive anti-government protests erupted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. The crisis activated a potential for resistance that has been simmering under the impositions of late-modern knowledge society. Made salient by the pandemic conditions of sudden extreme reliance on scientific (non) knowledge, the corona protestors activated this potential for resistance and constructed their own counter-knowledge
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Book review: William Simpson, Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Alberto Bruzos
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Levelling, differentiation and structure of feeling: Address and interlocutor reference in Indonesian political interviews Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Dwi Noverini Djenar
This article discusses the ways in which participants in Indonesian political interviews address and refer to each other. Drawing on Raymond Williams’s concept ‘structures of feeling’, it proposes levelling and differentiation as mechanisms by which interview participants orient to a common feeling. Levelling and differentiation form a dialectical process characterised by tension that emerges through
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‘Never have they had any chance to spread their wings’: The construction of agency and socio-gender identity of Iranian women Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Ali Basarati, Reza Kazemian
This paper intends to study how the agency and social-gender identity of Iranian women are constructed through social-cultural-political structures. To this end, we conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with Iranian citizens, both men and women in the context of the Zan-Zendegi-Azadi (Women-Life-Freedom) movement in Iran. This study is grounded upon the main tenets of Positive Discourse Analysis
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Speech act of flaming: A pragmatic analysis of Twitter trolling in Pakistan Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Kiran Rabbani, Muhammad Asim Mehmood, Areej Areej
This study analyzed twitter trolling as a speech act of flaming. Trolling are deliberate disruptive practices of individuals or of particular group to sensationalize, commoditize, or intensify the reaction in online communication. Twitter API account was used to collect the tweets generated in Pakistan in English. The tweets were manually annotated with the help of a framework proposed by the Nitin
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Understanding emotions in hate speech: A methodology for discourse analysis Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Manuel Alcántara-Plá
In recent years, emotions have been receiving considerable attention in discourse analysis, identified as a defining feature of contemporary political discourses. However, most of the previous studies in the field have focused on the categorization of emotions and on how these are present in texts. This approach fails if we want to understand the mechanisms that underpin the relevance of emotions in
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The potential of creative uses of metonymy for climate protest Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Niamh A O’Dowd
This paper develops the notion of metonymy scenarios by exploring the social and cognitive dimensions of various creative uses of metonymy in a collection of digital banners created for the Global Climate Strike movement. The paper argues that the banners exploit existing metonymic relationships to activate dominant anthropocentric discourses in society, and to subvert them via processes of recontextualisation
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Toward integrative triangulation in discourse-historical approach Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Xuri Tang, Jing Li
This paper proposes a novel mode of Discourse-Historical Approach that features integrative triangulation of quantitative and qualitative analyses. The integrative triangulation is achieved by following a rule-bound and systematic discourse analytic procedure with rules derived from a diachronic discourse model that is constructed by explicating premises in the Discourse-Historical Approach, and by
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Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability. Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Elena Semino,Tara Coltman-Patel,William Dance,Zsófia Demjén,Claire Hardaker
Experimental studies have shown that narratives can be effective persuasive tools in addressing vaccine hesitancy, including regarding the vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is transmitted via sexual contact and can cause cervical cancer. This paper presents an analysis of a thread from the online parenting forum Mumsnet Talk where an initially undecided Original Poster is persuaded
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(De)legitimation of COVID-19 vaccination narratives on Facebook comments in Romania: Beyond the co-occurrence patterns of discursive strategies. Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Camelia Cmeciu
The postmodern medical paradigm has empowered online users in the (de)legitimating process of health-related topics. By employing a co-occurrence analysis, this study identifies the thematic patterns used by Romanian online users in their multimodal comments to the #storiesfromvaccination Facebook campaign run by the Romanian government. The findings show that the commenters assessed source credibility
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Dispatching First Responders: Language Practices and the Dispatcher’s Operational Role in Radio Encounters With Police Officers Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Steven E Clayman, Heidi Kevoe-Feldman
The delivery of emergency services is often contingent on social processes launched when someone calls to request help. While initial encounters between civilian callers and institutional call-take...
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‘[P]aying back to the community and to the British people’: Migration as transactional discourse in curated stories by UK charity organisations Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Sofia Lampropoulou, Paige Johnson
This study explores migrant identity construction in the curated stories of UK-based charity organisations. Drawing upon the paradigms of critical discourse analysis and narrative positioning, we d...
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‘Relatively civilized, relatively European’: Offence and online (de)normalization of media racism Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Thulfiqar Hussein Altahmazi, Raith Zeher Abid
The paper explores the interplay of offence, (de)normalization and moral conflict triggered by media racism. The paper is premised on the assumption that public interventions to moral transgression...
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Reacting to homophobia in a French online discussion: The fuzzy boundaries between heteronormativity and homophobia Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Simo Määttä, Samuel Vernet
This article analyzes how participants of an online discussion thread related to a YouTube video on homophobia expressed their opposition to homophobia. Both the video and the 403 posts in the disc...
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Misogyny in election discourse: Analysing the 2019 General Elections in India Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Aparna Vincent, Ria Kumari
This article examines misogynist comments on women politicians as part of the campaign discourse for the 2019 General Elections in India. The objective is to understand and critically examine the b...
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‘Language’, power and liberty: Discursive constructions of Ghanaian glossolalic speeches Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Samuel Gyasi Obeng, Seth Antwi Ofori
Unlike xenoglossia (xenolalia), which involves speaking a language one has neither learned nor could have acquired naturally, glossolalia (ecstatic speech) is the uttering of ‘incomprehensible’ str...
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Super, social, medical: Person-first and identity-first representations of disabled people in Australian newspapers, 2000–2019 Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Amanda Potts, Monika A Bednarek, Annmaree Watharow
This paper provides an interdisciplinary, corpus-based study of naming practices for disabled people in a collection of Australian newspaper articles spanning 20 years. We analyse head nouns, modif...
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Illegitimation of same-sex sexualities in news reports of selected Nigerian newspapers Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Olubunmi Funmi Oyebanji
Nigeria has stringent legislation against same-sex identified people and their supporters. Scholarly attention on same-sex relationships in the Nigerian context has mainly been on the legalistic an...
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If not a ‘macho’, then who did it? Social actors and the violence of Mexico Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Justyna Tomczak-Boczko
The article examines how the Mexicans represent in their discourse the perpetrators of everyday violence. Ethnographic data that I collected during in-depth interviews recorded in Guadalajara, Mexi...
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Why do we need a sociocognitive-CDA in hate speech studies? A corpus-based systematic review Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Ahmad Sirulhaq, Untung Yuwono, Abdul Muta’ali
This article is a systematic review of previous research on hate speech in discourse studies indexed in the Scopus database in the last five years, from 2015 to 2021. This review aims to map the ma...
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‘Like the virus just brings out the worst in people’: Positioning and identity in student narratives during the Covid-19 outbreak in Australia Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Anikó Hatoss
This paper illustrates how superdiverse youth negotiate their identity in everyday interactions during Australia’s Covid-19 outbreak. The discussion is based on oral narratives collected from class...
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An empirical study on court-related mediator’s discourse strategies from the perspective of proximization: Based on a workplace injury pretrial mediation case Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Xianbing Ke, Shiqian Zou
Court-related mediation is proceeded by verbal negotiation to shorten the distance of both parties involved for the final fulfillment of dispute resolution and social harmony. Based on the transcri...
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Kindness in British communities: Discursive practices of promoting kindness during the Covid pandemic Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Jilan Wei
This research adopts Critical Discourse Analysis as a perspective to explore how kindness was expressed and promoted in university communities and city communities from January to March in 2020 whe...
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A multimodal discourse study of selected COVID-19 online public health campaign texts in Nigeria Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Tunde Ope-Davies (Opeibi), Mojisola Shodipe
This paper discusses web-based public health discursive practices during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Nigeria. It utilises a multimodal discourse approach to explore how a combination of ...
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Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19 Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Umair Munir Hashmi, Sultan Saleh Ahmed Almekhlafy, Mohamed Elarabawy Hashem, Muhammad Shahzad, Hassam Ahmad Hashmi, Rabia Munir, Bibi Hajira Ali Asghar
This study attempts to generate new insights into the wide spread online and offline conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19. Twofold analytical lens consisted of narrative interrelations framework an...
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Whose Satan? U.S. mainstream media depictions of The Satanic Temple Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Ramón Escamilla
Based on a corpus of 40 U.S. news articles and transcribed news videos, I bring together techniques from Critical Discourse Analysis with concepts from cognitive linguistics in analyzing mainstream...
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Changing concepts of greenhouse gas expressions: Discursive specialization in parliamentary discourses on climate change Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Anje Müller Gjesdal, Gisle Andersen
Global environmental change has provoked changes in how humans experience and perceive their relationship to nature. Such conceptual changes can be observed through language use, and specifically l...
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‘Nothing Can Stop What’s Coming’: An analysis of the conspiracy theory discourse on 4chan’s /Pol board Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Bradley Wiggins
This article presents evidence of a conspiracy theory discourse on the anonymous messaging board 4chan, specifically /pol as in politically incorrect. Previous research shows 4chan lacks a coherent...
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Discursive construction of migrant otherness on Facebook: A distributional semantics approach Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Victoria Yantseva
This work aims to study the construction of migrant categories and immigration discourse on Swedish-speaking Facebook pages in the last decade. It combines the insights from computational linguisti...
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‘Noticias no son noticias, ¿no?’: Mexican perspectives on violence in the media and the war on drugs Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Jamie A Thomas
Explicit images and descriptions of violent death are typical within the Mexican media landscape, and especially within the context of the War on Drugs. Here, I share observations of my encounters ...
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Orchestration of perspectives in televised climate change debates Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Søren Beck Nielsen
Previous research has tied the journalistic norm of ‘balance’ to an overarching tendency to polarize the climate debate between realists and contrarians. This study uses conversation analysis to ad...
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Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes in Oman Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Najma Al Zidjaly
In this paper, the form and function of personalized Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes created and shared as social laments by citizens in Oman are examined. The compiled data set of 288 WhatsApp sti...
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Alternative ‘Lives Matter’ formulations in online discussions about Black Lives Matter: Use, support and resistance Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Simon Goodman, Vanessa Tafi, Adrian Coyle
Throughout its history, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has elicited strong opposition that risks stifling anti-racist progress. This paper examines how support for BLM is argued about and ch...
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Cartooning and sexism in the time of Covid-19: Metaphors and metonymies in the Arab mind Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Ahmed Abdel-Raheem
Using a large-scale corpus of 706 coronavirus cartoons by male and female Arab artists, this study takes a fresh and more cognitive look at sexism in multimodal discourse. Specifically, it examines...
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Marginal voices: Exploring presence and participation in interaction in child protection conferences Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Eleanor Lutman-White, Jo Angouri
Child protection conferences are key meetings in the social work child protection process in England. They provide the context where decisions are made about how best to safeguard and promote the w...
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Historical explanations in the Rettig Report: The role of interpersonal grammatical metaphors Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Claudia Castro, Teresa Oteíza
This article explores different realizations of modality meanings in Spanish written language and their contribution to dialogic positionings in the field of the historical explanations provided in...
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Look, Dude: How hyperpartisan and non-hyperpartisan speech differ in online commentary Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Allison Nguyen, Tom Roberts, Pranav Anand, Jean E Fox Tree
Identifying the characteristics of hyperpartisan communication that make it so amenable to sharing is crucial to combating the spread of misinformation. We analyzed a corpus of hyperpartisan and no...
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The gendered semiotics of far-right populism on Instagram: A case from Spain Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 David Divita
Perhaps more than any other online social-networking platform, Instagram facilitates the construction and management of public image, serving as a potentially effective tool for political actors; n...
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The normalisation of the far right in the Dutch media in the run-up to the 2021 general elections Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Léonie de Jonge, Elizaveta Gaufman
Although there is widespread agreement in the literature that the media play an instrumental role in furthering or limiting the spread of right-wing populism, there are few studies that examine the micro-mechanisms at play that facilitate the normalisation of the far right in and by the media. This contribution seeks to redress that gap. Focussing in particular on the Netherlands, we trace the ways
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Reporting the news: How Breitbart derives legitimacy from recontextualised news Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Jason Roberts, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
The alternative right-wing news website Breitbart has been a subject of increased academic scrutiny following the election of Donald Trump as U.S. President in 2016. Due to its prominence during the campaign, where it became the most significant news website within the conservative media sphere. Breitbart remains highly influential within the conservative media sphere, particularly as a result of its
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Debating the legal recognition of gender identity in parliamentary discourse: Human rights and queer politics Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Ioannis Michos, Lia Figgou, Aphrodite Baka
This study documented the rhetorical constructions of ‘human rights’ in political discourse and the potential implications of their invocation as a frame for LGBTQI+ claims. The minutes of the VI Greek Parliamentary session on a bill related to the legal recognition of gender identity, conducted in 2017, were analyzed. Analysis utilized the concepts of Rhetorical and Critical Discursive Social Psychology
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Public pedagogies in post-literate cultures Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Phil Graham, Harry Dugmore
In this paper we present a perspective on normalisation that turns on public pedagogies; that is, on ambient, ever-present systems of mediated experience that consciously teach ways of seeing, evaluating, acting, and reacting. Our perspective is further focused by theories of literacy and utopianism. It takes the view that we are in, or at least fast moving towards, post-literate cultures for which
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The normalization of far-right populism and nativist authoritarianism: discursive practices in media, journalism and the wider public sphere/s Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Michał Krzyżanowski, Mats Ekström
This article postulates broadening as well as deepening the agenda for critical research on the role of discursive practices in media, journalism and the wider public sphere/s in normalization of far-right populism and nativist authoritarianism. Our argument is that, on the rise since the early 2000s and especially from the 2010s onwards, authoritarian and nativist populism has posed some very significant
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Shameless normalization as a result of media control: The case of Austria Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Ruth Wodak
Far-right populist parties instrumentalize the media and intervene into processes of mediatization in significantly different ways, depending on socio-political contexts, their position of power, their role in government or opposition and – related to the latter – their specific access to media. In this paper, I focus on one of the many ways propagandistic tools are employed to control the relevant
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Narrating the ‘new normal’ or pre-legitimising media control? COVID-19 and the discursive shifts in the far-right imaginary of ‘crisis’ as a normalisation strategy Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Michał Krzyżanowski, Natalia Krzyżanowska
This article highlights how the recent discourse of ‘the new normal’ – re-initiated and widely used in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in national and international media and political discourse – marks the advent of a new approach to ‘crisis’ in the normalisation of far-right populist politics. Drawing on the example of the analysis of ‘policy communication’ genres pre-legitimising the Polish
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Critical analysis of dehumanizing news photographs on immigrants: Examples of the portrayal of non-citizenship Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 María Martínez Lirola
This paper analyses the main visual characteristics of sub-Saharan immigrants represented as non-citizens in a sample from the Spanish press, and deepens on how this contributes to perpetuating the ‘we-they’ dichotomy. The data consist of all the news items published on sub-Saharan immigrants in the digital editions of the Spanish newspapers El País and ABC from 1 January 2016 to 1 January 2021. Kress
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Friends, enemies, and agonists: Politics, morality and media in the COVID-19 conjuncture Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Sean Phelan
The radical democratic theorist Chantal Mouffe has long criticized the moralization of politics in its neoliberalized Third Way form. The argument informs her analysis of the rise of the far right, which she suggests has partly been enabled by moralizing antagonisms that inhibit a culture of agonistic political contestation. This paper uses Mouffe to think about the current condition of mediatized
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An analysis of self-other representations in the incelosphere: Between online misogyny and self-contempt Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo
The present study intends to contribute to the analysis of digital discursive practices of hate speech expressed throughout the so-called ‘Manosphere’, a group of online communities in which men express their considerations about masculinity. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis, it investigates how one of the main Manosphere groups, the Incels, creates its in-group/out-group discourse through
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News media and the politics of fear: Normalization and contrastive discourses in the reporting on terrorist attacks in Sweden and the UK Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Mats Ekström, Marianna Patrona, Joanna Thornborrow
This paper provides a comparative critical discourse analysis of news discourse on terrorism with respect to the coverage by two Swedish and two UK broadsheet newspapers of the terrorists attacks that took place in Stockholm and in London respectively in the year 2017. The research goal is to investigate the type of discourses mobilized that help enact a ‘politics of fear’, and to compare the constitutive
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Worthiness, unity, numbers and commitment: Strengthening qualitative corpus methods in the critical discourse analysis of protest press coverage Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Charlotte-Rose Kennedy
The increasingly used method of corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has recently been criticised for lacking identifiable and accountable methods in its qualitative analyses. For example, manual concordance analysis (a popular corpus technique involving the ‘close reading’ of text) rarely explicates the qualitative method involved – that is, if any has been used at all. This article seeks
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The abnormalisation of social justice: The ‘anti-woke culture war’ discourse in the UK Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Bart Cammaerts
In this article, the so-called ‘anti-woke’ culture war is deconstructed through the notions of metapolitics in fascist discourses – linked to the Gramscian ‘hegemonisation’ and ‘the war of position’ – as well as the Schmittian friend/enemy distinction coupled with theories of deviance and moral panics. The appropriation of the neo-fascist culture war discourse by the mainstream right in the UK is analysed
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Occupying the streets, occupying words. Reframing new feminisms through reappropriation Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Manuela Romano
This paper presents a Critical and Socio-Cognitive analysis of protest discourse as created in slogans for feminist rallies taking place in Spain (2017–2020). The study focuses on the discursive evolution of the term manada (‘wolfpack’), from its origins as a metonymy to refer to a gang rape taking place in the San Fermín bullfighting celebration of July 2016, to its reappropriation by feminists to
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The intertextuality and interdiscursivity of “mirroring” in South Korean cyberfeminist posts Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Sunyoung Yang, Kathy Lee
This study examines the phenomenon of “mirroring” used by Womad, a cyberfeminist community in South Korea. Mirroring involves the reversal of gender to spotlight misogynist practices that might otherwise go unnoticed. To better understand mirroring, we introduce selected posts from Ilbe, a male-dominant online forum, known for denigrating Korean women and then analyze Womad’s posts on similar topics
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‘Wrap our arms around them here in Ireland’: Social media campaigns in the Irish abortion referendum Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Simon Statham, Helen Ringrow
The 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which codified a near-absolute ban on abortion in Ireland, was ratified in 1983 and removed after a high profile campaign to ‘Repeal the 8th’ in 2018. This article analyses the language of the pro-choice group Together for Yes and the anti-choice groups Love Both and Pro-Life Ireland that campaigned to ‘Save the 8th’. We combine an application of the Appraisal
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Constructing COVID-19: A corpus-informed analysis of prime ministerial crisis response communication by gender Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Kate Power, Peter Crosthwaite
This paper compares Australian and New Zealand Prime Ministers’ crisis response communication about COVID-19. We examine how gender performativity and contextual factors contribute to each leader’s discursive ‘style’ at the lexical level, and explore micro-diachronic changes as the pandemic unfolded. Informed by corpus linguistics approaches, we analysed written texts published on each leader’s website
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‘It was Never Just About the Statue’: Ethos of historical figures in public debates on contested cultural objects Discourse & Society (IF 1.507) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Martín Pereira-Fariña, Marcin Koszowy, Katarzyna Budzynska
Collective, historical memory becomes increasingly important in public debates on cultural heritage across many countries. Their key elements are contested cultural objects – such as statues or memorials – which construct nations’ memory that governs societal processes such as decolonisation or de-Stalinization. This paper analyses arguments about five such objects in UK, US, South Africa, Poland and