Thin and thick narrative analysis

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaul R. Shenhav
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
White House ◽  
Short Statement ◽  
Political Narrative ◽  
Dual Perspective ◽  
Spatial Construction ◽  
Level Of Analysis

The article explores how we can define the concept of political narrative and looks at the implications in terms of analyzing political discourse. The examination of the various strategies used to define narrative, leads to the suggestion that, at least in the context of political narrative analysis, we need structural definitions that stress the barest minimum for terming a message a narrative. Basing on the proposed strategy to define narrative, the article suggests that narrative analysis should operate on two levels: the “thin” level and the “thick” level. The thin level relates to events and situations described in a discourse and their order of appearance in the text. “Thick level” of analysis, relates to everything included in the “narration” and the relation between the components of the thin narrative. The article examines these two levels of analysis in the context of a short statement by Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, at a photo opportunity in the White House. The analysis demonstrates how to apply a combination of thin and thick analysis to political discourse, and how this dual perspective makes a contribution to the study of spatial construction in narratives.

scholarly journals Metaphorical framing in political discourse through words vs. concepts: a meta-analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRITTA C. BRUGMAN ◽  
CHRISTIAN BURGERS ◽  
BARBARA VIS
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Framing Effects ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes ◽  
Level Of Analysis

abstractConceptual metaphor theory and other important theories in metaphor research are often experimentally tested by studying the effects of metaphorical frames on individuals’ reasoning. Metaphorical frames can be identified by at least two levels of analysis: words vs. concepts. Previous overviews of metaphorical-framing effects have mostly focused on metaphorical framing through words (metaphorical-words frames) rather than through concepts (metaphorical-concepts frames). This means that these overviews included only experimental studies that looked at variations in individual words instead of at the broader logic of messages. For this reason, we conducted a meta-analysis (k = 91, N = 34,783) to compare the persuasive impact of both types of metaphorical frames. Given that patterns of metaphor usage differ across discourse domains, and that effects may differ across modalities and discourse domains, we focused on one mode of presentation and one discourse domain only: verbal metaphorical framing in political discourse. Results showed that, compared to non-metaphorical frames, both metaphorical-words and metaphorical-concepts frames positively influenced beliefs and attitudes. Yet, these effects were larger for metaphorical-concepts frames. We therefore argue that future research should more explicitly describe and justify which level of analysis is chosen to examine the nature and effects of metaphorical framing.

Documents and Source Material

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Palestinian Authority ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The West ◽  
White House ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The Government ◽  
Source Materials

This section comprises international, Arab, Israeli, and U.S. documents and source materials, as well as an annotated list of recommended reports. Significant developments this quarter: In the international diplomatic arena, the UN Security Council approved Resolution 2334, reaffirming the illegality of Israeli settlements and calling for a return to peace negotiations. Additionally, former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry delivered a final address on the Israel-Palestine conflict, outlining a groundwork for negotiations. Two weeks later, international diplomats met in Paris to establish incentives for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to return to the negotiating table. Despite international discussions of peace talks and the impediment settlements pose to a two-state solution, the Israeli Knesset passed the controversial Regulation Law, enabling the government to retroactively legalize settlements and confiscate Palestinian land throughout the West Bank. Meanwhile, U.S. president Donald Trump took office on 20 January 2017, and he wasted no time before inviting Netanyahu to the White House for their first meeting, in February.

Microbrook, Mesobrook, Macrobrook

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Jilke ◽  
Asmus Leth Olsen ◽  
William Resh ◽  
Saba Siddiki
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Explicit Characterization ◽  
Methodological Perspective ◽  
Level Of Analysis ◽  
Effective Problem

Abstract This article assesses the field of public administration from a conceptual and methodological perspective. We urge public administration scholars to resolve the ambiguities that mire our scholarship due to the inadequate treatment of levels of analysis in our research. Overall, we encourage methodological accountability through a more explicit characterization of one’s research by the level of analysis to which it relates. We argue that this particular form of accountability is critical for effective problem solving for advancing theory and practice.

An Appeal to the People: Politeness Strategies in the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Maiden Speech

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nadia Anuar ◽  
Nurizah Md Ngadiran
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The People ◽  
Politeness Strategies

The use of politeness strategies has received increasing attention in the political discourse as a powerful persuasion tool. These strategies became critical for the newly appointed prime minister of Malaysia, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, to convince Malaysians that he is qualified to lead the country during a political upheaval and global pandemic. Thus, the objectives of this paper are to identify the types and frequency of the politeness strategies used by Muhyiddin Yassin in his maiden speech as the eighth prime minister of Malaysia. Two categories of politeness strategies based on Brown and Levinson’s (1987) were examined, which are negative strategies and positive strategies. The speech text was obtained from the official website of Prime Minister’s Office and was translated to English for analysis. The translated speech was subsequently checked for validity. Document analysis was used to analyse the translated speech text to determine the types and frequency of the politeness strategies. The analysis revealed that positive politeness strategies were significantly used (88%) compared to negative politeness strategies (12%). The most dominantly used positive politeness strategy was “notice and attend to the receiver’s need, interest, or want” while “use of exaggeration”, “seek agreement”, and “avoid disagreement” were the least used strategy. In contrast, “question” and “giving deference” were identified to be the most frequently used negative politeness strategy. The present study extends our knowledge on the use of politeness strategies in a political speech in an Asian setting, which is notably lacking in the literature.

The Oslo Accords: Their Context, Their Consequences

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Chomsky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
White House ◽  
Palestine Liberation Organization ◽  
Oslo Accords ◽  
The Press ◽  
Yasser Arafat ◽  
Political Settlement

In September 1993, United States President Bill Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn—capping off a “day of awe,” as the press described it with reverence. The occasion was the announcement of the Declaration of Principles (DOP) for political settlement of the Israel–Palestine conflict, which resulted from secret meetings in Oslo sponsored by the Norwegian government. This chapter examines the nature and significance of the Oslo Accords, and the consequences that flowed from them. It begins by reviewing highlights of the immediate background that set the context for the negotiations. It then turns to the DOP and the consequences of the Oslo process, which extends to the present, adding a few words on lessons that should be learned.

Personification in discourse: Linguistic forms, conceptual structures and communicative functions

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aletta G. Dorst
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Integral Model ◽  
Identification Procedure ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Step Procedure ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Drawing on examples from a corpus of 14 excerpts from novels, this article aims to present a systematic investigation of the different linguistic forms, conceptual structures and communicative functions of personification in discourse. The Metaphor Identification Procedure (Pragglejaz Group, 2007) and Steen’s five-step procedure (1999, 2009) will be used to present an integral model distinguishing between linguistic, conceptual, and communicative levels of analysis. The influence of linguistic realization, conventionality, deliberateness, metonymy, and stylistic effects will be considered and it will be demonstrated that studying personifications in discourse raises different issues at each level of analysis. As a result, the question whether something should count as a personification may yield a different answer for each level.

U.S. Recognition of Golan Heights Annexation: Testament to Our Times

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Victor Kattan
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
General Election ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
White House ◽  
International Legal Order

On 25 March 2019, U.S. president Donald Trump signed a proclamation recognizing the occupied Golan Heights as part of Israel. The Golan Heights proclamation, which endorses Israel's annexation of the territory captured from Syria in the 1967 war, was issued two weeks before the Israeli general election in a photo-op with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Undermining internationally agreed-upon norms prohibiting states from recognizing the annexation of territory by force, the proclamation could have detrimental consequences for the international legal order, providing a precedent for other states to take steps to annex territory they claim is necessary for their defense.

scholarly journals Language and Power Nexus: A Critical Study of Pakistani Political Discourse

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Ayyaz Qadeer ◽  
Wasima Shehzad
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Language And Power ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Masses

The present study presents a critical view of the speech delivered on May 09, 2011 by the prime-minister of Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gillani. Following the language of the political discourse, this speech is delivered in the parliament house in front of the speaker, but is meant for the masses. The position of the speaker remains uniform as the questions are asked in the end alone. However, the speech is meant for both the addressee present at the time of the speech, and the assumed masses. It was found out the pronouns we, our, were constantly used to shift the responsibility on Al-Qaida whereas “I” was used for authority in order to digress the discussion from the topic. The pronouns and the vocabulary together establish the in-group or out-group category. The solidarity is shown towards the masses to get their support and defense is shown towards the allies who are accusing the government of fraud and nefarious ploy. Mystification is performed at a number of places to hide truth and claim the truth alternatively.

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