scholarly journals On Some Political Euphemisms in the Post-Truth Era (a Case Study of the English Language)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
O. V. Koretskaya
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
Taboo Words ◽  
Linguistic Means

Th paper focuses on the euphemisms “terminological inexactitude”, “to be economical with the truth” and “alternative facts” in English political discourse of the post-truth era. Ths period is characterised by certain linguistic means, and euphemisation plays an important role here. It is shown that in the post-truth era, where borders between truth and lies are blurred, these euphemisms synonymous with the nouns “lie” are of particular relevance in political communication. Th euphemism “terminological inexactitude” still serves as a metaphor of lying originally determined by speech etiquette and historical traditions, which is the case, for example, during the debates in the British parliament, where there is an offial list of taboo words and expressions referred to as unparliamentary language. However, the other two euphemisms partly change their functionality. In the post-truth world, the expressions “economical with the truth” and “alternative facts” are used by the speaker to deliberately distort reality and conceal the truth rather than to follow the rules of politically correct speech.

scholarly journals Understanding Teachers’ Integration of Moodle in EFL Classrooms: A Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yasir Al Yafaei ◽  
Rais Attamimi
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
College Of Technology ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Working Mechanisms

The study explores the integration and implementation of the Moodle platform at the English Language Center of the Salalah College of Technology. To achieve this purpose, a qualitative, interpretive approach with a case study research design was used to collect the data and to deepen our understanding of the phenomena and how it was constructed in social reality of the school.Two teachers have been chosen to be the interviewees, to give their opinions and views on the topic under study, and the factors affecting both the implementation and integration of the Moodle programme. It was evident from the narratives of the two interviewees that the integration of Moodle was successful, and that it has proven to be a useful tool in the teaching and learning processes of English. In spite of some existing factors that may hinder the working mechanisms of the implementation and integration of Moodle, it may be concluded that this platform could be recommended to be extended to the other skills of the English language that it currently does not support. Following this process will inevitably improve the comprehension and production of the English language and related materials, online and real, respectively.

scholarly journals Humor in Ukrainian political discourse

2019 ◽  
pp. 112-121
Author(s):  
Nataliia Kondratenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Political Humor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communicative Strategy ◽  
Linguistic Means

The research focuses on the problem of humor in Ukrainian political discourse, which is interpreted as a manifestation of human activity. The peculiarities of the combination of political and game discourses in Ukrainian political communication were clarified, which resulted in the active use of humorous components in the speeches of politicians. Linguistic means of expression of humor in posts on social networks and speeches of Ukrainian politicians are analyzed. The purpose of our study is to investigate linguistic means of humor representation as the main manifestation of comic relief in Ukrainian political discourse. The purpose was to solve the following tasks: to outline the concept of political discourse in terms of the game concept of communicative activity; to analyze political genres in the speech of Ukrainian politicians; identify the linguistic features of political trolling; to find out the specifics of humor in the Ukrainian political discourse. The material of the research was the statements, speeches and posts in the social networks of famous Ukrainian politicians (L. Kravchuk, P. Poroshenko, V. Zelensky, Yu. Tymoshenko, U. Suprun etc.). Political humor is a communicative strategy in communicating politicians with one another and with ordinary citizens, and is a form of protection and distance from political problems. The appearance of a comic effect in communicative interaction depends on the intensity of the speaker and the extralinguistic factors. The main expressions of political humor are jokes, jokes and trolling. Trolling is featured in social media posts and aimed at ridiculing political opponents. The specificity of the Ukrainian political humor in the linguopragmatic aspect is provocative, irony and personal addressing of speech.

scholarly journals Oppositions and their Member Nominations in the Conflict Communication Discourse of Rolandas Paksas (2003–2004)

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (28) ◽  
pp. 118-130
Author(s):  
Vilma Linkevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Culture Conflict ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Conflict Communication ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Linguistic Means

The object of this article is the linguistic means of political conflict communication that are characteristic of the political discourse of the former President of the Republic of Lithuania, Rolandas Paksas (2003–2004). In modern democratic societies, political life is founded upon the actions of political parties, their duly elected leaders, and various political ideologies. In this context, political discourse, which records a variety of opinions and, frequently, their conflict, becomes an inseparable element of political culture. Conflict communication in political discourse may be perceived as the main research object of political linguistics, because the attack and winning of governmental positions occur in the context of the conflict of various political forces. That conflict is expressed through discourse. The aim of this study is to analyze how conflict communication was manifested in Lithuania during the period from 2003 to 2004. In political communication, an initial situation of verbal and non-verbal actions can become a source of conflict, while disapproval of such a situation is verbalized in political communication. Any individual who wants to influence political events becomes the subject of such communication. Moreover, this article discloses the fact that linguistic means are closely related to the ideology of the speaker and linguistic practices are conditioned by culture.

scholarly journals RETHINKING POPULIST DISCOURSE FROM LATIN AMERICA: ALGORITHMIC ACTIVISM AND THE CONSTITUTION OF A PEOPLE IN CHILE

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 469-490
Author(s):  
Juan Eduardo Bonnin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American History ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The People

ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to explore some of the ideological and empirical limits of studies on populism from a perspective based on Latin American history and theories, on one hand, and current ideas about digitalization and political discourse, on the other. I will first argue that studies on populism have a monolingual bias that conceals an ethnocentric view on academic research. As a consequence, when the term “populism” is applied to Latin American political discourse and history, it implies a pejorative view on democracies other than liberal European. Leaving aside this perspective, I will then present a different view of Latin American populisms, which allows for a richer, more complex perspective, including the key role of “the people” as a discursive actor that can even dispense with a populist leader, especially in the case of mediatized democracies. As a case study, I will analyze activism in Chile by observing Twitter’s Trending Topics (TT) during the first week of the mass protests in October 2019. The analysis of TT hashtags helped us to better desccribe this process as one of handcrafted algorithmic activism which developed at least four tactics: the formulation of explicit demands, off-hours tweetstorms, syntagmatic variation, and HT confrontation and appropriation.

scholarly journals IMPOLITE READER RESPONSES ON ONLINE NEWS COMMENTS IN VIVA.CO.ID

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia Rizana ◽  
Sri Minda Murni ◽  
T. Thyrhaya Zein
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political News ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Taboo Words ◽  
Identity Markers

The objective of this study was to discover the realizations of impolite utterances used by the readers as their responses on online news comments in viva.co.id news site. The study was conducted by using qualitative descriptive which case study was used in order to describe the impolite readers responses in viva.co.id news site. The data of this study were words, phrases, clauses and sentences consist of impolite reader response on online news comments in viva.co.id which the data were taken from 22  titles of political news about Basuki Cahaya Purnama . The data were the reader’s utterances on online news comments in political news in order to find out the recurrence and the pattern of the data based on the problem of the study. It was found that impolite utterances were realized by online news readers through disinterested, unconcerned, unsymphatetic; inappropriate identity markers; abscure or secretive language; seek disagreement; taboo words; call the other names; frighten; condescend, scorn of ridicule; negative personalize; disassociate from others and insult. Keywords: Impolite Utterances, Realization of Impoliteness 

scholarly journals Discourse marker well in natural and political discourses: ambivalence and bifunctionality

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Е.Л. Кабахидзе
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discourse Marker ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
Pragmatic Markers ◽  
The One

Устный модус дискурса невозможно представить без богатого репертуара дискурсивных маркеров, для которых характерна ослабленность денотата, с одной стороны, и наполненность прагматическими функциями — с другой. Для выявления особенностей функционирования прагматических маркеров в политическом дискурсе и моделирования макро- и микрофункций дискурсивных маркеров были проанализированы метатекстовые и межличностные функции маркеров, разработанные в трудах отечественных и зарубежных исследователей, и на их основе, а также с учетом лексикографических источников, представлены макро- и микрофункции дискурсивных маркеров в политическом дискурсе. Проведенный анализ позволил выявить новые функции, которые получают ряд дискурсивных маркеров (you know, I mean), в том числе рассматриваемый маркер well в связи с манипулятивной природой политической коммуникации. Данные функции играют важную роль в создании альтернативной действительности и неопределенности, свойственных политической коммуникации. В исследовании представлен подробный анализ функций маркера well с дискурсивно-прагматических позиций на материале телеинтервью Д. Трампа. It is impossible to imagine the existence of the oral mode of discourse which would not include a rich variety of discourse markers. The distinctive feature of discourse markers is weak denotation on the one hand, and explicit pragmatic functions on the other. To identify peculiarities of pragmatic markers functioning in a political discourse and for the purpose of designing their macro- and microfunctions, in the present paper metatext and interpersonal functions of markers developed in the works of Russian and international researchers were scrutinized. On the basis of the data obtained from the previous researches, as well as lexicographic sources, macro- and microfunctions of discourse markers in a political discourse were designed. The analysis allowed to identify new functions developed by a number of discourse markers (you know, I mean), including the marker well, announced in the title of the paper, due to the manipulative nature of political communication. These functions play an important role in creating alternative reality and uncertainty inherent in political communication. The research presents a detailed analysis of functions obtained by the discourse marker well through the lens of discursive pragmatics based on Donald Trump's TV interview.

scholarly journals Functional and Linguistic Characteristics of Donald Trump’s Victory and Inaugural Speeches

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
Yulia Chanturidze
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Inaugural Speech ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Linguistic Means

The current research is devoted to the comparative and contrastive analysis of Donald Trump’s victory and inaugural speeches. Its objective is to identify their similarities and differences from the functional and linguistic points of view. The research consists of several stages. First, the two genres of discourse in question are defined. Then, an overview of their functions is provided. Next, the linguistic means of performing them are analyzed. The results of the research indicate that, due to their main goals, the genres in question express certain functions, which can be verbally expressed in various ways: in Trump’s victory speech the inspirative function comes to the fore, while in his inaugural address the integrative and the performative functions dominate the other ones. Furthermore, in each case linguistic peculiarities correlate with the functions: in the victory speech the focus is on the ‘greatness’ of everything and everyone, whereas in the inaugural speech words connected with patriotism prevail, which is expressed mostly by means of personal pronouns. The results of the current research may function as a basis for further analysis of the genre of the victory speech, as it has not received enough scholarly attention yet, and of the peculiarities of Donald Trump’s political discourse.

scholarly journals Genre System of English Language Restaurant Online Discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01179
Author(s):  
Elena Terentyeva ◽  
Marina Milovanova ◽  
Elena Pavlova
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Online Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Communication Content ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Discourse Practice ◽  
Linguistic Means

The article basing on the case study of English-language websites of British restaurants and taking into account such discursive parameters as the goal of communication, content, addresser and addressee factors, communicative strategies, and linguistic features deals thoroughly with genre organization of restaurant online discourse. The authors establish the stages and the criteria for its hyper-genre and sub-genre levels. They show that genres systems of virtual communication adjusted to achieving the goals of the restaurant business become system-forming for this type of restaurant discourse practice. The authors also establish the factors of a communicative and pragmatic goal, institutionally based typical interactions, and the addresser and addressee factors as the most important ones of its formation. They point out communicative strategies realized by a set of tactics and dominant linguistic means as the most important communicative and pragmatic means of achieving the goal of a restaurant.

scholarly journals El presidente Donald Trump y su discurso político

2020 ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
José Antonio Abreu Colombri
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
General Transformation ◽  
The Media ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion ◽  
Trump Administration

Desde la irrupción de las tecnologías digitales en los medios de comunicación de masas, en la década de 1990, se ha estado produciendo una auténtica revolución estructural en los canales de la comunicación política. Dicha transformación general ha tenido efectos directos sobre el panorama mediático, pero también ha tenido profundas repercusiones sobre la comunidad académica a nivel mundial, a la hora de abordar los espacios temáticos de la comunicación política. La obra (President Donald Trump and his Political Discourse. Ramifications of Rhetoric via Twitter. Nueva York: Routledge), editada por Michele Lockhart (2019), en sí y por sí misma, ejemplifica y sintetiza varias tendencias históricas sobre la comunicación política estadounidense, a través del caso de estudio de la administración Trump y la instrumentalización de las redes sociales.President Donald Trump and his Political DiscourseAbstractSince the irruption of digital technologies in the mass media in the 1990s, a true structural revolution has been taking place in the channels of political communication. This general transformation has had direct effects on the media panorama, but it has also had profound repercussions on the academic community worldwide, when it comes to addressing the thematic spaces of political communication. The work (President Donald Trump and his Political Discourse. Ramifications of Rhetoric via Twitter. Nueva York: Routledge), edited by Michele Lockhart (2019), in and by itself, exemplifies and synthesizes various historical trends in American political communication, through the case study of the Trump administration and the instrumentalization of social networks.Le président Donald Trump et son discours politiqueRésuméAprès l’irruption des technologies numériques dans les médias, dans la décennie de 1990, une réelle révolution structurale des chaînes de communication politique s’est produite. Cette transformation générale a eu des effets directs sur le panorama médiatique, mais aussi elle a eu des espaces thématiques de la communication politique. L’œuvre (President Donald Trump and his Political Discourse. Ramifications of Rhetoric via Twitter. Nueva York: Routledge), éditée par Michele Lockhart (2019), en soi et par elle-même, exemplifie et synthétise diverses tendances historiques sur la communication politique américaine, à travers le cas d’étude de l’administration Trump et l’instrumentalisation des réseaux sociaux.

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