scholarly journals ‘BENEFICIARY’ AS A MEANS FOR A DICHOTOMOUS REPRESENTATION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Marek Hampl
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Participant Role ◽  
Positive Presentation

This paper focuses on the employment of the participant role ‘Beneficiary: Recipient’ inthe discourse of U.S. President George W. Bush in the period from September 11, 2001to May 1, 2003. The analysis presented in the paper has been conducted on the corpus of92 speeches delivered by the speaker. The aim of the paper is to observe the formation ofthe ‘Us’ and ‘Them’groups on the basis of the involvement of the participant ‘Beneficiary:Recipient’. The theoretical framework for the analysis is grounded in the system oftransitivity developed by M. A. K. Halliday. In the analytical part, the focus will be placedon the analysis of the participant ‘Beneficiary: Recipient’ that is involved in Materialprocesses in George W. Bush’s discourse. It will be argued that the employment of thisparticipant also contributed to positive presentation of ‘Us’ and to negative presentationof ‘Them’.

Conclusions

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-188
Author(s):  
Jie Lu
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Pertinent Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Key Questions

This chapter summarizes the empirical findings presented in the book, revisiting the theoretical framework developed throughout the book for understanding democracy’s contemporary crisis by focusing on popular conceptions of democracy. The chapter highlights the book’s theoretical and empirical contributions to pertinent literature regarding the key questions: Why is it that democracy, despite its documented popularity in societies around the world and supremacy in contemporary political discourse, appears to be in trouble. After reviewing the research findings presented in the book, the chapter draws some conclusions and presents some suggestions for future research.

scholarly journals ‘Art is my language’: Afghan cultural production challenging Islamophobic stereotypes

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-129
Author(s):  
Bilquis Ghani ◽  
Lucy Fiske
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
The West ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Afghan Women ◽  
In Transit

Afghans and Afghanistan have, since September 11, risen to prominence in Western popular imagination as a land of tradition, tribalism and violence. Afghan women are assumed to be silent, submissive, and terrorised by Afghan men, who are seen as violent patriarchs driven by an uncompromising mediaeval religion. These Islamophobic tropes also inform perceptions of Afghans seeking asylum. In transit, identities are further reduced; asylum seekers lose even a national identity and become a Muslim threat – criminals, terrorists or invaders. These narrative frames permeate political discourse, media, and reports of non-governmental organisations (seeking donor funds to ‘save’ Afghan women). Drawing on fieldwork in Afghanistan and Indonesia, this article looks at how Afghans in Kabul and Indonesia are using art and other forms of cultural production to challenge over-simplified hegemonic narratives in the West, to open spaces for dialogue and expression within their own communities, and to offer a more nuanced account of their own identities.

The Defence of National Identity as a Revolutionary Concept: Gharbzadigī, Islamic Modernisation, and Anticolonialism

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-115
Author(s):  
Alessia Tortolini
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Iranian Politics

Abstract The framework of Iranian national identity has been the cornerstone of the discourse of different social groups that aimed to establish their hegemony over the ‘imagined community’ of Iranians. The difficulty in determining the territorial delimitation of identity, as well as the process of creation-assimilation of a unitarian paradigm of identity characterised, and still characterises, Iranian politics. Therefore, the interdependence between domestic and foreign affairs and national identity can be explained under the lens of the struggle of hegemony of dominant powers and, specifically, through the theoretical framework of specific traditional or organic social groups that developed their political discourse around the different shades of Iranian ‘nationalism’.

Terrorism rhetoric under the Bush Administration

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Bartolucci
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Bush Administration ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Presidential Discourse

In this paper I examine some of the properties of the speeches by former U.S. President George W. Bush framing the issue of terrorism as the most pressing menace humanity is facing and some of the consequences of the selective appropriation of the discourse on terrorism initially instantiated by Bush. The theoretical framework for the analysis is a multidisciplinary Critical Discourse Analysis approach relating discursive and socio-political aspects of U.S. presidential discourses on terrorism in the Bush era. Parallel to an analysis of common characteristics of political discourse, such as ‘us’ versus ‘other’ representations, the device of over/less characterisation, hyperboles and repetitions, attention is also directed towards the socio-political effects deriving from the ways in which ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorists’ have been represented by the presidential discourse on terrorism that condition the contemporary life of individuals and groups all around the world.

War rhetoric of a little ally

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teun A. van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
War Rhetoric ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Context Models

In this paper we examine some of the properties of the speeches by former Prime Minister José María Aznar held in Spanish parliament in 2003 legitimating his support of the USA and the threatening war against Iraq. The theoretical framework for the analysis is a multidisciplinary CDA approach relating discursive, cognitive and sociopolitical aspects of parliamentary debates. It is argued that speeches in parliament should not only be defined in terms of their textual properties, but also in terms of a contextual analysis. Besides an analysis of the usual properties of ideological and political discourse, such as positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation and other rhetoric devices, special attention is paid to political implicatures defined as inferences based on general and particular political knowledge as well as on the context models of Aznar’s speeches.

scholarly journals Language, Social Media and Political Identity (Re)presentation: A New Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Social Media Political Discourse

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Farhat Sajjad ◽  
Mehwish Malghnai ◽  
Durdana Khosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Political Ideologies

As language is central to all social processes and practices, so it is considered as the most effective tool for (re)shaping and (re)constructing the social realities and political identities as they are negotiated, (re)constructed and thus projected in the broader social and cultural contexts. Since the advent of new media technologies, particularly social media, the forms and modes of political identity construction and (re)presentations are also transformed. As debated earlier that language enables its users, specifically political actors, to exhibit the political ideologies and identities effectively, so the political actors frequently exploit these platforms to achieve their pre-defined political agendas. Within the same context the political rhetoric, specifically the ones that is generated and exhibited on social media network sites, offers a new visibility for the researchers to explore and predict how ideologies and perceptions can be achieved, advocated, altered and rebuilt through discursive discourse strategies on these networking sites. Providing the power of social media for political participation, political engagement and political activism, there is a need to design such framework that can offer a different lens for the analysis of critical yet sensitive issue of political identity (re)presentation beyond the textual level. To address the above debated issue a new theoretical framework is presented in this paper that enables to analyse the text with special reference to the context in which the political identities are negotiated, (re)constructed and (re)presented. This framework is designed by collaborating the approaches of CDA, Political Identity theory, Social Media theory and Political Discourse theory that enables to explore the interrelationship between the “language in use” and the context in which it is created and consumed. 

Contextualizing and conceptualizing time, space and person in political discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Azad Mammadov ◽  
Misgar Mammadov
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
The Third ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Text Context ◽  
Theoretical Issues

Abstract The goal of this paper is to make an attempt at exploring the concepts of time, space and person, focusing on the nexus between them, with a view to revealing their role in shaping our perception and understanding of the sociological, political, cultural and economic contexts. The paper is also dealing with the issue of how subjective individual factors can influence various discursive practices vis-à-vis time and space. In its theoretical framework, the paper outlines key theoretical issues and concepts by focusing on the role of text, context and discourse in understanding time, space and person. The second part of the paper considers the crucial role of linguistic devices in the localization of time, space and person in political discourse. Finally, the third part explains how linguistic devices (both conventional and figurative) function in building the dynamism of time, space and person in political discourse, focusing on proximization and direction.

scholarly journals Georgia, the European Union, and the Visa-Free Travel Regime: Between European Identity and Strategic Pragmatism

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Loda
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Small States ◽  
European Identity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Bilateral Negotiation ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Travel Restrictions

AbstractIn March 2017, Georgian citizens were able to travel visa-free to the Schengen Area. This development was highly significant to Georgia, whose narrative of “belonging to Europe” has long contrasted with the travel restrictions for Georgian citizens, who were previously required to undergo complicated consular procedures. However, this was far from being a routine bilateral negotiation. Visa disparities mirrored the contractual asymmetry between Tbilisi and Brussels. This article focuses on how Georgia calibrated its political discourse vis-à-vis the European Union. After outlining both the symbolic and political relevance of visa liberalization, this work assesses the Georgian political rhetoric at different times: in 2005, when Georgia unilaterally lifted visa requirements for Western visitors, and in 2015 and 2016, when visa liberalization was widely expected. The article’s theoretical framework and the final conclusions are relevant to the study of visa regimes and the external relations of small states.

scholarly journals SHAPING INFORMATION AT DIGITAL NATIVE NEXO IN THE SCENARIO OF JOURNALISTIC CONVERGENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 394-421
Author(s):  
Gabriel Rizzo Hoewell ◽  
Ana Gruszynski
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Home Page ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Methodological Procedures ◽  
Digital Newspaper

The native digital newspaper Nexo is the empirical object of analysis of this study that aims to understand how its journalistic information is structured in terms of sections, themes, web potential, modalities, genres, and journalistic formats. The theoretical framework consists of the scenario of journalistic convergence, the structural changes and innovations associated with this convergence, and understanding the newspaper as a device, paying attention to the characteristics of cyberjournalism and how the newspaper was formed. The methodological procedures adopted are bibliographic and documentary researches and content analysis, which operationalize the evaluation of the corpus composed of materials collected in five spaces between September 11 and 24, 2017 - sections of the website, home page, Facebook page, newsletters and articles. There is a new proposal for framing sections and themes; distinct approaches to periodicity, topicality, universality and advertising; multiplatform articulation; exploration of different modalities, formats and genres; adoption of hypertextuality and memory for explanatory journalism; and the use of multimedia and interactivity as alternatives for editorial innovation.O jornal nativo digital Nexo é o objeto empírico de análise que visa averiguar como se dá a conformação editorial da informação jornalística no veículo tendo em vista seções e temas, potencialidades da web, modalidades, gêneros e formatos jornalísticos. O quadro teórico compreende o cenário de convergência jornalística, as mudanças estruturais e inovações a ele associadas e a apreensão do jornal enquanto dispositivo, atentando para especificidades do ciberjornalismo e da conformação do ciberjornal. Os procedimentos metodológicos adotados são as pesquisas bibliográfica e documental e a análise de conteúdo, que operacionalizam a avaliação do corpus composto por materiais coletados entre 11 e 24 de setembro de 2017, em cinco espaços – seções do site, home, página do Facebook, newsletters e matérias. Observa-se uma nova proposta de enquadramento em seções e temas; abordagens distintas para periodicidade, atualidade, universalidade e publicidade; articulação multiplataforma; exploração de modalidades, formatos e gêneros diversos; adoção de hipertextualidade e memória para jornalismo explicativo; e uso de multimidialidade e interatividade como alternativas de inovação editorial.El periódico nativo digital Nexo es el objeto empírico de la análisis que tiene como objetivo determinar cómo és la conformación editorial de la información periodística en el vehículo, considerando las secciones y los temas, los potenciales de la web, las modalidades, los géneros y los formatos periodísticos. El marco teórico comprende el escenario de la convergencia periodística, los cambios estructurales y las innovaciones asociadas con él, la aprehensión del periódico como un dispositivo, en vista de las especificidades del ciberperiodismo y la conformación del ciberperiódico. Los procedimientos metodológicos adoptados son la investigación bibliográfica y documental y el análisis de contenido, que ponen en práctica la evaluación del corpus compuesto por materiales recopilados entre el 11 y el 24 de septiembre de 2017, en cinco espacios: secciones del sitio, página de inicio, página de Facebook, boletines informativos y artículos. Hay una nueva propuesta para enmarcar secciones y temas; enfoques distintos de periodicidad, actualidad, universalidad y publicidad; articulación multiplataforma; exploración de diferentes modalidades, formatos y géneros; adopción de hipertextualidad y memoria para periodismo explicativo; y el uso de multimedia e interactividad como alternativas para la innovación editorial.

Constructing threat through quotes and historical analogies in the Czech and the US “Ukraine Discourse”

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 870-892
Author(s):  
Martina Berrocal
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Intended Action ◽  
The Us ◽  
Discursive Representations ◽  
The Way

Abstract Conflicts and their discursive representations involve, apart from the spacio-temporal dimension, also the socio-ideological and axiological positions. These prompt the desired emotional response from the audience in a form of authorization for the intended action. All these dimensions are mainly construed by presenting series of assertions by creating the dichotomy self-other and by triggering implicatures that contribute to the preferred interpretations of the presented representations. This paper aims to examine the role of quotes and historical analogies triggered by quotes in discourse, concretely, it focuses on the way the Ukrainian conflict is proximized in the US and the Czech political discourse, namely in the parliamentary debates and governmental statements (November 2013–December 2014). The theoretical framework applied is the proximization approach (Cap 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017) which is complemented by the studies that explore the pragmatic functions of quoting in discourse.

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