13. Parteien als Akteure

Pappert, Steffen; Roth, Kersten Sven; Wengeler, Martin; Ziem, Alexander

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“…Furthermore, the necessity of stance-taking (stating difference between own and others’ opinions) for political survival in a competitive environment keeps the ratio information/noise high (Edelman, 1977: 7; Keisanen, 2007; Ilie, 2010b: 56). Last but not least, the aggregation of individual deputies-interlocutors into one privative (‘government’ vs. ‘opposition’ ) and at least one equipollent (‘party X’ vs. ‘party Y’ ) opposition cuts coordination and transmission costs: as long as individual deputies serve as ‘animators’ of the respective group-‘principals’ (Goffman, 1981: 144; Pappert, 2017), their stance-taking is strategically coupled – and negatively correlated – with the position of the collective adversary. Taken together, turn-taking, stance-taking and the two afore-mentioned sets of divisions within parliament ensure the steady production of semantic distinctions in the course of parliamentary activity, which allows for tracing the meanings of temporal references in general, and temporal comparisons as their special case, at the crossroads of political agendas, rhetorical strategies and discursive arsenals.…”

Section: Temporal Concepts Between Narration and Interactionmentioning

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Temporal comparisons, historical semantics of interaction and ‘post-war consensus’ in British Parliament: Studying time references in a deliberative environment

Postoutenko

Sabelfeld

2021

Time & Society

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This article aims to demonstrate that the transition from the mainstream narrative to the interactional history of concepts promises tangible benefits for scholars of social time in general and temporal comparisons in particular. It is shown that the traditionally close alignment of narration with the production of historical consciousness at various levels hinders the study of time as a semantic variable perpetually contested, amended and upheld across society. Alternatively, the references to time made in public settings, allowing for more or less instant reactions (turn-taking) as well as expression of dissenting opinions (stance-taking), offer a much more representative palette of temporal semantics and pragmatics in a given sociopolitical environment. In a particularly intriguing case, the essentially deliberative venue where contestation is supported by both institutional arrangements and political reasons (British House of Commons) is put to test under circumstances commonly known as ‘the post-war consensus’ – the unspoken convention directing opposing political parties to suspend stance-taking regarding the past actions of the government during WWII, its immediate aftermath and its future prospects. As a reliable indicator of this arrangement, the contestation of temporal comparisons between relevant pasts and futures is tested in oppositions reflecting party allegiances (Conservatives vs. Labour vs. Liberals) and executive functions (government vs. opposition) between 1946 and 1952. It is shown that, notwithstanding the prevalence of non-contested statements aimed at preserving interactional coherence and pragmatic functionality of the setting, the moderately active contestation of the adversary’s temporal comparisons in the House of Commons at that time helped all parties, albeit to a different degree, to shape their own political and institutional roles as well as to delegitimize their respective adversaries.

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Section: Temporal Concepts Between Narration and Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Temporal comparisons, historical semantics of interaction and ‘post-war consensus’ in British Parliament: Studying time references in a deliberative environment

Postoutenko

Sabelfeld

2021

Time & Society

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Pro-European and Anti-European Attitudes: Linguistic Analyses of the Discourse on Europe Based on German and French Newspapers

Schafroth

2022

Linguistik in Empirie Und Theorie/Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics

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The typical argument ‘Jörg Haider is a right-wing populist’ in the system of discursive construction of the identity of Austrians by the German mass media (on the material of the publications of the newspaper ‘Der Tagesspiegel’ in February 2000)

Spasskaya

2023

Philology. Theory & Practice

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The aim of the research is to identify the specifics of the discursive construction of the identity of Austrians through the typical argument ‘Jörg Haider is a right-wing populist’ in the German periodical ‘Der Tagesspiegel’ in February 2000. The paper analyses the structure and modifications of this typical argument, its connection with the discursive position of the main actors, the ways of its linguistic implementation. The paper is novel in that it is the first to use the argumentation analysis of the microstructure of media discourse on the basis of studies of critical and linguistic discourse analysis of Russian, Austrian and German Germanistics. As a result of the research, it has been found that identity construction occurs through, firstly, the repetition of meanings generated in discourse and by discourse, which can be generalised using typical arguments. Secondly, the described typical argument linguistically constructs the common political present, future and past of Germany and Austria, a representative of the nation. The typical argument is implemented by the lexico-syntactic and rhetorical means that mark the discursive position of the actors: the formation of public opinion, political enlightenment and ambivalent attitude to Nazism.

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13. Parteien als Akteure

Cited by 3 publications

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Temporal comparisons, historical semantics of interaction and ‘post-war consensus’ in British Parliament: Studying time references in a deliberative environment

Temporal comparisons, historical semantics of interaction and ‘post-war consensus’ in British Parliament: Studying time references in a deliberative environment

Pro-European and Anti-European Attitudes: Linguistic Analyses of the Discourse on Europe Based on German and French Newspapers

The typical argument ‘Jörg Haider is a right-wing populist’ in the system of discursive construction of the identity of Austrians by the German mass media (on the material of the publications of the newspaper ‘Der Tagesspiegel’ in February 2000)

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