Analogical reasoning with quotations? A spotlight on Russian parliamentary discourse

Weiß, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2019.10.008

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“…This special issue addresses the question of how to do things with quotes across different contexts and discourse genres, and across different languages. All papers adhere to the premise that participants use fresh and canned quotations in their different formats strategically to achieve particular goals in discourse; paper (1) contrasts Hebrew and French data, ( 5) and ( 6) are based on Russian data, (7) involves Greek data, and all remaining papers discuss English material. The contributions are ordered according to the main types distinguished above: three contributions deal with fresh quotations, two papers address the use of canned quotations and their associative potential, the next paper covers both hypothetical and canned quotations (proverbs), the following one is exclusively dedicated to hypothetical quotations, and the last one examines fake quotations.…”

Section: Quotations In Discoursementioning

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“…The first paper focuses on the strategic use of the quotative claim in online commenting, papers 4, 6, 7 and 8 discuss the strategic use of quotations in mediated political discourse, including both non-elite and elite political discourse. The rest of the papers analyse the strategic use of quotations in ordinary conversation (5,7) and the strategic use of quotations in the participatory discourse of Wikipedia ( 3). ( 1) Elda Weizman examines the strategic uses of the discursive pattern 'claim+ indirect quotation in quotation marks' in French and Hebrew journalistic discourse.…”

Section: Quotations In Discoursementioning

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Doing things with quotes: Introduction

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2020

Journal of Pragmatics

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Covid-19 vaccination policies in an autocratic context

Weiss¹

2023

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

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The paper continues a book chapter devoted to the Belarusian and Russian crisis management during the first months of the pandemic (Weiss 2022). The present chapter examines the second half of 2021 when vaccines were already available in both countries. It is based on data from speeches broadcast on TV, reports by so-called “foreign agents”, i.e. Russian independent investigative agencies, and online news including the official Kremlin site. The main research question focuses on the impact of vaccination on both Lukašenko’s and Putin’s policies: how did their communication strategies change, what was their own stance towards vaccination, and how did they cope with peoples’ reluctance to get vaccinated? The tools to achieve this goal are mainly provided by argumentation theory and impoliteness theory. The comparison is somewhat impeded by Lukašenko being a tacit COVID denier who rejected any compulsive protective measures but nevertheless had to support vaccination. He mercilessly insulted his ministers who tried to impose protective measures on citizens and he tended to conflate online bloggers criticizing his crisis management with his political opponents. Putin backed the vaccination campaign but did not succeed in overcoming the masses’ passive resistance despite a “split-voice” strategy: whereas he officially maintained his image of an unbiased father of the nation, state media such as the TV station “Russia today”, which attacked anti-vaxxers very aggressively, portrayed him as the main decision-maker and ruthless punisher. His publicly pronounced arguments against compulsory vaccination proved very weak.

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Top-down meets bottom-up

Kleinke

2023

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

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With their new patterns of participation and interaction in political discourse, Opinion sections of online newspapers played an important role in the dissemination and critical public discussion of governmental crisis communication during the pandemic. Scrutinizing above-the-line and below-the-line commenting in the Opinion section of The Guardian online, the current study focuses on the complexities of the mediation and reception of politicians’ Covid-19 communication at the interface of institutionalized political and participatory online discourses. It carves out different, but interwoven dimensions of this mediation to detail the specific framing conditions of the reception process. Focusing on quotations as an important connecting link between these different discourse domains, it examines firstly, how a(bove) t(he) l(ine)-commenters use quotations to position themselves critically vis-à-vis governmental discourses; secondly, which overall verbal strategies are evident in governmental discourses that address the public indicated/targeted in the atl-comments? and thirdly, whether and how users respond to atl-quotations of politicians in their respective b(elow)t(he)l(ine)-comments.

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Analogical reasoning with quotations? A spotlight on Russian parliamentary discourse

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Doing things with quotes: Introduction

Doing things with quotes: Introduction

Covid-19 vaccination policies in an autocratic context

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