It Is Easy to Miss Something You Are Not Looking For

Oswald, Steve

doi:10.5040/9781472593634.ch-004

Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies 2014

DOI: 10.5040/9781472593634.ch-004

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It Is Easy to Miss Something You Are Not Looking For

Steve Oswald

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Under One Sun?

Salamurović¹

2019

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

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The present chapter examines the semiotic transformation of the cognitive model nation as communicated and discursively constructed in commemorative and jubilee speeches concerning the wider context of the 20th Anniversary of Independence in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Theoretically, it draws on the socio-cognitive approach to collective identity and cognitive pragmatics. The methodological framework is based both on quantitative (using corpus linguistics tools) and qualitative analysis. We focused especially on the use of the metonymy “Macedonia”, which is the most frequent term in analysed speeches. Polysemous referentiality and accompanied semiotic events induce, from the point of view of cognitive pragmatics, great contextual effects of this metonymy. Furthermore, ethnonyms, syntactic structures and argumentation patterns are analysed in order to test the hypothesis of discursively erased distinction between different ethnic groups. Finally, the analysis considers possible differentiations caused by participants involved in practices around text, i.e. political figures delivering jubilee speeches.

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Under One Sun?

Salamurović¹

2019

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Maintaining political authority and credibility during the Covid-19 crisis

Berrocal

2024

Pragmatics &Amp; Beyond New Series

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This article explores how communicative influence is instantiated through the analysis of situational settings, pragmatic means, and discursive strategies at the press conferences held by the Czech government during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis to maintain political authority and credibility. The analysis is informed by the rhetorical approach used in crisis communication studies and follows the tenets of corpus-assisted discourse studies (Taylor and Marchi 2018). It combines quantitative insights with qualitative close reading. The results point to the fact that the building and maintenance of authority and credibility is achieved by a positive depiction of one’s crisis management performance and by intensive blame management. In addition, there is a tendency towards strategic overcommunication which can hinder the understanding and critical scrutiny on the part of the audience.

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