On combining pragma-dialectics with critical discourse analysis

Richardson, John; Ihnen, Constanza

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“…As Charteris-Black notes 'warrant is a term, which refers to that part of an argument structure that enables a transition to be made from evidence or data to a conclusion or claim ' (2014, p. 133). The synthesis of Aristotelian tradition of topos and Toulmin's warrant does, however, seem to lead to an ambiguous approach of topos that exposes the argumentation strategies of the DHA to misunderstandings and criticism (see Ihnen & Richardson, 2011;Reisigl, 2014). Charteris-Black (2014) distinguished Wodak's use of topos and Toulmin's use of warrant and noticed some overlaps between content-related topoi (2014, pp.…”

Section: Reshaping the Greek Political Terrain Through Old Principlesmentioning

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The politics of fear vs. the politics of hope: analysing the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns

Boukala

Dimitrakopoulou

2016

Critical Discourse Studies

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This paper deals with the discursive construction of in-groups and out-groups through a politics of fear and a politics of hope. It draws on the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns of the two main political parties -the radical left Syriza and the conservative New Democracy -and emphasises how they legitimised their political decisions via these two forms of politics. The Greek bailout referendum took place on 5 July 2015 in a climate of polarisation and insecurity. We assume that the referendum, at the campaign level, could be considered an extension of the January 2015 election campaign that was shaped on the basis of a synthesis of a politics of fear and a politics of hope. Using the discursive strategies of the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA), and especially argumentation strategies and the concepts of topos and recontextualisation, we illustrate the link between political communication, election campaign strategies and political discourse through the prisms of fear and hope. Drawing on the Spinoza 'affects', we intend to conduct an interdisciplinary study of the contemporary Greek political scene and to illustrate whether and how political rhetoric and communication strategies are conducive to political dichotomies. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Reshaping the Greek Political Terrain Through Old Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The politics of fear vs. the politics of hope: analysing the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns

Boukala

Dimitrakopoulou

2016

Critical Discourse Studies

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“…Indeed, argumentation has been commonly approached as part of (group) discursive practices (Fairclough, 1992: 71) or as a kind of discursive strategy in the discourse-historical approach, that is typically used to establish positive-Self and negative-Other representation (Reisigl and Wodak, 2001: 44), or as an ideological discursive strategy (van Dijk, 1998). More recently, however, and focusing not only on the pragmatic and interactional dimension of discourse, but also on the role of cognition in discursive processes, argumentation has started to gain much attention in discourse analysis, in the study of Hart (2013), for instance, or Oswald, Herman and Jacquin (2018) and Ihnen and Richardson (2011), to name a few. Most of these studies carried out on argumentative strategies and their effects on discourse point to the need for synergy between cognitive linguistics and argumentation theory.…”

Section: Argumentation In Political Discoursementioning

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Confrontational Argumentative Strategies in the Discourse of Foreign Policy Experts

Allani

2019

RiL

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Abstract The aim of this study is to explore the discursive practices of foreign policy experts. While policy decisions involving war and peace keep people alarmed all over the globe, most of these decisions are shaped by policy experts who work on influencing public opinion through the media (Manheim, 2011). This study adopts a critical discursive stance and uses argumentation analysis to examine the ideological backdrop to the discourse of thirty opinion articles authored by American foreign policy experts in print media. Drawing on the Pragma-dialectical method of augmentation analysis (van Eemeren and Grootendorst, 2004), and more particularly on its notion of strategic maneuvering, the analysis examines the confrontational strategies used by this group of experts and attempts to determine the rhetorical goals pursued by these strategic maneuvers.

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“…Although argumentation studies consider the role of context (Rigotti and Greco Morasso, 2009; Van Eemeren, 2010), they do not take into account such a meso-view of ideological dilemmas in society and of their influence on specific rhetorical and discursive strategies. Also, the emphasis on the rhetorical goal is stronger in DP, yet not at the expense of accountability and reasonableness (Ihnen and Richardson, 2011: 240, footnote 1). Therefore, not only are the two approaches compatible, but they can also be resourcefully integrated to enhance each other.…”

Section: Bringing Different Traditions Together In Studying Strong Viewsmentioning

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Parental discourse and identity management in the talk of indigenous and migrant speakers

Xenitidou

Greco

2014

Discourse & Society

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This article integrates discursive psychology and argumentation studies to discuss the regularities identified in two sets of data -focus group discussions amongst indigenous Greeks residing in Central Northern Greece and interviews with non-indigenous women with children, resident in the greater London area. The initial regularity identified consisted of participants talking as parents and talking about children and the normative expectations of parenthood in voicing strong views about 'others' from ethnic, cultural and racial backgrounds other than those of the speakers. This seemed to function as a form of denial, identifying further regularities in the discursive strategies used by participants and in the lines of arguments developed. Furthermore, two themes emerged as commonplace in talking about 'others' in the lines of argument developed by participants -security/insecurity and hierarchies. These regularities are considered and the potentials of analysing discourse from two, integrated approaches are discussed.

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On combining pragma-dialectics with critical discourse analysis

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The politics of fear vs. the politics of hope: analysing the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns

The politics of fear vs. the politics of hope: analysing the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns

Confrontational Argumentative Strategies in the Discourse of Foreign Policy Experts

Parental discourse and identity management in the talk of indigenous and migrant speakers

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