Social media and journalistic discourse analysis: 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis

Afrouzi, Omid Alizadeh

doi:10.1177/1750481320961660

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“…Metaphor is an important factor that constitutes discourse. This is confirmed by modern studies of discourse, which are devoted to the analysis of its variants -advertising (Danesi, 2015), journalistic (Afrouzi, 2020), military (Lakoff, 1996), medical (Wilce, 2009), legal (Konstantinova, 2011), etc. For political discourse, the study of metaphorical models is also precisely important, because metaphors, according to political discourse study, are an important factor in political decision-making and, are considered as a means of analysing the state of public consciousness (Baranov & Karaulov, 1994, p. 188-189;Filatenko, 2003, p. 5;Yavorska, 2002, p. 66).…”

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New Vision of Concept Europe (A Linguistic Perspective)

Kravchenko¹,

SOSOI²,

DEINEKA³

2021

PhilStudies

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This article presents a study of the concept EUROPE, done in the area of cognitive linguistics. The concept EUROPE is considered a conceptual quantum of structured knowledge, possessing of diﬀerent meanings. The article analyzes the concept EUROPE from a linguistic point of view, which allowed to reveal a number of speciﬁc features of its semantics, to get a more comprehensive and diverse view of it by constructing cognitive schemes implementing concept EUROPE, as well as to identify basic metaphorical models. Involvement of methods of conceptual analysis allows to present the analised concept in the form of a certain conceptual model, a special way organized conceptual scheme. With the help of the conceptual model of the Subject frame the cognitive dynamics of the concept development in the European integration discourse is revealed. Political metaphor is one of the most common and eﬀective policy tools. The research material is characterized by the use of metaphors belonging to such basic types, which are related to the reference spheres as the sociomorphic sphere, the anthropomorphic sphere, the sphere of artifacts and the sphere of nature. Conceptual metaphors of European integration discourse use in their codes the conceptual ﬁelds “space”, “travel”, “movement”, “construction”, “work results”, “family relations”, “nature”, “sports”, “art”, etc.

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New Vision of Concept Europe (A Linguistic Perspective)

Kravchenko¹,

SOSOI²,

DEINEKA³

2021

PhilStudies

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“…Social media platforms have challenged conventional ways of communicating about politics and prominent mediums in the contemporary world in the past ten years (Alizadeh Afrouzi, 2021). Twitter is one of the most widely used social media platforms for political discussions, which has enabled political actors to engage in meaningful political exchanges and mobilize the public (Jaidka, Zhou and Lelkes, 2019: 345).…”

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Impoliteness in Twitter Discourse: a Case Study of Replies to Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg

Salimi,

Mortazavi

2024

BJELLC

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Twitter (X) is a popular social media platform that allows users to express their opinions and interact on various topics, including politics. However, Twitter can provide a space for impolite and aggressive language use, especially when the issues are controversial or polarizing. This study analyzes the replies to two controversial and similar tweets, namely Donald Trump’s tweet to Greta Thunberg and Greta Thunberg’s tweet to Donald Trump. Ninety-seven tweets that impolitely took issue with the original tweets were collected and coded for their moral order themes and pragmatic functions. Culpeper’s (2011) impoliteness framework was consulted as a threshold to include or exclude reply tweets in the data analysis. The results show that the replies invoked moral order expectations in three overarching categories in the responses to both parties: age-appropriate behavior, respect and manners, and concern for the common good. As far as the pragmatic functions were concerned, criticism of personal characteristics, criticism of supporters, criticism of relatives (to Trump only), praise of the opposing party, directing, mockery, and ideology denial (to Thunberg only) were performed. The study discusses how users took offense through language in a highly polarized political context.

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Interpersonal-function topoi in Chinese central government’s work report (2020) as epidemic (counter-)crisis discourse

Wang

Yang

2022

JLP

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Using Systemic Functional Grammar and conceptual framework in the argumentation-oriented approach to discourse, this study analyzes Chinese central government’s “ Report on the Work of the Government” in 2020 (henceforth the Report) to explore the “interpersonal-function topoi” in the political discourse. The Report was delivered and issued against the backdrop of the surging covid-19 epidemic. This study first calculated the frequency of mood, modality and persons in the Report. The statistics were qualitatively analyzed in relation to various topoi-imagery of the crisis vis-à-vis representing the agency-reflected in the interpersonal metafunction of the language in the Report. These topoi play a vital role in winning popular support for the Chinese central government’s anti-epidemic measures and mobilizing the widest public into actions against the covid-19 pandemic. The analysis demonstrates how the analysis of interpersonal metafunction from an argumentation-oriented perspective can shed light on dealing with crisis discourse, especially in the pandemic settings.

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Social media and journalistic discourse analysis: 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

New Vision of Concept Europe (A Linguistic Perspective)

New Vision of Concept Europe (A Linguistic Perspective)

Impoliteness in Twitter Discourse: a Case Study of Replies to Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg

Interpersonal-function topoi in Chinese central government’s work report (2020) as epidemic (counter-)crisis discourse

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