Topoi in Critical Discourse Analysis

Žagar, Igor Ž.

doi:10.2478/v10016-010-0002-1

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“…3.4 Metaphors Related to Othering the Non-nativestopos, i.e. as a place to look for arguments and a place where those arguments are ready for use (Zagar 2010). Indeed, much like topoi, metaphors are part of a categorisation scheme: they enable the speaker to construe an argument for a given conclusion, which, in this case, is the equation of the Other to a negative ontological (animal) or social (prostitute) category.…”

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Online Hate Speech in the European Union

Assimakopoulos

Baider

Millar

2017

SpringerBriefs in Linguistics

106

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Section: Metaphors Related To Othering the Non-nativesmentioning

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Online Hate Speech in the European Union

Assimakopoulos

Baider

Millar

2017

SpringerBriefs in Linguistics

106

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“…In DHA, discursive strategies are seen as the ‘more or less intentional plan of practices (including discursive practices) adopted to achieve a particular social, political, psychological or linguistic goal’ (Reisigl and Wodak, 2016: 88). Following Zagar (2010), however, we strive to do a slightly more rigid type of argumentation analysis than what is, perhaps, the case in some DHA-studies. In particular, we follow Zagar and initiate our analysis with a clear reconstruction of the arguments under study to provide a transparent analysis of both the argument and the topos which, supposedly, connect the premise and the conclusion.…”

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In the name of democracy: UNSC reform at the intersection of discourse and governmentality

Winther¹,

Lindegaard

2020

Discourse & Society

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Both scholars and practitioners are frustrated by the complexity of United Nations Security Council reform. Most research on the reform process is situated within international relations, and almost no attention is granted to the discursive dimensions of the reform. This article approaches democracy promotion as a governmental rationality within the United Nations, and it traces how this governmentality is co-constituted and negotiated discursively in the reform debate. The analysis focuses on argumentation and topoi in statements from debates about reform during 2015 to 2016 by two groups: The Group of Four and The Uniting for Consensus. The analysis demonstrates how the two groups utilise a topos of majority and a topos of equality, respectively, and how the groups thereby in different ways co-constitute and negotiate the governmental rationality of democracy. Through this, the article unravels the subtle ways in which the rigidity of the reform process is co-constituted through discourse.

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“…Here, Kienpointner identified nine ‘topoi’, that is, content-related but abstracted (i.e. formal) warrants/conclusion rules (Boukala and Dimitrakopoulou, 2016: 47; Kienpointner, 1992: 231–416; Žagar, 2010: 5). In the context of this article, the topos of comparison with the topos of similarity as subcategory is particularly notable.…”

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‘This is exactly how the Nazis ran it’: (De)legitimising the EU on Wikipedia

Kopf

2020

Discourse & Society

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This article addresses how the Wikipedia community has grappled with controversial elements of the European Union’s (EU) history from 2001 to 2019. It also examines what perspective on the EU the Wikipedia editors develop in debates about the institution’s history and if/how the community has (de)legitimised the EU’s existence today in the context of discussions about the EU’s predecessors. The data examined consist of Wikipedia contributors’ debates that took place on a Wikipedia discussion site (‘talk page’). Taking a corpus-assisted approach combined with argumentation analysis and aspects of systemic functional linguistics, I found that Wikipedia editors repeatedly propose that Nazi Germany might have been a precursor of the EU today. However, the Wikipedia community ultimately rejects this notion and emphasises the voluntary nature guiding the EU’s creation process. Thus, while the EU’s legitimacy is indeed contested in the course of the debates, the Wikipedia community eventually rejects this challenge.

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Topoi in Critical Discourse Analysis

Cited by 86 publications

References 5 publications

Online Hate Speech in the European Union

Online Hate Speech in the European Union

In the name of democracy: UNSC reform at the intersection of discourse and governmentality

‘This is exactly how the Nazis ran it’: (De)legitimising the EU on Wikipedia

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