{"title":"Review of Howard (2023): Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power","authors":"Liying Dong, Sihong Zhang, Yalan Wang","doi":"10.1075/jlp.24053.don","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24053.don","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140751818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Baysha (2022): War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine","authors":"Baoqin Wu","doi":"10.1075/jlp.24046.wu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24046.wu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140751693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article falls within the conceptual framework of critical discourse studies and cognitive linguistics whose attention has focused on the discourse found in the public sphere on the topic of migration. I will demonstrate the results of my analysis of a corpus composed of 74 opinion articles that were published in a Spanish regional newspaper between August 2020 and February 2021. All of them focus on the same issue: the mass arrival of irregular migrants at one of Europe’s outermost borders, the Canary Islands, and the social, political and economic strain that this is generating. The results of this analysis indicate that the periphrastic auxiliary verb poder (can/could/might) constitutes an essential resource for the way in which knowledge is managed by the authors whose intention is to fuel the debate by guiding the conceptualisation of reality of readers who do not have perceptual access to the events described.
{"title":"Epistemic stance and public discourse on irregular migration in one of Europe’s outermost regions","authors":"Marina Díaz-Peralta","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22012.dia","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22012.dia","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article falls within the conceptual framework of critical discourse studies and cognitive linguistics whose\u0000 attention has focused on the discourse found in the public sphere on the topic of migration. I will demonstrate the results of my\u0000 analysis of a corpus composed of 74 opinion articles that were published in a Spanish regional newspaper between August 2020 and\u0000 February 2021. All of them focus on the same issue: the mass arrival of irregular migrants at one of Europe’s outermost borders,\u0000 the Canary Islands, and the social, political and economic strain that this is generating. The results of this analysis indicate\u0000 that the periphrastic auxiliary verb poder (can/could/might) constitutes an essential resource for the way in\u0000 which knowledge is managed by the authors whose intention is to fuel the debate by guiding the conceptualisation of reality of\u0000 readers who do not have perceptual access to the events described.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140366064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
How political leaders construct consent is a constant theme of studies in political rhetoric and theories of persuasion. We explore how populist linguistic strategies combine with traditional consensus-building to align populations with the speakers’ messages. We observe similarities and differences in discourse strategies across two contrasting polities, the UK, a foundational modern representative democracy and Russia, which is considered more autocratic. The data comes from speeches given by Boris Johnson and Vladimir Putin during the Covid-19 crisis. They were analysed using Corpus Linguistics, compared in qualitative analysis that identities key lexico-grammatical features. The findings show a convergence in some of the strategies and linguistic styles, but also key differences which, we suggest, depend on cultural factors specific to the two nations. The results contribute to our understanding of the operation of these resources in modern political discourse, highlighting the way cultural factors influence rhetorical styles in very different political structures.
{"title":"Revisiting the rhetorical construction of political consent","authors":"D. Ponton, V. Ozyumenko, Tatiana Larina","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22199.pon","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22199.pon","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 How political leaders construct consent is a constant theme of studies in political rhetoric and theories of\u0000 persuasion. We explore how populist linguistic strategies combine with traditional consensus-building to align populations with\u0000 the speakers’ messages. We observe similarities and differences in discourse strategies across two contrasting polities, the UK,\u0000 a foundational modern representative democracy and Russia, which is considered more autocratic. The data comes from speeches\u0000 given by Boris Johnson and Vladimir Putin during the Covid-19 crisis. They were analysed using Corpus Linguistics, compared in\u0000 qualitative analysis that identities key lexico-grammatical features. The findings show a convergence in some of the strategies\u0000 and linguistic styles, but also key differences which, we suggest, depend on cultural factors specific to the two nations. The\u0000 results contribute to our understanding of the operation of these resources in modern political discourse, highlighting the way\u0000 cultural factors influence rhetorical styles in very different political structures.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140367091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The success of radical right-wing populist (RRWP) parties is based on discourses displaying “power geometries” (Massey 1993, 1999). These involve the representation of power relations, with on one side a globalized elite, boosting the mobility of human beings, goods and capital across borders, and on the other side, a territorially embedded people subject to this borderless mobility. Power geometries can also be used to approach the chameleonic behavior of RRWP politicians and their allies in the political space. The article uses this concept to interpret the attitude of the Trieste City Executive and the reactions to it when it commemorated a past connected to Italian fascism. The results show that the power geometries involving the RRWP and their allies in European borderlands can lead to discursive ambivalence in two overlapping spaces: the territorial and state-bordered space of representative democracy, and the topological and cross-border space of para-diplomacy.
{"title":"Commemoration and radical right-wing populism in European borderlands","authors":"Christian Lamour","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23088.lam","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23088.lam","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The success of radical right-wing populist (RRWP) parties is based on discourses displaying “power geometries”\u0000 (Massey 1993, 1999). These involve the\u0000 representation of power relations, with on one side a globalized elite, boosting the mobility of human beings, goods and capital\u0000 across borders, and on the other side, a territorially embedded people subject to this borderless mobility. Power geometries can\u0000 also be used to approach the chameleonic behavior of RRWP politicians and their allies in the political space. The article uses\u0000 this concept to interpret the attitude of the Trieste City Executive and the reactions to it when it commemorated a past connected\u0000 to Italian fascism. The results show that the power geometries involving the RRWP and their allies in European borderlands can\u0000 lead to discursive ambivalence in two overlapping spaces: the territorial and state-bordered space of representative democracy,\u0000 and the topological and cross-border space of para-diplomacy.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140383464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Bielsa (2023): A Translational Sociology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Politics and Society","authors":"Bin Zhu, Qingliang Ren","doi":"10.1075/jlp.24012.zhu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24012.zhu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140381566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The EU Directorate General for Research and Innovation’s “European Research Area Policy Agenda: Overview of Actions for the Period 2022–2024” outlines twenty actions to boost research excellence, investment and reform, coordination and support, or green and digital transformation of the academia, in an attempt to create a truly common “European knowledge market.” Filled with strategic planning jargon, the policy specifies the recommended interventions for years to come and with billions of Euros of funding to follow. Using a qualitative critical discourse approach, this study explores policy-making from a linguistic perspective to capture the characteristics of current EU R&I discourse. Language choices have a constitutive role in policy papers due to the discursive capacity for legitimization and subsequent persuasion. The analysis focuses on the persuasive presuppositions induced by certain lexico-grammatical choices, including evaluative and rhetorical devices, and shows how the ERA policy fosters acceptance of a European vision of R&I values.
{"title":"Legitimizing the interventions recommended in “European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022–2024”","authors":"Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23043.mol","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23043.mol","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The EU Directorate General for Research and Innovation’s “European Research Area Policy Agenda: Overview of Actions for the Period 2022–2024” outlines twenty actions to boost research excellence, investment and reform, coordination and support, or green and digital transformation of the academia, in an attempt to create a truly common “European knowledge market.” Filled with strategic planning jargon, the policy specifies the recommended interventions for years to come and with billions of Euros of funding to follow. Using a qualitative critical discourse approach, this study explores policy-making from a linguistic perspective to capture the characteristics of current EU R&I discourse. Language choices have a constitutive role in policy papers due to the discursive capacity for legitimization and subsequent persuasion. The analysis focuses on the persuasive presuppositions induced by certain lexico-grammatical choices, including evaluative and rhetorical devices, and shows how the ERA policy fosters acceptance of a European vision of R&I values.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140223553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Fariña (2023): Psychological Borders in Europe and the United States: Contemporary Nationalism, Nativism, and Populism","authors":"T. Hu, Nan Xu","doi":"10.1075/jlp.24043.hu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24043.hu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140222923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scholarship has underlined how radical right-wing populism (RRWP) emphasizes border control aiming to protect the “people”. Although increasing attention is being paid to the discursive dimensions of border construction, the complexity of the phenomenon suggests the need for further analysis in an interdisciplinary perspective and with an emphasis on the geometry of spatial powers (Massey 1999, 2005). Understanding power dynamics in space is all the more important now that radical right-wing populism (RRWP) is becoming a key political phenomenon. The use of the border in right-wing populist narratives draws on the representation of power struggles in space concerning the management of flows (people, goods, services, capital, ideas, values, etc.). The scope of the introduction to this special issue is to address the connection between radical right-wing populism, borders, and spaces of power, and to present the research articles investigating this link through a series of different case studies.
{"title":"Positioning antagonistic discourses in the (de)bounded spaces of power","authors":"Christian Lamour, Oscar Mazzoleni","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23087.lam","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23087.lam","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Scholarship has underlined how radical right-wing populism (RRWP) emphasizes border control aiming to protect the\u0000 “people”. Although increasing attention is being paid to the discursive dimensions of border construction, the complexity of the\u0000 phenomenon suggests the need for further analysis in an interdisciplinary perspective and with an emphasis on the geometry of\u0000 spatial powers (Massey 1999, 2005).\u0000 Understanding power dynamics in space is all the more important now that radical right-wing populism (RRWP) is becoming a key\u0000 political phenomenon. The use of the border in right-wing populist narratives draws on the representation of power struggles in\u0000 space concerning the management of flows (people, goods, services, capital, ideas, values, etc.). The scope of the introduction to\u0000 this special issue is to address the connection between radical right-wing populism, borders, and spaces of power, and to present\u0000 the research articles investigating this link through a series of different case studies.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140222135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
One of the most overlooked areas of study in the post-Arab Spring narrative is the symbiotic relationship between language and politics. Framed by the micro and macro-level approaches to discourse, the paper’s scope is twofold. First, it identifies and discusses how language elements underpin the performative role of language (Austin 1975 [1962]) and considers Searle’s (1969) work on speech-acts and rhetoric through irony and metaphor. Second, it discusses how the study of language, through power and ideology, provides a candid and deeper understanding of Tunisian politics; an ‘internal’ perspective on how participants in these discourses perceive the Tunisian people, society, culture, and politics, reflecting on a decade since the revolution. The paper hinges on various textual genres, such as televised interviews, debates, and rap songs, sampling some emerging new sociopolitical spaces wherein, through discursive themes, participants address Tunisia’s political and economic grievances since the revolution.
{"title":"The power of language","authors":"Zouhir Gabsi","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23092.gab","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23092.gab","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 One of the most overlooked areas of study in the post-Arab Spring narrative is the symbiotic relationship between\u0000 language and politics. Framed by the micro and macro-level approaches to discourse, the paper’s scope is twofold. First, it\u0000 identifies and discusses how language elements underpin the performative role of language (Austin 1975 [1962]) and considers Searle’s (1969) work on speech-acts and\u0000 rhetoric through irony and metaphor. Second, it discusses how the study of language, through power and ideology, provides a candid\u0000 and deeper understanding of Tunisian politics; an ‘internal’ perspective on how participants in these discourses perceive the\u0000 Tunisian people, society, culture, and politics, reflecting on a decade since the revolution. The paper hinges on various textual\u0000 genres, such as televised interviews, debates, and rap songs, sampling some emerging new sociopolitical spaces wherein, through\u0000 discursive themes, participants address Tunisia’s political and economic grievances since the revolution.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140240998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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