{"title":"Review of Akbari (2020): Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations: Persian Terminology Planning","authors":"Lingyun Lv, Renqiang Wang","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23009.lv","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23009.lv","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48610785","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 Musolff & Breeze (2022): Pandemic and Crisis Discourse Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy","authors":"Qian Ma","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23007.ma","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23007.ma","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43098056","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 Lütge, Merse & Rauschert (2022): Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education: Concepts, Practices, Connections","authors":"Xiao-man Song","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23008.son","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23008.son","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42200990","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 Demasi, Burke & Tileagă (2021): Political communication: Discursive perspectives","authors":"Xinyue Wang, Enhua Guo","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23002.wan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23002.wan","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42520285","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 Livnat, Shukrun-Nagar & Hirsch (2020): The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, Voices and Functions","authors":"Yuan Ping","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23003.pin","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23003.pin","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41259548","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}
Jakub Klepański, Maciej Hartliński, Arkadiusz Żukowski
The European migrant crisis constitutes one of the greatest challenges of the second Decade of the 21st century. Controlled by the populist Law and Justice, the Polish government has been one of the few to oppose receiving refugees, although it is obliged to through the cooperation of EU states. The authors analyzed 852 parliamentary speeches of 24 Polish political leaders since 2011 to 2019. Considering the analysis results, it is possible to conclude that the more severe the crisis became, the more dynamically the number of reports on the migrant crisis increased in parliamentary discourse. The research confirms that the two biggest parties present dramatically disparate views on the issue. The study also confirms that the views and declarations of the analyzed political leaders are compatible with the views of their electorates.
{"title":"The European migrant crisis in Polish parliamentary discourse","authors":"Jakub Klepański, Maciej Hartliński, Arkadiusz Żukowski","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22009.kle","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22009.kle","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The European migrant crisis constitutes one of the greatest challenges of the second Decade of the 21st century.\u0000 Controlled by the populist Law and Justice, the Polish government has been one of the few to oppose receiving refugees, although\u0000 it is obliged to through the cooperation of EU states. The authors analyzed 852 parliamentary speeches of 24 Polish political\u0000 leaders since 2011 to 2019. Considering the analysis results, it is possible to conclude that the more severe the crisis became,\u0000 the more dynamically the number of reports on the migrant crisis increased in parliamentary discourse. The research confirms that\u0000 the two biggest parties present dramatically disparate views on the issue. The study also confirms that the views and declarations\u0000 of the analyzed political leaders are compatible with the views of their electorates.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42487829","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}
Online activism can be expressed through many forms. While advocates claim that it is a fully-fledged form of activism, opponents state that it is no more than vain ‘slacktivism’. Against this background, this work analyses the ‘#ChallengeAccepted’ movement, which went ‘viral’ in July 2020 to raise awareness about femi(ni)cides in Turkey, in the aftermath of the murder of the female student Pinar Gültekin. Focusing on the use of the hashtag via Twitter, the work embraces the perspective of online activism as a “continuum of participation”, composed of several levels. The results show how hashtag activism has worked as a means of knowledge dissemination and action, and that also slacktivism has contributed to the cause, thanks to the “oxygen of amplification” effect, which made users inform and get informed, refocus the campaign towards its original purpose when it digressed, and distribute its message.
{"title":"Activism or slacktivism?","authors":"Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22025.sco","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22025.sco","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Online activism can be expressed through many forms. While advocates claim that it is a fully-fledged form of\u0000 activism, opponents state that it is no more than vain ‘slacktivism’. Against this background, this work analyses the\u0000 ‘#ChallengeAccepted’ movement, which went ‘viral’ in July 2020 to raise awareness about femi(ni)cides in Turkey, in the aftermath\u0000 of the murder of the female student Pinar Gültekin. Focusing on the use of the hashtag via Twitter, the work embraces the perspective of online\u0000 activism as a “continuum of participation”, composed of several levels. The results show how hashtag activism has worked as a means\u0000 of knowledge dissemination and action, and that also slacktivism has contributed to the cause, thanks to the “oxygen of\u0000 amplification” effect, which made users inform and get informed, refocus the campaign towards its original purpose when it digressed,\u0000 and distribute its message.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47368137","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}
Discourse-focused analyses of political communication show a complex interplay between narration and argumentation. Yet, current analytical tools fall short of accounting for the multifarious ways in which narratives perform as arguments. This paper adopts the notion narrative argument, developed in argumentation theory, to examine the ways the ‘hero-protector’ narrative serves as argument. The paper analyzes four speeches given by Donald Trump and Joe Biden, whereby the use of force on foreign grounds is justified via the ‘hero-protector’ narrative. The analytical framework combines the argumentation strategies of the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) with pragma-dialectics’ argumentation schemes. The analysis shows that each narrative sequence constituting the ‘hero-protector’ narrative constructs specific argument schemes, and the logical connections between these sequences link arguments in chains to collectively justify the rightness of claims. The paper, thus, seeks to illustrate the possibility of conceptualizing narrative discourse as an effective way to argue for or against a claim.
{"title":"In the name of the nobility of the cause, what I did is right","authors":"Rania Elnakkouzi","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22066.eln","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22066.eln","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Discourse-focused analyses of political communication show a complex interplay between narration and\u0000 argumentation. Yet, current analytical tools fall short of accounting for the multifarious ways in which narratives perform as\u0000 arguments. This paper adopts the notion narrative argument, developed in argumentation theory, to examine the ways the\u0000 ‘hero-protector’ narrative serves as argument. The paper analyzes four speeches given by Donald Trump and Joe Biden, whereby the\u0000 use of force on foreign grounds is justified via the ‘hero-protector’ narrative. The analytical framework combines the\u0000 argumentation strategies of the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) with pragma-dialectics’ argumentation schemes. The analysis\u0000 shows that each narrative sequence constituting the ‘hero-protector’ narrative constructs specific argument schemes, and the\u0000 logical connections between these sequences link arguments in chains to collectively justify the rightness of claims. The paper,\u0000 thus, seeks to illustrate the possibility of conceptualizing narrative discourse as an effective way to argue for or against a\u0000 claim.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45651128","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 has two main objectives. One, to advance methodological development in both discourse theory and media and communications research by proposing an eclectic, replicable methodology. Two, to demonstrate how to apply that methodology to furnish both ontic and ontological explanations for the contingent origins of a discourse using the editorials of the Pakistani newspaper The Nation on the Pakistan Steel Mills privatization case as a case study. An earlier study had identified the surprising conclusion that this traditionally conservative paper had from the outset fully endorsed the radical opposition to the government’s suspension of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan which led to an uprising known as the Lawyers’ Movement. This article locates the origins of that shift in the newspaper’s reaction to the Pakistan Steel Mills privatization issue. The article has implications for the fields of discourse theory, media and communication studies, and political science.
{"title":"Identifying the discursive trajectory of social change – a systematic discourse theoretical framework","authors":"Rizwan Sarwar Sulehry, D. Wallace","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22138.sul","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22138.sul","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article has two main objectives. One, to advance methodological development in both discourse theory and\u0000 media and communications research by proposing an eclectic, replicable methodology. Two, to demonstrate how to apply that\u0000 methodology to furnish both ontic and ontological explanations for the contingent origins of a discourse using the editorials of\u0000 the Pakistani newspaper The Nation on the Pakistan Steel Mills privatization case as a case study. An earlier\u0000 study had identified the surprising conclusion that this traditionally conservative paper had from the outset fully endorsed the\u0000 radical opposition to the government’s suspension of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan which led to an uprising\u0000 known as the Lawyers’ Movement. This article locates the origins of that shift in the newspaper’s reaction to the Pakistan Steel\u0000 Mills privatization issue. The article has implications for the fields of discourse theory, media and communication studies, and\u0000 political science.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48870282","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 Feldman (2021): When Politicians Talk: The Cultural Dynamics of Public Speaking","authors":"K. Zhao","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23001.zha","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23001.zha","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42077229","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}