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This collection explores the discursive strategies and linguistic
resources underpinning conflict and polarization, taking a
multidisciplinary approach to examine the ways in which conflict is
constructed across a diverse range of contexts. The volume is
divided into two sections as a means of identifying two different
dimensions to conflict construction and bridging the gap between
different perspectives through a constructivist framework. The
first part comprises chapters looking at sociopolitical conflicts
across specific geographic contexts across the US, Europe and Latin
America. The second half of the book unpacks sociocultural
conflicts, those not defined by physical borders but shaped by
ideological differences on core values, such as on religion, gender
and the environment. Drawing on frameworks across such fields as
linguistics, critical discourse analysis, rhetoric studies and
cognitive studies, the book offers new insights into the discursive
polarization that permeates contemporary communicative interactions
and the ways in which a better understanding of conflict and its
origins might serve as a mechanism for providing new ways forward.
This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars
in critical discourse analysis, linguistics, rhetoric studies and
peace and conflict studies.
This collection explores the discursive strategies and linguistic
resources underpinning conflict and polarization, taking a
multidisciplinary approach to examine the ways in which conflict is
constructed across a diverse range of contexts. The volume is
divided into two sections as a means of identifying two different
dimensions to conflict construction and bridging the gap between
different perspectives through a constructivist framework. The
first part comprises chapters looking at sociopolitical conflicts
across specific geographic contexts across the US, Europe and Latin
America. The second half of the book unpacks sociocultural
conflicts, those not defined by physical borders but shaped by
ideological differences on core values, such as on religion, gender
and the environment. Drawing on frameworks across such fields as
linguistics, critical discourse analysis, rhetoric studies and
cognitive studies, the book offers new insights into the discursive
polarization that permeates contemporary communicative interactions
and the ways in which a better understanding of conflict and its
origins might serve as a mechanism for providing new ways forward.
This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars
in critical discourse analysis, linguistics, rhetoric studies and
peace and conflict studies.
This book addresses an under-researched area within populism
studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking
the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors
analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct
identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual
chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from
different social media platforms, defining populism as a political
strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a
dichotomy between “the people”, who are unified by their will,
and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the
people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people
against the out-group. The book identifies what motivates people to
vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values
play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of
populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to
serve as a voting motivation.
Bringing together a body of related research which has recently
developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, this book is the first to
address the role of perspective in socio-political discourse.
Specifically, the contributions to this volume seek to explore,
from a cognitive standpoint, the way in which perspective functions
in three dimensions - space, time, and evaluation - to enact
ideology and persuasion. A range of discourse genres are analysed,
including political discourse, media discourse, and songs used as
political tools. Starting from the contention that discourse
processing relies on the same mechanisms that support our
understanding and experience of space, the book finds a recurrent
theme in the way in which perspectival concepts like distance and
focus, prompted by linguistic signs, feature in our discursively
constructed knowledge of social and political realities. By
highlighting the complex nature of perspective-taking in
ideological discourse, the volume sets the agenda for further
research in this area. The book will appeal to linguists, discourse
analysts, media scholars, and political scientists, and all who are
interested in the relationship between language and cognition in
the socio-political domain. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Critical Discourse Studies.
Bringing together a body of related research which has recently
developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, this book is the first to
address the role of perspective in socio-political discourse.
Specifically, the contributions to this volume seek to explore,
from a cognitive standpoint, the way in which perspective functions
in three dimensions - space, time, and evaluation - to enact
ideology and persuasion. A range of discourse genres are analysed,
including political discourse, media discourse, and songs used as
political tools. Starting from the contention that discourse
processing relies on the same mechanisms that support our
understanding and experience of space, the book finds a recurrent
theme in the way in which perspectival concepts like distance and
focus, prompted by linguistic signs, feature in our discursively
constructed knowledge of social and political realities. By
highlighting the complex nature of perspective-taking in
ideological discourse, the volume sets the agenda for further
research in this area. The book will appeal to linguists, discourse
analysts, media scholars, and political scientists, and all who are
interested in the relationship between language and cognition in
the socio-political domain. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Critical Discourse Studies.
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