Generic characteristics of the Office of the High Representative's press releases

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ID23017672
AuthorsDanijela Majstorovic (0000-0002-0937-6704, University of Banja Luka, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume6
Issue3
Pages199-214
Publication date2009-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Discourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1740-5904 • E-ISSN: 1740-5912
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17405900902974886
OpenAlexW1974525553
LanguageEN
References cited23

This study looks into the hybridity of a particular political discourse format by exploring different sets of characteristics of the press release genre published by the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1996 and 2005. In an integrated approach preceded by a substantial contextualization of the problem, the genre is analyzed in terms of its activity, social relations (colonizer and the colonized) and communication technology. Particular political communication strategies the genre is meant to accomplish, such as legitimization, coercion and representation, are also anlayzed in terms of their linguistic realizations such as lexical and semantic content, metaphors, metapragmatic features, perlocution and construction of social hierarchy/distance towards recipients.

Coercion (linguistics) · Contextualization · Hierarchy · Hybridity · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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