Constructing threat through quotes and historical analogies in the Czech and the US “Ukraine Discourse

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ID6085077
AuthorsMartina Berrocal (0000-0003-4003-8516)
Year2019
Volume18
Issue6
Pages870-892
Publication date2019-11-25
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.18002.ber
OpenAlexW2984783223
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited25

Conflicts and their discursive representations involve, apart from the spacio-temporal dimension, also the socio-ideological and axiological positions. These prompt the desired emotional response from the audience in a form of authorization for the intended action. All these dimensions are mainly construed by presenting series of assertions by creating the dichotomy self-other and by triggering implicatures that contribute to the preferred interpretations of the presented representations. This paper aims to examine the role of quotes and historical analogies triggered by quotes in discourse, concretely, it focuses on the way the Ukrainian conflict is proximized in the US and the Czech political discourse, namely in the parliamentary debates and governmental statements (November 2013–December 2014). The theoretical framework applied is the proximization approach (Cap 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017) which is complemented by the studies that explore the pragmatic functions of quoting in discourse

Action (physics · Czech · Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ukrainian · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Philosophy

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