Kindness in British communities: Discursive practices of promoting kindness during the Covid pandemic.

IF 2.4 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Epub Date: 2023-01-10 DOI:10.1177/09579265221148691
Jilan Wei
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This research adopts Critical Discourse Analysis as a perspective to explore how kindness was expressed and promoted in university communities and city communities from January to March in 2020 when the Covid pandemic broke out in the UK and provide a window on British culture in which kindness was expressed and promoted through discourse. It combines a qualitative method with a corpus-based quantitative method. It is found that kindness was meant for providing support and showing compassion and inclusion to community members and that strategies in lexis, syntax and metaphor can reproduce or resist the expression and promotion of kindness in communities. During the pandemic, the intentional kindness expressed by community authorities was respect of diversity rather than inclusion of different values or ethnicity and no substantial support was provided to vulnerable members even though authorities were trying to impress the public by claiming that they were making constant efforts to support the community. Case studies revealed that we should caution against the use of passivation and the pronouns like they.

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英国社区的善意:新冠肺炎疫情期间倡导善意的散漫实践。
本研究以批判性话语分析为视角,探讨2020年1月至3月新冠肺炎疫情在英国爆发期间,大学社区和城市社区如何表达和促进善意,并为了解英国文化提供了一个通过话语表达和促进善良的窗口。它将定性方法与基于语料库的定量方法相结合。研究发现,善意是为了向社区成员提供支持、表达同情和包容,词汇、句法和隐喻策略可以再现或抵制善意在社区中的表达和促进。在疫情期间,社区当局有意表达的善意是尊重多样性,而不是包容不同的价值观或种族,尽管当局试图通过声称他们正在不断努力支持社区来打动公众,但没有向弱势成员提供实质性支持。案例研究表明,我们应该谨慎使用钝化词和类似的代词。
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期刊介绍: Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
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