‘Wrap our arms around them here in Ireland’: Social media campaigns in the Irish abortion referendum

IF 2.4 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-04-27 DOI:10.1177/09579265221088132

Simon Statham, H. Ringrow

引用次数: 2

Abstract

The 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which codified a near-absolute ban on abortion in Ireland, was ratified in 1983 and removed after a high profile campaign to ‘Repeal the 8th’ in 2018. This article analyses the language of the pro-choice group Together for Yes and the anti-choice groups Love Both and Pro-Life Ireland that campaigned to ‘Save the 8th’. We combine an application of the Appraisal framework with an account of conceptual metaphor in a Critical Discourse Analysis of the language of both campaigns on the social network platform Twitter. Both sides of the ‘Repeal Referendum’ strategically utilised language across a wide range of semiotic modes. This article assesses the specific role of social media language in the Irish abortion referendum and connects these strategies to the wider campaign tactics of both sides.

查看原文本刊更多论文

“在爱尔兰拥抱他们”:爱尔兰堕胎公投的社交媒体宣传活动

爱尔兰宪法第八修正案于1983年获得批准，在2018年一场高调的“废除第八修正案”运动后被删除，该修正案在爱尔兰几乎绝对禁止堕胎。这篇文章分析了支持堕胎的团体“一起投赞成票”和反对堕胎的团体“爱两者”和“支持生命的爱尔兰”的语言。我们将评价框架的应用与概念隐喻的解释结合起来，对社交网络平台Twitter上两场运动的语言进行了批判性话语分析。“废除公投”的双方都有策略地在广泛的符号学模式中使用语言。本文评估了社交媒体语言在爱尔兰堕胎公投中的具体作用，并将这些策略与双方更广泛的竞选策略联系起来。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Discourse & Society Multiple-

CiteScore

4.50

自引率

4.50%

发文量

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.