Book review: Piotr Cap, The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective

IF 2.1 2区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION
Jingyi Huang
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This book investigates the linguistics features and strategies of conflict, crisis, and threat construction in the context of Poland, especially when the right-wing populist and conservative political party, Law & Justice (L&J), came to power in 2015. The party is known for its anti-democratic and anti-European disposition, which especially gained supports from the people who viewed European integration as obstacles to develop their own economy and who defended national identity and traditional beliefs. This book focuses on the discursive construction, and examines how the populist rhetoric is produced by L&J’s leaders to enact their leadership and reinforce their ideologies. It covers discussions of the parliamentary and governmental discourse against the opponents who weaken the ruling legitimization, and the complicated relations with the European Union related to immigration and economic activities. Through conducting a comprehensive discourse analysis on parliamentary discourse and governmental discourse from L&J leaders, this book highlights the threat generation as a powerful instrument for L&J to exert social coercion and consolidate the leadership. It also provides insights into the relations between L&J and the populist right-wing rhetoric trend in Europe. Along with the introduction and concluding remarks, this book is composed of six chapters. The first two chapters give details about the background of the study. Chapter 1 presents a synthetic account of the theoretical underpinnings of political leadership and political communication, and illustrates intertwined relations between threat construction, social coercion, (de)legitimization, propaganda, fear dichotomies, and credibility. It discusses the important role of the threat production and conflict management in enacting the political leadership, and further argues for the discursive construction of the Us-and-Them conflict as central instrument of generating threat. Finally, this chapter introduces the feasible analytical models, for instance, discourse space theory (DST), political metaphor (PM) and proximization in the examination of the discursive 1170676 DCM0010.1177/17504813231170676Discourse & CommunicationBook reviews book-review2023
书评:彼得·卡普,《冲突与危机的话语:欧洲视野下的波兰政治修辞》
本书探讨了波兰背景下冲突、危机和威胁建构的语言学特征和策略,特别是当右翼民粹主义和保守派政党法律与正义(L&J)于2015年上台时。该党以其反民主和反欧洲的倾向而闻名,这尤其得到了人们的支持,他们认为欧洲一体化是发展本国经济的障碍,并捍卫了国家身份和传统信仰。这本书关注的是话语结构,并考察了L&J的领导人是如何产生民粹主义言论来发挥他们的领导作用和强化他们的意识形态的。它涵盖了议会和政府对削弱执政合法化的反对者的讨论,以及与欧盟在移民和经济活动方面的复杂关系。通过对L&J领导人的议会话语和政府话语进行全面的话语分析,本书强调了威胁生成是L&J施加社会胁迫和巩固领导地位的有力工具。它还提供了对L&J与欧洲民粹主义右翼言论趋势之间关系的见解。本书除引言和结语外,共分六章。前两章详细介绍了本文的研究背景。第一章综合介绍了政治领导力和政治沟通的理论基础,并说明了威胁构建、社会胁迫、(去)合法化、宣传、恐惧二分法和可信度之间的相互交织关系。论述了威胁产生和冲突管理在政治领导力建设中的重要作用,并进一步论证了“我们与他们”冲突作为产生威胁的核心工具的话语建构。最后,本章介绍了可行的分析模型,如话语空间理论(DST)、政治隐喻(PM)和近似化,以考察话语1170676 DCM0010.1177/17504813231170676话语与交际书评书评2023
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Discourse & Communication
Discourse & Communication COMMUNICATION-
CiteScore
3.30
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5.30%
发文量
41
期刊介绍: Discourse & Communication is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles that pay specific attention to the qualitative, discourse analytical approach to issues in communication research. Besides the classical social scientific methods in communication research, such as content analysis and frame analysis, a more explicit study of the structures of discourse (text, talk, images or multimedia messages) allows unprecedented empirical insights into the many phenomena of communication. Since contemporary discourse study is not limited to the account of "texts" or "conversation" alone, but has extended its field to the study of the cognitive, interactional, social, cultural.
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