Winds of War: Epistemic and effective control in political discourse on war

IF 1 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES

Cultura Lenguaje y Representacion-Revista de Estudios Culturales de la Universitat Jaume I Pub Date : 2021-11-21 DOI:10.6035/clr.5858

Juana I. Marín-Arrese

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Abstract

This paper explores two key domains of speaker’s stance in discourse: epistemic and effective stance (Marín-Arrese 2011, 2015, 2021). The framework draws on Langacker’s (2009, 2013) distinction between the effective and the epistemic level in the grammar, and the systematic opposition thereof between striving for control of relations at the level of reality and control of conceptions of reality. Epistemic strategies pertain to the epistemic legitimisation of assertions, by providing epistemic support and epistemic justification for the proposition (Boye 2012). Effective control is aimed at the legitimisation of actions and plans of action. The joint deployment of epistemic and effective stance acts effects a strategy of combined control over hearers/readers’ acceptance of conceptions of reality and of plans of action. This paper studies the strategic use of these resources in the discourse of war and presents a case study on their use by two politicians, President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair, in political speeches and statements during the build-up to the second Iraq war. Results indicate significant qualitative and quantitative differences in the preferred stance strategies in the discourse of the two politicians.

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战争之风：战争政治话语中的认识论与有效控制

本文探讨了说话人话语立场的两个关键领域：认知立场和有效立场（Marín-Arrese 201120152021）。该框架借鉴了Langacker（20092013）在语法中有效和认识层面之间的区别，以及在努力控制现实层面的关系和控制现实概念之间的系统对立。认识论策略通过为命题提供认识论支持和认识论正当性，与断言的认识论合法化有关（Boye 2012）。有效控制旨在使行动和行动计划合法化。认知和有效立场行为的联合部署实现了对听话人/读者接受现实概念和行动计划的联合控制策略。本文研究了这些资源在战争话语中的战略使用，并对乔治·布什总统和托尼·布莱尔首相在第二次伊拉克战争筹备期间的政治演讲和声明中使用这些资源的情况进行了个案研究。结果表明，两位政治家在话语中的偏好立场策略在质和量上存在显著差异。

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