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{"title":"Book review: Piotr Cap, The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective","authors":"Jingyi Huang","doi":"10.1177/17504813231170676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231170676","url":null,"abstract":"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","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46948997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Twitter-based analysis of anti-refugee discourses in Türkiye","authors":"Fahri Yılmaz, Tugay Elmas, Betil Eröz","doi":"10.1177/17504813231169135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231169135","url":null,"abstract":"As the number of refugees in Türkiye continues to grow, the constructed discourse of welcoming refugees with open arms has weakened, transforming the image of refugees from ‘guests’ to ‘threats’. Social media platforms are used to spread hate speech, discrimination, racism, and otherization. Drawing on the Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis approach, the present research investigates how language is used to produce online discourses in tweets about refugees in the aftermath of a major social triggering event in Türkiye. This mixed-methods study incorporated both a corpus analysis of tweets posted on Twitter over a specific period, as well as a critical discourse analysis of a randomly selected subset of 100 tweets. The findings revealed that the prevalence of discontent and frustration of the host population against refugees has turned into a discourse of discrimination, hate, and racism. Moreover, a negative portrayal of refugees was created and maintained not only through lexical choices, but also characteristics attributed to them, as well as assumptions and prejudices about them.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41723480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Alan B. Albarran, The Media Economy","authors":"Shivani Thakur","doi":"10.1177/17504813231170678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231170678","url":null,"abstract":"Cushing E (2021) How Facebook fails 90 percent of its users. The Atlantic. Available at: https:// www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/facebook-failed-the-world/620479/ (accessed 10 October 2022). Grimmelmann J (2011) Some skepticism about search neutrality. New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series 10/11(20): 435–459. Pickard V (2019) Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65585030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Thu Ngo, Susan Hood, James R. Martin, Clare Painter, Bradley A. Smith and Michele Zappavigna, Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and Application","authors":"Chunhui Zhang","doi":"10.1177/17504813231170685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231170685","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46143761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Terry Flew and Fiona R. Martin, Digital Platform Regulation, Global Perspectives on Internet Governance","authors":"Naurah Lisnarini, Ivana Pascalia Sooai","doi":"10.1177/17504813231170677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231170677","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43965832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparative discourse analysis of Kazakhstani universities’ organisational identity","authors":"Zh. A. Tatyyeva, A. Zagidullina","doi":"10.1177/17504813231163092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231163092","url":null,"abstract":"The present study explored the discourses adopted by the Kazakhstani universities to represent their organisational identity. It analysed the information of 30 Kazakhstani universities as found in their websites. It then compared Kazakhstani universities with their UK and US counterparts. These data revealed the discourses created by Kazakhstani universities to represent their organisational identity, and the socioeconomic factors that influenced them. A corpus-assisted discourse analysis was conducted by identifying the key semantic domains and keywords of Kazakhstani universities. Furthermore, the identified key semantic domains and keywords were analysed in detail utilising concordance analysis. In addition to the academic discourse; the organisational identity of Kazakhstani universities, involved marketing, change and managerial discourses. Kazakhstani universities construct their identity with an international outlook. The findings showed that the global trend in the marketisation of universities is relevant for Kazakhstani universities.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44893818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A critical discourse analysis of Al Jazeera’s online coverage of the war in Yemen before and after the 5 June 2017 Gulf crisis","authors":"Monther Alluhaidah","doi":"10.1177/17504813231163769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231163769","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was utilised to examine the Al Jazeera Arabic news website with respect to its reports on the social actors in the Yemen war, particularly the KSA, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain coalition and the opposing Houthis, both before and after the Gulf crisis that occurred on 5 June 2017. The analysed data included a total of 32 news articles related to the war in Yemen, with 16 articles covering the period prior to the Crisis, from 2015 to 2017, and 16 covering the period following the onset of the crisis, from 2017 to 2019. The overall aim was to uncover the ideological implications of various linguistic elements, such as lexical choices, news headline creation, and de-legitimisation strategies, and the results revealed identifiable, distinct, and non-random changes in tone and angle of representation relating to the various social actors and their actions. Before the crisis, the coalition was represented positively while Houthis was presented negatively, while after the crisis, the tone towards these social actors was completely reversed. The various discursive strategies used in the articles across both periods thus show that the coverage of the Yemen crisis was intended to ideologically and politically guide readers’ understanding of the crisis.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47310604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Versailles literature’ on WeChat Moments – humblebragging with digital technologies","authors":"Baiyao Zuo","doi":"10.1177/17504813231164854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231164854","url":null,"abstract":"Versailles literature is a newly emerged phenomenon on Chinese social networking sites. It is in essence an indirect form of self-praise. Despite its popularity on social media, there is little research on this phenomenon. This study investigates the pragmatic strategies for performing VL on WeChat Moments. The results showed that Versailles literature often includes strategies such as implicit self-praise, modified explicit self-praise, and self-praise through comments and replies, among which the tactics that have not been observed before, such as bragging in a foreign language, creating false ‘question–answer’ or ‘compliment–response’ interactions and commenting to the adverts. These strategies are implemented in various ways by virtue of the technological affordance of WeChat Moments, in order to balance the disclosure and the dissimulation of the object of praise. The study also discusses the distinctive features of VL and explains the absence of some frequent strategies of self-praising in Versailles literature.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46299554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building a global community of health for all: A positive discourse analysis of COVID-19 discourse","authors":"Tayden Fung Chan, Yating Yu","doi":"10.1177/17504813231163078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231163078","url":null,"abstract":"‘A global community of health for all’ has become a dominant concept in China’s global health governance system. Although this concept has been investigated by several studies in different domains, little attention has been given to its discursive legitimation in China’s media communication from a linguistic perspective. To fill this gap, the present study employs positive discourse analysis to investigate how the aforementioned concept is legitimised via the predominant discourses associated with COVID-19 in state-run Chinese English-language newspapers. The findings show that the Chinese news media attempted to formulate the positive discourses, including cooperation as a win-win solution, people’s lives and well-being as the priority and science as the spirit, though the discourses may not resonate with some countries. The findings shed light on the use of language by the media in promoting official ideologies, projecting China’s national image and improving China’s international relations amid a global health crisis.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45294025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spinning interactional plates: Managing multicommunication behind the screen of Facebook","authors":"H. Ditchfield","doi":"10.1177/17504813231156749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231156749","url":null,"abstract":"Multicommunication is a form of multitasking that involves engaging in two or more interactional activities simultaneously. Technological features of mediated communication make multicommunication more practical, yet it is questioned whether the quality of our interactions is upheld when interpersonal engagement is split. This paper addresses this concern by asking whether interactional techniques are employed by multicommunicators in the context of Facebook and what this means for the quality of our online interactions. Building on previous multicommunication research, this paper examines how multicommunication is managed behind the screen: that is, how interlocutors move between overlapping conversations rather than the organisation within conversations themselves. In doing this, this paper extends the Goffmanian concept of ‘participatory roles’, arguing that multicommunicators adopt the role of a ‘manager’ to move between numerous conversation threads. Through presenting screen capture data of Facebook Messenger interactions, and drawing on micro analytic methods, it is revealed how Facebook users work to simplify their interactions when multicommunicating whilst simultaneously preserving interactional complexity.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46723885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}