Hunter Vaughan, A. Pasek, N. R. Silcox, Nicole Starosielski
{"title":"ICT environmentalism and the sustainability game","authors":"Hunter Vaughan, A. Pasek, N. R. Silcox, Nicole Starosielski","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22125.vau","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22125.vau","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Over the past three decades, corporate branding has trended strongly towards environmental conscientiousness and green rhetoric, often heralded under the term “sustainability” – a broad and mutable rhetorical strategy that not only serves industry self-interest but is mobilized by civil society actors as well. This tension is especially apparent in the information communication technologies (ICT) sector. Employing Wittgenstein’s concept of the language-game, this article describes how sustainability has been deployed by tech companies, and how these efforts have also been contested – and strategically mobilized – by activist environmental non-profits and critical scholars seeking to reform tech sector practices. Combining environmental communication, political economy, and discourse analysis, we investigate the conceptualization and communication of sustainability as a discourse within and against the sector.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42675296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rhetorical (ir)responsibility in the Australian Parliament","authors":"Simon McLaughlin, F. Weder","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22127.mcl","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22127.mcl","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this conceptual paper, we differentiate between political decisions and the conversations where these decisions\u0000 are discussed and facilitated. We complement existing work on argumentation in political communication by applying Aristotle’s\u0000 Rhetoric to the study of climate change debate. We show how Aristotle’s principles for ethical and rational\u0000 political speech work toward audience trust and encourage deliberative debate and decision-making. Our deliberative perspective is\u0000 supported by a case study analysis of Australia’s parliamentary climate change debate. We resurrect Aristotle’s\u0000 Rhetoric both as an analytical tool for critical analysis and a potential framework for constructive climate\u0000 change debate. Following the conceptualisation of parliamentary debate as a conversational space where decision-making processes\u0000 are facilitated, we introduce Aristotle’s Rhetoric and the concept of ‘rhetorical responsibility’, which is\u0000 further explored and exemplified in the case study. We conclude with future research questions for discourse and political\u0000 communication studies.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45493441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Chun (2022): Applied Linguistics and Politics","authors":"Qijun Song","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23060.son","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23060.son","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42041718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dimensions of time and space in narratives for climate action","authors":"E. Bloomfield","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22128.blo","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22128.blo","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Addressing climate change requires engaging with the fluid, dynamic, and amorphous narrative of humanature relationships. I view environmental rhetoric as practices of storytelling that structure reality, guide actions, and shape understanding of the environment. Through rhetorical criticism, I analyzed fragments of climate activist discourse related to the narratives’ temporal and spatial scopes. I argue that reimagining the scope of our climate narratives’ temporal (chronos-kairos) and spatial (chora-topos) dimensions are inventional opportunities to motivate climate action toward more sustainable futures.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46185508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discourses on gender in climate change adaptation projects of Bangladesh","authors":"D. Dev, Elske van de Fliert","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22121.dev","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22121.dev","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The study examines why certain discourses on gender are more powerful than others in describing intentions for\u0000 gender inclusion in development projects. A critical discourse analysis was carried out on texts of climate change adaptation\u0000 projects implemented during 2009–2020 in rural Bangladesh. This article argues that gender is currently not considered enough in\u0000 climate action and that gender discourses focus primarily on ‘women’s participation, more precisely, ‘women’s presence in poverty\u0000 reduction and empowerment projects. The discourses reinscribe to the long-established economic priorities of development rather\u0000 than exploring new dimensions to challenge social norms that define perpetual gender inequalities. This study suggests that\u0000 greater attention is required to address the gender realities of non-binary categories, ethnic groups, non-poor social classes,\u0000 and religious minorities to effectively plan and implement adaptation projects to support the diverse needs of vulnerable\u0000 people.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42555779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A topic modeling-assisted diachronic study of “One Country, Two Systems” represented in Anglo-American newspapers","authors":"Fu Chen, Guofeng Wang","doi":"10.1075/jlp.21038.che","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.21038.che","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000One Country, Two Systems (1C2S) is a framework proposed by China to achieve national unification of territories with different economic and socio-political systems. This study explores the discursive construction of 1C2S in two representative Anglo-American newspapers from January 1984 through March 2020 by taking a topic modeling-assisted critical discourse studies approach. The findings suggest that the foci of coverage change throughout the years, and the reports present an increasingly negative portrayal of 1C2S and growing distrust in its future through the use of a variety of discursive strategies such as predication, intensification, and normalization. In addition to practical concerns of the U.S. and the U.K., these findings are interpreted with regard to the underlying ideological conflicts between socialist China and the two capitalist Western countries. This study also shows the advantage of integrating the topic-modelling approach into discourse studies, especially in terms of diachronic analysis.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48855139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National identity revisited","authors":"N. Guliashvili","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22106.gul","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22106.gul","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000 National Identity is a discursively constructed complex entity which can reshape an image of a nation. Even one person powerful enough to be a representative of the whole nation can promote a collective sense of nationality/patriotism and sovereignty of the country in line with social, historical, or most importantly, a versatile geopolitical context. The present study is an illustration of how lexical choices of a particular political figure – the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – identified by specific corpus linguistic research tools in the discourse, defines and emphasizes a national integrity during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis is applied to investigate how a prominent Ukrainian political figure – Volodymyr Zelenskyy discursively constructs national identity in the context of the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war. The research is based on the linguistic scrutiny of presidential video addresses, which are stored at the official presidential website and transcribed in English.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45608443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The populist radical right beyond Europe","authors":"Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Lisa Zanotti","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22136.rov","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22136.rov","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Although the populist radical right (PRR) has become a global phenomenon, research about it focuses much more on\u0000 Europe than on other regions. To counter this imbalance, this special issue provides comparative evidence on the discourse\u0000 elaborated by the PRR on six non-European countries: Australia, Brazil, Chile, India, Turkey, and the United States. As we will\u0000 show, non-European PRR forces articulate authoritarian, nativist, and populist ideas in different ways than their European\u0000 brethren and they employ specific ideological elements (e.g., neoliberalism and religion) to advance discourses that resonate with\u0000 the social grievances that are preponderant in the context wherein they operate. This reveals that part of the success of the PRR\u0000 is related to its discursive flexibility and capacity to adapt itself with the aim of constructing frames that connect with the\u0000 anxieties experimented by segments of the voting public across different national and regional settings.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48617280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Díaz, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Lisa Zanotti
{"title":"The arrival of the populist radical right in Chile","authors":"C. Díaz, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Lisa Zanotti","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22131.dia","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22131.dia","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Despite the increasing influence of populist radical right (PRR) forces at the global level, they have been absent in Chile until very recently. Today, however, the conditions seem to be ripe for the consolidation of the PRR in the country. As we show in this contribution, José Antonio Kast and the Partido Republicano advance a programmatic agenda that emphasizes authoritarian, nativist, and populist ideas. We also demonstrate certain peculiarities of this political project, which differentiates it from its European brethren. In fact, the party has adopted very clear neoliberal positions and puts much more emphasis on outgroup distinctions within rather than outside the nation. Moreover, given that José Antonio Kast and the Partido Republicano maintain a very fluid relationship with the mainstream right, collaboration between the two seems much simpler and more feasible than in most European cases.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47643520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The leader and the people","authors":"E. Fanoulis, Alessandra Cappelletti","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22032.fan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22032.fan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper examines the shifting boundaries in populist discourses in China, with a focus on how the political\u0000 leader’s discourse socially constructs the people. By combining critical and post-structuralist discourse analysis, we argue\u0000 firstly that prevalent Western-centric approaches to the study of populism only partially capture the notion of the people in\u0000 contemporary China, the study of which requires a mixture of elements from these approaches. Secondly, that the image of a Chinese\u0000 people embracing the Chinese Dream and the promise for a New China, is narrated in a context where the Chinese Communist Party\u0000 infuses all levels of society with messages of development, prosperity, peace and freedom. And thirdly, that while previous\u0000 leaders would normally address the people in a formal and detached way, the distance between leadership and the people has been\u0000 reduced in the Xi Jinping era.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44588042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}