{"title":"Multimodality as civic participation","authors":"F. D. de Groot, Andrew Jocuns","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22006.deg","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22006.deg","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In October 2018, a collaboration between young rap artists in Thailand’s Indy rap scene, Rap Against Dictatorship (RAD), launched a video criticizing the ruling Junta that went viral within days of publication. The Junta soon after released its own video as a response to RAD. The production and publication of both videos are what Scollon (2001) calls social actions mediated by a distinct cultural toolkit. This study analyzed how modes such as music, text, color, camera angle, gestures, voice, image and iconicity emerged in both videos to realize scalar differences in civic participation. The Junta’s video represents a high sociolinguistic scale, whereas RAD realizes a lower scale. In a time of political unrest in Thailand, sociolinguistic scale and the semiotic resources that people employ to realize scales are a lens to analyze how different stakeholders address various perspectives of the political situation and appeal to different levels of civic participation.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46014910","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":"Visions of the good future","authors":"A. Friberg","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22030.fri","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22030.fri","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The relationship between time and politics is complex and multilayered, especially in issues such as global\u0000 warming. This facilitates political playing with and about time; political actors use and frame time in various ways. Drawing upon\u0000 the work of Reinhart Koselleck, this article examines temporal statements about the environment and the climate in Swedish\u0000 election campaigns 1988 to 2018 and shows how political rhetoric has been constituted by several competing modalities of time.\u0000 However, these modalities can become problematic for political thinking about the future. To resolve the climate crisis, we need a\u0000 politics that acknowledges both historical and political contingency. Engaging with the past, without seeking to extrapolate a\u0000 unified narrative of historical progress, explores the past from various perspectives and shows how the present is contingent.\u0000 This could enable a renegotiation of possible futures and a politics for the future that facilitates both understanding and\u0000 action.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49414538","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":"Legitimation in revolutionary discourse","authors":"John Ganaah, M. Nartey, Aditi Bhatia","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22002.gan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22002.gan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper analyzes the legitimation strategies used by Jerry John Rawlings, a Ghanaian revolutionary leader, to\u0000 license his revolutionary actions, including political enemy executions and a crackdown on corrupt practices. It adapts and\u0000 extends van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework by demonstrating how Rawlings exploited historical memory and the notion of sacrifice\u0000 in conjunction with the strategies of authorization, rationalization and moralization to formulate his revolutionary rhetoric. The\u0000 analysis reveals that the legitimation strategies enabled Rawlings to project a patriot-cum-nationalist identity as well as\u0000 construct himself as a noble revolutionary mandated by the people of Ghana to represent their interests, protect them from\u0000 evildoers and lead the process of social transformation. The study illustrates the persuasive power of revolutionary discourses in\u0000 terms of how they function ideologically in the message they communicate (or exaggerate) and conceal.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42962071","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":"Revealing China’s diplomatic narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative","authors":"Yuan Jiang","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22005.jia","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22005.jia","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a well-acknowledged central economic and diplomatic policy of the Chinese\u0000 government, which was proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013. By using content analysis and interviews, this paper analyzes\u0000 Chinese President Xi’s speeches from 2013 to 2020 about the BRI, as well as official statements of the Chinese central government.\u0000 It identifies at least five competing diplomatic narratives of the BRI. Different from repetitive literature that explores either\u0000 the economic or political implications of the BRI, this paper contributes by exploring the original story that the Chinese\u0000 government tries to tell the world. It concludes that initially, the narrative of the BRI has not been portrayed well from the\u0000 Chinese side.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":"39 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41293830","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 Wachowski & Sullivan (2022): Metonymies and Metaphors for Death Around the World","authors":"Fang Zhu","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22137.zhu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22137.zhu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44167940","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 Li, Lui & Fung (2020): Systemic functional political discourse: A text-based study","authors":"Wenliang Chen, Lijuan Du","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22120.che","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22120.che","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42146495","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":"News on fake news","authors":"J. Farkas","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22020.far","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22020.far","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article presents a qualitative study of media discourses around fake news, examining 288 news articles from two national elections in Denmark in 2019. It explores how news media construct fake news as a national security threat and how journalists articulate their own role in relation to this threat. The study draws on discourse theory and the concept of logics to critically map how particular meaning ascriptions and subject positions come to dominate over others, finding five logics undergirding media discourses: (1) a logic of anticipation; (2) a logic of exteriorisation; (3) a logic of technologisation; (4) a logic of securitisation; and (5) a logic of pre-legitimation. The article concludes that fake news is constructed as an ‘ultimate other’ in Danish media discourses, potentially contributing to blind spots in both public perception and political solutions. This resonates with previous studies from other geo-political contexts, calling for further cross-national research.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49213214","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":"Collective identity construction in the covid-19 crisis","authors":"Cun Zhang, Guiling Liu, Shuang Zhang","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22024.zha","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22024.zha","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Since the pandemic broke out in 2020, China has widely presented the covid crisis in its mass media and actively\u0000 constructed collective identity thereof to mobilize medical workers, unify political stances, boost domestic solidarity, and\u0000 promote international support. This paper combines the Discourse-Historical Approach and a multimodal perspective to investigate\u0000 how the Chinese state-run news agency People’s Daily discursively achieves these purposes on TikTok. A\u0000 combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is used to present the high-frequency topoi of justifying the crisis and\u0000 referential and predicational strategies of shaping collective identity within, which can fall into four dimensions: positive\u0000 Self, negative Self, negative Others, and positive Others.\u0000 The linguistic resources can be intensified/mitigated by visual-aural ensembles, which can draw the audience’s attention and\u0000 arouse their emotional attachments. This study also summarizes the embedded values in the discourses and situates them in\u0000 socio-political contexts.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47816586","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}
L. Windsor, S. Mitchell, T. Osborn, Bryce J. Dietrich, Andrew J. Hampton
{"title":"Gender, language, and representation in the United States Senate","authors":"L. Windsor, S. Mitchell, T. Osborn, Bryce J. Dietrich, Andrew J. Hampton","doi":"10.1075/jlp.21053.win","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.21053.win","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000We explore how gendered language in Senate floor debates evolves between the 101st and 109th sessions (N=229,526 speeches). We hypothesize that female Senators speak like women in the general population, that their speeches focus on traditionally designated women’s issues, and that they use female linguistic strategies found in the general population when discussing low politics or women’s issues. We also expect women to speak like legislators, adopting more male linguistic approaches for high politics issues or in election year speeches and for female senators to use more male linguistics as time served in the Senate increases. Using a suite of computational linguistics approaches such as topic modeling (Latent Dirichlet Allocation), syntax and semantic analysis (Coh-Metrix), and sentiment analysis (LIWC), our analyses highlight the distinct roles of women speaking for women (e.g. promoting issues like education or healthcare), women speaking like women (e.g. using personal pronouns), and women speaking as Senators.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47629748","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 Chiluwa (2021): Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building","authors":"Le Cheng, Xiaofang Chen","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22034.che","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22034.che","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46188942","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}