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Breeze, Ruth

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“…The analysis reveals a significant presence of anger in the user-generated responses (Breeze 2020), expressed through various means by male users. Expressions such as "stop", "STOP THIS RIGHT NOW !!!!!"…”

Section: "What About Men?": Anger and Resistance In User-generated Re...mentioning

confidence: 98%

“A Pandemic within the Pandemic”: A CDA of Social Media Comments on Domestic Violence during COVID-19

Napolitano

2023

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal)

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Violence against women is a ubiquitous phenomenon, characterised by a series of psychological, physical, sexual, and persecutory acts that cause harm and suffering of various kinds to the victim. The issue, already declared a pandemic by the UN Secretary General in 2008, became a worrying pandemic within the pandemic with the outbreak of the epidemiological emergency from COVID-19 in the early 2020s. From the beginning, the media and specialised services spoke of a possible increased risk of adverse outcomes for the health and well-being of those already living in vulnerable situations before the onset of COVID-19. The threat was due to forced confinement (lockdown) and the difficulties for victims living with the abuser to report and turn to support services. A vital role in the rethinking and reorganisation of services and in the networking that has underpinned social work in the emergency period is represented by the use of technology and the modification of information flows that followed. A strong propensity emerges for the widespread use of digital tools, of the net in the widest sense, up to the use of social media, both to intercept beneficiaries and for the provision of services and their communication. The present study investigates user-generated discourse about domestic violence during COVID-19 by examining the replies to a Facebook post by the World Health Organization (WHO) (on 24 June 2021) reporting the increased risk for women during the pandemic. Critical Discourse Analysis represents a valid framework to investigate social media communication as expressing ideological meanings and sustaining hierarchically gendered social orders. In particular, the study seeks to identify the discursive means employed by online users to frame domestic abuse and express their position. It has also uncovered how the users exploit the topic to convey their views on other issues related to COVID-19 (e.g. vaccines, government policies).

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Section: "What About Men?": Anger and Resistance In User-generated Re...mentioning

confidence: 98%

“A Pandemic within the Pandemic”: A CDA of Social Media Comments on Domestic Violence during COVID-19

Napolitano

2023

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal)

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“…In summation, the UK government is keen to promote the understanding of EU membership as entailing a loss of national sovereignty, democracy and independence, hence pitting the EU directly against the UK (and, by extension, any other member state). In this way, its discourse is marked by strong continuity with the Leavers' rhetoric during the referendum campaign (Cap, 2019; Bennet, 2019; Breeze, 2020; Brusenbauch Meislová, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Secondly, by inquiring into the concrete discourse that accompanies, and at the same time constitutes, the legitimation of Brexit, the article presents novel empirical results that complement earlier findings on the discourses surrounding this policy process. There is a burgeoning literature on the discourses of Brexit, examining it from various perspectives, including that of politicians and decision‐ makers (Breeze, 2020; Buckledee, 2018; Demata, 2019; Hansson, 2019; Spencer and Oppermann, 2020), governmental bodies (Hansson and Page, 2022; Zappettini, 2019b), political parties (Bennet, 2019; Cap, 2019), transnational online communities (Kopf, 2019), or media (Maccaferri, 2019). Some of these accounts have explicitly paid attention to legitimation of some aspects of the 2016 in/out referendum and its result.…”

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In Quest for Discursive Legitimation of Ongoing Policy Processes: Constructing Brexit as a Success Story

Meislová¹

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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The article brings together insights from the literatures on policy process, policy legitimation and legitimacy discourse to shed new light on the temporal structure of discursive legitimation of policy processes. It argues that in order to satisfy complex demands on their legitimacy, ongoing policy processes are legitimated not only by referring to the current state of affairs (status quo legitimation), but also by legitimating the future (status ad quem legitimation) and delegitimating the past (status quo ante delegitimation). Presenting an original typology of three distinct temporal regimes of policy process legitimation, this inquiry explores its validity on the empirical case of Brexit. Combining qualitative content analysis and the discourse-historical approach (DHA) to discourse studies, the article elucidates how exactly Brexit was officially legitimated within the three temporal regimes by the UK Conservative government in 2021that is, during the first year of 'full' Brexit.

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“…As new forms of communication develop, new practices of violence spread in different fields and at different levels. This is particularly true of the dissemination of violent language through computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media, as numerous studies have described, in the fields of politics (Breeze, 2020;Ekman, 2019), racism (van Dijk, 2000Fairclough, 2003), or misogyny (Blake et al, 2021;Centola, 2010;Fan et al, 2016), for example. Due to its immediacy and global reach, violence in CMC spreads like wildfire and contaminates other environments, even when it originates in offline environments.…”

Section: Language and Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Representation of gender violence in appeal proceedings in Spain

Mestre-Mestre¹

2023

RLD

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Violence against women is a gruesome problem in our society. In 2021 alone, there were around 170,000 complaints of gender-based violence in Spain, and this number has been steadily increasing since 2009, when the first data was collected. Complaints of gender-based violence in Spain are handled and decided by exclusive, specialised or compatible courts; if convicted, the perpetrators can then appeal to higher courts. Given the performative nature of language (Austin, 1962; Searle, 1969), it is of the utmost importance to analyse the language used in court by judges and lawyers to refer to violence against women, as this influences the mainstream social perception by facilitating a construal of gender violence. The ways in which language and violence are intertwined have long been studied from various perspectives (Derrida, 2001; Fairclough, 1989; Foucault, 1980). Other authors have explored how language can inflict (and therefore provoke) violence in various forms (van Dijk, 1995; Silva, 2017a, 2017b). In this paper, we examine the representation of gender-based violence in legal language in Spain. We address the language used to refer to violence in the texts analysed; the portrayal in court judgements of participants in acts of gender-based violence; and the resulting social representation of violence, victims and aggressors. We also examine the representation of women from a constructionist perspective (Butler, 1992; 1997; 2004), using corpus pragmatics (Romero-Trillo, 2008) to analyse lexical items and expressions in 20 court judgments in the context of gender-based violence. The results indicate some bias in the representation of violence, aggressors and victims in court judgments.

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Angry tweets

Cited by 31 publications

References 29 publications

“A Pandemic within the Pandemic”: A CDA of Social Media Comments on Domestic Violence during COVID-19

“A Pandemic within the Pandemic”: A CDA of Social Media Comments on Domestic Violence during COVID-19

In Quest for Discursive Legitimation of Ongoing Policy Processes: Constructing Brexit as a Success Story

Representation of gender violence in appeal proceedings in Spain

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