Discourse and Politics

Chilton, Paul; Schäffner, Christina

doi:10.4135/9781446289068.n15

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“…The most common functions of political discourse are: to compel, to oppose, to protest, to disguise, to legitimate, and to illegitimate (Chilton & Schaffner, 1997). These functions are commonly used by those who want to gain power or those who wish to sustain their power.…”

Section: Literature Review Political Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Metaphors in the Ex-Gam’s Political Discourses During Pre-Public Elections in Aceh

Usman

2017

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The Free Aceh Movement, locally called Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM), developed several unique political discourses after having signed a peace accord with the Government of Indonesia (GoI) in Helsinki in 2005. The discourses created are metaphorical in Acehnese language, aimed to structure people's mind and to be accepted and transformed into their actions that supported GAM during pre-public election post conflicts. However, research on analyzing the metaphors is scant. This research used Johnson's (1980a, 1980b) conceptual metaphor and Fairclough's framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to critically analyze the political discourses in order to unveil the meaning and their ideology position. The research shows the most commonly used metaphor was ELECTION IS A BATTLE. However, the currently used political metaphors are more persuasive, urging people to voluntarily come back to their political party, than previously used ones that seemed to strongly force people to be on their side.

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Section: Literature Review Political Discoursesmentioning

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Metaphors in the Ex-Gam’s Political Discourses During Pre-Public Elections in Aceh

Usman

2017

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“…To minimize possible contradictions, social policy discourse is based upon positive words, such as 'citizenship', 'inclusion' and, that most inclusive of terms, 'our' (the power of which is emphasized by Chilton & Schäffner, 1997).…”

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“…Consequently, the terminology of the official and semi-official documentation examined here is positioned to have a particularly strong impact on both the formulation of discussion and on the meaning, import and impact of that formulation. Chilton and Schäffner (1997) refer to the (directly or subtly) coercive power employed by 'political actors' in their use of 'discourse in setting agendas, selecting topics … positioning the self and others in specific relationships, making assumptions about realities that hearers are obliged to at least temporarily accept ' (p. 212). It appears, then, that the way in which terminology has been developed in the key official documents on learning and skills development both has and is intended to have a forming effect on the way in which people think about these issues, not simply by virtue of persuasion through the argument, but by the use of language itself to create or reinforce assumptions.…”

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Social inclusion in two worlds: the conceptualization of the social role of lifelong learning in the education policy of Brazil and the UK since the mid 1990s

Drodge

Shiroma

2004

Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

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Aspects of post-16 education, particularly with reference to vocational education and training, have acquired a degree of common presentation in the policy making of many national and international organizations in recent years. This paper compares similarities and differences in the rhetoric and reality of policy implementation in Brazil and the UK in post-16 education, particularly Technical and Vocational Education and Training. It finds an increasing alignment between these two very different countries at the levels of both discourse and practice. It argues that this reflects the dominance of international and regional agencies on whom both countries draw in developing policy, and the subsequent dissemination of those agencies' particular assumptions about the relationship between education, skills and economic performance.

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“…A common discursive strategy in which such Opposition is realized is the positioning of a 'we-group' that is somehow at odds with a 'them' (cf. Atkinson 1984, Burkhardt 1993, Chilton and Schaffner 1997, de Fina 1995, Hutchby 1997, Johnson 1994, Maas 1985, Wilson 1990). …”

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“…Political analyses would focus rather on the search for the political quality or aspect in discourses or how various interactive domains of the polity, media, etc., are made political. In order to begin to answer this question, it is instructive to follow Chilton and Schaffner's (1997) recommendations that linguistic behavior be related to political behavior. In their view, fine-grained linguistic analyses can shed some light on how texts, written and oral, function politically.…”

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Creating and effacing differences in speeches on unemployment

Muntigl¹

1999

Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse

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In this article, what makes politicians' talk 'political' is examined. It is suggested that the political refers to actions that involve disputes and struggles over competing ideas, interests, andgoals. In order to examine the political quality of politicians' talk, the thematic, syntactic, and lexical content ofthree Speeches given by politicians ofthe European Commission on the topic of unemployment was analyzed. It wasfound that the Speakers used a variety ofdtscursive resources to portray a struggle between the competing perspectives of the European Commission and those in Opposition to the Commission's policies. The struggle consisted of the Speakers' discursive practices that emphasized (politicization) and minimized differences (depoliticization) between opposing groups. It is argued that this interplay between the emphasis and effacement of differences played a major r öle in making these textspolitical. Ofparticular importance was the Speakers' use of conßdence terms to create consensus and block alternatives.

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Discourse and Politics

Cited by 124 publications

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Metaphors in the Ex-Gam’s Political Discourses During Pre-Public Elections in Aceh

Metaphors in the Ex-Gam’s Political Discourses During Pre-Public Elections in Aceh

Social inclusion in two worlds: the conceptualization of the social role of lifelong learning in the education policy of Brazil and the UK since the mid 1990s

Creating and effacing differences in speeches on unemployment

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