Objectification strategies outperform subjectification strategies in military interventionist discourses

Abstract

2 convincing, assuming that the conclusion is warranted by the premise, the premise itself must be believed. Political speakers must therefore do further discursive work to justify their claims to truth as much as normative rightness. As Chilton (2004: 23) states:Political discourse involves, among other things, the promotion of representations, and a pervasive feature of representation is the evident need for political speakers to imbue their utterances with evidence, authority and truth, a process that we shall refer to in broad terms, in the context of political discourse, as 'legitimisation'. 1

Animals vs. armies

“…The present study adds to the growing body of work in experimental CDA (Fuoli and Hart 2018;Hart 2018a/b;Hart and Fuoli 2020;Kampf and David 2019;Subtirelu and Gopavaram 2016). This approach to CDA deploys experimental methods as a form of triangulation to test whether audience responses to texts correspond with analysts' interpretations of them, thus reducing the problem of biased or subjective readings (Luke 2002;Widdowson 2004).…”

Responsibility attribution in gender-based domestic violence: A study bridging corpus-assisted discourse analysis and readers' perception

“…Previous studies of how GBV is depicted in media discourse mostly employ the methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis and sometimes employ corpus-assisted methods to analyze lexical items and collocations as prompts for evoking frames (for a review of CDA and corpus approaches to discourse see (Valvason, 2021)): see, among others, Ehrlich (2003), O'Hara (2012) and Tranchese and Zollo (2013) on English;Fagoaga (1994) and Santaemilia and Maruenda (2014) on Spanish; Abis and Orrù (2016), (Formato, 2017(Formato, , 2019, Busso et al (2021) and Belluati (2021) with references on Italian. As Christopher Hart has pointed out in several works (2018a, 2018b, 2018c, 2021Hart and Fuoli, 2020) the latest CDA practice emphasizes the need to use multiple means of inquiry to avoid a subjective selection and reading of textual data: he recommends triangulation. The CDA research ventures with triangulation have gone in different directions, including corpus (O'Halloran, 2007;Gabrielatos and Baker, 2008) and Cognitive Linguistics.…”

“…In parallel, it is still relatively rare to find investigations in which CDA is complemented with experimental methodologies (but see Subtirelu and Gopavaram, 2016;Fuoli and Hart, 2018;Hart, 2018aHart, , 2018bHart, , 2018cHart, , 2021Hart and Fuoli, 2020). Yet, concerning the constructions investigated in this paper, Henley et al (1995) provide a corpus and a psycholinguistic study of the usage and perception of passive constructions in U.S. media reports of GBV.…”

Cognitive And Rhetorical Forms Of Persuasion In Army Recruiting Posters

“…Linguistically oriented discourse analysis is also relevant while studying institutional discourses (Hart & Fuoli, 2020) defined as an integral part of public relations, shaping these relations.…”