The cultural pragmatics of event-ness: the Clinton / Lewinsky affair

Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Giesen, Bernhard; Mast, Jason L.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511616839.004

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“…The r political discourse analysis, which may be applied to video representations of political discourse, where this term refers to any of the various sub-genres involved: conference address, TV interview, party political broadcast, presidential debate, appearance on Question Time, and so on. The model attempts to recover the performative dimension (Mast, 2006) of the political speech, in the context of an analytical tradition that has been, in the main, focused primarily on effects at the textual level. An influential early attempt to describe some non-verbal aspects of persuasive rhetoric was Atkinson (Atkinson,1984), who identified features like the speaker's voice quality, intonation, posture, body language, eye movements, and so on, as well as some other non-linguistic tricks, such as the use of a camera angle that emphasises the speaker's power.…”

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Movements and Meanings: Towards an Integrated Approach to Political Discourse Analysis

Ponton

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2016

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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Section: Ductionmentioning

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Movements and Meanings: Towards an Integrated Approach to Political Discourse Analysis

Ponton

Марк²

2016

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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“…Reading Durkheim's late work on religion through Saussure, Levi‐Strauss, and the “linguistic turn, cultural sociologists in the neo‐Durkheimian school seek to identify the binary “cultural codes” that are thought to structure social discourses. They have analyzed discourses ranging from media coverage of the 1970s Watergate scandal (Alexander, ) to coverage of the Rodney King beating (Jacobs, ) and the Clinton/Lewinsky affair in the 1990s (Mast, ). Neo‐Durkheimian researchers assert that cultural systems and the human mind are both organized in terms of oppositional binaries (sacred/profane, good/evil).…”

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Theoretical Foundations for Digital Text Analysis

Ignatow

2015

J Theory Soc Behav

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Much of social life now takes place online, and records of online social interactions are available for social science research in the form of massive digital text archives. But cultural social science has contributed little to the development of machineassisted text analysis methods. As a result few text analysis methods have been developed that link digital text data to theories about culture and discourse. This paper attempts to lay the groundwork for development of such methods by proposing metatheoretical and theoretical foundations suitable for machineassisted semantic text analysis. Metatheoretically I draw on the work of ElderVass (2012), Kaidesoja (2013) and others to argue that digital text analysis methods ought to be (and in practice implicitly are) based on a realist constructionist ontology that treats discourses as ontologically real emergent social entities that have causal relationships with non-discursive social and cognitive processes. Theoretically I follow Feldman (2006) and many others in arguing that language is fundamentally shaped by processes of embodied cognition. Researchers developing digital text analysis techniques must theoretically account for such processes if they wish to produce algorithms that can interpret texts in ways that supplement, and not only amplify, human interpretation. I critically survey contemporary text analysis methods that implicitly share these metatheoretical and theoretical positions and discuss some ways these can be further developed with newly available software.

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“…Many scholars, including Turner himself, have noted that mediated scandals in particular can be seen as social dramas that bring out crises in norm-governed social relations (Alexander, 1988;Cottle, 2008;Jacobsson and Löfmarck, 2008;Mast, 2006;Turner, 1982: 74). Scandals as social dramas are transformative performances linked with societal upheavals when the normative order of society is disrupted by human transgression (Coman, 1995;Lewis, 2008: 43 f.).…”

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Mediated scandals as social dramas

Kantola

Vesa

2013

Acta Sociologica

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In this article we apply Viktor Turner's ideas on liminality and social dramas to scandals involving the Finnish political and economic elites that have occurred since the early 1970s. We suggest that mediated scandals are transformative social dramas through which society's moral codes are negotiated. In Finland, scandals have increased considerably and have become more dangerous for Finnish elites because they have caused increasing numbers to lose their positions. We suggest that the trend signals a long-term social transformation in society's moral order. The Finnish scandals have reworked societal moralities and addressed the problematic issues often associated with the Cold War political order, such as drinking and sexual harassment. As a result of this process, the media have developed into liminal-like spaces that are increasingly dangerous for elites.

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The cultural pragmatics of event-ness: the Clinton / Lewinsky affair

Cited by 30 publications

References 18 publications

Movements and Meanings: Towards an Integrated Approach to Political Discourse Analysis

Movements and Meanings: Towards an Integrated Approach to Political Discourse Analysis

Theoretical Foundations for Digital Text Analysis

Mediated scandals as social dramas

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