Topos und Diskurs

Wengeler, Martin

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“…Wengeler () emphasises a content‐ and context‐specific definition of topoi as this allows deconstructing presupposed and frequently fallacious prejudices embedded in everyday common‐sense conversations about specific topics. The notion of common sense (or everyday) argumentation is salient in our case as we focus on the ways in which lay users draw on assumed shared positions for taking/projecting a stance.…”

Section: Context Method Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Discourses of cultural heritage in times of crisis: The case of the Parthenon Marbles

Angouri

Paraskevaidi

Wodak

2017

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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The paper focuses on the commodification and politicisation of cultural heritage using as a case study the ongoing debate on the return of the Parthenon Marbles from the U.K. to Greece, recently reignited by the press release for the movie The Monuments Men in 2014. Greece has been in the throes of a severe financial crisis for over six years with the ever imminent threat of Grexit constantly disputed. In parallel with this ongoing turmoil, discourses of Greek antiquity have been persistently prominent in the media. In this context, we problematise the complex nexus of relationships between the financial crisis, national identity and cultural heritage. We combine the Discourse‐Historical Approach and Interactional Sociolinguistics drawing data from an online forum, and investigate how the users negotiate pro‐/anti‐return positions and make the financial crisis relevant in the argumentation process. The analysis shows that history, identity, value, and debt are recontextualised in relation to the Parthenon sculptures. The analysis identifies an underlying process of value trade off and brings the current political and economic environment to the fore. We close the paper by foregrounding the implications of our study and provide directions for further research.

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Section: Context Method Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Discourses of cultural heritage in times of crisis: The case of the Parthenon Marbles

Angouri

Paraskevaidi

Wodak

2017

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…'Topoi' (as a salient part of argumentation) are often contained in utterances as content-related warrants or conclusion rules in the form of a condensed argument (i.e. enthymeme) which refer to commonsense or implicit presupposed knowledge that every participant understands within certain groups in specific contexts (see Kienpointner, 1992;Wodak, 2001, 2009;Rubinelli, 2009;Toulmin, 1958;van Eemeren, 2010;Walton, 2008;Wengeler, 2003;Wodak, 2011b;Wodak et al, 2011). They are constructed as warrants as 'if p, then q follows'.…”

Section: Using the Discourse-historical Approach To Analyse Conversatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Micro‐Level Discursive Strategies for Constructing Shared Views around Strategic Issues in Team Meetings

Kwon

Clarke

Wodak

2013

J Management Studies

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Management scholars have explored how certain actors in meetings – especially leaders – shape social processes of interaction and use different linguistic devices, as methods, to affect how sense is made of strategic issues. Less attention has been paid to interactions between members of the team as a whole and the repertoire of discursive strategies, or goal‐directed behaviours, that they deploy to create shared views around issues. We analyse rare empirical episodes of team discussions of strategic issues in board meetings to inductively conceptualize how this is achieved. To do this we use the Discourse‐Historical Approach (DHA) to critical discourse analysis (CDA). We reveal five discursive strategies teams use to develop shared views around strategic issues (Re/defining, Equalizing, Simplifying, Legitimating, and Reconciling) and demonstrate how they are skilfully operationalized through a range of linguistic devices or means.

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“…Metaphors can also be connected to cognitive anthropological frameworks that focus on cultural models and themes, which may cross-cut metaphor types and thereby call into question the role of conceptual metaphor (Quinn, 1991). Still other studies focus on rhetorical topoi and the role metaphors play in argumentation (Wengeler, 2003) or on rhetorical structure (cf. Steen, 1999, pp.…”

Section: Discourse Functionsmentioning

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Optimizing the analysis of metaphor in discourse

Kimmel

2012

RCL

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This article presents a software-based methodology for studying metaphor in discourse, mainly within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Despite a welcome recent swing towards methodological reflexivity, a detailed explication of the pros and cons of different procedures is still in order as far as qualitative research (i.e. a context-sensitive manual coding of a text corpus) is concerned. Qualitatively oriented scholars have to make difficult decisions revolving around the general research design, the transfer of linguistic theory into method, good workflow management, and the aimed at scope of analysis. My first task is to pinpoint typical tasks and demonstrate how they are optimally dealt with by using qualitative annotation software like ATLAS.ti. Software not only streamlines metaphor tagging itself, it systematizes the interpretive work from grouping text items into systematic/conceptual metaphor sets, via data surveys and checks, to quantitative comparisons and a cohesion-based analysis. My second task is to illustrate how a good research design can provide a step-wise procedure, offer systematic validation checks, keep the code system slim and many analytic options open. When we aim at complex data searches and want to handle high metaphor diversity I recommend compositional coding, i.e. tagging source and target domains separately (instead of adopting a "one mapping-one code" strategy). Furthermore, by tagging metaphors for imageschematic and rich semantic source domains in parallel, i.e. two-tier coding, we get multiple options for grouping metaphors into systematic sets.

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Topos und Diskurs

Cited by 187 publications

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Discourses of cultural heritage in times of crisis: The case of the Parthenon Marbles

Discourses of cultural heritage in times of crisis: The case of the Parthenon Marbles

Micro‐Level Discursive Strategies for Constructing Shared Views around Strategic Issues in Team Meetings

Optimizing the analysis of metaphor in discourse

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