162018288 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code DAPSAC 71 GE 15 9789027265678 06 10.1075/dapsac.71 13 2017027030 00 EA E133 10 01 JB code DAPSAC 02 JB code 1569-9463 02 71.00 01 02 Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 01 01 Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts 1 B01 01 JB code 168272051 Esperanza Morales-López Morales-López, Esperanza Esperanza Morales-López University of A Coruña 2 B01 01 JB code 66272052 Alan Floyd Floyd, Alan Alan Floyd University of A Coruña 01 eng 11 307 03 03 xiii 03 00 293 03 24 JB code COMM.CGEN Communication Studies 24 JB code LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB code LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 10 LAN009030 12 CFG 01 06 02 00 This volume gathers together writings by contemporary specialists in different fields, from different backgrounds, cultures and locations, but united by a common thread: the conviction that history and current affairs are constructed and presented, not according to the facts themselves, but to media, culture, politics, gender, religion etc. 03 00 Conflicts are inherent to human society, but most of them do not concern us directly as participants or eyewitnesses. How we see social conflicts depends on how they are presented to us.
This volume gathers together writings by contemporary specialists in different fields, from different backgrounds, cultures and locations, but united by a common thread: the conviction that history and current affairs are constructed and presented, not according to the facts themselves, but according to media, culture, politics, gender, religion and other factors.
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01 01 JB code dapsac.71.int 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.int x xiii 4 Miscellaneous 1 01 04 Preface Preface 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.01whi 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.01whi 2 15 14 Chapter 2 01 04 Chapter 1. Constructionism in historical writing Chapter 1. Constructionism in historical writing 1 A01 01 JB code 20300142 Hayden White White, Hayden Hayden White 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.02toz 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.02toz 18 39 22 Chapter 3 01 04 Chapter 2. White, Burke and the "literary" nature of historical controversies Chapter 2. White, Burke and the “literary” nature of historical controversies 1 A01 01 JB code 909300143 Verónica Tozzi Tozzi, Verónica Verónica Tozzi 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.03puj 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.03puj 42 65 24 Chapter 4 01 04 Chapter 3. The discursive construction of reality in the context of rhetoric Chapter 3. The discursive construction of reality in the context of rhetoric 01 04 Constructivist rhetoric Constructivist rhetoric 1 A01 01 JB code 831300144 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.04ram 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.04ram 68 82 15 Chapter 5 01 04 Chapter 4. Understanding social conflict Chapter 4. Understanding social conflict 01 04 Reason or emotion? Reason or emotion? 1 A01 01 JB code 770300145 Simón Ramírez Muñoz Ramírez Muñoz, Simón Simón Ramírez Muñoz 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.05puj 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.05puj 84 106 23 Chapter 6 01 04 Chapter 5. I am and I am not Charlie Chapter 5. I am and I am not Charlie 01 04 The discursive conflict surrounding the attack on Charlie Hebdo The discursive conflict surrounding the attack on Charlie Hebdo 1 A01 01 JB code 928300146 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.06flo 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.06flo 108 131 24 Chapter 7 01 04 Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries 1 A01 01 JB code 862300147 Alan Floyd Floyd, Alan Alan Floyd 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.07gar 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.07gar 134 158 25 Chapter 8 01 04 Chapter 7. Rhetorical analysis of health risk discourse Chapter 7. Rhetorical analysis of health risk discourse 01 04 The 2009 influenza pandemic crisis The 2009 influenza pandemic crisis 1 A01 01 JB code 652300148 Javier Nespereira García García, Javier Nespereira Javier Nespereira García 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.08gom 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.08gom 160 180 21 Chapter 9 01 04 Chapter 8. Critical analysis of an educational discourse practice Chapter 8. Critical analysis of an educational discourse practice 01 04 The literary text commentary The literary text commentary 1 A01 01 JB code 747300149 Francisco Vicente Gómez Gómez, Francisco Vicente Francisco Vicente Gómez 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.09fil 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.09fil 182 202 21 Chapter 10 01 04 Chapter 9. The (re)construction of gender roles in the genre of song Chapter 9. The (re)construction of gender roles in the genre of song 01 04 In search of female empowerment1 In search of female empowerment1 1 A01 01 JB code 522300150 Laura Filardo-Llamas Filardo-Llamas, Laura Laura Filardo-Llamas 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.10mol 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.10mol 204 226 23 Chapter 11 01 04 Chapter 10. Posthumanism and the city Chapter 10. Posthumanism and the city 01 04 The construction of identity and ideological conflict in discourses regarding the new technological self The construction of identity and ideological conflict in discourses regarding the new technological self 1 A01 01 JB code 596300151 Sara Molpeceres Molpeceres, Sara Sara Molpeceres 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.11puj 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.11puj 228 247 20 Chapter 12 01 04 Chapter 11. Discourses of social movements in Southern Europe Chapter 11. Discourses of social movements in Southern Europe 01 04 The slogans of 15M The slogans of 15M 1 A01 01 JB code 299300152 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante 2 A01 01 JB code 574300153 Esperanza Morales-López Morales-López, Esperanza Esperanza Morales-López 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.12mor 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.12mor 250 272 23 Chapter 13 01 04 Chapter 12. Cognitive frames, imaginaries and discursive constructions Chapter 12. Cognitive frames, imaginaries and discursive constructions 01 04 Post-15M discourses with reference to eco-social alternatives Post-15M discourses with reference to eco-social alternatives 1 A01 01 JB code 488300154 Esperanza Morales-López Morales-López, Esperanza Esperanza Morales-López 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.13mor 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.13mor 274 284 11 Chapter 14 01 04 Epilogue Epilogue 1 A01 01 JB code 234300155 Esperanza Morales-López Morales-López, Esperanza Esperanza Morales-López 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.14ind 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.14ind 289 294 6 Miscellaneous 15 01 04 Index Index 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.ai 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.ai 285 288 4 Miscellaneous 16 01 04 Author index Author index 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.si 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.si 289 293 5 Miscellaneous 17 01 04 Subject index Subject index 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20170726 C 2017 John Benjamins D 2017 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027206626 WORLD 03 01 JB 17 Google 03 https://play.google.com/store/books 21 01 00 Unqualified price 00 99.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 00 83.00 GBP 01 00 Unqualified price 00 149.00 USD
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This volume gathers together writings by contemporary specialists in different fields, from different backgrounds, cultures and locations, but united by a common thread: the conviction that history and current affairs are constructed and presented, not according to the facts themselves, but according to media, culture, politics, gender, religion and other factors.
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01 01 JB code dapsac.71.int 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.int x xiii 4 Miscellaneous 1 01 04 Preface Preface 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.01whi 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.01whi 1 16 16 Chapter 2 01 04 Chapter 1. Constructionism in historical writing Chapter 1. Constructionism in historical writing 1 A01 01 JB code 20300142 Hayden White White, Hayden Hayden White 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/20300142 03 00

Even though it is not a science in the modernist sense of the term, history remains foundational – a necessary presupposition – of modern social sciences. History serves as a paradigm referent for contrast with both abstract natural sciences and literary or artistic fictions. Indeed, history serves as the very antonym of fiction in discussions of the nature of a fact. And yet, history considered as a domain of events that are “real” rather than “imaginary,” can be shown on analysis to be as much “constructed” as “found” in the data it considers to be evidence of the reality of its referent (the past). Construction in historiography begins with the initial description of its referent as a historical phenomenon, moves on through the establishment of the “factuality” of this phenomenon and ends in the composition of a series of historical facts as a story. Stories are not pictures of reality or even representations thereof; they are presentations in fictional modes of an unobservable past treated as reality.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.02toz 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.02toz 17 40 24 Chapter 3 01 04 Chapter 2. White, Burke and the "literary" nature of historical controversies Chapter 2. White, Burke and the “literary” nature of historical controversies 1 A01 01 JB code 909300143 Verónica Tozzi Tozzi, Verónica Verónica Tozzi 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/909300143 03 00

In this article, my aim is to investigate the contributions that literary theory, as a theory of each and every type of general discursive construction, can offer to shed light on the nature of historiographical controversies, not only in relation to the difficulty of consensual resolution but to the undesirability of agreeing on a single account of the past. This diagnosis, we can assert, is general and shared; nobody argues, in social sciences and humanities, in favor of the search for a unified theory, or a single account. The question is how to account for the plurality and diversity of interpretations in conflict, and the consequences of this plurality for research itself.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.03puj 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.03puj 41 66 26 Chapter 4 01 04 Chapter 3. The discursive construction of reality in the context of rhetoric Chapter 3. The discursive construction of reality in the context of rhetoric 01 04 Constructivist rhetoric Constructivist rhetoric 1 A01 01 JB code 831300144 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/831300144 03 00

In this chapter, I reflect on the rhetorical origins of the constructivist tradition and its current revival in this latter discipline. I begin with a brief history of the evolution of rhetorical thinking from its origin in antiquity, considering its subsequent conversion into a mere treatise on stylistic resources; this understanding of rhetoric would last for centuries in the West, and would lead it to its decline, until it later recovered during the twentieth century. Its development over the last hundred years is summarised on three levels: (1) restoration of the tradition inherited (inventory of tropes and figures of speech), (2) recovery of all five rhetorical operations and their political and social reuse and (3) configuration of constructivist rhetoric. This third level is my proposal. I define our understanding of the totality of discursive-rhetorical strategies, and the construction of diverse rhetorical speeches, as the way we make conscious our cognitive experiences.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.04ram 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.04ram 67 82 16 Chapter 5 01 04 Chapter 4. Understanding social conflict Chapter 4. Understanding social conflict 01 04 Reason or emotion? Reason or emotion? 1 A01 01 JB code 770300145 Simón Ramírez Muñoz Ramírez Muñoz, Simón Simón Ramírez Muñoz 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/770300145 03 00

Historically social conflicts, and in general human conflicts, have been considered as domains of reasoning, treating their solutions in the context of searching for the best explanations from the point of view of the supposition of an objective reality. In this manner, we human beings have failed to resolve social conflicts; at best we have changed their form. In this paper, I will deal with conflicts from an epistemological standpoint, which is grounded in an understanding of the biological-cultural matrix of the human existence.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.05puj 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.05puj 83 106 24 Chapter 6 01 04 Chapter 5. I am and I am not Charlie Chapter 5. I am and I am not Charlie 01 04 The discursive conflict surrounding the attack on Charlie Hebdo The discursive conflict surrounding the attack on Charlie Hebdo 1 A01 01 JB code 928300146 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/928300146 03 00

In this paper, I provide a theoretical and analytical approach that seeks to explain cases in which the same events can spark contrasting discourses, and therefore serious conflicts, as well as radical disagreements between social groups.

As an example of one such situation, I have chosen the terrorist shooting at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the discourses related to it. This case will provide the paper’s main object of study and will be explored within the frame of our analytical paradigm, constructivist rhetoric, a new rhetorical paradigm which proves particularly useful when examining cases of this nature.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.06flo 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.06flo 107 132 26 Chapter 7 01 04 Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries 1 A01 01 JB code 862300147 Alan Floyd Floyd, Alan Alan Floyd 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/862300147 03 00

In the present study, I consider Western media discourse concerning human migration as construction. Its language is shown to be ideologically slanted to the disadvantage of migrants. Mainstream media outlets during recent decades have reported on events in such a biased and selective way that they are emplotted within a narrative where the world is divided into an in-group of “us” and an out-group of “them,” in this case of autochthonous populations and migrants, respectively. My analysis is centred on the labelling devices, metaphors and transitivity devices used in this genre. I conclude that the language so used in mainstream media outlets influences public understanding of current affairs, but that the increasing diversity of media outlets favours a trend toward greater diversity of opinion.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.07gar 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.07gar 133 158 26 Chapter 8 01 04 Chapter 7. Rhetorical analysis of health risk discourse Chapter 7. Rhetorical analysis of health risk discourse 01 04 The 2009 influenza pandemic crisis The 2009 influenza pandemic crisis 1 A01 01 JB code 652300148 Javier Nespereira García García, Javier Nespereira Javier Nespereira García 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/652300148 03 00

This paper is part of my research on public health crisis communication. I have studied the discursive strategies at play in the case of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic within the framework of rhetoric and argumentation theory. Here, I analyse two opposing speeches given at the turning point of the 2009 pandemic crisis: the hearing in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the management of the pandemic by WHO (World Health Organization).

The aim of my study is to highlight the rhetorical nature of public trust as the central attribute of public health institutions’ professional identity. In other words, how these factors – trust and identity – are constructed using arguments, such as the argument from authority or the precautionary principle, and the narratives that give meaning to these arguments.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.08gom 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.08gom 159 180 22 Chapter 9 01 04 Chapter 8. Critical analysis of an educational discourse practice Chapter 8. Critical analysis of an educational discourse practice 01 04 The literary text commentary The literary text commentary 1 A01 01 JB code 747300149 Francisco Vicente Gómez Gómez, Francisco Vicente Francisco Vicente Gómez 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/747300149 03 00

In this chapter, I analyse text commentary as a construction of a discourse genre. As a critical instrument to serve both language and literature teaching, text commentary is a social practice through which political power exerts control over the production of discourses in the area of education. Within this discourse practice, a representative model of the change that took place in Spain in the 1970s is used as an example.

The analysis places the practice of commentary within the ideological practices of power and shows how society shapes a relationship with reality through its discourse about reading and understanding texts. This relationship can be either monological or dialogical. The lack of the latter is an emerging social problem.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.09fil 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.09fil 181 202 22 Chapter 10 01 04 Chapter 9. The (re)construction of gender roles in the genre of song Chapter 9. The (re)construction of gender roles in the genre of song 01 04 In search of female empowerment1 In search of female empowerment1 1 A01 01 JB code 522300150 Laura Filardo-Llamas Filardo-Llamas, Laura Laura Filardo-Llamas 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/522300150 03 00

This chapter follows recent trends in CDA and adopts a constructivist, cognitive and multimodal approach to discourse analysis. I focus on the study of songs to analyse how discursive mechanisms are used to fight commonly held beliefs about female identity. The songs selected, taken from a wider corpus, attempt to fight domestic violence and/or try to empower women. In some of them, we can observe how a new identity is constructed while in others we observe that gender stereotypes, and the patriarchal beliefs upon which they are based, are still subtly maintained. In most cases, we can see that the songs are characterised by vague discursive constructions which are only meaningful in context.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.10mol 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.10mol 203 226 24 Chapter 11 01 04 Chapter 10. Posthumanism and the city Chapter 10. Posthumanism and the city 01 04 The construction of identity and ideological conflict in discourses regarding the new technological self The construction of identity and ideological conflict in discourses regarding the new technological self 1 A01 01 JB code 596300151 Sara Molpeceres Molpeceres, Sara Sara Molpeceres 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/596300151 03 00

In this paper, I discuss the underlying ideological conflict behind the concept of the “Smart City.” Sometimes naively praised and embraced as a great technological achievement, the Smart City is a very controversial concept, particularly if we interpret it within the context of posthumanist thinking, which discusses the ways in which technology may forever alter our daily lives, our bodies, our minds and, in the end, the whole identity of human beings.

Within the theoretical and analytical framework the constructivist rhetoric offers, my main goal in the paper will be a reflection on the discursive setting of both posthumanism and the Smart City, along with the analysis of a corpus of political discourses describing the “smart” concept regarding the city of Barcelona.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.11puj 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.11puj 227 248 22 Chapter 12 01 04 Chapter 11. Discourses of social movements in Southern Europe Chapter 11. Discourses of social movements in Southern Europe 01 04 The slogans of 15M The slogans of 15M 1 A01 01 JB code 299300152 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/299300152 2 A01 01 JB code 574300153 Esperanza Morales-López Morales-López, Esperanza Esperanza Morales-López 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/574300153 03 00

In this chapter, we analyse the 15M social movement, which occupied the public squares of Spain’s large cities on 15 May 2011 (hence its name of the 15M or the indignados movement). This group emerged in the wake of the anti-austerity movements in Iceland and Greece, and the Arab Spring. The main characteristic of the discourse of 15M, mainly found in its slogans, is its discursive-rhetoric creativity.

We base our analysis on the constructivist perspective, taking into account the socio-cognitive and pragmatic-rhetoric dimensions. Our main conclusion is that these slogans activated a new cognitive framework for interpreting the recent history of Spanish democracy, which was completely different from the version used by the status quo.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.12mor 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.12mor 249 272 24 Chapter 13 01 04 Chapter 12. Cognitive frames, imaginaries and discursive constructions Chapter 12. Cognitive frames, imaginaries and discursive constructions 01 04 Post-15M discourses with reference to eco-social alternatives Post-15M discourses with reference to eco-social alternatives 1 A01 01 JB code 488300154 Esperanza Morales-López Morales-López, Esperanza Esperanza Morales-López 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/488300154 03 00

In this paper, I analyse the discourse construction of the “Integral Catalan Cooperative” (or CIC), a social group which emerged in Catalonia a year before the outbreak of the 15M social movement, but which became consolidated after this group pitched their tents in the Plaza de Cataluña in Barcelona. This group is developing an eco-social initiative based on a new form of cooperativism. The data were collected in spring 2014 by means of the ethnographic method of participant observation.

The analysis shows how one of the main functions of its discourses is the development of a new framework or social imaginary, the “integral revolution.” This construction is discursively supported by lexical creativity to designate the new realities they are building, lexicalised metaphors (that is, ontological image-schemas) and other exceptionally creative metaphors.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.13mor 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.13mor 273 284 12 Chapter 14 01 04 Epilogue Epilogue 1 A01 01 JB code 234300155 Esperanza Morales-López Morales-López, Esperanza Esperanza Morales-López 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/234300155 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.14ind 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.14ind 289 294 6 Miscellaneous 15 01 04 Index Index 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.ai 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.ai 285 288 4 Miscellaneous 16 01 04 Author index Author index 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.si 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.si 289 293 5 Miscellaneous 17 01 04 Subject index Subject index
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This volume gathers together writings by contemporary specialists in different fields, from different backgrounds, cultures and locations, but united by a common thread: the conviction that history and current affairs are constructed and presented, not according to the facts themselves, but according to media, culture, politics, gender, religion and other factors.
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Even though it is not a science in the modernist sense of the term, history remains foundational – a necessary presupposition – of modern social sciences. History serves as a paradigm referent for contrast with both abstract natural sciences and literary or artistic fictions. Indeed, history serves as the very antonym of fiction in discussions of the nature of a fact. And yet, history considered as a domain of events that are “real” rather than “imaginary,” can be shown on analysis to be as much “constructed” as “found” in the data it considers to be evidence of the reality of its referent (the past). Construction in historiography begins with the initial description of its referent as a historical phenomenon, moves on through the establishment of the “factuality” of this phenomenon and ends in the composition of a series of historical facts as a story. Stories are not pictures of reality or even representations thereof; they are presentations in fictional modes of an unobservable past treated as reality.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.02toz 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.02toz 17 40 24 Chapter 3 01 04 Chapter 2. White, Burke and the "literary" nature of historical controversies Chapter 2. White, Burke and the “literary” nature of historical controversies 1 A01 01 JB code 909300143 Verónica Tozzi Tozzi, Verónica Verónica Tozzi 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/909300143 03 00

In this article, my aim is to investigate the contributions that literary theory, as a theory of each and every type of general discursive construction, can offer to shed light on the nature of historiographical controversies, not only in relation to the difficulty of consensual resolution but to the undesirability of agreeing on a single account of the past. This diagnosis, we can assert, is general and shared; nobody argues, in social sciences and humanities, in favor of the search for a unified theory, or a single account. The question is how to account for the plurality and diversity of interpretations in conflict, and the consequences of this plurality for research itself.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.03puj 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.03puj 41 66 26 Chapter 4 01 04 Chapter 3. The discursive construction of reality in the context of rhetoric Chapter 3. The discursive construction of reality in the context of rhetoric 01 04 Constructivist rhetoric Constructivist rhetoric 1 A01 01 JB code 831300144 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/831300144 03 00

In this chapter, I reflect on the rhetorical origins of the constructivist tradition and its current revival in this latter discipline. I begin with a brief history of the evolution of rhetorical thinking from its origin in antiquity, considering its subsequent conversion into a mere treatise on stylistic resources; this understanding of rhetoric would last for centuries in the West, and would lead it to its decline, until it later recovered during the twentieth century. Its development over the last hundred years is summarised on three levels: (1) restoration of the tradition inherited (inventory of tropes and figures of speech), (2) recovery of all five rhetorical operations and their political and social reuse and (3) configuration of constructivist rhetoric. This third level is my proposal. I define our understanding of the totality of discursive-rhetorical strategies, and the construction of diverse rhetorical speeches, as the way we make conscious our cognitive experiences.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.04ram 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.04ram 67 82 16 Chapter 5 01 04 Chapter 4. Understanding social conflict Chapter 4. Understanding social conflict 01 04 Reason or emotion? Reason or emotion? 1 A01 01 JB code 770300145 Simón Ramírez Muñoz Ramírez Muñoz, Simón Simón Ramírez Muñoz 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/770300145 03 00

Historically social conflicts, and in general human conflicts, have been considered as domains of reasoning, treating their solutions in the context of searching for the best explanations from the point of view of the supposition of an objective reality. In this manner, we human beings have failed to resolve social conflicts; at best we have changed their form. In this paper, I will deal with conflicts from an epistemological standpoint, which is grounded in an understanding of the biological-cultural matrix of the human existence.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.05puj 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.05puj 83 106 24 Chapter 6 01 04 Chapter 5. I am and I am not Charlie Chapter 5. I am and I am not Charlie 01 04 The discursive conflict surrounding the attack on Charlie Hebdo The discursive conflict surrounding the attack on Charlie Hebdo 1 A01 01 JB code 928300146 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/928300146 03 00

In this paper, I provide a theoretical and analytical approach that seeks to explain cases in which the same events can spark contrasting discourses, and therefore serious conflicts, as well as radical disagreements between social groups.

As an example of one such situation, I have chosen the terrorist shooting at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the discourses related to it. This case will provide the paper’s main object of study and will be explored within the frame of our analytical paradigm, constructivist rhetoric, a new rhetorical paradigm which proves particularly useful when examining cases of this nature.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.06flo 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.06flo 107 132 26 Chapter 7 01 04 Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries 1 A01 01 JB code 862300147 Alan Floyd Floyd, Alan Alan Floyd 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/862300147 03 00

In the present study, I consider Western media discourse concerning human migration as construction. Its language is shown to be ideologically slanted to the disadvantage of migrants. Mainstream media outlets during recent decades have reported on events in such a biased and selective way that they are emplotted within a narrative where the world is divided into an in-group of “us” and an out-group of “them,” in this case of autochthonous populations and migrants, respectively. My analysis is centred on the labelling devices, metaphors and transitivity devices used in this genre. I conclude that the language so used in mainstream media outlets influences public understanding of current affairs, but that the increasing diversity of media outlets favours a trend toward greater diversity of opinion.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.07gar 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.07gar 133 158 26 Chapter 8 01 04 Chapter 7. Rhetorical analysis of health risk discourse Chapter 7. Rhetorical analysis of health risk discourse 01 04 The 2009 influenza pandemic crisis The 2009 influenza pandemic crisis 1 A01 01 JB code 652300148 Javier Nespereira García García, Javier Nespereira Javier Nespereira García 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/652300148 03 00

This paper is part of my research on public health crisis communication. I have studied the discursive strategies at play in the case of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic within the framework of rhetoric and argumentation theory. Here, I analyse two opposing speeches given at the turning point of the 2009 pandemic crisis: the hearing in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the management of the pandemic by WHO (World Health Organization).

The aim of my study is to highlight the rhetorical nature of public trust as the central attribute of public health institutions’ professional identity. In other words, how these factors – trust and identity – are constructed using arguments, such as the argument from authority or the precautionary principle, and the narratives that give meaning to these arguments.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.08gom 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.08gom 159 180 22 Chapter 9 01 04 Chapter 8. Critical analysis of an educational discourse practice Chapter 8. Critical analysis of an educational discourse practice 01 04 The literary text commentary The literary text commentary 1 A01 01 JB code 747300149 Francisco Vicente Gómez Gómez, Francisco Vicente Francisco Vicente Gómez 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/747300149 03 00

In this chapter, I analyse text commentary as a construction of a discourse genre. As a critical instrument to serve both language and literature teaching, text commentary is a social practice through which political power exerts control over the production of discourses in the area of education. Within this discourse practice, a representative model of the change that took place in Spain in the 1970s is used as an example.

The analysis places the practice of commentary within the ideological practices of power and shows how society shapes a relationship with reality through its discourse about reading and understanding texts. This relationship can be either monological or dialogical. The lack of the latter is an emerging social problem.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.09fil 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.09fil 181 202 22 Chapter 10 01 04 Chapter 9. The (re)construction of gender roles in the genre of song Chapter 9. The (re)construction of gender roles in the genre of song 01 04 In search of female empowerment1 In search of female empowerment1 1 A01 01 JB code 522300150 Laura Filardo-Llamas Filardo-Llamas, Laura Laura Filardo-Llamas 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/522300150 03 00

This chapter follows recent trends in CDA and adopts a constructivist, cognitive and multimodal approach to discourse analysis. I focus on the study of songs to analyse how discursive mechanisms are used to fight commonly held beliefs about female identity. The songs selected, taken from a wider corpus, attempt to fight domestic violence and/or try to empower women. In some of them, we can observe how a new identity is constructed while in others we observe that gender stereotypes, and the patriarchal beliefs upon which they are based, are still subtly maintained. In most cases, we can see that the songs are characterised by vague discursive constructions which are only meaningful in context.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.10mol 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.10mol 203 226 24 Chapter 11 01 04 Chapter 10. Posthumanism and the city Chapter 10. Posthumanism and the city 01 04 The construction of identity and ideological conflict in discourses regarding the new technological self The construction of identity and ideological conflict in discourses regarding the new technological self 1 A01 01 JB code 596300151 Sara Molpeceres Molpeceres, Sara Sara Molpeceres 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/596300151 03 00

In this paper, I discuss the underlying ideological conflict behind the concept of the “Smart City.” Sometimes naively praised and embraced as a great technological achievement, the Smart City is a very controversial concept, particularly if we interpret it within the context of posthumanist thinking, which discusses the ways in which technology may forever alter our daily lives, our bodies, our minds and, in the end, the whole identity of human beings.

Within the theoretical and analytical framework the constructivist rhetoric offers, my main goal in the paper will be a reflection on the discursive setting of both posthumanism and the Smart City, along with the analysis of a corpus of political discourses describing the “smart” concept regarding the city of Barcelona.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.11puj 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.11puj 227 248 22 Chapter 12 01 04 Chapter 11. Discourses of social movements in Southern Europe Chapter 11. Discourses of social movements in Southern Europe 01 04 The slogans of 15M The slogans of 15M 1 A01 01 JB code 299300152 David Pujante Pujante, David David Pujante 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/299300152 2 A01 01 JB code 574300153 Esperanza Morales-López Morales-López, Esperanza Esperanza Morales-López 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/574300153 03 00

In this chapter, we analyse the 15M social movement, which occupied the public squares of Spain’s large cities on 15 May 2011 (hence its name of the 15M or the indignados movement). This group emerged in the wake of the anti-austerity movements in Iceland and Greece, and the Arab Spring. The main characteristic of the discourse of 15M, mainly found in its slogans, is its discursive-rhetoric creativity.

We base our analysis on the constructivist perspective, taking into account the socio-cognitive and pragmatic-rhetoric dimensions. Our main conclusion is that these slogans activated a new cognitive framework for interpreting the recent history of Spanish democracy, which was completely different from the version used by the status quo.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.12mor 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.12mor 249 272 24 Chapter 13 01 04 Chapter 12. Cognitive frames, imaginaries and discursive constructions Chapter 12. Cognitive frames, imaginaries and discursive constructions 01 04 Post-15M discourses with reference to eco-social alternatives Post-15M discourses with reference to eco-social alternatives 1 A01 01 JB code 488300154 Esperanza Morales-López Morales-López, Esperanza Esperanza Morales-López 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/488300154 03 00

In this paper, I analyse the discourse construction of the “Integral Catalan Cooperative” (or CIC), a social group which emerged in Catalonia a year before the outbreak of the 15M social movement, but which became consolidated after this group pitched their tents in the Plaza de Cataluña in Barcelona. This group is developing an eco-social initiative based on a new form of cooperativism. The data were collected in spring 2014 by means of the ethnographic method of participant observation.

The analysis shows how one of the main functions of its discourses is the development of a new framework or social imaginary, the “integral revolution.” This construction is discursively supported by lexical creativity to designate the new realities they are building, lexicalised metaphors (that is, ontological image-schemas) and other exceptionally creative metaphors.

01 01 JB code dapsac.71.13mor 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.13mor 273 284 12 Chapter 14 01 04 Epilogue Epilogue 1 A01 01 JB code 234300155 Esperanza Morales-López Morales-López, Esperanza Esperanza Morales-López 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/234300155 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.14ind 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.14ind 289 294 6 Miscellaneous 15 01 04 Index Index 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.ai 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.ai 285 288 4 Miscellaneous 16 01 04 Author index Author index 01 01 JB code dapsac.71.si 06 10.1075/dapsac.71.si 289 293 5 Miscellaneous 17 01 04 Subject index Subject index
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