Discursive Strategies and Political Hegemony: The Turkish case
Can Küçükali
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 64] 2015. vii, 184 pp.
Can Küçükali
List of John Benjamins publications for which Can Küçükali plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2016 Stages and new conceptual tools for legitimizing military intervention: The Turkish foreign policy discourse on Syria Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 4:2, pp. 274–296 | Article
This paper delves into the problem of aggression in Turkish foreign-policy discourse on Syria which tries to legitimize a military operation. In order to understand how the policymaking preferences of a military operation are legitimized and promoted in governmental discourse, 166 governmental… read more
2014 Discursive strategies of instrumentalizing history in mainstream Turkish political discourse: The case of the negative other presentation of the CHP Journal of Language and Politics 13:1, pp. 98–119 | Article
This article explores how specific narratives of the past can be functionalized/instrumentalized as discursive strategies in order to gain political power. To investigate this issue, four relevant governmental and non-governmental texts about the main opposition party in Turkey are analysed. The… read more