Article published in:
Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and ContrastsEdited by Sylvia Jaworska and Torsten Leuschner
[Pragmatics and Society 9:1] 2018
► pp. 52–74
Conflicts in comparison
Scottish and German discursive perspectives on the Scottish independence referendum
Anna Mattfeldt | University of Heidelberg
In a globalised world, national discourses are also perceived and commented on in
other countries and languages. This paper focuses on newspaper coverage of the
2014 Scottish independence referendum in both Scotland and Germany, comparing
two print media corpora in two languages. The linguistic depiction of the
arguments and conflicts in Scottish newspapers is compared to the discussion of
Scottish independence in German newspapers. In order to find conflictive
‘hotspots’ in both corpora, adversative and concessive connectors of both
languages are taken as a starting point for a comparative conflict-oriented
discourse analysis in seven steps. Differences and similarities of the most
important conflicting concepts as well as the role of stereotypes and language
difference are then compared and discussed.
Keywords: linguistic discourse analysis, comparative discourse analysis, concessive/adversative connectives, agonality, qualitative and quantitative methods, conflict analysis, discourse grammar, media discourse
Published online: 26 March 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.16023.mat
https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.16023.mat
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