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Publication details [#63284]
Ullmann, Stefanie. 2017. Conceptualising force in the context of the Arab Revolutions: A comparative analysis of international mass media reports and Twitter posts. Discourse & Communication 11 (2) : 160–178.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Annotation
This paper studies how violent and strong (inter)actions during the ‘Arab Revolutions’ were conceptualised linguistically by incorporating notions of Cognitive Semantics in a critical comparative inquiry of press reports and Twitter posts. Focus is placed specifically on combining Talmy’s theory of Force Dynamics with methods of Critical Discourse Studies in order to explore diverging forms of schematisation of forceful interactions amid protest participants.