Discussing the other in online news comments : A cross-cultural
perspective

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Discussing the other in online news comments : A cross-cultural perspective

CHOVANEC, Jan

Základní údaje

Originální název

Discussing the other in online news comments : A cross-cultural perspective

Autoři

CHOVANEC, Jan

Vydání

4th AMPRA Conference, 1-3 November, 2018, University at Albany, NY, USA, 2018

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60203 Linguistics

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00101596

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

jinakost; Romové; online diskuzní fórum; internetové noviny; populismus; analýza diskurzu; pragmatika

Klíčová slova anglicky

othering; the Roma; online discussion forum; online newspaper; populism; discourse analysis; pragmatics

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 13. 3. 2019 10:49, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

This paper deals with verbal interaction between users of online news discussion forums in the context of the recent migration crisis in the European Union. Adopting the perspective of cognitive pragmatics (Cap 2013) and the positioning theory (Davies and Harré 1990), it looks at how the readers use their comments to construct and articulate their collective membership in specific ingroup(s) (van Dijk 1998), doing so in highly evaluative terms. Based on a corpus of approximately 4,000 comments obtained from popular mainstream online news sites, the analysis shows how two different cultural communities – those of British and Czech readers – navigate the space of online comments to discursively construct various in- and out-groups that are in multiple mutual oppositions. The analysis of key words related to self and other-representation reveals that the two communities assign different meaning to the same extralinguistic phenomena (migration crisis; the ‘other’): the strong anti-other rhetoric in the Czech comments contrasts with the feeling of being let down by local politicians in the British data. The research shows that online comments have an important ideological and political dimension. A close textual and contextual reading of the comments can reveal how the macro-level of social practice (Fairclough 1992) is organized, with the cross-cultural approach being capable of revealing subtle but salient differences between various communities (Chovanec and Molek-Kozakowska 2017).

Návaznosti

GA16-05484S, projekt VaV

Název: Diskurzní konstrukce jinakosti v mediálním a postmediálním prostoru

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Diskurzní konstrukce jinakosti v mediálním a post-mediálním prostoru

Citovat

CHOVANEC, Jan. Discussing the other in online news comments : A cross-cultural perspective. In 4th AMPRA Conference, 1-3 November, 2018, University at Albany, NY, USA. 2018.

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CHOVANEC, Jan. Discussing the other in online news comments : A cross-cultural perspective. In \textit{4th AMPRA Conference, 1-3 November, 2018, University at Albany, NY, USA}. 2018.

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