Modeling public perception in times of crisis: discursive strategies in Trump's COVID-19 discourse.
The article presents an attempt to analyze the strategic perspective of discourse, applying Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) concepts and Crisis Communication analytical tools. The study aims to reveal key strategies employed by a political actor to form public perception while communicating a cris...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 70 - 88 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=161180037&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 161180037 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 17405904 RF5 jtl: Critical Discourse Studies issn: 17405904 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jan2023 vid: 20 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 161180037 10.1080/17405904.2021.1990780 ppf: 70 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.3MB tig: atl: Modeling public perception in times of crisis: discursive strategies in Trump's COVID-19 discourse. aug: au: Chepurnaya, Alena affil: Department of Foreign Languages, Stavropol State Agrarian University, Stavropol, Russia su: Trump, Donald, 1946- Public opinion Critical discourse analysis Crisis communication Form perception COVID-19 sug: subj: Trump, Donald, 1946- Public opinion Critical discourse analysis Crisis communication Form perception COVID-19 keyword: critical discourse analysis discursive strategy Donald Trump political discourse ab: The article presents an attempt to analyze the strategic perspective of discourse, applying Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) concepts and Crisis Communication analytical tools. The study aims to reveal key strategies employed by a political actor to form public perception while communicating a crisis, based on Donald Trump's discourse on the COVID-19 pandemic. Results suggest four groups of strategies: (1) legitimization (through emotions, altruism, a hypothetical future, voices of expertise, rationality, defeasibility, simple denial and bolstering), (2) delegitimization (through negative evaluations, accusations, sarcasm, nicknaming, attacking the accuser, shifting the blame), (3) mitigation (transcendence and differentiation) and (4) intensification (through the use of repetitions, metaphors, superlatives, intensifiers). The research concludes that the macro goal underlying the described strategies is to present the Trump administration's efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic as hard and effective. The study illustrates the use of language to model public perception and construct meaning in the context of a crisis. The research findings contribute to prior scientific inquiry into discursive strategies through suggesting a more comprehensive typology and extending CDA classifications by Crisis Communication categories. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Critical Discourse Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Critical Discourse Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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