The discursive construction of a new reality in Olaf Scholz's Zeitenwende speech.
This article applies Bakhtinian dialogism and the idea of centripetal and centrifugal forces in struggle to critical discourse studies to analyse how powerful and marginalised discourses are brought into competition in political language to justify paradigm changes. I analyse German chancellor Olaf...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 21; no. 6; pp. 629 - 647 |
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