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- Hult, Francis, et al.
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Shaping discourses of multilingualism through a language ideological debate: The case of Swedish in Finland
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Language and Politics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1569-9862 .- 1569-2159. ; 13:1, s. 1-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ideological (re)construction of the position of Swedish in Finland is examined as it took shape during a major year-long debate about the role of Swedish in Finnish education. Data were collected through archival research of the leading national newspapers in the two official languages of Finland: Helsingin Sanomat (Finnish) and Hufvudstadsbladet (Swedish). Circulating and intersecting discourses in newspaper texts are traced in order to examine how these discourses facilitate the negotiation of tensions about the status of Swedish in Finland. Analysis demonstrates how ideological space was opened for destabilizing dominant perspectives about the relative value of languages in Finland. Moreover, it is shown that (re)interpretations of the discourse of ‘Swedish as mandatory’ in education became a fulcrum for leveraging a wider debate about the ‘Finland as bilingual nation’ discourse, which has long been part of the national consciousness.
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- Kroon Lundell, Åsa, 1967-
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The fragility of visuals : How politicians manage their mediated visibility in the press
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Language and Politics. - Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1569-2159 .- 1569-9862. ; 9:3, s. 219-236
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aims at understanding how politicians of both genders who are constantly in the media relate to, and manage, their mediated visibility. I assume that politicians who are constantly subject to visual exposure need to manage their experienced lack of control by developing various strategies in order to feel more empowered than perhaps is possible given the media's power of framing their political personas. Six Swedish politicians in prominent positions were interviewed qualitatively using open-ended questions relating to their views on press photographers, the role of visuals and personal experiences of being visualised in the press. It was found that the politicians develop both manifest counter-strategies as well as more latent, reflexive ones which all imply an unwillingness to submit to the media's visual framing power.
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- Moberg, Ulla, 1947-, et al.
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Managing ideological differences in joint political press conferences : a study of the strategic use of the personal pronoun 'we'
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Language and Politics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1569-2159 .- 1569-9862. ; 12:3, s. 315-334
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study focuses on Swedish political press conferences and explores the discursive efforts of politicians to express unity despite diverging ideological views. It concerns the use of the first person pronoun ‘we’ (Swedish.we) and is influenced by both dialogue theory and linguistic theories, which highlight the meaning of pronouns in context. The data consist of transcribed web broadcasts of press conferences with the leaders of the four political parties that form the Swedish Government since 2006. Our analysis reveals that a clear-cut use of the personal pronoun ‘we’ can serve the same political purposes as a more ambiguous use, i.e. to show unity while there are differences. The four party leaders are involved in a communicative project of ‘doing unity’ to demonstrate that they are a very capable government.
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- Mylonas, Yiannis
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Discourses of counter-Islamic-threat mobilization in post 9/11 documentaries
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Language and Politics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1569-9862 .- 1569-2159. ; 11:3, s. 405-426
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article critically studies documentaries focusing on the "Islamic terrorist threat", produced in the US and in Western Europe. The particular films relate to the discourses of the growing far right political movements in liberal democracies. The article analyzes the communicational tactics deployed by the filmmakers for counter-terrorist mobilization of "Westerners". The films' producers objectify the terrorist threat as exceptional and ontological, in order to reconfigure the identity of the "West". The analysis focuses on representations of the West's threatening Other through the reflexive use of critical discourse analysis and post structuralist, discourse theory. Counter-threat strategies, varying from warfare to biopolitical control, are articulated as social demands and as individualized tasks of inclusion to the ideological space of the West and the sovereign space of western nation states. The critical study of the particular documentaries aims at highlighting the regressive and character of the passionate discourses of far right media, in relation to the political crisis that liberal democracies across the world are facing.
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