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17.04.2024
LinguisTisch: Hielke Vriesendorp
Combining Macro and Micro Approaches when Researching (Minority) Gender(s)
24.04.2024
LinguisTisch: Nuria Llorente-Belda (University of Granada)
Strings Unseen: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Putin’s Linguistic Discursive Battle Through Metaphors
25.04.2024
Sociolinguistic Cocktail Lecture Series: “The animal turn in linguistics: the dairy cow as a linguistic actor”
Prof. Leonie Cornips, NL-Lab & Maastricht University
24.04.2024
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr
Vortrag
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr
LinguisTisch: Nuria Llorente-Belda (University of Granada)
Strings Unseen: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Putin’s Linguistic Discursive Battle Through Metaphors
On February 24th, 2020, Vladimir Putin ordered a forceful incursion into Ukrainian lands under the pretext of denazifying Ukraine. Unlike previous Russo-Ukrainian conflicts, the unfolding events gained significant visibility thanks to rapid dissemination of information through (online) media platforms. Besides frontline battles, a parallel war was being fought by the Ukrainian and Russian presidents to control and shape the narrative of the armed conflict. In view of the above, this study focuses on Putin’s strategies to engage with public opinion. In particular, I study Putin’s metaphorical utterances (e.g., Charteris-Black, 2005) in a corpus comprising 121 public speeches and 226.455 tokens, subdivided in two different spans of time. Metaphors, in this context, serve as a window into Putin’s discursive strategies for persuasion and manipulation but also, they showcase how Putin perceives and linguistically construes the conflict (Musolff, 2017). Employing a mixed-method approach, I a
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17.04.2024
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr
Vortrag
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr
LinguisTisch: Hielke Vriesendorp
Combining Macro and Micro Approaches when Researching (Minority) Gender(s)
24.04.2024
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr
Vortrag
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr
LinguisTisch: Nuria Llorente-Belda (University of Granada)
Strings Unseen: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Putin’s Linguistic Discursive Battle Through Metaphors
On February 24th, 2020, Vladimir Putin ordered a forceful incursion into Ukrainian lands under the pretext of denazifying Ukraine. Unlike previous Russo-Ukrainian conflicts, the unfolding events gaine...
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25.04.2024
18:00 Uhr
Vortrag
18:00 Uhr
Sociolinguistic Cocktail Lecture Series: “The animal turn in linguistics: the dairy cow as a linguistic actor”
Prof. Leonie Cornips, NL-Lab & Maastricht University
Die Sociolinguistic Cocktail Lecture Series bringt regelmäßig prominente
Wissenschaftler*innen in unsere Region, um aktuelle Themen aus Sprache,
Gesellschaft und Mehrsprachigkeit zu diskutieren. Nac...
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