Linguistic pragmatics and the re-articulation of a public debate: a pragmatic case study of the Black Pete debate in the Netherlands
(2015) 1st DiscourseNet Winter School — Location: Sevilla (20.January.2015)
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- In this paper, I seek to provide a couple of heuristic guidelines that may be useful to analysts who want to take the polysemy of discursive functions seriously, irrespective of their disciplinary backgrounds. The main conceptual tool presented in this workshop is a multi-dimensional notion of articulation whose usefulness for investigating a socio-political debate will be explored with reference to representations of the Black Pete debate in the Netherlands. On the one hand, we can use the notion of articulation to designate a linkage. In this sense, every discourse involves complex articulations of signifiers, utterances, sentences, symbols, images, and other semiotic forms. At the same time every act of articulation is always also a performance. The way we articulate semiotic elements with each other impacts on the pragmatic function(s) and meaning(s) of our statements.
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ICS Universidad de Navarra
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Zienkowski, J. (2015). Linguistic pragmatics and the re-articulation of a public debate: a pragmatic case study of the Black Pete debate in the Netherlands. 1st DiscourseNet Winter School, Sevilla. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/92737