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Critical rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis in a critical pandemic world
Critical rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis in a critical pandemic world

Author(s): Emilija Radibratović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Sociology
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne
Keywords: critical rhetoric;Critical Discourse Analysis;COVID-19;Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine;

Summary/Abstract: This paper introduces the potentials of crossing critical rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis in analyzing public discourse concerning one of the “corona topics”, namely institutional communication about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The application of two complementary theoretical frameworks reveals discourse negotiation and naturalization of power and ideology in a persuasive discursive practice of issuing successive contradictory messages regarding the vaccine’s safety.

  • Issue Year: 8/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 119-134
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English