United we diverge: politician Facebook responses to terror attacks

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Abstract

This chapter investigates what may be termed the responsive aspect of politics in critical situations where ordinary routines are challenged and unexpected events require a political response. Taking the deadly attack on a public meeting and the synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, on February 14, 2015, as an empirical case, the chapter analyzes responses from leading politicians on Facebook in the first days after the attacks. The analysis centers on the way in which the attacks are categorized and evaluated as well as on prevalent topoi and forms of dialogicality. The chapter concludes that the Facebook responses constitute a double articulation of overt unity and potential disagreement.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDoing Politics : Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse
EditorsMichael Kranert, Geraldine Horan
Number of pages24
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication dateDec 2018
Pages235-258
Chapter10
ISBN (Print)9789027201935
ISBN (Electronic)9789027263148
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018
SeriesDiscourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
Volume80
ISSN1569-9463

Keywords

  • responsive politics, Facebook, discourse analysis, terrorism, categorization, topoi, timing, dialogicality, epideictic rhetoric

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