Media dialogical networks and political argumentation

Leudar, Ivan; Nekvapil, Jiří

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Article published In: Journal of Language and Politics
Vol. 3:2 (2004) ► pp.247–266

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Media dialogical networks and political argumentation

Ivan Leudar

Jiří Nekvapil

Published online: 24 August 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.3.2.06leu

In this paper we provide a synopsis of our research on dialogical networks in media (Leudar 1998; Leudar and Nekvapil 1998; Nekvapil and Leudar 1998; Nekvapil and Leudar 2002a, 2002b, Leudar, Marsland and Nekvapil 2003, Nekvapil and Leudar in press). We outline the concept, provide an example of analysis with that concept, and summarize constitutive properties of these networks. The analysis uses materials from both Czech and British newspaper articles and television debates, all of which relate to politically sensitive events. The Czech materials in particular concern inter-ethnic problems which were acute between 1992–1995, first in the now dissolved Czechoslovakia and then in the Czech Republic.

Keywords: mass media, dialogical networks, language of media, Czech and British media, Roma, political argumentation, dialogicity, intertextuality, sequential structures, adjacency pairs

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