Can Küçükali

List of John Benjamins publications in which Can Küçükali is involved.

Title

Discursive Strategies and Political Hegemony: The Turkish case

Can Küçükali

With the help of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this book approaches Turkish politics from an interdisciplinary perspective in order to deepen our understanding of political power and discourse. This study re-conceptualizes discursive strategies as hegemonic projects and thirteen governmental… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 64] 2015. vii, 184 pp.

Articles

Küçükali, Can 2016 Stages and new conceptual tools for legitimizing military intervention: The Turkish foreign policy discourse on Syria Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 4:2, pp. 274–296 | Article

This paper delves into the problem of aggression in Turkish foreign-policy discourse on Syria which tries to legitimize a military operation. In order to understand how the policymaking preferences of a military operation are legitimized and promoted in governmental discourse, 166 governmental… read more

Küçükali, Can 2014 Discursive strategies of instrumentalizing history in mainstream Turkish political discourse: The case of the negative other presentation of the CHP Journal of Language and Politics 13:1, pp. 98–119 | Article

This article explores how specific narratives of the past can be functionalized/instrumentalized as discursive strategies in order to gain political power. To investigate this issue, four relevant governmental and non-governmental texts about the main opposition party in Turkey are analysed. The… read more