Chapter Verbalizing bifurcation situations : proper names referring to events in media discourse
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a situation of bifurcation within societies: we are talking about a world before and after the coronavirus. The name of the city of Wuhan, its “cradle”, has become a fatal symbol. This contribution examines the discursive functioning of proper names referring to eve...
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| author | Rodríguez Pedreira, Nuria Konowska, Agnieszka |
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic has created a situation of bifurcation within societies: we are talking about a world before and after the coronavirus. The name of the city of Wuhan, its “cradle”, has become a fatal symbol. This contribution examines the discursive functioning of proper names referring to events of this type (Wuhan, Chernobyl, 9/11) and how they meet certain needs of speakers at times of “rupture”. We speak about them as about proper denominations (Bosredon and Tamba 1995), words-events (Moirand 2007) or proper names referring to events (Krieg-Planque 2009) because they cover both some typical features of common names and proper names. We first ask about the activity of nomination through the designations used, often concurrent, and on their functioning in their relation to the co(n)text, but also to previous discourses (Moirand and Reboul-Touré 2015). To name something from an enunciative point of view is to select a designation among others available, and this with an essentially intentional aim. This is what we focus on in a second step, by identifying the role of the proper names of events in argumentative euphemization and dysphemization, through the analysis of a few examples from our corpus. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1559102025-03-07T14:44:39Z Chapter Verbalizing bifurcation situations : proper names referring to events in media discourse Rodríguez Pedreira, Nuria Konowska, Agnieszka The COVID-19 pandemic has created a situation of bifurcation within societies: we are talking about a world before and after the coronavirus. The name of the city of Wuhan, its “cradle”, has become a fatal symbol. This contribution examines the discursive functioning of proper names referring to events of this type (Wuhan, Chernobyl, 9/11) and how they meet certain needs of speakers at times of “rupture”. We speak about them as about proper denominations (Bosredon and Tamba 1995), words-events (Moirand 2007) or proper names referring to events (Krieg-Planque 2009) because they cover both some typical features of common names and proper names. We first ask about the activity of nomination through the designations used, often concurrent, and on their functioning in their relation to the co(n)text, but also to previous discourses (Moirand and Reboul-Touré 2015). To name something from an enunciative point of view is to select a designation among others available, and this with an essentially intentional aim. This is what we focus on in a second step, by identifying the role of the proper names of events in argumentative euphemization and dysphemization, through the analysis of a few examples from our corpus. 2025-03-07T14:44:37Z 2025-03-07T14:44:37Z 2022 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788382208801_1560 9788382208801 9788382208795 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/155910 fre image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/700 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8220-879-5.17 The COVID-19 pandemic has created a situation of bifurcation within societies: we are talking about a world before and after the coronavirus. The name of the city of Wuhan, its “cradle”, has become a fatal symbol. This contribution examines the discursive functioning of proper names referring to events of this type (Wuhan, Chernobyl, 9/11) and how they meet certain needs of speakers at times of “rupture”. We speak about them as about proper denominations (Bosredon and Tamba 1995), words-events (Moirand 2007) or proper names referring to events (Krieg-Planque 2009) because they cover both some typical features of common names and proper names. We first ask about the activity of nomination through the designations used, often concurrent, and on their functioning in their relation to the co(n)text, but also to previous discourses (Moirand and Reboul-Touré 2015). To name something from an enunciative point of view is to select a designation among others available, and this with an essentially intentional aim. This is what we focus on in a second step, by identifying the role of the proper names of events in argumentative euphemization and dysphemization, through the analysis of a few examples from our corpus. 10.18778/8220-879-5.17 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788382208801 9788382208795 211-226 open access |
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