[PLing] WSG: Theo van Leeuwen, "Performance and politics" (13. 06.)

[Laura Grestenberger]

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

Ich möchte noch einmal an den bevorstehenden Vortrag von Prof. Theo van 
Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark, Department of Language, 
Culture, History and Communication) in der Vortragsreihe der Wiener 
Sprachgesellschaft erinnern, zu dem Sie herzlich eingeladen sind. Sie 
finden das Abstract weiter unten in der E-Mail bzw. in der Ankündigung 
im Anhang.

Titel: "Performance and politics"

Datum & Uhrzeit: 13. 06. 2023, 18.30h

Ort: Hörsaal 1, Sensengasse 3A (1. OG), 1090 Wien

Interessierte sind herzlich willkommen!

Mit besten Grüßen,

Laura Grestenberger

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"Performance and politics"

Abstract: Performance, in the way in which it was defined by Hymes 
(1972: 62), as the “manner or spirit in which an act is done”, is an 
integral part of all social practices. But, perhaps since the presidency 
of the movie actor Ronald Reagan, who “wanted to be, and became, an 
accomplished presidential performer” (Cannon, 1991: 50), it is playing 
an increasingly important role in politics, as signalled by Fairclough 
(2000: 14), when he wrote about political style as multimodal, and as 
expressive of political identities and values.
In this talk, I will present a framework for analysing the discursive 
recontextualization of performance, along the lines of earlier work on 
the representation of social actors and social actions (van Leeuwen, 
2008), and apply it to the performance of politicians during election 
campaigns. Examples are drawn from visual and linguistic representations 
of the 2019 Australian election campaigns of Scott Morrison and Bill 
Shorten.
I will end with a critique of theories such as those of Goffman (e.g. 
1959), which interpret social life entirely in terms of performance, 
which, inter alia, risks legitimizing the application of what Habermas 
(1984) called ‘dramaturgical’ validity criteria to politics.

References

Blaine, L. (2021) Top Blokes – The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power. 
Quarterly Essay 83.
Cannon, L. (1991) President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime. New York: 
Simon & Schuster.
Fairclough, N. (2000) New Labour, New Language? London: Routledge.
Goffman, E. (1959) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. 
Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Habermas, J. (1984) The Theory of Communicative Action. Vol 1 Reason and 
the Rationalization of Society. Boston: Beacon Press
Hymes, D. (1972) Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life. 
In J. Gumperz and D. Hymes, eds. Directions in Sociolinguistics, 35-71. 
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Strangio, P. and Walter, J. (2020) The personalisation of the campaign. 
In Gauja, A, Sawyer, M. and Simms, M. (eds.) Morrison’s Miracle – The 
2019 Australian Federal Election, 32-70. Canberra: ANU Press.
Van Leeuwen, T. (2008) Discourse and Practice- New Tools for Critical 
Discourse Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press.

-- 
Dr. Laura Grestenberger
Elise-Richter-Fellow, Institut für Iranistik / Institute of Iranian 
Studies
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Austrian Academy of 
Sciences
Hollandstraße 11-13, A-1020 Wien
lauragrestenberger.com
Wiener Sprachgesellschaft, https://wsg.univie.ac.at/
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