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<p class="MsoNormal">Liebe Kolleginnen,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">wir möchten Sie herzlich einladen zu unserem Vortrag im Rahmen der
<a href="https://redico.eu/de/projekt-digitale-interkulturalitaet/ringvorlesung-digitale-interkulturalitaet/">
virtuellen Ringvorlesung des Team ReDiCo zum Thema <b>Digitale Interkulturalität</b></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Martina Berrocal (Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena) & Nadine Thielemann (WU Wien)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">#Turow</span></b></em><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt"> – Debating the Mine on Twitter: National and Transcultural Discourses on Social Media</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">8.12.2023, 12 bis 13.30 h (MEZ)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ein Zoomlink kann angefordert werden bei <a href="mailto:contact@redico.eu">
contact@redico.eu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Much public debate today is carried out on Twitter (now X), an arena where, in order to get their ideas across,
participants have developed a range of resources. Disentangling these into clear and understandable structures and patterns presents a fresh challenge for discourse pragmatics. The first aim of the present article is to contribute methodologically to meeting
it. We therefore examine various methods previously used to identify and classify pragmatic patterns within discourses, our conclusion being that none is fully satisfactory and that a new system of coding contributions is desirable. We then outline such a
scheme based on a posting’s primary pragmatic function (informing, appealing, or expressing emotivity), but also taking into account subsidiary functions. Moving on to address our second aim – to enhance understanding of communication within the digital realm
– we apply our scheme to a particular case of online debate. This is the discussion on Twitter of the Turów lignite mine, in Poland, and its damaging impact on areas located across the border in Czechia, and of attempts by the Czech and European authorities
to prevent or mitigate this impact. The discussion takes place essentially in three languages – Polish, Czech, and English – and our analysis uses separate samples of tweets drawn from each of them. It enables us to identify three distinct discourses, each
associated with one of the languages and each characterized by a particular interpretation of the topic and a particular distribution of pragmatic patterns. Thus, while the English sample is characterized by a transnational discourse of appeal in support of
the broad decarbonization agenda, the other samples view the Turów case overwhelmingly as a national political issue. Their discourses are oppositional and rely heavily on emotivity directed, in the Polish case, primarily against the country’s ruling party,
and in the Czech one against the deal eventually reached with Poland to mitigate the problems. These findings suggest that our function-related coding scheme does indeed offer useful insights into online discourses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Herzlich,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Nadine Thielemann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">=================================================================</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Univ. Prof. Dr. Nadine Thielemann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Head of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Institute for Slavic Languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Department for Business Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">WU -
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Vienna University of Economics and Business<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Welthandelsplatz 1, Gebäude D2, Eingang D, Büro 3.194<br>
1020 Wien/Vienna, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Tel.: +43-1-31336-5427<br>
Fax: +43-1-31336-907044<br>
e-mail: </span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"><a href="mailto:nadine.thielemann@wu.ac.at"><span lang="EN-US">nadine.thielemann@wu.ac.at</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">homepage:
<a href="https://research.wu.ac.at/de/persons/nadine-thielemann-8">https://research.wu.ac.at/de/persons/nadine-thielemann-8</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">New publications:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Thielemann & Weiss (eds.) (2023): Remedies against the Pandemic. How politicians communicate their crisis management. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: Benjamins.
</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.102"><span lang="EN-US">https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.102</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Thielemann & Berrocal (2023): Framing the Energy Transition: The Case of Polands Turów Lignite Mine.
</span><i><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">International Journal of Strategic Communication
</span></i><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2023.2234881">https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2023.2234881</a><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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