Thesis Chapters by Diogo Jasmins
MA Thesis, 2021
COVID-19 is one of the most remarkable worldwide crises of the latest decade with 33 million
case... more COVID-19 is one of the most remarkable worldwide crises of the latest decade with 33 million
cases in the US as of the 1
st of July 2021. In these difficult times citizens seem to have looked
up to their leaders for guidance and support (Wood & Owens & Durham, 2005) as largely
represented in the media (i.e., print press, online press and social media) whose study is
nevertheless beyond the scope of full coverage and analysis in this dissertation. Rather
interesting for this case study is the scrutiny of the way Donald Trump, the running President
of the USA at the moment COVID-19 hit the country, interacted online and established the
virtual rapport with interlocutors (Walther, 1992; Crystal, 2006; Greengard, 2009; Murthy,
2013; Baym, 2015 & Burgess & Baym, 2020) given his reported multiple ways of
communicating globally with a focus on the COVID pandemic in the United States. The
analysis of online Twitter corpora selected from Trump’s Twitter in two periods (5 months
prior and after COVID mentions in Trump’s Twitter) makes it possible to look at the way
Twitter messages were encoded, particularly evidenced in indexical expressions (i.e., personal
pronoun reference) and the cooperative principle, both objects of scrutiny in this piece of
research. More than the linguistic choices, or possible colligations and collocations to be
associated with the lexeme COVID (via corpus linguistics and a discourse-based approach,
following Baker, 2006; Biber, Conrad and Reppen, 1998; as well as corpus pragmatics, in the
line of Romero-Trillo, 2017), this exploratory research study of interdisciplinary kind intends
to disclose relevant pragmalinguistic strategies (Sousa & Ivanova, 2012) evidenced in tweet
exchanges between a leading politician in the global scenario and internet users (Mirzaeian,
2020). This dissertation brings to the fore and discusses strategies likely to strengthen or deepen
the gap among interlocutors.
Papers by Diogo Jasmins
COVID-19 is one of the most remarkable worldwide crises of the latest decade with 33 million case... more COVID-19 is one of the most remarkable worldwide crises of the latest decade with 33 million cases in the US as of the 1 st of July 2021. In these difficult times citizens seem to have looked up to their leaders for guidance and support (Wood & Owens & Durham, 2005) as largely represented in the media (i.e., print press, online press and social media) whose study is nevertheless beyond the scope of full coverage and analysis in this dissertation. Rather interesting for this case study is the scrutiny of the way Donald Trump, the running President of the USA at the moment COVID-19 hit the country, interacted online and established the virtual rapport with interlocutors (Walther, 1992; Crystal, 2006; Greengard, 2009; Murthy, 2013; Baym, 2015 & Burgess & Baym, 2020) given his reported multiple ways of communicating globally with a focus on the COVID pandemic in the United States. The analysis of online Twitter corpora selected from Trump’s Twitter in two periods (5 months prior and aft...
The Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education
Global leaders have addressed the COVID-19 pandemic in various ways and registers well beyond the... more Global leaders have addressed the COVID-19 pandemic in various ways and registers well beyond the scientific-technical genre, some of which have been unexpectedly undermined by a war-like undertone broadcast by both the media and social networks (cf. conceptual metaphor as discussed, for example, by Lakoff, & Johnson 1980, and Koller 2011). According to Hartmann-Mahmud (2002), metaphors are often exploited to manipulate emotion and to justify courses of action related, in this case, to a pandemic scenario, thereby potentially fostering the labelling of the virus with lexemes such as an enemy, invisible or hidden, or even as a prompter for war, hatred, prejudice and racism. Particularly interesting for this research paper is the study in progress of the occurrence of metaphors, associated with the pandemic, retrieved from the Twitter of Donald Trump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump), especially given his reported high engagement with interlocutors in social media (Walther 1992, C...
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Thesis Chapters by Diogo Jasmins
cases in the US as of the 1
st of July 2021. In these difficult times citizens seem to have looked
up to their leaders for guidance and support (Wood & Owens & Durham, 2005) as largely
represented in the media (i.e., print press, online press and social media) whose study is
nevertheless beyond the scope of full coverage and analysis in this dissertation. Rather
interesting for this case study is the scrutiny of the way Donald Trump, the running President
of the USA at the moment COVID-19 hit the country, interacted online and established the
virtual rapport with interlocutors (Walther, 1992; Crystal, 2006; Greengard, 2009; Murthy,
2013; Baym, 2015 & Burgess & Baym, 2020) given his reported multiple ways of
communicating globally with a focus on the COVID pandemic in the United States. The
analysis of online Twitter corpora selected from Trump’s Twitter in two periods (5 months
prior and after COVID mentions in Trump’s Twitter) makes it possible to look at the way
Twitter messages were encoded, particularly evidenced in indexical expressions (i.e., personal
pronoun reference) and the cooperative principle, both objects of scrutiny in this piece of
research. More than the linguistic choices, or possible colligations and collocations to be
associated with the lexeme COVID (via corpus linguistics and a discourse-based approach,
following Baker, 2006; Biber, Conrad and Reppen, 1998; as well as corpus pragmatics, in the
line of Romero-Trillo, 2017), this exploratory research study of interdisciplinary kind intends
to disclose relevant pragmalinguistic strategies (Sousa & Ivanova, 2012) evidenced in tweet
exchanges between a leading politician in the global scenario and internet users (Mirzaeian,
2020). This dissertation brings to the fore and discusses strategies likely to strengthen or deepen
the gap among interlocutors.
Papers by Diogo Jasmins
cases in the US as of the 1
st of July 2021. In these difficult times citizens seem to have looked
up to their leaders for guidance and support (Wood & Owens & Durham, 2005) as largely
represented in the media (i.e., print press, online press and social media) whose study is
nevertheless beyond the scope of full coverage and analysis in this dissertation. Rather
interesting for this case study is the scrutiny of the way Donald Trump, the running President
of the USA at the moment COVID-19 hit the country, interacted online and established the
virtual rapport with interlocutors (Walther, 1992; Crystal, 2006; Greengard, 2009; Murthy,
2013; Baym, 2015 & Burgess & Baym, 2020) given his reported multiple ways of
communicating globally with a focus on the COVID pandemic in the United States. The
analysis of online Twitter corpora selected from Trump’s Twitter in two periods (5 months
prior and after COVID mentions in Trump’s Twitter) makes it possible to look at the way
Twitter messages were encoded, particularly evidenced in indexical expressions (i.e., personal
pronoun reference) and the cooperative principle, both objects of scrutiny in this piece of
research. More than the linguistic choices, or possible colligations and collocations to be
associated with the lexeme COVID (via corpus linguistics and a discourse-based approach,
following Baker, 2006; Biber, Conrad and Reppen, 1998; as well as corpus pragmatics, in the
line of Romero-Trillo, 2017), this exploratory research study of interdisciplinary kind intends
to disclose relevant pragmalinguistic strategies (Sousa & Ivanova, 2012) evidenced in tweet
exchanges between a leading politician in the global scenario and internet users (Mirzaeian,
2020). This dissertation brings to the fore and discusses strategies likely to strengthen or deepen
the gap among interlocutors.