Open Access„Handeln statt Hoffen“. Zur Gemeinschaftsanrufung durch Attribution von Verantwortungsgefühlen im medialen Diskurs zur Seenotrettung von Carola Rackete im Sommer 2019
Author(s) -
Bettina Radeiski,
Eva Steinmetz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lubelskie materiały neofilologiczne/lublin studies in modern languages and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-4580
pISSN - 0137-4699
DOI - 10.17951/lsmll.2021.45.2.79-92
Subject(s) - feeling , attribution , narrative , action (physics) , sociology , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics
The article addresses a narrative of communanlity stemming primarily from feelings of responsibility. Referencing selected media reports on Carola Rackete’s sea rescue operation in 2019, the article discusses the circumstances under which a society calls on its individual members to act in a spirit of responsibility for their community - and at which point this common hope actually results in common action. The paper focuses on what constitutes responsible communities real and imagined, i.e. the discursive processes by which a community is invoked through the attribution of feelings of responsibility. The article employs methodological elements from linguistic and social science discourse research.