Open AccessCritical rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis in a critical pandemic world
Author(s) -
Emilija Radibratović
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
res rhetorica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 2392-3113
DOI - 10.29107/rr2021.4.7
Subject(s) - critical discourse analysis , rhetoric , ideology , negotiation , sociology , naturalization , power (physics) , critical theory , discourse analysis , public discourse , pandemic , political science , covid-19 , social science , linguistics , law , politics , citizenship , philosophy , medicine , physics , alien , disease , quantum mechanics , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This paper introduces the potentials of crossing critical rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis in analyzing public discourse concerning one of the “corona topics”, namely institutional communication about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The application of two complementary theoretical frameworks reveals discourse negotiation and naturalization of power and ideology in a persuasive discursive practice of issuing successive contradictory messages regarding the vaccine’s safety.