Affiliation:
1. University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Abstract
Abstract
According to news media outlets, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the newly-elected Democratic representative from
New York, has stirred up conflicting feelings among Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, attracting criticism, mockery and
disapproval from both parties. The overarching aim of this study is to explore the extent to which these attitudes are acts of
verbal aggression often dissimulated as patronizing warnings or manifestations of an opinion (Ramirez and Andreu 2003; Wodak 2015). In particular, by analyzing a corpus
of headlines regarding AOC’s political persona and activism collected from six major conservative and liberal newspapers
circulating in the US, the study aims to detect linguistic markers associated with aggression and verify their level of toxicity
(Musolff 2012). To this purpose, both quantitative and qualitative methodological
approaches are used with particular reference to Corpus Linguistics (Baker et al. 2008;
Kilgariff et al. 2014) and the Discourse-Historical Approach (Reisigl and Wodak 2001, 2016). Findings show that biased
mediatized political discourse can influence attitudes toward aggressive speech behavior, and, therefore, intensify the devious
nature of aggressive acts.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Surfaces and Interfaces,Communication,Language and Linguistics
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