Discursive Approaches to Sociopolitical Polarization and Conflict

This collection explores the discursive strategies and linguistic resources underpinning conflict and polarization, taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the ways in which conflict is constructed across a diverse range of contexts.

Laura Filardo-Llamas is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Valladolid, Spain. Esperanza Morales-López is Full Professor in Linguistics at the University of A Coruña. Alan Floyd is Associate Professor of English Language in the University of A Coruña.

TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction. Laura Filardo-Filardo Llamas & Esperanza Morales-López I. Polarization in social and political conflicts - Morales-López, Esperanza. Who are the "people" of Catalonia? The narratives of a conflict that has divided this "social group" in two. - Matos, Ana Raquel, Dora Fonseca and José Manuel Mendes. Social movements and protest events in Portugal during and after the austerity measures: A discursive analysis. - Morales-López, Esperanza and Floyd, Alan. Discourses of the left in a nationalist perspective. - De Cock, Barbara, Dupret, Pauline, Hambye, Philippe and Pizarro Pedraza, Andrea. Polarizing representations of immigrant communities in Belgian French-speaking online political discourse. - Flores, Joseph L. and Martínez-Guillem, Susana. Co-constructing conflict: The role of humorous memes in re-creating Donald Trump and his "others". - Elmerot, Irene. Constructing "us" and "them" through conflicts - Muslims and Arabs in the news 1990-2018. - Aguilera-Carnerero, Carmen. Of heroes and enemies: Visual polarisation in the propaganda magazines of the Islamic State. - Romano, Manuela and Porto, Dolores. Framing conflict in the Syrian refugee crisis: Multimodal representations in the Spanish and British press. - Cárdenas-Neira, Camila and Pérez-Arredondo, Carolina. Polarization and the educational conflict. A linguistic and multimodal approach to the discursive (re)construction of the Chilean student movement in the mainstream media and Facebook. - Filardo-Llamas, Laura. From the war on Covid-19 to political wars. Metaphor as a mechanism of polarization in the early stages of the 2020 pandemic. II. Polarization in symbolic and cultural conflicts - Domínguez, Martí, Moreno, Sara and Pina, Tatiana. Unicorns, donkeys and elephants: the battle on climate change in the United States of America as reflected in cartoons. - Salvador, Vicent. The social debate on energy sources and climate change: representations, argumentation and the emotional dimension. - Molpeceres, Sara. Angry white women? Right-wing female politicians reframing feminism in Spain. - Pascual Espinilla, Sergio. The polarization of the journalistic account on gender-based violence. A discursive analysis of its media treatment. - Pujante, David. The negated synecdoche. A rhetorical analysis of the Bible in the light of queer theology. - García Riverón, Raquel, Marrero, Alejandro and Acosta González, Yoan Karell. Multimodal discourse analysis of news according to Complexity Theory. The US-Cuba conflict: A case study. - Gutiérrez-Sanz, Víctor. Gudari or villain? Analysis of the rhetorical construction of the terrorist within the framework of the Basque conflict Afterword. Laura Filardo-Llamas & Esperanza Morales-López