Developing new identities in social conflicts : constructivist perspectives / edited by Esperanza Morales-López, Alan Floyd.

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Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. About the specific contents of chapters; Chapter 1. Constructionism in historical writing; 1. Introduction: Theoretical background; 2. How does symbolization work in historical discourse?; References; Chapter 2. White, Burke and the "literary" nature of historical controversies; 1. Introduction; 2. Metahistorical controversies about the past; 3. A tropological turn in response to some specific but irreconcilable disagreement.

4. On the limits of a transcendental reading of tropology5. Figural causality of tropological drift; 6. Controversies as a conversation (in a pragmatistic sense) through tropological drift; 7. Conclusion; References; Chapter 3. The discursive construction of reality in the context of rhetoric: Constructivist rhetoric; 1. Introduction; 2. The epistemological basis of ancient sophistry (constructivism Avant la Lettre) and its historical disrepute; 2. The epistemological basis of ancient sophistry (constructivism Avant la Lettre) and its historical disrepute.

3. The beginnings of the recovery of rhetoric in the twentieth century4. The revival of rhetoric and constructivism: The return to elocutio and the third level of revival of rhetorical thinking; 5. The connection between rhetoric and discourse analysis; 6. A final word; References; Chapter 4. Understanding social conflict: Reason or emotion?; 1. Introduction; 2. The social nature of human beings; 3. Emotions; 4. Explanations: Searching for Truths?; 5. Conversations; 6. Conflicts; 7. Final remarks: Reflection; Acknowledgements; References.

Chapter 5. I am and I am not Charlie: The discursive conflict surrounding the attack on Charlie Hebdo1. Propaedeutics: Toward a constructivist rhetoric; 2. The events; 3. The meaning of the events: A theory; 3.1 The theory; 3.2 Practice; 4. Conclusions; References; Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries; 1. Introduction: Media discourse as construction; 2. The Master Narrative of Western media as applied to human migrations; 3. Human migration: Realities and media discourse.

4. An analysis of linguistic devices used to describe human migration4.1 Methodology; 4.2 Linguistic devices and human migration: Labelling, metaphors, transitivity; 5. Interpretation and conclusions; References; Chapter 7. Rhetorical analysis of health risk discourse: The 2009 influenza pandemic crisis; 1. Introduction; 2. The social study of risk within a constructivist frame; 3. Current rhetorical theory as a toolkit for the social study of health risk; 4. The European Council hearing on June 26 2006: Analysis of the speeches of Wolfgang Wodarg and Keiji Fukuda.

Conflicts are inherent to human society, but most of them do not concern us directly as participants or eyewitnesses. Therefore, how we see social conflicts depends on how they are presented to us. This volume gathers together writings by contemporary specialists in different fields, from different backgrounds, cultures and locations, but united by a common thread: the conviction that history and current affairs are constructed and presented, not according to the facts themselves, but according to media, culture, politics, gender, religion and other factors.

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