Table 1 A selection of DHA discursive strategies (Reisigl and Wodak, 2016: 32-33).
From: Comparing discursive reproductions of national military image between China and the United States
Strategy | Objectives | Questions |
|---|---|---|
Nomination | discursive construction of social actions, objects, phenomena, events, processes and actions | How are persons, objects, phenomena/events, processes and actions named and referred to linguistically? |
Predication | discursive qualification of social actors, objects, phenomena, events, processes and actions (positively or negatively) | What characteristics, qualities and features are attributed to social actors, objects, phenomena/events and processes? |
Argumentation | justification and questioning of claims of truth and normative rightness | What arguments are employed in the discourse in question? |
Perspectivisation | positioning the speaker’s or writer’s point of view and expressing involvement or distance | From what perspective are these nominations, attributions and arguments expressed? |
Intensification | modifying (intensifying or mitigating) the illocutionary force and thus the epistemic or deontic status of utterances | Are the respective utterances articulated overtly, intensified or mitigated? |
