The purpose of this article is a linguistic and discursive analysis of the controversy over the Turkish occupation in northern Cyprus, also known as the “Cyprus Question”. Based on the work of M. Halbwachs on collective memory (Halbwachs 1925; 1950), as well as on the achievements of the new perelmanian rhetoric (Perelman,1977; Perelman et Olbrechts–Tyteca, 1958), we will observe the strategies of recounting the relations of power and political tensions within the memorial discourse of the Hellenic Community. More specifically, the analysis will focus on the expression of indignation in the institutional discourse of Tasos Tzionis, Ambassador of Cyprus to Italy between 2015 and 2019. The results will show that the argumentative patterns that build the enunciative and pragmatic framework of indignation speech are both deductive reasoning and emotion.
La mise en récit du discours mémoriel : effacement de mémoire et rhétorique de l’indignation
ATTRUIA F
2021-01-01
Abstract
The purpose of this article is a linguistic and discursive analysis of the controversy over the Turkish occupation in northern Cyprus, also known as the “Cyprus Question”. Based on the work of M. Halbwachs on collective memory (Halbwachs 1925; 1950), as well as on the achievements of the new perelmanian rhetoric (Perelman,1977; Perelman et Olbrechts–Tyteca, 1958), we will observe the strategies of recounting the relations of power and political tensions within the memorial discourse of the Hellenic Community. More specifically, the analysis will focus on the expression of indignation in the institutional discourse of Tasos Tzionis, Ambassador of Cyprus to Italy between 2015 and 2019. The results will show that the argumentative patterns that build the enunciative and pragmatic framework of indignation speech are both deductive reasoning and emotion.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
