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Critique and reflexivity in discourse on racism's relativity in Flanders

par Zienkowski, Jan
Référence 17th DiscourseNet conference: Critique and Reflexivity in Discourse (16/03/2016 au 19/03/2016: Pamplona)
Publication Non publié, 2016

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This paper provides a theoretical exploration of the double-edged issue of critique and reflexivity in discourse studies. The analysis is based on the notion of articulatory practice as developed within Essex discourse theory and on pragmatic understandings of metalinguistic awareness. The author argues that any adequate understanding of the critical and reflexive dimensions of discourse as conceptualized in discourse theory has a lot to gain with an integration of pragmatic perspectives on meta-discourse. In order to demonstrate what such an enriched notion of articulation implies for empirical discourse studies, the author will analyse the debate on the relativity of racism as it has been waged for the past three years in Belgium in newspapers and mainstream media. The author will focus on the way principles of reflexivity and critique are marked in critiques of the racism-is-relative trope uttered by a new generation of Flemish nationalist. Doing so, he seeks to reconstruct the metapragmatic structure of this debate while simultaneously arguing in favour of a notion of articulation that takes the metalinguistic features of discursive practice into account.