The #threats invaded my #Brexit #genre #thread. It was supposed to be mostly fun and #FBPE-games, but the threads turn it grim . So. I'll establish this new thread of uses of the threat as genre in the Brexit debate. It won´t be a lot of fun. #forensic #linguistics #genrestudies
Before I get going, a little piece of research dissemination on threats by my good colleagues @TanyaKaroli and @MarieEBM:
Exhibit A: @cliodiaspora has had to bear a truckload of abuse and quite a few threats for her engagement. I admire her intensely for sticking to her guns. This one is ugly in many many different ways.
Another tweet by @cliodiaspora. This time the threat isn´t against her, but against a politician. Utterly scary rhetoric in a country that has already seen an MP murdered in relation to #Brexit.
Here again, the "front page dogwhistle threat". Particularly nasty, if you ask me.
Here is one threatening a politician from another country. Fairly frightening, if I may say so.
And here is a death #threat.
"But I didn´t write that I would murder a politician, only that I foresaw someone doing it!"
You did a lot more than that, but bullies always bring disingenuous semantics to a pragmatics fight. #forensic #linguistics
"But I didn´t write that I would murder a politician, only that I foresaw someone doing it!"
You did a lot more than that, but bullies always bring disingenuous semantics to a pragmatics fight. #forensic #linguistics
This is why bringing semantics to a pragmatics fight doesn´t work. When somebody calls you on it, you look like a stupid insidious bully.
Well played, @carolecadwalla.
I am terribly sorry that you have to suffer this, but well played nonetheless.
Well played, @carolecadwalla.
I am terribly sorry that you have to suffer this, but well played nonetheless.
Hunters & howlers. This is a hunter. Freezes my blood.
A threat to do something obviously stupid and self-harmful may be dramatic, but is rarely a viable political strategy.
