Quantification as a Form of Norm-making in Political Discourse
https://doi.org/10.26794/2226-7867-2021-11-1-128-131
Abstract
The article is devoted to analysing statements in the political discourse of the COVID19 pandemic, including information transmitted by numbers. It shows how political discourse agents use numbers to form standards for the fight against COVID19 and thus demonstrate competence in solving this problem. The author concludes that even in the absence of standards for evaluating poorly studied phenomena, the latter can be measured and, as a result, controlled by discourse. The study uses a discursive analysis of utterances, which focuses on their semantic characteristics. On its basis, the author characterises their pragmatic features. The author based the theoretical part of this research on the works of N. Luhmann and F. Jungers. The analysis of practical examples the author based on the results of researchers who tried determining the features of numbers as a discursive phenomenon.
Keywords
figure,
discourse,
quantification,
particle,
norm,
standard,
agents of political discourse,
evaluation,
function
About the Author
I. D. Fevralev
Financial University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ivan D. Fevralev — 4th-year student, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications,
Moscow.
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Fevralev I.D. Quantification as a Form of Norm-making in Political Discourse. Humanities and Social Sciences. Bulletin of the Financial University. 2021;11(1):128-131. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26794/2226-7867-2021-11-1-128-131
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