Diplomatic condolences: ideological positioning in the death of Yasser Arafat
Diplomatic condolences: ideological positioning in the death of Yasser Arafat
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10.1177/0957926507082192
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发表时间：
2007-11-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Fenton-Smith, Ben
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作者：
Fenton-Smith, Ben
亚西尔·阿拉法特是20世纪末21世纪初政治生活中的关键人物。作为巴勒斯坦总统，他在当时最具争议性的中东和平问题的谈判中发挥了核心作用。但是，尽管他的重要性是毋庸置疑的，但他的身份是模棱两可的：对一些人来说，他是自由斗士，对另一些人来说，他是恐怖分子。因此，观察世界各国政府在其官方慰问电中纪念2004年11月阿拉法特逝世的方式是很有趣的。本文运用批评性语篇分析和系统功能语言学的工具，将外交慰问信息视为一种可识别的文本类型，它可以告诉我们政府如何发出信号，如何构建意识形态立场，以及在这样做的过程中，国际社会是如何“制定”的。
Yasser Arafat was a key figure in the political life of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As Palestinian president, he was a central player in negotiations over the most contentious issue of the time: Middle East peace. But although his significance is unquestioned, his status is ambiguous: for some he was a freedom fighter, for others a terrorist. It is interesting, therefore, to observe the ways in which different world governments marked the death of Arafat in November 2004, in their official condolence messages. Using the tools of critical discourse analysis ( CDA) and systemic functional linguistics ( SFL), this article treats the diplomatic condolence message as a recognizable text type that has much to tell us about how governments signal and construct ideological positions and in doing so 'enact' the international community.