RT Article
T1 Some Preliminary Thoughts Prompted by President Trump’s 6 January Speech: Words, Enemies, Affordances
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 33
IS 5
SP 907
OP 911
A1 Taylor, Max
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764873734
AB The paper argues that in order to understand the events of 6 January we must look at events from a range of perspectives, two of which are identified—the narrow focus of a comparison of a linguistic analysis of the speech and its context, and the broader social and cultural context of a changing sense of American National Interest. It suggests that to understand the events of 6 January we need to conceptualise them as the product of a complex process where both aggregate and specific influences seem relevant, but whilst both offer necessary explanations neither in themselves provide a sufficient explanation of the event. The concept of affordance is suggested to perhaps provide the glue that may bind these and other influences together to facilitate the violence.
K1 Affordance
K1 National interest
K1 Linguistic Analysis
K1 LIWC
DO 10.1080/09546553.2021.1932337