{"id":971,"date":"2024-12-13T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T07:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/?p=971"},"modified":"2024-12-13T07:17:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T07:17:42","slug":"on-the-concept-cringe-and-its-rhetorical-applications-in-political-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/on-the-concept-cringe-and-its-rhetorical-applications-in-political-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"On the concept \u201ccringe\u201d and its rhetorical applications in political discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On&nbsp;<strong>19.12.2024 (Thursday), at 5 p.m. CET<\/strong>, Prof. Agnieszka Piskorska (Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw) will give an online lecture entitled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On the concept \u201ccringe\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>and its rhetorical applications&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>in political discourse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong>. The talk explores the concept of cringe and the role it plays in political discourse. First, the current use of \u201ccringe\u201d is discussed as a common word in English and in Polish, and as a complex social emotion. Two variants of the definition of cringe are presented: based on embarrassment by proxy, and based on disgust as its key components. Then the application of cringe as a rhetorical tool in political discourse is discussed and illustrated with examples drawn from press articles on American and European election campaigns. As the analysis indicates, cringe is a fluid concept which may be used in order to undermine an opponent\u2019s authority and status, in which case it appears to be strongly associated with disgust, or it may be used to label a person as \u201cnot serious\u201d, in which case it appears to be tinged with humour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>REGISTRATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interested persons are requested to register by 18.12.2024 (6 pm.&nbsp;CET):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/7QD5ecrCVuaMQ2pb7\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/7QD5ecrCVuaMQ2pb7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 19.12.2024 a link to the online lecture will be sent to the participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On&nbsp;19.12.2024 (Thursday), at 5 p.m. CET, Prof. Agnieszka Piskorska (Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw) will give an online lecture entitled: On the concept \u201ccringe\u201d and its rhetorical applications&nbsp; in political discourse Abstract. The talk explores the concept of cringe and the role it plays in political discourse. First, the current use of \u201ccringe\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ret-net.wn.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}