Defining Functions of Danish Political Commentary

Mette Bengtsson

Defining Functions of Danish Political Commentary

Department of Communication

Abstract

In Denmark political commentary is still a relatively new phenomenon. This paper analyzes the metadiscourse in relation to political commentary to identify the different understandings that have coalesced around political commentary as a genre. I argue that people in different positions (e.g. citizens, politicians, journalists, political editors, chief editors and political commentators themselves) emphasize different explanations for the rise of the genre and thereby functions of political commentary as part of an argumentative strategy favouring their own interests

Original language	English
Journal	Argumentation: Cognition and Community. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)
Volume	Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of OSSA, May 18-21, 2011. Windsor, ON (CD ROM)
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities

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Defining Functions of Danish Political Commentary. / Bengtsson, Mette.

In: Argumentation: Cognition and Community. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), Vol. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of OSSA, May 18-21, 2011. Windsor, ON (CD ROM), 2011, p. 1-8.

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