Trajkova Strezovska, Zorica and Neshkovska, Silvana (2022) VACCINE MANDATES: DEEPENING THE RIFT BETWEEN POLARIZED IDEOLOGY ON SOCIAL MEDIA. Journal of Contemporary Philology, 5 (2). pp. 45-65. ISSN 2545-4773
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Abstract
Facing the consequences of one of the most deadly waves of the Covid-19 pandemic towards the end of 2021, the political authorities all over the world struggled to persuade people to get as massively vaccinated as possible, using rhetoric
which ranged from threats to even begging. Focusing on the vaccine hesitancy by certain populations, most governments have started to impose a vaccine
mandate for all citizens, which resulted in eruption of protests across a number
of European, Australian and American cities. Consequently, the intolerance of
“the other”, either vaccinated or unvaccinated, has risen among social media users. By combining the methods of critical discourse and pragmatic analysis, this
research attempts to investigate the main pro and con argumentation of social
media users (Macedonian and English) made in the comment threads of posted
online news on mandatory vaccination. The detailed discursive analysis of the
samples reveals that fear, triggered by threat as well as risk, is what justifies both
sides’ attitude and reasoning.
Keywords: vaccine mandate, vaccine hesitancy, CDA, pragmatics, social media
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Humanities > Languages and literature |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Education |
| Depositing User: | Prof. d-r Silvana Neshkovska |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2023 05:32 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2023 07:49 |
| URI: | https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/8107 |
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