Words of War: The Iraqi Tower of Babel - Collin - 2009 - International Studies Perspectives. Journal of Pragmatics - The language of power: Towards a dynamic pragmatics. The goal of this paper is two-fold. My first aim is simply to describe the systematic way in which a range of pragmatic features were employed by the dominant1 participant in a series of ‘unequal encounters’ in order to restrict severely the discoursal options of the subordinate participant. The features in question are: (i) IFID's (illocutionary force indicating devices); (ii) metapragmatic comments, ‘upshots’ and ‘reformulations’, and (iii) appeal to felicity conditions. My second aim is to argue that we can only satisfactorily explain the effectiveness of these tactics by bringing together insights from both conversational analysis and recent work in interpersonal pragmatics.
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Twitter diplomacy: State Department 2.0. Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images Robert Ford (left), the U.S. ambassador to Syria, speaks to an unidentified U.S. military attache during a guided government tour in the northern Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughur last June. The U.S. has closed its embassy in Syria owing to security concerns, but Ford is using Facebook to stay involved in the country. The U.S. evacuated the staff of its embassy in Damascus earlier this month owing to security issues.
But that hasn't stopped Robert Ford, the U.S. ambassador to Syria, from using social media to keep in touch with events on the ground, and to try to shape them. On the embassy's Facebook page, for instance, Ford has posted satellite images of tanks moving on cities and a pipeline fire spreading toxic fumes. Ford is part of a new generation of diplomats using online tools such as Facebook and Twitter to get their message out.
Adapting To Social Media Tools Former State Department spokesman P.J. "Twitter is the ultimate tool for one-liners. On Eavesdropping. Eavesdropping has a bad name. It is a form of human communication in which the information gained is stolen, and where such words as cheating and spying come into play. But eavesdropping may also be an attempt to understand what goes on in the lives of others so as to know better how to live one’s own. John L. Locke’s entertaining and disturbing new book, Eavesdropping: An Intimate History, explores everything from sixteenth-century voyeurism to Facebook and Twitter. Below is a short excerpt from the book’s prologue, explaining why he finds eavesdropping so fascinating. On a flight from Milan to London I was slumped down in my aisle seat, deep in thought as I reviewed an early draft of the manuscript that has become this book.
Watching and asking produce a form of intimate experience, which can be enjoyable in its own right, as well as intimate images, which may be re-experienced when privately brought to mind or – as information – shared with others. But they have not done so.