Ida Vikøren Andersen

NORCE

English abstract: In 2019, a new crisis concept – “the nature crisis” –appeared in Norwegian newspapers. It quickly became a rhetorical tool in the wind power debate. It is used as a collective singular, balancing the more well-known “climate crisis” in spatial range and turning local events into one global phenomenon. In the wind power debate, it...

Sentralt i den offentlige debatten om de norske klimastreikene var spørsmålet om elevene skulle få fraværsmerknad for å delta eller om deres aktivisme skulle beskyttes av streikeretten. I artikkelen undersøker jeg hvordan politikere og andre aktører i den offentlige debatten argumenterte i saken. Derigjennom avdekker jeg betydningsfulle, men motset...

Sammendrag Mange unge er bekymret for klimaendringene. Her undersøker jeg innholdet i denne bekymringen, som uttrykt i debattartikler skrevet av ungdom til Aftenposten mellom 2016-2021. Min analytiske tilgang til disse tekstene er retorisk, noe som innebærer at jeg undersøker hvordan følelsene uttrykkes, begrunnes og inviterer en bestemt respons. J...

The paper examines the rhetorical use and function of a provocative “rebel” persona in argumentative texts, collected from the youth column in Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten and the national speech contest for high school students, Ta ordet!, seeking to influence the audience’s attitudes towards green lifestyles. Approaching “the rebel” as a perso...

In this paper, I discuss rhetorical studies' contribution to the study of environmental communication. With the concept of rhetorical environmental citizenship, I emphasize rhetorical scholarship's concern with citizens' participation in democracy-both as recipients of and actors in environmental debates. Specifically, this approach invites analyse...

This article examines the rhetorical use, function, and public value of appeals to shame and guilt in the climate change debate. It does so through rhetorical criticism of opinion articles discussing flight shame published in Norwegian newspapers 2019–2020. The opinion articles partake in a rhetorical exchange in which the legitimacy of air travel,...

The public debate is commonly criticised for lacking deliberation. Therefore, I argue, we need a better understanding of the rhetorical modes occurring instead of deliberation. By examining the interaction in a particularly expressive arena for public debate, namely public comment fields on Facebook, I suggest the term 'principle of expression' to...

Offentlig debatt forstås gjerne som deliberasjon; som avveiing av argumenter for og mot valg av fremtidig handling. Et deliberasjonsprinsipp innebærer dermed at samtalepartnerne begrunner sine synspunkter overfor hverandre gjennom argumentasjon. I denne artikkelen beskriver jeg et konkurrerende debattideal: uttrykksprinsippet. Ifølge dette kommunik...

Whereas the amount of hostility found online increases, scholarly interest in online hostility is decreasing. In this paper, I discuss three questions central to the study of online hostility, namely 1) what role the text, the speaker’s intention and the targets’ perception should play in definitions of hostility; 2) whether hostility is always des...

Social media have become an integrated part of people’s lives are important communication channels, utilised both for personal communication and public debate. Several studies and theories suggest how the advent of social media impacts the public sphere and the rhetoric embedded in it. Still, we have limited knowledge about how the social network s...

Political television debates should engage voters and provide them with information they need to make a decision. Existing research provides an understanding of the rhetorical mechanisms at play in debate situations, but we still know little about how viewers react to different rhetorical expressions. This study provides an empirically based unders...

Kapitlet "Skriftlig protokolanalyse" præsenterer en variant af protokolanalyse hvor informanterne ikke snakker om, men skriftlig noterer sine reaktioner og responser. Forfatterne viser at denne metode er velegnet til at undersøge publikums oplevelse af audiovisuel retorisk kommunikation som forløber over tid, for eksempel at lytte til en tale, høre...

The public sphere is where citizens can come together to discuss issues of public concern and attempt to influence the political handling of these. Social media and online discussion forums have created new arenas where citizens can participate in the public debate. Discussions found in these arenas, however, seldom hold deliberative qualities. Thi...

This chapter examines the power of news photographs through triangulating reception-oriented analyses of the photographs of the dead Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi, who was found drowned on a Turkish beach September 2, 2015. The images were immediately described as powerful and iconic. However, the analyses by Kjeldsen and Andersen demonstrate that thei...