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Collective Identity as a Rhetorical Device

Martín Alonso orcid.org/0000-0002-5163-0294 ; Bakeaz Documentation and Peace Studies Center, Bilbao, Spain

Sažetak

Of the plural dimensions of collective identity, this paper explores identity as a rhetorical device. The identity tag is a case in point of pragmatic effectiveness. To account for such a power a hypothetical model of identity categories is presented. Its constituent modules shape four basic dimensions: position, deindividuation, exclusion and cognitive shielding. Such delineated narrative identity becomes equivalent to an informal ideology (Halliday, 2005). As constitutive rhetoric (Charland, 1987), the narrative construction of identities converts self-referential tautology into strategies of discrimination, purification and extermination of exponents of otherness. Last century mass destruction – totalitarianism, colonialism, ethno-nationalism – has been tributary to the identity paradigm.

Ključne riječi

collective identity; rhetoric; us vs. them; exclusion; moral obligation; political violence

Hrčak ID:

72476

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72476

Datum izdavanja:

23.8.2011.

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