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Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure
Published on: September 19, 2019
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Sascha Michel1, Daniel Pfurtscheller2
1Institut für Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Deutschland.
Abstract:
This article examines narrative practices in the context of political speeches on the corona crisis. The qualitative analysis is based on a corpus of 650 social media comments posted in response to the so-called lockdown speeches by Sebastian Kurz and Angela Merkel in March 2020. The comments feature forms of fragmentary narration that are used by the participants both as resources of credibility and descriptiveness and as a means of positioning themselves in the context of the lockdown measures being announced.
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