Harnessing the temporality of the COVID-19 health crisis in discourse. A critical discourse study of the evolution of the uses of time in the political and scientific discourse in the decision-making process [Doctoral Thesis]

Researcher

Lydie Denis

Promoter

Geoffroy Patriarche

Support committee

Catherine Bouko (UGent), Thomas Jacobs (USL-B/Engage), Sandrine Roginsky (UCLouvain)

Project duration 

2021 – 2027

Keywords

Time, temporality, Critical Discourse Studies, COVID-19, political discourse, scientific discourse, decision-making process.

Funding

Mandat d’assistante

Description

This doctoral research is rooted in Critical Discourse Studies and takes the link between time, temporality, and the COVID-19 pandemic as its starting point. It mainly focuses on the way time and discourse are intertwined in the decision-making process of the COVID-19 pandemic through political and scientific discourse. The aim of this research is therefore to study the evolution of discourses on time and temporality over time of the crisis as various experiences of time coexist in the discourses of implied actors and have implications on the power relationships at stake in this peculiar context.

The analysis of the corpus of political and scientific discourses is based on an analytical framework established in the Discourse-Historical Approach (e.g. Wodak, 2015) integrating the diachronic aspect of time and the way time is elaborated within discourse, allowing it to become meaningful, to represent and regulate social practices and at the same time to convey the subjective experience of actors.

Scientific publications

Denis, Lydie. Book review: Christiana CONSTANTOPOULOU (dir.) (2020), Représentations sociales et discours médiatiques. La « crise » comme narration contemporaine Paris, L’Harmattan, Coll. « Logiques sociales ». In: Communication, Vol. 40, no.1, p. 0-0 (2023). doi:10.4000/communication.17518. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.3/277795

Denis, Lydie. Maarek, P. J. (ed.) (2022). Manufacturing government communication on Covid-19: A comparative perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 395 pp. In: Communications: the European Journal of communication research, Vol. 49, no.aop, p. aop (2023). doi:10.1515/commun-2023-0038. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.3/276649

Scientific communications

Denis, Lydie. La légitimation de la durée : une analyse de la continuité dans le discours décisionnel de gestion lors de la crise du COVID-19. Journée doctorale initier un dialogue entre les disciplines (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, 07/11/2024). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/293184

Denis, Lydie. ECREA Summer School 2024: Harnessing temporality in political discourse . ECREA Summer School 2024 (Roskilde (DK), du 05/08/2024 au 11/08/2024). http://hdl.handle.net/2078/290545

Denis, Lydie. Poster: Performing temporality: how the uses of time legitimize political discourse. Poster Day ILC 2024 (UCLouvain, 23/02/2024). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.3/285590

Denis, Lydie. The link between time and discourse shaping the political response to the COVID-19 crisis. An analytical framework integrating Narrative Analysis within a Discourse-Historical Approach. DiscourseNet and ALED: Discourses and their impacts on a world of multiple crises. (Valencia, du 25/07/2023 au 28/07/2023). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.3/277085

Mignon, Solène ; Denis, Lydie ; Tant, Cédric. Following gynecological violence through media productions. The discursive trajectories of gynecological and obstetric violence through alternative and traditional media. ECREA 2022 (Aarhus University, 19/10/2022 – 22/10/22). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.3/265981