“I Am Not Racist, But …”: Rhetorical Fallacies in Arguments about the Refugee Crisis on Czech Facebook

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

“I Am Not Racist, But …”: Rhetorical Fallacies in Arguments about the Refugee Crisis on Czech Facebook

Original language description

This paper examines the strategies of social media users commenting on the so-called refugee crisis. This qualitative analysis of the role of passion politics discourse on social media primarily employs the concept of rhetorical fallacies. It aims to stress the interdiscursive nature of immigration as a topic. It is connected with anti-liberalism, anti-feminism (or homophobia), and conservatism. For the purpose of this study, we used techniques for social-media monitoring to analyze social-media conversations related to migration on the Facebook page of Parlamentnílisty.cz news during the Czech parliamentary and presidential elections. This analysis showed that rhetorical fallacies were used in a relatively small amount of the studied material. Only 13% of all comments contained rhetorical fallacies, among which the most used was the ad hominem fallacy (55% of the total), &quot;call for fear&quot; (11%) and &quot;false authority&quot; (7%). (C) 2021, Immigrant Institutet. All rights reserved.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-17085S" target="_blank" >GA17-17085S: Dynamics and forms of citizen online participation in the Czech Republic in response to the European migration crisis</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Intercultural Communication

ISSN

1404-1634

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SE - SWEDEN

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

58-69

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85116960529