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Sune Auken, Dr.Habil. #FBPEGlobal #BLM Profile picture
@SuneAuken
Jun 14, 2018 • 16 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
The #threats invaded my #Brexit #genre #thread. It was supposed to be mostly fun and #FBPE-games, but the threads turn it grim . So. I'll establish this new thread of uses of the threat as genre in the Brexit debate. It won´t be a lot of fun. #forensic #linguistics #genrestudies
Before I get going, a little piece of research dissemination on threats by my good colleagues @TanyaKaroli and @MarieEBM:

Exhibit A: @cliodiaspora has had to bear a truckload of abuse and quite a few threats for her engagement. I admire her intensely for sticking to her guns. This one is ugly in many many different ways.

Another tweet by @cliodiaspora. This time the threat isn´t against her, but against a politician. Utterly scary rhetoric in a country that has already seen an MP murdered in relation to #Brexit.

Even the #threat is not a universally bad #genre. Here, for instance, is a threat I really like. In part, because it is, in several senses of the word, legal.

Here again, the "front page dogwhistle threat". Particularly nasty, if you ask me.

Here is one threatening a politician from another country. Fairly frightening, if I may say so.

And here is a death #threat.

"But I didn´t write that I would murder a politician, only that I foresaw someone doing it!"

You did a lot more than that, but bullies always bring disingenuous semantics to a pragmatics fight. #forensic #linguistics

This is why bringing semantics to a pragmatics fight doesn´t work. When somebody calls you on it, you look like a stupid insidious bully.

Well played, @carolecadwalla.

I am terribly sorry that you have to suffer this, but well played nonetheless.

There is no #threat here, just a claim of a threat. Which is fun; in a tragic sort of way. It also has a lot to say about the way we represent things in the public sphere. I repeat: #genre labels are a discursive battle ground.

Not all #threats are conditional, trying to tell you what do to avoid repercussions, some just want to scare and intimidate as a precursor to or placeholder for violence. This example is a bit outside the #Brexit debate, but scary nonetheless.

I can´t even ... But: good work again @carolecadwalla

Hunters & howlers. This is a hunter. Freezes my blood.

A threat to do something obviously stupid and self-harmful may be dramatic, but is rarely a viable political strategy.

The dogwhistle threats really are out in force. @MollyMEP calls one out here.

Thinly veiled threat. This #genre specimen is particularly daft.

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Sune Auken, Dr.Habil. #FBPEGlobal #BLM Profile picture
Jun 25, 2018
Listen, please. I think this is important, crucial even.

I assembled this thread of #FBPE people attacking tories. It repeats the same point over and over and over. I tried to be somewhat entertaining in my presentation, but there is basically only one thing demonstrated. 1/
It was very easy to do; part of the material simply came to me while establishing the thread, and the rest was easy to find. I could literally go on with it forever and ever, and if I feel like it, I might still add new material; easy piece. 2/
But since every tweet basically demonstrated the same point: #FBPE person attacking tories, it only gets more trite tweet by tweet. @audreidana said I was boring, and she was spot on. 3/
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Sune Auken, Dr.Habil. #FBPEGlobal #BLM Profile picture
Jun 24, 2018
Hmmmm, I am running too many threads already. But how about a "#FBPE-people attacking Tories"-thread? It's clearly a worthwhile endeavor. Feel free to pitch in.
Exhibit one is a complete Role Playing Game adventure. Man. did they have an anti-tory blast with that one:

Just copying in from old threads. Exhibit two #FBPE-person stomping a tory. Well-deserved I might add.

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Sune Auken, Dr.Habil. #FBPEGlobal #BLM Profile picture
Apr 11, 2018
At the University of Copenhagen we are going to have SUCH a Brexit dividend when we appropriate your EU-research funding and take away your researchers.

But still, most of us would still rather have you stay.
I've said it before, but I'll repeat it, as it actually makes me slightly agitated: The British public seems to have little-to-no idea about serendipity involved in the prominence of British universities.
Because English has become the international Lingua Franca of research, British researchers and research institutions have an priori advantage over the rest of us that could not be bought for money: They are "International" to start with.
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Sune Auken, Dr.Habil. #FBPEGlobal #BLM Profile picture
Apr 2, 2018
After an intense vote (see below), it was decided that my 5k-followers celebration thread should be on genre and fake news. A topic which I, for fairly strange non-standard reasons, happen to know a little bit about.

Thanks to all who played in particular The Usual Suspects, @IAmMardikins (who suggested the winning topic; hail the chairman!) @Dogtrouser_PI @Ferretgrove @TanyaKaroli @MarieEBM and a truckload of others. Anyway. Here goes:
A thread on genre and fake news. 1/
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Sune Auken, Dr.Habil. #FBPEGlobal #BLM Profile picture
Feb 27, 2018
A short thread on #RemainerNow-acceptance. To my pleasure, I have noticed that when someone declares herself or himself a @RemainerNow the recepetion from the Remainer-community and particularly the #FBPE communitiy has been largely enthusiastic. 1/
However there invariably seem to be somebody that is so furious about the whole Brexit ordeal that they fire all cannons upon meeting a #Remainernow. I find that at the same time completely understandable and a very dumb move. 2/
It's completely understandable because Brexit is such an enormous act of stupidity on a national and international level that it must get tempers rising. In particular, of course, tempers with continuous remainers who have seen Brexit for the shambles it is from the start. 3/
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Sune Auken, Dr.Habil. #FBPEGlobal #BLM Profile picture
Jan 14, 2018
So, while we are resting on the #FBPE-laurels after a hot chase of #WATON, a few very preliminary thoughts on #Brexit and #genre. As my handle indicates, I came to #Twitter with an intent to talk about genre #research, but I have ended up talking about Brexit instead. 1/
Or is that indeed "instead"? A central finding of #genrestudies is that #genre is well nigh omnipresent in human culture, cognition, and communication. Thus, we think, react, and act in genre patterns, and we all have a surprising aptitude for understanding and using genre. 2/
Thus, it may never have entered your mind while discussing #Brexit (or, hopefully, the lack thereof) that you are constantly using and discussing #genre. But you are. Allow me to show you. 3/
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