Loyalist and patriot political discourses in the American Revolutionary War 1773-1783 a comparative discourse analysis of power, representation and justification

Yhdysvallat itsenäistyi vuosina 1775–1783 käydyssä sodassa. Monet aikalaiset käsitteellistivät nämä tapahtumat sisällissodaksi, sillä sodan molemmat osapuolet kuuluivat Britti-imperiumiin, sekä jakoivat saman kielellisen, poliittisen ja kulttuurillisen taustan. Tästä johtuen monia samoja poliittisia...

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Main Author: Mäki-Valkama, Joanna
Other Authors: Humanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Historian ja etnologian laitos, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Format: Master's thesis
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Published: 2018
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description Yhdysvallat itsenäistyi vuosina 1775–1783 käydyssä sodassa. Monet aikalaiset käsitteellistivät nämä tapahtumat sisällissodaksi, sillä sodan molemmat osapuolet kuuluivat Britti-imperiumiin, sekä jakoivat saman kielellisen, poliittisen ja kulttuurillisen taustan. Tästä johtuen monia samoja poliittisia ja politisoituja käsitteitä jouduttiin uudelleenmäärittämään tehtäessä eroa sodan osapuolten välille. Analysoin pro gradu -työssäni vertailevasti Amerikan vallankumouksen osapuolten, lojalistien ja patrioottien, poliittisia diskursseja. Selvitän työssäni sitä millaisia käsitteitä, termejä, metaforia ja kielikuvia käytettiin käsitteellistämään sotaa. Temaattisesti työ on jaettu kahteen osaan. Ensimmäisessä osassa keskitytään siihen, miten sodan osapuolet tulkitsivat valtaan, vapauteen, edustuksellisuuteen, alamaisuuteen, monarkiaan, tasavaltalaisuuteen ja demokratiaan liittyviä käsitteitä. Toisessa osassa puolestaan rakennetaan yleiskuvaa siitä, miten sodan osapuolet käsitteellistivät, rakensivat ja kuvailivat omaa tai vastustajan puolta sodasta, ja millaisia käsitteitä, kielikuvia, vertauksia ja viittauksia tähän käytettiin. Yhteisen anglo-amerikkalaisen taustansa vuoksi sekä lojalistit että patriootit käyttivät hyvin samankaltaista kuvastoa, viitauksia ja metaforia. Näitä kuitenkin hyödynnettiin eri tavoin ja eri tarkoituksiin. Tämän kielellisen ja käsitteellisen prosessin aikana amerikkalaiset erottivat itsensä ja identiteettinsä brittiläisistä, samoin kuin brittiläisten tuli erottaa itsenäistyvä Amerikka itsestään. Metodologisesti tutkimus yhdistelee käsitehistoriaa, poliittista historiaa ja diskurssianalyysia. Lähdeaineisto sisältää painettua lehdistö- ja pamflettimateriaalia vuosien 1773–1783 ajalta, ja lähteissä usein esiintyviä teemoja ja käsitteitä analysoidaan ja vertaillaan alkuperäislähteistä nostettujen, kontekstualisoitujen lainausten avulla. The United States of America gained independence in a war between the years 1775–1783. Many contemporaries conceptualized these events as a civil war because not only were both sides constituent parts of the British Empire, but they also shared a common linguistic, political and cultural background. For this reason many of the same political and politicized concepts had to be redefined in differentiating between the two sides of the war and creating two separate identities. In my Master’s thesis I present a comparative analysis of the political discourses on both the loyalist and patriot side in the American Revolutionary War. I seek out, compare and contrast commonly occurring concepts, terms, metaphors and similes used to conceptualize the ongoing war. Thematically this thesis is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on how the two sides of the war interpreted concepts related to power, freedom, liberty, representation, subjection, monarchy, republic and democracy. The second part presents an overview on how the warring parties conceptualized, constructed and described their own and the opposing side, as well as which concepts, metaphors, similes and references were used for this. Because of their common Anglo-American background both the loyalists and the patriots used similar imagery, references and metaphors but for different purposes. During this conceptual process the Americans came to separate themselves and their identities from the British in the same way that the British had to separate the independence-seeking America from herself. Methodologically this research combines conceptual history, history of ideas and discourse analysis. The source material for this thesis includes printed periodicals and pamphlets from the years 1773–1783. From these sources frequently occurring themes and concepts are analyzed, compared and contrasted through contextualized primary source quotations.
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title Loyalist and patriot political discourses in the American Revolutionary War 1773-1783 : a comparative discourse analysis of power, representation and justification
title_alt Comparative discourse analysis of power, representation and justification
title_full Loyalist and patriot political discourses in the American Revolutionary War 1773-1783 : a comparative discourse analysis of power, representation and justification
title_fullStr Loyalist and patriot political discourses in the American Revolutionary War 1773-1783 : a comparative discourse analysis of power, representation and justification Loyalist and patriot political discourses in the American Revolutionary War 1773-1783 : a comparative discourse analysis of power, representation and justification
title_full_unstemmed Loyalist and patriot political discourses in the American Revolutionary War 1773-1783 : a comparative discourse analysis of power, representation and justification Loyalist and patriot political discourses in the American Revolutionary War 1773-1783 : a comparative discourse analysis of power, representation and justification
title_short Loyalist and patriot political discourses in the American Revolutionary War 1773-1783
title_sort loyalist and patriot political discourses in the american revolutionary war 1773 1783 a comparative discourse analysis of power representation and justification
title_sub a comparative discourse analysis of power, representation and justification
title_txtP Loyalist and patriot political discourses in the American Revolutionary War 1773-1783 : a comparative discourse analysis of power, representation and justification
topic Amerikan vallankumous Yleinen historia General History 3033 1700-luku Pohjois-Amerikan vapaussota vallankumoukset Yhdysvallat
topic_facet 1700-luku 3033 Amerikan vallankumous General History Pohjois-Amerikan vapaussota Yhdysvallat Yleinen historia vallankumoukset
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