BEING AND ACTING IN THE DISCOURSE OF STREET PROTESTS
BEING AND ACTING IN THE DISCOURSE OF STREET PROTESTS

Summary/Abstract: The present study tries to analyse the manner in which the discourse of Romanian street protests, manifested through banners and slogans written in English, gets the structure of an action meant, on the one hand, to express the protestors’ dissatisfaction, and, on the other hand, to unite people that share common beliefs about specific problems. This paper focuses on the relationship between the protestors’ being (Romanian, but also EU citizens) and acting (in English, in a joint social action, such as the street protests). Having as a background the principles of visual rhetoric, the paper tries to show how the slogans written in English, in the context of the Romanian street protests of 2017 get a persuasive effect.

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