Political Emotions of Members of the Parliament in the Thai Parliamentary Meeting
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This research article aims (1) to study the context, rationale, and factors influencing the political emotions of members of the parliament in the Thai parliamentary meetings, and (2) to examine these political emotions in detail. This qualitative research employs Emotional Discourse Analysis (EDA) to analyze the verbatim report of the Thai parliamentary meeting (extraordinary session) held on October 26th and 27th, 2020.
Findings are as follows: the political emotions of the parliamentarians occurred within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the youth movement, and political conflicts inside and outside the parliament. During the meetings, parliamentarians – including the cabinet, senators, and members of parliament from both the government coalition and opposition parties – expressed a range of positive and negative emotions. Each side communicated different perspectives, using advocative messages to support their own group and conflictive messages against the other group. These emotions and narratives serve as rhetorical tools to advance their own interests. Rather than leading to collective solutions, they exacerbate the division between “us” and “them.”
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