Illusory authenticity: negotiating compassion in animal experimentation discourse

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• dc.contributor.author Almiron, Núria, 1967-
• dc.contributor.author Fernández, Laura
• dc.contributor.author Rodrigo i Alsina, Miquel
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-03-28T13:21:24Z
• dc.date.available 2024-03-28T13:21:24Z
• dc.date.issued 2024
• dc.description.abstract Society’s compassion towards nonhuman animals used in experimentation has grown exponentially. This paper adopts critical discourse analysis to examine how the animal experimentation industry negotiates this societal moral response. To this end, the discourse of the largest animal experimentation interest group in Spain has been studied. Our findings show that the industry, as represented by this interest group, does not negotiate compassion with authenticity but rather creates an illusion of it through opportunistic lexical choices and suppressions, including contradictions and incongruities. We conclude by defining such a discourse as illusory authenticity, a discourse with which the industry conveniently frames itself as altruistic and concerned about animal suffering while at the same time discouraging the public’s cultivation of compassion towards nonhuman animal suffering. This is done by means of perpetuating a logic that frames nonhuman animals as inferior beings whose existence is at the service of humanity.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research (within the project COMPASS, Lobbying and Compassion. Interest groups, discourse and nonhuman animals in Spain) was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and State Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI) under grant PID2020-118926RB-100/MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.
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• dc.identifier.citation Almiron N, Fernández L, Rodrigo-Alsina M. Illusory authenticity: negotiating compassion in animal experimentation discourse. Discourse Studies. 2024. DOI: 10.1177/14614456231219633
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614456231219633
• dc.identifier.issn 1461-4456
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59611
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof Discourse Studies. 2024. 20 p.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2020-118926RB-100
• dc.rights Almiron N, Fernández L, Rodrigo-Alsina M. Illusory authenticity: Negotiating compassion in animal experimentation discourse. Discourse Studies. 2024. Copyright © 2024 SAGE Journals. DOI: 10.1177/14614456231219633
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• dc.subject.keyword Animal experimentation
• dc.subject.keyword animal research
• dc.subject.keyword animal testing
• dc.subject.keyword critical discourse analysis
• dc.subject.keyword interest groups
• dc.subject.keyword public relations
• dc.subject.keyword speciesism
• dc.subject.keyword strategic communication
• dc.title Illusory authenticity: negotiating compassion in animal experimentation discourse
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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