DIALOGISM AND MEANS OF REFORMULATION
IN PUBLIC DIPLOMATIC DISCOURSE FOLLOWING CRISIS
SITUATIONS

The aim of the present paper is to find out the essence of the discursive moment
(understood as an act or an event having a strong social echo which gives rise to a massive
amount of texts in the international sphere and in the press space) which was created by the
Syrian crisis from August-September 2013 in the Romanian public diplomacy. To this
purpose, we will use and analyse a heterogeneous corpus of texts belonging to different
genres (press releases, interviews, public discourses) and we will outline the specialized
expressions referring to international conflicts (recorded by the documents of international
law) and the glosses of these expressions in order to depict the rhetoric and discursive
manner in which they are used in these genres. We will also focus on the linguistic markers
of the speakers taking part in the three-sided communication situation: the specialized
discourse of International Law – mediation text – large audience. Another aim will be the
manner in which the texts of international law are used (throughout quotation, allusions
and also the adherence of the discourse to the legal articles).