Blame Attribution and Avoidance in Maritime Crises: A Case Study of the Ever Given’s Grounding in Suez Canal (إلقاء اللوم وتجنبه في الکوارث البحرية: دراسة حالة لجنوح السفينة ايفر جيفن في قناة السويس) | ||||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 September 2021 | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2021.96617.1265 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
مروة محمد خميس الزوکة 
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| قسم اللغة الانجليزية-کلية الاداب-جامعة الاسکندرية | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The present study examines blame attribution and avoidance in the statements made by the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), its Chairman, Admiral Osama Rabie, and Head of the SCA Investigation Committee, Captain Sayed Sheisha, on one hand, and the UK P&I Club and the lawyers of the owners of the container vessel Ever Given on the grounding of the ship in the Suez Canal on March 23, 2021. It employs Hansson’s (2018b) blame attribution and blame avoidance strategies to investigate how each party seeks to avoid being held responsible for the crisis and attach blame to the other party. Results show that except for positioning, denying and mitigating, all of Hansson’s strategies are employed. These are: representing actions and actors, arguing and legitimizing, framing and intensifying. The data shows that the strategy of indirect blame, which is not among Hansson’s strategies, is also used to attach and avoid blame. Results also show that the above-mentioned strategies are expressed using different linguistic tools such as predicational strategies, mental process verbs, repetition and implicature. They also serve different functions such as giving a positive image of the Master of the ship and the SCA pilots and blaming the SCA for the accident. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Ever Given crisis; Suez Canal Authority; UK P&I Club; blame attribution; blame avoidance | ||||
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