This article explores the role of subjective agency and politicised union leadership in exercising societal (discursive) power through a frame and rhetorical analysis of the writings, speeches and media interviews of Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (UK). Findings demonstrate Lynch engaged in a dynamic process of framing identity fields to support a collective action frame around the redistribution of wealth in society, developing a complex network of protagonist, antagonist and audience characteristics under three main categorisations: value, power and action identity fields. He did so in dialogic response to opponents’ counter-identity frames, utilising rhetorical techniques to present opposing arguments ( dissoi logoi and logoi versus anti-logoi), other argumentation ( inventio) and figures of speech ( elocutio) for public persuasion. These findings extend literature on union power resources by illuminating how discursive power is generated through identity field framing as a dialogical and rhetorical process.

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工会领导的话语权：构建公众说服的身份领域


本文通过对全国铁路、海事和运输工人工会秘书长米克·林奇的著作、演讲和媒体采访的框架和修辞分析，探讨主观能动性和政治化工会领导在行使社会（话语）权力中的作用（英国）。调查结果表明，林奇参与了构建身份领域的动态过程，以支持围绕社会财富重新分配的集体行动框架，在价值、权力和行动身份领域三个主要类别下开发了一个由主角、对手和观众特征组成的复杂网络。他这样做是为了对对手的反身份框架进行对话回应，利用修辞技巧提出对立的论点（dissoi logoi和logoi与anti-logoi）、其他论证（inventio）和修辞手法（elocutio）来说服公众。这些发现通过阐明话语权力是如何通过身份场框架作为对话和修辞过程产生的，扩展了有关工会权力资源的文献。