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By Ali Rahimi. Critical discourse studies: Introduction, critical discourse studies.
By Jay L Lemke. Download pdf. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Rarely did it appear as optimal, explicitly praised, or as better than breastfeeding. Importantly, ideologies often co-occurred in articles, further necessitating contextual analysis. Finally, the inclusion of ideology may be overt or subtle, intentional or unintentional, allowing the possibility that writers remain unaware of their perpetuating such infant feeding ideologies.
Lexical bundles across four legal genres. Text linguistics and critical discourse analysis : A multimodal analysis of a magazine advertisement. Wang, Shih. In this sense, Cognitive Linguistics is a flexible framework rather than a single theory of language. We analyzed two forms of text official party platform document, transcripts of speeches with distinct intended audiences i. The data, drawn from an elementary school classroom of a Critical Literacy in Action teacher-researcher group member,…. However, that does not mean that questions are wholly absent.
Identifying and deciphering ideological constructions requires more than comprehension; readers must themselves analyze texts to understand how language promulgates ideology. The study, performed in a two-level analysis, designs and applies a theoretical framework joining Corpus linguistics with Critical Discourse Studies CDS. Based on this analysis, representative sample of texts of various opinion oriented genres commentaries, editorials, op-eds are selected and qualitatively analysed Wodak On this second level of analysis, argumentative aspects e.
The study is carried out under the general rubrics of critical discourse studies, specifically Discourse-Historical Approach, and draws on textual analytic techniques at the micro-analysis levels and makes an interdisciplinary stretch to political communications, international politics, and middle eastern and journalism studies in the contextualization of its findings.
It is revealed that the use of specific arguments and speech act types, topoi, and fallacies in the texts, is not only linked to a broad ideological differentiation between the two negotiation parties, i. The qualitative analysis -conducted on the three levels of content, discursive strategies, and linguistic features Reisigl , Wodak et al. Disasters especially those cause considerable casualties are not only newsworthy events that have a strong tendency to inflame emotions but also symbolic moments that inspire reflection on fundamental societal values.
News coverage of disasters generally unfolds along three lines of emotion code, namely sympathy towards victims, hatred towards villains, and pride in heroes. These emotions are fundamental for audience engagement in political and public life especially in late modernity and indispensible for ultimately re constructing an affective community by creating solidarity among people. However, that the issues of risk and responsibilities are central to news coverage of disasters opens up a space for flows of feelings to unify as well as to divide.
The event of the Bangkok blast is such a case in point where emotions in news fail to eventually unify the society but instead operate to turn the event into a blame game. To probe more fully into the nuanced rhetorical power of journalistic attitudinal positioning in news coverage of this event, this article utilizes the appraisal framework to examine how the Bangkok Post and the New York Times present and represent attitude of different news actors therein. Corpus findings suggest that while public grieving and mourning serve as attempts to unify the society, insufficiently mediated public hatred towards the villains, complete absence of heroes, and heightened judgement of incapacity upon Thai government serve to divide Thailand in the aftermath of the Bangkok Blast.
Cultural variability in attitudinal positioning of different news actors has also been registered in the corpus. The findings are explained in relation to divergent social and ideological positioning in news production, as well as the need to attend to diversified readership. While the importance of journalism in memory studies has traditionally been overlooked in academic scholarship, media discourses provide a record of events created around narratives and testimonies which contribute to the construction of memory in current and future generations.
The methodological approach of the study is mixed combining qualitative Synchronic-Diachronic Text Analysis SDTA Pardo , with corpus tools to trace strategies of counter-discourse in two newspapers which opposed the dictatorship.
Pardo L Latin American discourse studies: state of the art and new perspectives. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 5 3 , Unions are not viewed as organizations that will fight for the demands and interests of working class women, just as much as those of working class men. While the disadvantages that gender inequality creates keep women out of unions, the masculine mentality of unions ignores the problem or denies responsibility and takes up an accusatory approach towards women.
But how aware are unionist women of this circumstance? Are they aware of the gender discrimination in unions? What do they think about their own positions at the union? This study aims to reveal the relation the unionist women build with unions, in the context of gender equality awareness. The methodology of this research is discourse analyses. When we discuss how the unionist women carries out a discourse about their presence in the trade unions in terms of gender awareness, it is seen that ideological differences are extremely determinant for them.
In this respect for female unionists, whose ideological differences are determinant for them, it is seen that women's relation with the unions and their assessment regarding their own presence are quite different from one another. Women from right-wing unions defined unions as "male unionists' territory" and consider this situation normal and seem to have accepted the idea.
As for women from left-wing unions have awareness about gender inequality. We may say that the women of left-wing unions are fighting against the patriarchal structure of unions. Project number: FEF. Sport as a traditional male territory continues to be one of the most crucial sites where gender ideologies and power relations are actively constructed and contested Messner, This is greatly accentuated by the seemingly objective, yet highly subjective media frames.
To date, entrenched gender biases have largely remained in terms of both quantitative and qualitative representations of athletes in mediated sport Bruce, Female athletes are almost always rendered invisible and their athleticism is often overshadowed by traditional gender roles with the use of gender-specific descriptors. Such findings have been consistently reported over the last few decades from the plethora of mediasport enquiries, which focus mainly on print and televised media. There is thus a need to connect the dots by attending to the opportunities introduced by the new media, particularly in relation to the perspectives of athletes, audiences and sports institutions Bruce, ; Wenner, This study aims to investigate representations of female and male professional tennis players on social media.
Voices of three groups of participants are explored: a tennis associations; b tennis players; and c spectators. Data are collected from three social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram during the tennis season in Dialectical relationships between text, discourse practice and social context are examined. Moreover, several tools of Corpus Linguistics including frequency lists, keywords, concordances and collocations are utilized. The current study further explores how hegemonic masculinity is reinforced and contested on social media through triangulating gender representations from multiple perspectives.
The complexities in the co-representations of female and male athletes by various agents in view of the changing mediascape are also discussed. There are differences and complexities among diverse cultures, traditions and ethnic groups in Ghana regarding the social practices of traditional family systems, especially, among the two dominant inheritance systems along the female and male lines of the family - matrilineal and patrilineal systems Nukunya, Traditionally, the social structure of Ghana is highly gendered, so to speak, because inheritances systems are based on male and female lines.
In fact, male and female identities are not just biological or essential social categories, but they are discursively produced in discourses and gendered performances in the context of the traditional social structure of Ghana. The positioning of men and women is embedded in the lineage systems and the family as a model for structuring and directing the actions and practices of men and women for the common good of family members, but it reifies the social practices and performances of men and women themselves Baxter, ; Butler, ; McIlvenny, in traditional social settings.
The paper is also interested in how men women strategically mobilize and utilize discursive resources in negotiating and contesting gendered identities in the context of the Asante matrilineal society. It makes use of data from multiple ethnographic interviews in the Ejisu district, Ashanti Region-Ghana. What these studies have in common is their focus on sessions which are dedicated to asking questions of ministers. The Saudi Shura Council — an appointed body containing men and 30 women — operates under very different norms and procedures and as such there are no dedicated question periods.
However, that does not mean that questions are wholly absent. In this talk, I will outline the ways in which questions are used in the five minutes of talk time allocated to members of the Council. While exploring how Saudi females present themselves for the first time on a political platform. I will show that questions are an important rhetorical device drawn on by Saudi parliamentarians.
The questions which are posed within their speeches vary in how prototypical they are. Questions for information may also function as a rebuke to a committee chair in the case that the information sought should already have been brought to the chamber. Rhetorical questions are utilised as a means of underlining an argument. Hypophora — the act of posing and immediately answering a question — may be viewed as a reaction to the lack of dialogicity in the council, a matter which I will explore in more detail in this question.
As well as outlining the social and political function of these question types in the Shura Council, I will discuss the methodological difficulties which arise when categorizing these questions because of the lack of response or uptake to them. The austerity discourse is usually analysed as an academic as well as a policy discourse on current European reform processes. This presentation explores how the austerity concept is used by different economic expert discourses to create identity images in the European political economy.
An analysis of identity images is essential to understand how roles for actors in the political economy are constructed. These images as role models appear in different political, media and economic contexts as means in social struggle over hegemony. Thus, austerity discourses contribute to the cultural and discursive formation of the European political economy. Economic imaginaries are constructed discursively in debates that speak to what economic arrangements must, can and should exist as well as in those silences which convey the impossibility of certain economic alternatives.
Economic crisis may motivate questions that produce fissures in justificatory discourses as the frailties and contradictions of hegemonic economic understandings may be exposed. The economic and financial crisis of provided an opportunity for the consideration of previously marginalized economic alternatives, and it produced a defensive reaction on the part of neoliberal economic theory to consolidate its narrative in order to encourage the rejection of economic alternatives which destabilize the neoliberal economic imaginary.
This article examines several technical economic analyses that rose to immense prominence following These texts, largely authored or co-authored by the immensely influential Harvard economist Alberto Alesina, were widely cited as governments imposed austerity measures in the early s. The analysis focuses on the depiction of economic dynamics in deterministic terms in these texts, and the ways in which the discursive construction of these texts serves to foreclose critical scrutiny of both the causes of the crisis and the possibility of economic responses that reject central tenants of neoliberal economic theory.
The American subprime crisis soon expanded to the EU, which entered in years of recessions. According to some scholars the origin and propagation of the European sovereign debt crisis can be attributed to the flawed original design of the Euro and its rigid rules Lane For others tax and spending cuts were the policies more likely to reduce deficits and debt over GDP ratios. Most proposed solutions were policies of austerity, i.
Most CDA approaches to austerity have mainly focused on media reporting of the financial crisis and the resulting austerity measures in Europe Olson and Nord In this paper, we will focus on the official speeches delivered by the President of the European Central Bank, a key actor in EU economic policies. The most relevant speeches, delivered by Jean-Claude Trichet and Mario Draghi starting from , were selected from the official website of the European Central Bank. The speeches will be analysed following a Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis perspective.
The discursive analysis of the narratives of austerity will be related with the Economic models that the ECB uses to implement its policy, and will be integrated and complemented with the outcomes of Political Economic analysis of the scenarios the speeches draw from.