Discourse Analysis for Intercultural Competence Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngai
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Communication Education ◽  
Study And Teaching ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Cultural Discourse Analysis

This article aims to explicate the connection between discourse analysis and interculturality in intercultural-communication education. Although communication researchers and students have been using discourse analysis as a method to investigate conversations in intercultural situations for decades, interculturality as a concept has been largely untapped in analysis and applications. Drawing from interdisciplinary insights, this article will discuss how the concept of interculturality and the lens of discourse analysis contribute to the study and teaching of intercultural communication. As examples, two different types of intercultural-communication courses serve to illustrate how educators can apply discourse analysis to facilitate development of intercultural competence. Learning outcomes of the two tested courses indicate that cultural discourse analysis, along with critical discourse analysis and ethnography of speaking, promises to be a useful pedagogical approach for facilitating the development of the competence required for dealing with interculturality.

scholarly journals A linguagem dos blogs: um gênero textual emergente

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 94-105
Author(s):  
Edna Cristina S. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types

Adolescents all over the world have communicated with one another through the Internet by means of personal sites called Blogs, in which they say what they think and feel about life, and interact electronically with people from different places. This is a new mode of literacy which is leading adolescents to writing spontaneously about diverse topics. They use multimodal texts in which they integrate different types of semiosis. In this paper, we will examine the language of this new genre according to critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1992), genre analysis (Bakhtin, 1992) and systemic functional linguistics (Halliday, 1985).

scholarly journals Danningsbegrepet i barnehagenes årsplaner – en diskursanalytisk tilnærming

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grete Nordvik ◽  
Marit Alvestad
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Concept Formation ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Empirical Foundation

The introduction of the concept formation (danning/Bildung) in the Norwegian Framework plan for the content and tasks of kindergartens makes it important and interesting to gain new knowledge about this concept theoretical as well as practical. The intention in this article is to identify, analyse and discuss formation discourses in the annual plans. The empirical foundation for this qualitative analysis is twenty strategic selected annual plans from different types of kindergartens located in two Norwegian municipalities. Methodological perspectives are linked to several authors and researchers, in particular to Foucault’s critical discourse analysis. The theoretical perspectives in the study builds on Klafki’s formation theory and critical constructive didactics, and to Kosellec’s historical description of the formation concept.  Finally, the two discourses the analysis resulted in: the subjectivity discourse and the community discourse are presented and discussed from relevant theoretical and practical perspectives.Danningsbegrepet er innført i Rammeplan for barnehagens innhold og oppgaver, noe som gjør det både viktig og interessant å utvikle ny kunnskap om danningsbegrepet i barnehagens virksomhet så vel teoretisk som praktisk. Intensjonen i denne artikkelen er å løfte fram, analysere og diskutere hvilke danningsdiskurser som kan spores i årsplanenes beskrivelser av danning. Det empiriske grunnlaget for denne kvalitative analysen er tyve årsplaner fra ulike typer av barnehager lokalisert i to større norske bykommuner. Metodologiske perspektiver er knyttet til flere, men særlig til Focault sin kritiske diskursanalyse. Studien bygger på teoretiske perspektiver fra Klafki sin danningsteori og kritisk konstruktive didaktikk, samt til Kosellec sin begrepshistoriske utredning om danningsbegrepet. Avslutningsvis blir de to diskursene som analysen resulterte i; subjektivitetsdiskursen og felleskapsdiskursen presentert og drøftet ut fra relevante teoretiske og praktiske perspektiver.

scholarly journals “The sisters did her every imaginable injury”: Power and violence in «Cinderella»

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
María Alcantud Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Good Strategy ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Different Types

The main aim of this article is to discuss the results achieved after investigating the presence of violence in the Grimm brothers’ <em>Cinderella</em> with the intention of finding out what kind of processes predominate in this tale and whether they can be related to violent actions. The analysis involved firstly, a study of the frequency and concordances of some words belonging to the semantic field ‘violence’, surveying in detail the context in which they appear and secondly, the analysis of transitivity processes. The method proved to be a good strategy to check whether each character’s identity and social position (power) were somehow related to the infliction of violence within this context. As a general conclusion drawn from the analysis of the results, a tentative proposal could be formulated: a corpus-based analysis in conjunction with both, a transitivity analysis and a Critical Discourse Analysis could empirically detect the presence of controversial topics such as violence in different types of texts.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS INSURANCE ADVERTISING IN ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING LEARNING FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Rusdhianti Wuryaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Argumentative Writing ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative

This study aims to describe the application through the Fairclough Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) model on insurance advertising and its effectiveness in argumentative writing learning. The research method is a mixing qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative methods are applied by using the Fairclough's CDA model that applies micro, meso, and macro dimensions. Quantitative methods are used to measure the effectiveness of Fairclough CDA modelon argumentative writing learning. The results showed the use of language, connectivity, and hegemony with future concerns caused by lifestyle and social demands, and calamity with phrases as a form of the claim that needs to be made a counterclaim. This strongly supports the argumentation content.  The Mann Whitney U test shows significance value of 0,000 is ≤0.005. Thus, it can be concluded that Fairclough CDA modelapplication of learning with CDA is effective for improving learning outcomes in argumentative writing.

Playing hard to get: metaphor and representation in the discourse of car advertisements

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Thornborrow
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Linguistic Approaches

In this article I analyse some of the main semantic and metaphoric representations which underpin the discourse of car advertising in Britain. In particular, I focus on the use of male and female bodies as organizing metaphors which produce a gendered framework for advertising different types of cars. The discussion is based on adverts seen on roadside hoardings in the London area, in magazines, and on television at different periods over the past three years, and I use an analytic framework which is grounded in critical linguistic approaches to texts, situated within the context of current debates in feminist stylistics and critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1989, 1992; Mills, 1995; Stubbs, 1997; Toolan, 1997).

scholarly journals Representation of Subaltern Identity: A Study of Othering in Sea of Poppies

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Fehmida Manzoor ◽  
Mehwish Ali Khan ◽  
Shumaila Mazhar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Negative Attributes

The present study is designed to explore the identity construction/reconstruction in Sea of Poppies. It is investigated in the backdrop of postcolonial theory. Norman Faircloughs Three-dimensional approach of critical discourse analysis is used to examine the construction and reconstruction of different types of (us/them) identities in the colonial era reflected in Sea of Poppies. The analysis deals with the descriptive dimension of Critical Discourse Analysis and discusses discourse as a text that investigates the functional linguistic elements of the overall narrative construction (identity construction/reconstruction) as a counter-discourse to power. It analyzes the identity construction on two levels of representation that is the relation between conversational participant/reader and text/discourse and the expressive which unveils attitudes and ideologies the study sheds light on the way the colonizers defined the other subjects just to define themselves as superior by associating the positive attributes to “us” and negative attributes to “them” thus made them peripheral other subjects.

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