“The balance of power is me: 0, Harvey Weinstein: 10”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the press representation of Hollywoods biggest sexual harassment scandal

This article provides a critical discourse analysis of Scottish newspaper reports relating to football and ‘sectarianism’ in Scotland. It claims that there is a powerful and longstanding ideological ‘framing’ of sectarianism in sections of the Scottish press that is latently power-laden. This discourse attempts to construct and reaffirm a unified non-sectarian core identity that ‘real’ and ‘authentic’ Scots (should) share in opposition to a set of sectarian ‘others’. The various connotations attached to sectarian and sectarianism, together with their use in particular ways that reflect an ideological hegemony, are illustrated. Much of the press treatment of sectarianism is shown to lack sensitivity to the historical, hierarchical and relational aspects of religious, political and ethnic identities in Scotland.

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ANALYSING A RIGHT-WING TEXT THROUGH HALLIDAYS TRANSTIVITY SYSTEM AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS ◽

10.24297/jal.v6i3.4664 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 1018-1027

Author(s):

Dr. ELHAM Ghobain

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Political Parties ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Text Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Maximum Effect ◽

Right Wing ◽

Far Right ◽

The Press ◽

Apparent Violation

In this paper, I attempt to present an example of following Hallidays grammatical system in analysing a text that can bear racial references. Doing so, the text analysis can be viewed from a critical discourse analysis perspective. The text chosen, titled Europe Must Close Its Borders or be Swamped by Third World, published in 2009, exhibits a typical example of the political rhetoric used by far-right political parties represented by one of its leaders in Britain, Nick Griffin. My assumption is that every word, every verb, and every phrase used is carefully chosen to convey the intended agendas of the party to its prospect voters in a clever way, which achieves its maximum effect with little or no apparent violation to the press guidelines. I also believe that such a stirring text, as far as the paper is concerned, would benefit from the use of various types of verbs and phrases that should suffice the requirement of the analysis. The paper may be of good use to students interested in studying this system of analysis as it deeply goes into the details of the used text.

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Exploring the Nature of Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Australian Press

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/2158244019893696 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 215824401989369

Author(s):

Muhammad Junaid Ghauri ◽

Salma Umber

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

General Public ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

National Agenda ◽

News Stories ◽

The Press

National press is considered as integral institution in articulation, propagation, and dissemination of the national agenda. The press helps general public in interpreting news stories. This article is set to explore the nature of representation of Islam and Muslims in the editorials of the Australian newspapers during January 01, 2016, to March 31, 2017. This study has employed van Dijk’s ideological square and lexicalization approaches within the critical discourse analysis paradigm to examine editorials from two leading Australian newspapers. The findings showed that both the newspapers The Age and The Australian produced entirely opposite discourses in their editorials regarding Islam and Muslims. The findings have demonstrated that The Age portrayed Islam and Muslims positively and favorably while The Australian constructed Islam and Muslims in a critical and negative way. In the editorial contents of The Age, predominant themes regarding Islam and Muslims were “victimization,” “understanding,” “multiculturalism,” “solidarity,” “cohesion,” and “harmony.” On the contrary, predominant discourse in the editorial contents of The Australian were “securitization,” “Othering,” “violence,” “categorization,” and “stereotyping.”

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Ideología, poder y manipulación: la cultura mapuche y los instrumentos discursivos de la prensa chilena

Signa Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica ◽

10.5944/signa.vol28.2019.25122 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 ◽

pp. 1357

Author(s):

Julio Renato Sáez Gallardo

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Mental Models ◽

Social Representation ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Cognitive Aspect ◽

Visual Semiotics ◽

The Press

El objetivo central de esta investigación es entender cómo se construye en los diarios de mayor lectura en Chile la representación social de la cultura mapuche. Para ello, estudiaremos el aspecto cognitivo de la dimensión discursiva asociado al control que ejerce la prensa sobre las estructuras de la noticia y que incide fuertemente en la formación de modelos mentales en sus lectores sobre la alteridad étnica. La metodología que utilizaremos proviene del Análisis Crítico del Discurso (ACD) y su vinculación con la teoría del discurso periodístico; la Semiótica Visual de Kress y Van Leeuwen (1996) y la Semiótica greimasiana.The main goal of this research is to understand how the most read newspapers in Chile have established a social representation of the Mapuche culture. For this, the studied topic will be the cognitive aspect of the discursive dimension associated with the exercised control —by the press— over the structures of the news that strongly influences the formation of mental models in its readers about ethnic alterity. The methodology used will be the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and its link with the theory of journalistic discourse; the Visual Semiotics of Kress and Van Leeuwen (1996) and the Greimasian Semiotics.

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AN EXPLORATION OF THE REPRESENTATION OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN A SAMPLE FROM THE SPANISH PRESS

Gender Questions ◽

10.25159/2412-8457/1566 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 84-97

Author(s):

María Martínez Lirola

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Immigrant Women ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Digital Version ◽

Partial Representation ◽

The Press ◽

Visual Characteristics ◽

Spanish Press ◽

Migratory Movements

The number of women immigrating to Spain in search of a better life has increased in recent years. However, very few news items pay attention to the reasons why they emigrate. A corpus of 30 pieces of news related to immigrant women was collected from February 2012 to April 2013 from the digital version of the main Spanish newspapers El País, El Mundo and ABC. The main hypotheses in this research are: Immigrant women are not very visible in the Spanish press; they are mainly represented as vulnerable and as victims; and they are normally connected to social problems. To confirm or to disprove said hypotheses, this article employs critical discourse analysis, including visual grammar, to analyse the main topics of the pieces of news dealing with immigrant women, and the main linguistic and visual characteristics used to describe them. It transpires that immigrant women are portrayed in the Spanish press as dependent, passive and confined to their homes. Moreover, the majority of the articles on immigrant women associated them with prostitution. The partial representation of immigrant women observed in the corpus of examples does not favour the development of a society established on principles of democracy and equality. In this sense, it is necessary to rethink the depiction of immigrant women in the press, in order to question their role in modern-day migratory movements.

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The Rhetoric of Lithuanian MeToo Discourse

Informacijos mokslai ◽

10.15388/im.2021.92.51 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 92 ◽

pp. 46-64

Author(s):

Eglė Gabrėnaitė ◽

Monika Triaušytė

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Sexual Harassment ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Rhetorical Analysis ◽

Maximum Intensity ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Emotional Appeals ◽

Global Movement ◽

Rhetorical Argumentation ◽

Rhetorical Discourse

The great spread of the phenomenon of MeToo, a global movement promoting the publicity of the facts of sexual harassment, has also received a response in Lithuania: anonymous stories in blogs have grown into a provocative discourse that has attracted a great deal of attention. The aim of the research presented in this article is to characterise the discourse of MeToo in terms of rhetorical expression that has not been discussed yet: to identify and elicit the dominant elements of rhetorical argumentation. The empirical research was conducted using the method of rhetorical analysis that allows distinguishing and defining in rhetorical categories the models characteristic to rhetoric appeals. The method of rhetorical analysis combined with directed content analysis, as well as with critical discourse analysis. Following the methodology of provocative narrative research, it was analysed the material published at the time of maximum intensity and involvement in the discourse, such as testimonies, publications, interviews, and comments of women who have been subjected to sexual harassment. The results of rhetorical discourse analysis allow us to discuss the culture of accusation in which the normalization of victim condemnation is prevalent, and logical reasoning gives way to prejudice-based emotional appeals.

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Understanding the Shahbag and Hefajat Movements in Bangladesh: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Journal of Asian and African Studies ◽

10.1177/00219096211038657 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002190962110386

Author(s):

Saimum Parvez

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

National Identities ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Discursive Construction ◽

Analysis Method ◽

High Profile ◽

The Press ◽

Newspaper Articles

This study examines the role of the press in shaping national identities in contemporary Bangladesh. It employs the critical discourse analysis method to analyze newspapers’ content and closely examines the news texts of three high-profile events in 2013: the Shahbag movement, the murder of blogger Rajib, and the Hefajat movement. Based on the critical discourse analysis of newspaper articles related to these three events, this study observes a discursive construction of two binary and intolerant identities in the coverage. This analysis demonstrates how the discourse of each newspaper creates meanings related to national identities and ideologies that serve to justify the interests of ‘us’ and to criticize ‘them’.

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Totalitarian Newspeak

Scientific knowledge - autonomy, dependence, resistance - Balkanistic Forum ◽

10.37708/bf.swu.v29i3.3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 70-83

Author(s):

Petar Vodenicharov

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Text Analysis ◽

Political Context ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

George Orwell ◽

Intensive Production ◽

The Press ◽

Production Distribution ◽

Low Education

Using the method of the critical discourse analysis and the insights of George Orwell „1984“ the author aims at analysing the propaganda mechanisms (production distribution and perception) of the totalitarian press in the 1950-s. The socio-political context of the press and the new relations between orality and literacy because of the domination of the new elite (mainly of village origin and with low education) have been outlined. The text analysis discovers the duality of the themes, the centralized and passive sources of the texts, new genres and the new imagery explained by some psychoanalytical concepts. The structure of the newspeak changed considerably with logoside and intensive production of neologisms, especially abbreviations, abundance of euphemisms and doublethinks which aim at closing the thought in vicious circles.

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Recontextualisation of Beijing’s voice: A critical discourse analysis of hegemony and resistance in Hong Kong political discourse

Discourse & Society ◽

10.1177/0957926520914683 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 31 (5) ◽

pp. 540-561

Author(s):

Toby Wing-Chun Ng

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Political Discourse ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Social Actors ◽

Alternative Representation ◽

Basic Law ◽

Political Events ◽

The Press

This study adopts critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine the recontextualisation of Beijing’s voice in Hong Kong’s governance. Using Beijing’s interpretation of Article 104 of the Basic Law in 2016, which triggered a by-election in 2018, as the case, this article analyses two texts produced by two social actors: the press conference in response to Beijing’s interpretation by the Hong Kong government and an election flyer by a pro-democracy candidate, complemented by a corpus analysis of pro-Beijing newspapers reporting the incident. The findings show that the local government drew upon Beijing’s voice to help create a dominant representation of the Beijing–Hong Kong relations and thus hegemonised Hong Kong political discourse which influenced other social domains, such as newspapers and elections. The pro-democracy camp, as the resistance to the hegemony, drew upon Beijing’s voice to create an alternative representation to secure votes during the by-election. This article then proposes a model which could comprehend Beijing’s role in Hong Kong’s political events, of creating and perpetuating the tension between the hegemony and resistance in Hong Kong.

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