Noriko Fujii. Historical Discourse Analysis: Grammatical Subject in Japanese. In the series Discourse Perspectives on Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1991. Pp. xiv + 266. DM 148,– (hardcover).

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-159
Author(s):  
Michiko Kawashima
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Grammatical Subject

Prophetic Discourses and Power Shift in Ethiopian History

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Alelign Aschale Wudie
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
History Data ◽  
Power Shift ◽  
Sociocultural Practices

The main intention in this article is to critically analyze the role of prophecy for power shift in Ethiopia in history. Data collected from archives, traveler accounts, and history documents were critically analyzed. Critical historical discourse analysis was used as a framework and methodology of analysis. Interpretation, symbolization and operationalization of dreams, prophecies, and “told spiritual accounts” by prominent mystics and interpreters had been the critical turning-points of Ethiopians in history. Their role was consequential and influential. Royal families used to “invent, disseminate and operationalize” dreams, prophecies, and superstitious practices. Consequently, their instinctive wish for abundant fulfillment and power grant had been gained by “revelations” and “connections” of each interpretation with supernatural powers. To scale up the benefit, ecclesiastical intervention had been badly sought out. The prophetic discourses and ideologies had been very instrumental in Ethiopian theopolitics, sociocultural practices, and power use.

Scottish Transnational Discourse of the Great War: A Genealogy of Eric Bogle’s “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” and Hugh MacDiarmid’s “At the Cenotaph”

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 323-331
Author(s):  
J. Rubén Valdés Miyares
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Great War ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Transnational Discourse ◽  
Time Critical ◽  
The Great War

A comparison of a 1971 popular song, Eric Bogle’s “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” with a 1935 poem, Hugh MacDiarmid’s “At the Cenotaph,” enables this article to produce a transnational, trans-genre and trans-historical discourse analysis of memories of the Great War of 1914-1918. While an ethonosymbolic approach allows for the discovery of resemblances and continuities, Nietzschean genealogy criticizes such monumental, associative views of the past and focuses instead on the casual connections between disperse moments in time. Critical discourse analysis, in turn, offers a possible synthesis by distinguishing historical narrative structures, cultural practices (the Anzac parades and cenotaphs to honor the heroic dead), and textual events, in this case the satirical representation of the Great War in later song and poetry.

“He said he was going on the scamp”: Thieves’ cant, enregisterment and the representation of the social margins in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-171
Author(s):  
Roxanne But
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Old Bailey ◽  
Keyword Searches

AbstractThis paper investigates how cant is used to represent the social margins in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers. Cant refers to the special vocabulary that is associated with and used by people living on the margins such as thieves and prostitutes. Little work has been conducted on the use of this language in courtroom texts. Using a historical pragmatic framework, evidence of the actual occurrence of cant as well as metalinguistic evidence was generated through lexical keyword searches in the Old Bailey Proceedings Online. Then the use of marginal vocabulary was examined more closely in extracts from the Sessions Papers using historical discourse analysis. This paper argues that cant is enregistered and that the courtroom recorder and the editor of the Session Papers reproduced the cant language to highlight and draw attention to the maliciousness and culpability of those who were accused in court. Linguistic techniques such as glossing and metalinguistic commentary were inserted to foreground the cant terms in the text. In addition, this historical discourse analysis sheds light on how the witnesses in the courtroom make strategic use of cant terms to portray the defendant in a negative light.

scholarly journals The Advice Genre (1400-1599). Genre and Text Type Conventions

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivalla Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Early Modern English

The Advice Genre (1400-1599). Genre and Text Type Conventions The aim of this paper is to characterize the advice text as a genre in the late medieval and early modern English periods. This genre is very popular during this time and is usually found within medical remedy books. For this reason, it has been generally studied within the scope of medieval recipes in historical discourse analysis. In this paper my intention is to show the independent status of the advice text as a genre. A first step for this lies in the characterization of the linguistic features pertaining to the sections that compound this genre and its comparison with the recipe genre. The corpus for this study has been collected from several sources, both edited and unedited. The description of the text type features will be illustrated with examples taken from this corpus. As I show in the conclusion, the advice text is an independent genre with a clear communicative purpose and addressed to an intended audience.

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