The Potential of Narrative Strategies in the Discursive Construction of Hegemonic Positions and Social Change

De Roberto and Faenza: Ideological Shifts in I Viceré

Quaderni d'italianistica ◽

10.33137/q.i..v34i1.19881 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 241-266

Author(s):

Annamaria Pagliaro

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Political System ◽

Film Adaptation ◽

The Novel ◽

Narrative Strategies ◽

Family Saga ◽

The Family ◽

The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between De Roberto’s I Viceré and Faenza’s film adaptation focusing on the two texts’ different ideological positions and narrative strategies. Both texts depict the mechanisms employed by a ruling caste to remain in power through a period of acute social change. The novel, through a multifocal narration, gives agency to individuals for shaping their environment and presents them in their alienating subjective deformation of reality, casting the historymaking process and any interpretation of it in an ambivalent light. The film focuses on the family saga and on the ongoing trasformismo of the Italian political system bringing to the fore its resonance with the present. The characters, particularly Consalvo as the principal voice, are represented as victims of a larger socio-political mechanism.

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Le droit au choix et le choix du Droit: l'expérience de l'Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics et le jugement Morgentaler

Canadian Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0008423900007708 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 243-267 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Martine Perrault ◽

Linda Cardinal

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

The Political ◽

Discursive Construction ◽

Discursive Practices ◽

Canadian Province ◽

Effective Change ◽

Definition Of ◽

A Site ◽

Pro Choice ◽

Abortion Clinics

AbstractThis article looks at the political significance of the pro-choice movement in the Canadian province of Ontario. It focuses more specifically on the discursive practices of the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics (OCAC) and its use of law as a tool to effective change. By comparing the language of the Morgentaler judgment to that of the prochoice movement, this article attempts to explore the reference to law as a path for social change and, namely, as a site of discursive construction of norms and representations, as opposed to a simplistic definition of law as a site of power struggles.

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Die Geisteswissenschaften und ihr Bildungsdiskurs. Zur Kartierung eines vernachlässigten Gebiets der Wissenschaftssoziologie

10.31235/osf.io/dkpgc ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Julian Hamann

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

19Th Century ◽

Sociology Of Science ◽

Discursive Construction ◽

Social Field ◽

Research Gap ◽

The 19Th Century

This contribution reconstructs the discursive construction of the humanistic notion of "Bildung" and the transformation of the field of the German humanities since the beginning of the 19th century. On the basis of academic self-reflections within the humanities, the analysis investigates how the discursive construction of "Bildung" is responsive to changes in the broader social field in which the discourse is embedded. At the same time, this discourse shows a remarkable persistence against social change. The historically stable topoi of a decidedly "free" and "scientific" "Bildung" are elements of a strategy of academic positioning that facilitates distinction in favor of the humanities. In light of the rather lopsided focus on natural and technical sciences within the sociology of science, this paper addresses a research gap by contributing to a sociological understanding of the German humanities.

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Discourses of social change in contemporary democracies: the ideological construction of an Ecuadorian women's group based on “solidarity economy and finance”

Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies ◽

10.1515/text-2012-0016 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Esperanza Morales-López

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Discursive Construction ◽

Pragmatic Approach ◽

Solidarity Economy ◽

The Public ◽

Global Context ◽

The Government ◽

Ethnographic Methodology ◽

Ideological Construction

AbstractThis paper analyzes the discursive construction which a women's movement (MMO) in Ecuador presents to the public as an alternative to the government's proposal on the issue of “solidarity economy and finance.” The MMO's proposal and that of the government are not exactly two conflicting voices, but they are somewhat divergent in the process of building theEthnographic methodology is used to collect the data, and to relate these data with the local and global context. As for the method of analysis, the pragmatic approach has provided useful tools at the micro-analytical level. However, this level places limits at the macro-analytical level, on the analysis of complex strategies and arguments; in this case, this research shows how discourse analysis needs to be complemented with studies of argumentation. Finally, the socio-cognitive notion of

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