scholarly journals Electronic supplement analysis of multiple texts

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Louise Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
Single Parenthood ◽  
Multiple Texts ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Undeserving Poor ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Abstract This paper adapts O’Halloran’s (2010) electronic supplement analysis (ESA) to investigate debates about UK poverty in online newspaper articles and reader responses to those articles. While O’Halloran’s method was originally conceived to facilitate close reading, this paper modifies ESA for corpus-based discourse analysis by scaling it up to include multiple texts. I analyse (key-)keywords and concordances to compare seven articles from the Mail Online (2010–2015) with their 2354 reader responses generated using the newspapers’ Below the Line (BTL) comments feature. The analysis provides a snapshot of the discourses BTL commenters draw upon when writing about UK poverty. Unemployment, benefits receipt, and single parenthood were repeatedly referred to in the newspaper articles and their comments, but BTL commenters also drew on personal narratives and (fictional) anecdotes to index notions of flawed consumerism, scroungers, and the deserving and undeserving poor.

scholarly journals The Portrayal of the First Female Saudi Lawyer: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Online Newspaper Articles

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Hessah S. Abaalalaa ◽  
Reem A. Alosaimi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Basic Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Newspaper Articles

This study utilized a developed MCDA (Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis) framework proposed by Machin and Mayr (2012). It intends to uncover how interceded verbal and visual choices cooperate to show a shift in the construction of the female Saudi lawyer’s identity in two articles, Saudi and Iranian. The framework is indebted to Van Dijk's (1998) work in which CDA was viewed as a multidisciplinary field where ideology was the basic theory. The MCDA showed that both articles, i.e., Iranian and Saudi, maintained different ideologies in their representations of the first female Saudi lawyer's achievement and used different linguistic and visual choices to portray this achievement. 

Knowing Your Place

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Himanee Gupta-Carlson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Religious Discrimination ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
South Asian Americans ◽  
Auto Ethnography

This chapter discusses Hindu nationalism and its outreach to Indians living outside of India, particularly the United States. It describes how the movement has impacted the daily lives of Indian Americans in Muncie, Indiana, through a close reading and discourse analysis of conversations with Indian and other South Asian residents of Muncie. The author uses auto-ethnography to situate the analysis within the context of her experiences and argues that the manner in which South Asian Americans in Muncie of differing religious backgrounds might offer a template for challenging religious discrimination.

scholarly journals ‘To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life?’

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Christiane Luck
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Inclusive Language ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
German Reader

Despite several decades of linguistic research and activism, neutral/inclusive language use is far from the norm in English and German. In this article I explore whether the encounter with neutral terminology in June Arnold’s novel The Cook and the Carpenter can prompt readers to question dominant practices and consider alternatives. Based on narrative research, my premise is that fiction can create familiarity with new terms and thereby support linguistic change. I frame my investigation with Wittgenstein’s notion that ‘to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life’, and put it to the test with a discourse analysis of English and German reader responses. The results of my study show that Arnold’s novel stimulates fruitful debate of the issue of gender and language. Based on my findings, I propose the text’s integration into linguistics education in order to further promote neutral/inclusive language use.

scholarly journals Gating as exclusionary commoning in a post-socialist city

REGION ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Maja Grabkowska ◽  
Magdalena Szmytkowska
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Disintegration ◽  
Large Housing Estates ◽  
The One ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Newspaper Articles

New-build gated condominiums at the periphery of a post-socialist city are a well-studiedphenomenon. However, in Poland, recent years have seen an expansion of residential gating into oldinner-city neighbourhoods and socialist large housing estates. The resulting fragmentation andprivatisation of public space have raised much controversy and debate on appropriation of urbancommon good. This paper presents outcomes of a research on the changing discourse of gating inGdańsk, based on a discourse analysis of newspaper articles and interviews with key urbanstakeholders. On the one hand, gating is seen as an anti-commoning practice criticised for its elitistcharacter and undesirable socio-spatial consequences. On the other, a narrative of exclusionarycommons has emerged to justify the need of gating in specific cases. Considering the varyingmotivations and types of gating in different urban areas, the authors have attempted a classification,relating gating practices to commoning strategies and their justification in localities typicallycharacterised by atomistic individualism and social disintegration.

scholarly journals Употребление показателей множественного числа существительных в современных халха-монгольском и бурятском языках

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 660-667
Author(s):  
Anna V. Mazarchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Study Material ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Introduction. The article deals with the use of nominal plurality markers in modern Khalkha and Buryat. Nominal plurality markers are used optionally in the Mongolic languages. However, in Buryat they are used more often than in Khalkha. Goals. In order to find out how much the figures differ at the moment (and then make some relevant conclusions), the author has collected two small corpora of newspaper articles on politics, economy, culture, and sports published in the Buryat online newspaper Buryad Unen and Mongolian web-based edition Unuudur written from April to August of 2020 — in the period preceding the start of this research, as it was critical for the author to have the utmost up-to-date materials. Materials. The Mongolian mini-corpus comprises 10 032 words, and the Buryat mini-corpus consists of 10 261 words. Newspaper articles have been chosen as study material because publicistic writings absorb language novelties faster and in greater amount than fiction or scholarly works, thus better reflecting the present-day state of the language. The field data could be a more reliable source of material but field work is currently hindered because of the epidemic situation. The author decided not to use the online corpora, which are way bigger than the manually collected ones (and this is certainly their great advantage) because it was necessary to compare texts similar in subject and volume, and written approximately at the same period of time. It is not always technically feasible to restrict the field of search in the online corpora, which makes it difficult to compare the obtained results for the two languages. Results. The collected data shows that in the Mongolian newspaper articles the plurality markers are used about 3,5 times as frequently as in the Buryat ones. Along with it, Middle Mongolian plurality markers are known to have been used about four times as frequently as in Modern Mongolian. In the conclusion the author poses questions for further study which arose after obtaining the quantitative data.

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