“Uma revolução democrática é sempre uma revolução inacabada” — or — “A democratic revolution must always remain unfinished”

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Democratic Revolution ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Ideological Tensions

This article analyses the discursive construction of collective memories and the function of commemorative events for national identity. It focuses on how the 30th anniversary of the Portuguese 1974 revolution was portrayed in the government’s Programme of Action issued for the 2004 commemorations and in forty-three newspaper opinion articles also published in 2004. The 1974 revolution ended a 48-year right-wing dictatorship and has shaped subsequent historical events since the 1970s. When the Programme of Action changed the 1974 slogan ‘April is revolution’ into ‘April is evolution’, the written press responded by conducting a debate on this reframing. Using the Discourse-Historical Approach in CDA as the analytical framework, this paper highlights the discursive strategies on which the government’s manifesto was built and explores the opinion articles’ ongoing political and ideological tensions over the revolution, its commemorations, and how it paved the way into Europe, by describing the main macro-discursive strategies and raising issues regarding the (mis)representation of social actors and social action.

scholarly journals The Autobiographic Discursive Construction of Immigrant Identity: A Discourse Historical Analysis of 'My Life's Journey'

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (IV) ◽  
pp. 324-330
Author(s):  
Fouzia Rehman Khan ◽  
Sumaira Shafiq ◽  
Ayaz Qadeer
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Political Figure

The present critical discourse study explores the discursive construction of immigrant identity of Mohajir/Urdu Speaking people in Pakistan through the analysis of an autobiographic discourse in the form of My Lifes Journey by Altaf Hussain. Discourse Historical Approach of CDA serves as the theoretical and analytical framework for this study. This framework is based on themes and discursive strategies. The analysis of the selected discourse reveals that the interview based autobiography of the political figure is based on the recurring theme of political transformation and reconstruction of immigrant identity. The discourse is also constituted of several discursive strategies; the most prevalent ones are those of victimization, topos of history, topos of definition and positive self and negative other presentation. The autobiographical discourse highlights the transformational phases the immigrant identity of Mohajirs has gone through. The readers of this discourse under analysis often encounter terms like parochial difference, biased attitudes, and discrimination.

scholarly journals ‘Victims vs Terrorists?’ The Discursive Construction of Palestinians in Two Online Israeli Newspapers during the 2014 Gaza War

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rami Qawariq
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

 This article is a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the representation of Palestinians in two online Israeli newspapers published in English during the 2014 Gaza War. The study attempts to conduct a language-based analysis of the political and ideological workings that underpin the representation of social actors. It employs tools from the Discourse Historical Approach (Reisigl & Wodak 2001) to explain the discursive characterization of fighters/ Hamas and civilians. Since the huge number of Palestinian civilian fatalities was a major aspect of controversy in the last war, this article tries to reveal the linguistic choices and discursive strategies used in representing each group of social actors. More importantly, the article detects the linguistic and discursive differences between two newspapers and explains how they may reflect different political orientations. 

The “Tweet Politics” of President Trump

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramona Kreis
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
And Function ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Meaning And Function

Abstract This study explores how U.S. President Donald Trump employs Twitter as a strategic instrument of power politics to disseminate his right-wing populist discourse. Applying the discourse-historical approach to critical discourse analysis, this article analyzes the meaning and function of Trump’s discursive strategies on Twitter. The data consists of over 200 tweets collected from his personal account between his inauguration on January 20, 2017 and his first address to Congress on February 28, 2017. The findings show how Trump uses an informal, direct, and provoking communication style to construct and reinforce the concept of a homogeneous people and a homeland threatened by the dangerous other. Moreover, Trump employs positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation to further his agenda via social media. This study demonstrates how his top-down use of Twitter may lead to the normalization of right-wing populist discourses, and thus aims to contribute to the understanding of right-wing populist discourse online.

scholarly journals A Corpus-based Study of the Discursive Construction of Corporate Identities by Chinese and American Banks

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Xia Cheng ◽  
Xingsong Shi
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructivism ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Business English ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Corporate Ability ◽  
Chinese Banks ◽  
Communication Capability ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Practical Implications

Abstract By taking the perspective of Social Constructivism and the Discourse-Historical Approach, and using the corpus linguistic tool Wmatrix, this study compares the discursive strategies adopted by Chinese and American banks in their construction of corporate identities. The research underlines the shared and unique features presented in prominent themes, communication strategies and lexical patterns. It is found that Chinese banks prefer to emphasise their historical development, industrial ranking and organisational structure to positively construct their identity as industry leaders, adopting a corporate ability strategy through the frequent usage of numbers and superlative adjectives. However, American banks tend to stress care for their employees, communities and environment. They prefer to use a corporate responsibility strategy to build their identity as social contributors through the frequent usage of performative verbs to exhibit specific corporate activities. This study may have practical implications for Chinese companies wishing to improve their international communication capability and may offer educational implications for Business English teaching.

Instagram narratives in Trump’s America

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 826-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patryk Dobkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
The People ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Cordon Sanitaire ◽  
Combining Methods

Abstract This study investigates the ideological composition of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign on Instagram, a popular but little researched platform, and attempts to situate it within his broader campaign. To account for the multimodality of Instagram posts, an analytical framework combining methods of the discourse-historical approach and visual grammar is proposed. 330 posts were subjected to a semantic analysis, resulting in a network of discourse topics which defined the Instagram campaign. Trump’s Instagram posts, in contrast to his tweets, are shown to be mostly positive, refraining from nativist attacks on minorities and limiting personal attacks on Hillary Clinton. Trump methodically constructed the positive, populist ‘Man of the People’ image, although in-depth analysis of selected posts reveals his populism to be only superficially inclusive. These findings prompt a reflection on the existence of an internal cordon sanitaire in social media campaigns, a possibly detrimental phenomenon for right-wing populists.

‘We need to talk about the hegemony of the left’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salomi Boukala
Keyword(s):  
Second Step ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
The Right ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Political Turmoil

Abstract This article seeks to explore the discursive rediscovery of the left menace and the ideological relevance between the far right and the right wing in Greece in times of political turmoil. Drawing on some historical aspects of modern Greece, first, I intend to explain the resurgence of Greece’s divided past. By emphasising references to Gramsci and the ‘hegemony of the left’, the article investigates the discursive construction of ingroups and outgroups on the basis of haunted memories of modern Greek history. By synthesising the Discourse Historical Approach and the concept of Aristotelian topos, I explicate how Gramsci has been re-utilised in an extreme right context by Greek far-right figures in order to stigmatise their ideological opponents. In a second step, my aim is to study the normalisation of political enmity by highlighting far-right discourses’ resemblance to New Democracy’s members’ rhetoric through references to Greek culture and economic imaginaries.

scholarly journals Boon or Bane? Discursive Construction of the Shale Gas Controversy

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-148
Author(s):  
Zeynep Cihan Koca-Helvacı
Keyword(s):  
Shale Gas ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Marcellus Shale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Gas Extraction ◽  
Argumentation Schemes ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
American Society ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

This study explores strategies in pro and anti-shale organizations’ discourse by combining the Discourse-Historical Approach (Wodak, 2001) with corpus linguistics. With the help of keyword lists, collocations, concordances, and key semantic domains, the representations of shale gas extraction, relevant actors and argumentation schemes in opposing discourses of the pro-shale Marcellus Shale Coalition and anti-shale Americans Against Fracking were analyzed. The findings of the study show that the advocates presented shale gas as a bonus for the crisis-struck American society while backgrounding its environmental impacts. The opponents, on the other hand, represented shale gas as a threat to the American ecosystem and public health through an alarming and scientific discourse. The empirical findings of this study add to a growing body of literature on discursive strategies employed by opposing camps of environmental controversies.

scholarly journals Politics of Identity: The Face of Islam in the International E-Media

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (II) ◽  
pp. 67-77
Author(s):  
Sarwet Rasul ◽  
Azka Khan ◽  
Shumaila Mazhar
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The Face ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Negative Identity ◽  
Insight Into

The portrayal of Islam in a hostile relationship with rationality, liberty, and tolerance, leads to a politics of identity were a marginalized community embattles to re-affirm and resist the tarnished face. The bigoted perception of Islam as a political, economic, and social threat reinforces the unfounded Islamophobia and needs production of counter-narrative by scholars and researchers believing in humanity and equality. This paper aims to explore the discursive construction of Islam through the use of E-media caricatures. Discourse historical approach (DHA) is used to analyze the discourse of 16 Emedia caricatures disseminated on the World Wide Web in the years 2017 and 2018. The analysis demonstrates the discursive strategies namely referential strategy, predication, argumentation and intensification used in the (mis)representation and (de)legitimization of the face of Islam in the E-Media. This study gives a deeper insight into the issue of the negative identity construction of Islam using caricatures

European parliament ‘doing’ Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senem Aydın-Düzgit
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

This article focuses on the discourses of the main centre-right political party group (EPP-ED, EPP) in the European Parliament on Turkey’s accession to the European Union. It utilises the analytical framework of the Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis to mainly concentrate on the articulations of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural identity’ in the discussions over Turkish accession in official parliamentary debates and in-depth personal interviews with the members of this group. It is argued that a relational theorising of identity allows for analysis of the ways in which a cultural ‘Europe’ is articulated through current discussions on Turkey in the mainstream right-wing European Parliament discourse and thus reveals the cultural borders that are enacted with reference to Turkish membership within this group.

scholarly journals Discursive Strategies for the Social Construction in the Post-Conflict Era (2015-2017)

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-123
Author(s):  
Doris Torres ◽  
Angélica María Rincón Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Analysis Program ◽  
Theoretical Formulation ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Stages

        The objective is to analyze the linguistic and rhetorical resources used in the discursive construction about the social actors of the post-conflict, through the study of nine editorials of the newspaper El Espectador, between the years 2015-2017. The research is woven from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), in order to make a theoretical formulation about journalistic discursive manifestations and a critical reflection on the social realities of journalistic language. The methodology was developed in two stages: an exploratory-descriptive and an analytical one. In the first, a compilation of the editorials under study is made to be submitted to the qualitative analysis program NVivo 11, reporting significant elements such as the frequency of words, co-texts, and the cloud mark and the conglomerates. The second involved the realization of a linguistic analysis to interpret the strategies of legitimation, naturalization and concealment used to discursively construct the social actors of the post-conflict.

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