Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites

Pragmatics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali ◽  
Hanan A. Shatat
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cultural Ideologies ◽  
Shared Parenting ◽  
Arabic And English ◽  
Family Life Educators

Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences and similarities between Arabic and English parents’ role in Arabic and English parenting website texts and the linguistic exponents used to address parents and signal their roles, and to find out the socio-cultural ideologies that have given rise to variations in gender roles. To this end, a corpus of 40 articles targeting gender-neutral titles and father related ones were selected equally from English and Arabic websites. Drawing on Van Leeuwen’s (2008) framework on critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Sunderland’s (2000, 2006) framework of analysis, the data were analysed and contrasted. The English texts reflected the prevalence of ‘shared parenting’ discourse, whereas the Arabic ones revealed a ‘very traditional parenthood’ discourse. These differences can be attributed to variation in the socio-cultural practices dominant in Arab and Western societies. Such findings will hopefully provide some useful insights for family life educators and parents who resort to such websites.

scholarly journals GE Big Boys Appliances: Towards a Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the SNL Fake Commercial

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Karina Clemente-Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Saturday Night Live

Nowadays, comedy shows like Saturday Night Live (SNL) have become popular and entertain many people around the world. For this study, a fake commercial for GE Big Boys Appliances, aired on YouTube in 2018 is analyzed to explore how discourse is used to represent gender roles and stereotypes. To conduct this multimodal discourse analysis, some elements of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) proposed by Halliday (1978), some notions of critical discourse analysis, and some features of the Machin’s (2010) visual semiotic framework are employed. The findings portray that the sketch shows a change concerning gender roles through time, but it still promotes the transmission of some classical gender stereotypes. Therefore, it is valuable to study comedy sketches to understand how traditional gender roles and stereotypes are still transmitted in social media.

scholarly journals Mobilizing Motherhood: The Use of Maternal Myths in Popular Development Discourse

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Marie Potvin
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Gender And Development ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Development Literature

In this paper, I examine how maternal myths are deployed in popular development literature. Using critical discourse analysis and working within a feminist postcolonial framework I analyse five texts produced by development organizations for popular consumption. I identify how maternal myths are constructed in each text and conduct a contextual analysis of four myths to identify their ideological significance within the development sector. I conclude that that in their construction of maternal myths, these texts, while intended to elicit support for gender and development interventions, reinforce exploitative gender roles and relations and limit women’s experiences of development.

scholarly journals SHAKESPEARES AS YOU LIKE IT: A POSTMODERN STUDY OF GENDER

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 352-357
Author(s):  
Most. Farhana Jannat ◽  
◽  
Prokity Ahmed ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
The Difference

William Shakespeare in As You Like It highlights the gender roles in the society. Gender is developed by society. It is not natural.The society assigns roles to distinct gender. This study investigated the gender roles present in As You Like It and deconstructs the specific gender roles through the postmodern study of gender. This study focuses on the distinctive roles associated with the dressing style and language of man and woman. This study also investigates the presence of homosexuality. Besides, this study explores the shifting nature of identity and androgyny. This is a qualitative study which is explorative in nature. Analytical and close- reading method have been used to conduct the research. Besides, critical discourse analysis has been applied. William Shakespeare reveals the difference in the roles performed by gender through the disguise of Rosalind. The dressing style of man gives Rosalind the power to act as a man. The discourse differs in case of man and woman. The acts like homosexuality which are not approved by the society cannot be performed freely. Besides, the disguise of Rosalind and her subsequent actions portray the presence of androgyny and the idea that gender is not fixed. Shakespeare subverts the stereotypical performances of gender through Rosalind.

scholarly journals Ruptures of Possibility: Mexican Origin Mothers as Critical Border Pedagogues

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
Idalia Nuñez ◽  
Suzanne García-Mateus
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Border Thinking

In U.S. schools, educators are often regarded as knowledge producers and sole pedagogues, whereas parents (particularly of Color) are perceived as not engaged or interested in their child(ren)'s education (Colgrove, 2019; Nuñez, 2019; Ramirez, 2020). These negative stereotypes and white-centered discourses sustain raciolinguistic perspectives (Rosa & Flores, 2017) of families of Color and immigrant backgrounds. For the present study, we employed critical discourse analysis to explore why and how Mexican mothers raise bilingual children by examining how their experiences inform us about their powerful roles as critical translanguaging pedagogues. Drawing on border thinking and pedagogy of border thinking, the findings revealed two main themes: (1) how mothers recognize and draw on the ruptures of cultural and linguistic worlds, and (2) how they sustain language through family and cultural practices. Lastly, we share implications for educators, teacher educators, and policymakers.

scholarly journals Media dan Kekerasan: Analisis Norman Fairclough Terhadap Pemberitaan Tarung Gladiator

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Akhirul Annas ◽  
Rana Akbari Fitriawan
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Text Production ◽  
On Line ◽  
Production Practices

AbstrakLine Today merupakan fitur agregator berita yang terdapat dalam aplikasi Line Messenger. Salah satu berita yang dijadikan Line Today sebagai highlights pada bulan September 2017 lalu adalah kasus tarung gladiator di kalangan pelajar. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana wacana kekerasan dikemas dalam pemberitaan tarung gladiator pada Line Today dengan menggunakan analisis wacana kritis Norman Fairclough untuk menganalisis teks, praktik produksi teks, dan praktik sosial budaya. Dalam penelitian ini digunakan metode kualitatif yang memusatkan perhatian pada prinsip-prinsip umum yang mendasari perwujudan sebuah makna dari gejala-gejala sosial di dalam masyarakat dengan menggunakan paradigma kritis. Paradigma ini memandang bahwa bahasa tidak hanya sebagai alat untuk memahami realitas objektif belaka, tetapi perlu melihat maksud-maksud dari wacana tertentu. Paradigma kritis jauh lebih meneliti aspek sosial, sejarah, dan budaya dari wacana tersebut. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Line Today memilih enam berita dari media Kumparan.com, Liputan6.com, dan Okezone.com untuk merekonstruksi kekerasan dalam kasus tarung gladiator di kalangan pelajar. Bahasa yang digunakan dalam teks berita dikemas secara ringan, singkat, dan mudah dipahami oleh generasi milenial.Kata Kunci: Kekerasan, Line Today, Media, Norman Fairclough AbstractLine Today is a news aggregator feature contained in the Line Messenger app. One of the news that Line Today made as highlights in September 2017 was the gladiator fight case among teenage students. This study aims to find out how the discourse of violence is packed in the news gladiator fight on Line Today by using critical discourse analysis Norman Fairclough to analyze text, text production practices, and socio-cultural practices. It used qualitative methods to analyze the meaning of social phenomenon based on critical paradigm. The paradigm noted that language is not only a tool for understanding reality, but it is necessary to look at the intentions of a particular discourse. It used to explore social, historical, and cultural aspects of the discourse. The research shows that Line Today chose six news from media Kumparan.com, Liputan6.com, and Okezone.com to reconstruct the violence in the case of ‘tarung gladiator’ among teenage students. The language used in the news text is lightly packed, short, and easily understood by millennials generation.Keywords: Line Today, Media, Norman Fairclough, Violence 

Religion and culture in the discourse of the European Court of Human Rights: the risks of stereotyping and naturalising

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourdes Peroni
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Group Practices ◽  
European Court

AbstractThis paper critically examines the ways in which the European Court of Human Rights represents applicants' religious and cultural practices in its legal discourse. Borrowing tools from critical discourse analysis and incorporating insights from the anti-essentialist critique, the paper suggests that the Court has most problematically depicted the practices of Muslim women, Sikhs and Roma Gypsies. The analysis reveals that, by means of a reifying language, the Court oftentimes equates these groups' practices with negative stereotypes or posits them as the group's ‘paradigmatic’ practice / way of life. The thrust of the argument is that these sorts of representation are problematic because of the exclusionary and inegalitarian dangers they carry both for the applicants and for their groups. In negatively stereotyping applicants' practices and in privileging certain group practices over others, these types of assessment underestimate what is at stake for the applicants and potentially exclude them from protection. Moreover, these types of reasoning risk sustaining hierarchies across and within groups. The paper concludes by sketching out an approach capable of mitigating stereotyping and essentialising risks.

scholarly journals HEGEMONI CERPEN WAJAH ITU MEMBAYANG DI PIRING BUBUR KARYA INDRA TRANGGONO: ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Nelda Sari Siregar ◽  
Else Liliani
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Traditional Markets

  The purpose of the study was to describe the dimensions of the text, the practice of discourse, socio-cultural practices, and the ideological formations in the short stories that face imagined on porridge plates. The theory used is the theory of sociology of Gramsci hegemony. The method used is a qualitative method with the Fairclough model of critical discourse analysis techniques. The results of the study are a form of hegemony when traditional markets turn into modern markets and make people have a consumptive lifestyle. The author expresses his criticism of the current phenomenon subtly with the symbol of genderuwo which has greed and hegemonic character. Genderuwo is represented as a capitalist system which is currently controlling society. The form of ideological formation in the form of authoritarianism-capitalism and humanistic-mysticism. There are groups of hegemony, pro-hegemony, and groups of counter-hegemony. The hegemony group is the main actor in the occurrence of hegemony (the dominant group), while the pro-hegemony group is a figure who supports the occurrence of hegemony, the counter-hegemony group consists of people who oppose the occurrence of hegemony (cultural rise).

scholarly journals ANALISIS WACANA IKLAN POND’S MEN #LELAKIMASAKINI VERSI RIO DEWANTO

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Abas Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
New Product ◽  
The Body ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Product Variant ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
New Formula

<h1 align="center">ABSTRACT</h1><p><em>This research discusses how advertising producers provide a new formula </em><em>for men nowdays</em><em>. Through </em><em>such as </em><em>advertising, manufacturers are trying to create a standard male </em><em>nowdays</em><em> </em><em>with efforts of disciplining the body. Pond's Mens </em><em>it self</em><em> always bring up the ad with a new concept when they put out a new product variant. The man of today is a manifestation of cooperation between the pond's makes Rio Dewanto as a brand ambassador. This research uses critical discourse analysis</em><em>,</em><em> model which Norman Fairclough classifies three dimensions of discourse consisting of text</em><em>,</em><em> discourse practices</em><em> and </em><em>socio cultural practices. The dimensions of the text simultaneously has three functions, namely the representation, relationships, and identity. The results showed that the ads were shown to men as a disciplinary body's efforts. In addition, this commercial bias occurs in practice meaning between scenes in the ad with the discourse of the present </em><em>men</em><em>.</em><em></em></p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: <em>Discourse analysis, Pond's Men advertising, advertising in gender</em></p><p> </p><h1 align="center"> </h1>

scholarly journals A Study of Gender Discourse in Zoya Pirzad Novels

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1225-1228
Author(s):  
Dr. Foroogh Kazemi ◽  
Shohreh Dalaee
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Male Characters

In this article, two novels by Zoya Pirzad has been investigated considering Fairclough Critical Discourse Analysis. This article is trying to show how ideology and power of male-characters have influenced on female-characters in these novels. This paper shows that males patriarchal dialogues that are influenced by society, law and ideology put female characters in challenge and pushes aside their dialogues. This paper has investigated the influence of tradition, culture, and ideology on family life and particularly on peoples linguistic interactions from gender point of view. It has been found that the dominant discourse is patriarchal and most of novel females are passive. The research method in this article is analytical and analysis unit is sentences and dialogues of Zoya Pirzads  two novels.

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