Critical discourse analysis and metaphor: toward a theoretical framework

In this article study, community media and community radios, as different kinds of alternative media will be examined under a theoretical framework. Then Nor Radyo, an internet radio which is an example of the community radios from Turkey will be taken into consideration as the field study. Nor Radyo will be examined within the context of the rhizomatic approach and community radios, over the example of Nor Radyo, will be measured as to whether or not they voice the sound of the counter publicity. For the field study, in-depth interviews were made by Nor Radyo programme-makers; and content and critical discourse analysis was applied in relation with the Nor Radyo programmes.

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Critical Discourse Analysis of Adjectives Used with the Word Multiculturalism in British Print Media

International Journal of Linguistics ◽

10.5296/ijl.v8i6.10405 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 185

Author(s):

Sadok Abcha

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Print Media ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Key Word ◽

Critical Insight ◽

The Times ◽

The Right ◽

Insight Into

The present paper critically analyses the ideological uses of the adjectives used to describe multiculturalism in opinion articles published by two British quality newspapers, The Telegraph and The Times, which politically lean to The Right. Methodologically, the sample on which this study is based has been retrieved from the websites of the two dailies by means of the Key Word In Context (KWIC) technique, which has been used to look for comment articles published between July 2005 and December 2015, and in which the search word, multiculturalism used with an adjective featured. Using Fairclough’s theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the study pinpoints the ideological underpinnings of the adjectives used with the word multiculturalism in the editorials. The study found out that all the adjectives are used in a derogative way to describe multiculturalism as being unreasonable, harmful and unsuccessful. Significantly, this paper provides critical insight into the peculiar uses of derogative adjectives in comment articles dealing with multiculturalism and avers that negative adjectives are not simply linguistic elements, but most importantly, ideological tools.

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Unethical conduct by the nurse

Nursing Ethics ◽

10.1177/0969733012468465 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

pp. 578-588 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Kathleen A Dixon

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

New South ◽

New South Wales ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Unethical Conduct ◽

South Wales ◽

The Way

The aim of this study was to uncover and critically examine hidden assumptions that underpin the findings of nurses’ unethical conduct arising from inquiries conducted by the Nurses Tribunal in New South Wales. This was a qualitative study located within a post-structural theoretical framework. Transcripts of five inquiries conducted between 1998 and 2003 were analysed using critical discourse analysis. The findings revealed two dominant discourses that were drawn upon in the inquiries to construct nurses’ conduct as unethical. These were discourses of trust and accountability. The way the nurses were spoken about during the inquiries was shaped by normalising judgements that were used to discursively position the nurse through narrative.

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Authenticity and discourses in Aladdin (1992)

Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research ◽

10.1386/jammr_00021_1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 235-250 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Abderrahmene Bourenane

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The West ◽

Cultural Transfer ◽

Life Threatening

Since the first encounters between the East and the West, many Western artistic productions have been produced to introduce the Orient to the Occident. Antoine Galland’s translation of the oriental folkloric tales, known as One Thousand and One Nights marked a cultural transfer through introducing an exotic, colourful and adventurous, yet unsafe, life-threatening and mysterious image of the Orient. Scholars question the authenticity of the translation, and reject the true belonging of the tale of Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp to the oriental cultural heritage suggesting its Western construction. This fabrication suggests the existence of several discourses that are to be unfolded with the critical discourse analysis of the pictorial and textual discourse of the tale and its several filmic adaptations. The tale was fully or partially adapted in several cinematographic productions during the last century. For example, while Aladin (1906) faithfully adapted part of the original tale, the 1992 version directed by Clements and Musker is a loosely inspiration perceived through an orientalist filter. The aim of this article is to investigate the authenticity and disclose the discourses concealed in Galland’s translation and its 1992 filmic adaptation, the critical discourse analysis in addition to Edward Saïd’s Orientalism provide the theoretical framework to analyse the excerpts from the translation and scenes from the film, in order to disclose the colonial, orientalist and feminist discourses they encapsulate.

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Terrorism rhetoric under the Bush Administration

Journal of Language and Politics ◽

10.1075/jlp.11.4.05bar ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 562-582 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Valentina Bartolucci

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Political Discourse ◽

Bush Administration ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Political Effects ◽

The World ◽

Contemporary Life ◽

Presidential Discourse

In this paper I examine some of the properties of the speeches by former U.S. President George W. Bush framing the issue of terrorism as the most pressing menace humanity is facing and some of the consequences of the selective appropriation of the discourse on terrorism initially instantiated by Bush. The theoretical framework for the analysis is a multidisciplinary Critical Discourse Analysis approach relating discursive and socio-political aspects of U.S. presidential discourses on terrorism in the Bush era. Parallel to an analysis of common characteristics of political discourse, such as ‘us’ versus ‘other’ representations, the device of over/less characterisation, hyperboles and repetitions, attention is also directed towards the socio-political effects deriving from the ways in which ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorists’ have been represented by the presidential discourse on terrorism that condition the contemporary life of individuals and groups all around the world.

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Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Nigerian Political Hate Speeches

Journal of Language Teaching and Research ◽

10.17507/jltr.1203.20 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 494-500

Author(s):

Harriet Chinyere Obiora ◽

Sopuruchi Christian Aboh ◽

Bridget O. Dioka

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Random Sampling ◽

Democratic Party ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Descriptive Approach

The study examines the hate speeches used by the Nigerian politicians within the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Some of the hate speeches used by the Nigerian politicians are selected and analyzed. The objectives of this study include identifying and investigating the hate speeches using critical discourse analysis. The random sampling is used to elucidate data from Nigerian dailies. The data includes hate speeches used by Nigerian politicians against the opposing parties or individuals. The methodology for this research is the descriptive approach. The study finds out that the hate speeches are seen in this study as the use of accusations and judgments, mockery and degradation, propagation and solving problems using disdain statements and the use of rhetoric by the members of All Progressive Congress (APC) and People Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria to show power and dominance over one another.

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Ireland’s Public Health (Alcohol) Bill

Contemporary Drug Problems ◽

10.1177/0091450918768284 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 107-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Susan Calnan ◽

Martin P. Davoren ◽

Ivan J. Perry ◽

Órla O’Donovan

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Critical Mode ◽

Significant Development ◽

Paradigmatic Shift ◽

The Public ◽

Hybrid Forms

The proposal to introduce a Public Health (Alcohol) Bill marks a significant development in Ireland’s alcohol policymaking landscape. While the Bill has generated support from public health advocates, it has also raised considerable opposition, particularly from industry. This analysis aims to examine the debate around this Bill using the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis and applying Carol Bacchi’s What’s the Problem Represented To Be critical mode of analysis. A key objective is to analyze the current prevailing representations of alcohol and its regulation in Ireland but also to consider what they reveal about the underlying governing rationality in relation to alcohol regulation. In particular, it questions whether the Bill signals a shift in the official governing rationality regarding alcohol regulation. The analysis illustrates how alcohol is problematized in markedly different ways in the debates and how such debates are often underpinned by multifaceted elements. Despite such differences, it argues that there are still signs of a neoliberal rhetoric emerging within the public health discourses, raising a question over whether the Bill and its supporting discourses signal a paradigmatic shift or are more indicative of a policy embracing hybrid forms of rule.

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A Meso-levels Critical Discourse Analysis of the Movie Rudy Habibie

Theory and Practice in Language Studies ◽

10.17507/tpls.0811.25 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (11) ◽

pp. 1559

Author(s):

Goziyah Goziyah ◽

Dadang Sunendar ◽

Yumna Rasyid

Keyword(s):

Critical Thinking ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Social Power ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Text Production ◽

Production Distribution ◽

Language And Ideology ◽

The Relationship

Movie and discourse have been an academic concern. Based on the theoretical framework of Fairclough concept (1995), this study attempts to make a meso-level critical discourse analysis of a local movie, Rudy Habibie (2016). It explores how the discursive is formed and legitimized in the process of production, distribution, and consumption by the representation of the movie Rudy Habibie. It validates the effectiveness of CDA as a tool to reveal the relationship between language and ideology. It proves that Fairclough’s framework can be applied in the movie discursive study. Pratically it draws the attention to the ideologies embedded in movie discourse and encourages to improve the critical thinking. The findings described the various behaviors taken from the movie Rudy Habibie which are aimed to reveal stereotypes, presuppositions, hegemony, power and ideological stances. As the consequences, this movie became the best selling movie in 2016. The presented ideology delivered the audience through the story of the movie as the result of the text production, distribution, and consumption. The representation contributes to the construction of social power. Furthermore, the research believed having implications for language teaching, especially in CDA subject. Toward the applying of the CDA approach in the course, the student will be able to achieve the understanding of the writer’s style, finding meaning and reasons for particular stylistic choices.

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Globalization and Islamophobia: Critical View at Globalization’s Impact on Expansion of Islamophobia

Journal of Politics and Law ◽

10.5539/jpl.v13n4p72 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 72

Author(s):

Ahmadreza Bordbar ◽

Shoayb Mohammadi ◽

Pooyesh Parashi ◽

Vladyslav Butenko

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Current Trend ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Political Islam ◽

Research Data ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Political ◽

Critical View ◽

Political Foundations

The globalization process, with its own special tools, is affecting the surrounding world, and the religion of Islam and its ideological structures, as well as any other stream of globalization process, are affected. The process of globalization affected by the current trend is in the pursuit of dominance over other competing ideologies and, in the meantime, deals with the struggle with competing ideologies with tools such as the spread of democracy, technology, consumerism, and so on. The process of globalization in dealing with Islamic ideology, due to structural, fundamental, ideological and so on contradictions, reveals the ideology of political Islam as weak and weak. The globalization discourse with the central point of modernism opposes other discourses and is now struggling with the discourse of political Islam. Globalization discourse, with its special system of meaning, seeks to change the values of the political Islam discourse. One of the most striking features of globalization discourse is through the political Islam discourse, the concentration and expansion of the idea of Islamophobia. The idea of Islamophobia is one of the socio-political foundations of the domination system, which has emerged through the mechanisms of the globalization process. In this research, the data have been gathered using the documentary methodology, the theoretical framework of the research has shaped theories of the critical school and postmodern thought, and the analysis of the research data has been done using the method of critical discourse analysis.

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Empowerment and disempowerment in the Glencairn Uprising

Journal of Historical Pragmatics ◽

10.1075/jhp.10.1.03pre ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 23-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Sheryl Prentice ◽

Andrew Hardie

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Quantitative Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Semantic Meaning ◽

Search Terms ◽

Oliver Cromwell

The Glencairn Uprising (1653–1654) was a military rebellion by Scottish Highlanders under the leadership of William, Earl of Glencairn, against the English government of Oliver Cromwell. This paper investigates the presentation of actors and groups on both sides of the Uprising — but most especially Glencairn himself — in the contemporary London press. The theoretical framework of the analysis is Critical Discourse Analysis (modelled especially on the approach of van Dijk 1991); however, a corpus-based methodology, and a partially-quantitative analysis, are employed. The documents in question — a corpus of newsbooks published in late 1653 and the first half of 1654 — are analysed by a process of assigning concordance lines extracted using a wide set of search terms to particular categories of discourse-semantic meaning. The newsbooks are shown to make use of greatly contrasting discourses in their representations of Glencairn and others, resulting in “discourses of empowerment and disempowerment” (the latter being associated secondarily with a “discourse of disunity”). By employing these discourses, the newsbook journalists discredit Glencairn and his associates, whilst crediting the English and their associates.

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