scholarly journals A critical discourse analysis of health in Swedish integration policies

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Svanholm ◽  
E Viitasara ◽  
H Carlerby
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Integration Policies ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Background Previous research has indicated that migrants risk facing inequities both internationally and in Sweden; integration policies are therefore important to study. How health is described in policies affects how health interventions are approached. A discourse analysis offers a way of understanding how health is framed within the integration policies of the Establishment Program. The aim was to critically analyse the health discourses used in Swedish and European Union (EU) integration policies. Methods A critical discourse analysis, inspired by Fairclough, was performed on integration policies related to Sweden, on local, regional, national and the EU level. The policies of the Establishment Program, which focuses on newly arrived migrants (refugees, persons of subsidiary protection and their relatives who arrived through family reunification), were chosen for the analysis, and 17 documents were analysed in total. Results The analysis of the documents showed that although no definition of health was presented, health discourses were expressed in the form of the medicalization of health and the individualization of health. This not only by the terminology used, but also in how the healthcare sector was considered responsible for any health related issue and how individual health behaviours were of focus in interventions to promote health. Conclusions A pathogenic approach to health was visible in the policies and individual disease prevention was the main health focus. The results showed similarities to previous research highlighting how a particular understanding of health in a neoliberal context is formed. Key messages Health as a resource is missing in the integration policy documents. Viewing health as an individual quality puts the responsibility of promoting health on the individual.

scholarly journals Media construction of the immigrant’s image: specifics of discourse strategies (based on the content of a Facebook group and articles in The Daily Mail)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
M. S. Matytsina ◽  
O. N. Prokhorova ◽  
I. V. Chekulai
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Reciprocal Effect ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of

The paper based on the content of the Facebook group Immigrants in EU and The Daily Mail publications discusses the issue of discursive construction of an immigrant image in media discourse. Using the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the authors claim that the image of an immigrant can be viewed as a discursive construct, and the main discursive strategies involved in its construction include the reference strategy and the prediction strategy. As a result of the analysis, the so called CDA-categories (topic blocks) underlying the formation of the immigrant figure, are identified and illustrated by the relevant examples, the need for further study of the social media discourse as part of critical discourse analysis is justified. The relevance of such study is due to the growing research interest in discursive construction of the immigrant figure in the media discourse, since it underpins the definition of discourse as a form of social practice, not only reflecting processes in the society, but also exerting a reciprocal effect on them. The use of both verbal and non-verbal means in the media texts under study reflects the intention of the authors of the messages to use all possible communication channels when constructing an immigrant’s image. The results show that the dichotomy of “friends and foes” is being formed and maintained by the British newspaper The Daily Mail, while the members of the Immigrants in EU group try to mitigate the conflict between immigrants and indigenous people.

scholarly journals Crowd phenomenon as text and discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-65
Author(s):  
Liliia Monastyrova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Social Conduct ◽  
Specific Culture ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Or History

The article is devoted to the research of crowd as a text and discourse object and the definition of discourse parameters of crowd. The author compares the formulation of conception about crowd as text and discourse with the formation of anthropocentric paradigm in linguistics that was developing from text and linguistic identity to discourse and discourse identity/community. Projecting the results of scientific researches of XIX-XX centuries (works by G. Le Bon, E. Canetti, T. Tarde, S. Freud ect.) onto linguistic sphere, the author makes a conclusion that the crowd phenomenon was reviewed in the text dimension with the following characteristics: hyper- and intertextuality, inculcation of ideas through such factors as race, beliefs, traditions, time, education and upbringing: the transmission of the key codes by word-concepts that have conclusive sense (FREEDOM, EQUAILITY, FAMILY VALUES ect.); the usage of suggestive means to encourage crowd for some specific actions, ect. The transformation of text-crowd to discourse-crowd begins with the globalization of mass movements. For researching the crowd as a discourse, the pressing approaches of critical discourse analysis are the research of "authority in discourse and authority over discourse"; discourse is ideologically colored and built into specific culture, ideology or history; discourse is a form of social conduct. The research of the crowd as a discourse has to be carried out in marginal dimension in the junction of sciences – linguistics, psychology, sociology and jurisprudence. Critical discourse analysis as a scientific approach combines the approaches of different sciences and makes it possible not only to study crowd in discourse dimension but also to foresee possible proactive means to define narratives, messages, concepts that allow to organize social conduct to the crowd peacefully.

scholarly journals A critical discourse analysis of a local enactment of sport for integration policy: Helping young refugees or self-help for voluntary sports clubs?

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 1152-1166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Dowling
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Refugee Youth ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Sport Policy ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Constructivist Perspective

An increasing number of scholars argue that politicians’ ill-defined policies of sport for integration are difficult to realize and, paradoxically, can lead to a sense of alterity and exclusion. This paper provides a micro-analysis of the ‘slippage’ between government visions of sport for integration for refugees and the local, contextual interpretations of sport policy for inclusion. From a critical constructivist perspective, influenced by critical race theory, it examines policy enactment by asking: ‘How did sport for integration of young refugees get talked and written about in a voluntary sports club?’; ‘How did this language in use construct the practices that became locally naturalized?’; and ‘What ideologies were underpinning these realities’? Findings from the critical discourse analysis revealed that local enactments of policy for integration were mostly built upon assimilationist ideas that can exclude, rather than integrate, refugees, and did ideological work to uphold racialized hierarchies in sport. Alternative visions of integration (such as two-way processes of integration or ideas about celebrating cultural diversity) were rationally marginalized in the everyday business of the voluntary sports club, namely, competitive sport. The findings contribute to the literature that claims VSCs may be unsuitable arenas for integration initiatives aiming to provide meaningful physical activity for refugee youth.

Unintended Consequences of Definitions of IT Professionals

2011 ◽  
pp. 1184-1190
Author(s):  
Wendy Cukier
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Multiple Paths ◽  
Technology Professional ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Definition Of Information

Attention to women’s low participation in information technology is framed in Canada and elsewhere in terms of concern over availability of well-qualified human resources (ITAC & IDC, 2002) as well as equity issues (Applewhite, 2002; Ramsey & McCorduck, 2005). In most of these discussions, IT Professional is equated with Computer Scientist or Engineer in spite of the evidence that the profession is more diverse. This article suggests that while those directions are worthwhile, the very definition of “information technology professional” framed in the discourse may have unintended consequences which tend to exclude women. Framed by the literatures on gender and institutionalization of professions, this article applies critical discourse analysis to a variety of “texts” concerning the IT profession in Canada as well as available empirical data. Critical discourse analysis focuses on surfacing the political structures which underlie taken for granted assumptions (Fairclough, 1995). We maintain that while it is critically important to continue to attract females to study computer science and engineering, it is equally important to ensure that multiple paths are available and respected and that narrow definitions are not systemic barriers to the participation of women in the IT profession. In addition, more inclusive definitions which broaden the perspective on information technology (and match the reality of the industry) will promote good technology practices.

scholarly journals Leadership identities: Whose construction?

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Lise-Lotte Holmgreen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Building Society ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Style

AbstractQuestioning the assumption that identities can be controlled through a shared organisational culture, the article explores the dispersion of a discourse of diversity into leadership identities in a Danish bank and building society. Underlying this focus is the question of whether a number of local and global influences may interact and lead to the adoption of a shared organisational and leadership norms, identifiable in managers’ constructions of leadership identities. To study these issues, a critical discourse analysis is carried out of interviews with two middle managers in the bank, which involves close analysis of the language used by the respondents to construct their leadership identities. While the respondents present comparable identities to the interviewer, the analysis reveals that the they draw on different discourses and sources of inspiration as well as employ a number of different discursive means to present their respective identities. This, the article argues, may be the result of a number of influences emerging from the individual style of the respondent, the context of the interview and the discourses present both within and outside the organisation.

Commentary on the Article “How Gentle Must Violence Against Women Be in Order to Not Be Violent? Rethinking the Word ‘Violence’ in Obstetric Settings,” Reframed Within a Critical Discourse Orientation

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122199647
Author(s):  
Camille Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Definition Of

This commentary discusses the Swartz and Lappeman article asking us to rethink the word violence and its potential to “disempower the women that it is meant to empower.” The commentary examines the term violence through a critical lens that underscores the need for critical discourse analysis as a driver to deepening a widely somewhat antiquated definition of violence. It explores the enabling and constraining complexity of identity work associated with using the label of victim and suggests a more comprehensive approach that considers the linkages between intention, practices, structures, and context to foster a more transformative understanding of violence.

scholarly journals Rethinking Polanyi’s Fictitious Commodities Based on the Brazilian Nuclear Segment

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-403
Author(s):  
Márcio Moutinho Abdalla
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Decolonial Theory ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Social Agendas ◽  
Fictitious Commodities ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show evidence of the undetermined expansion of Polanyi’s fictitious commodities within the Brazilian nuclear context. The issue of the marketification of social agendas has drawn a lot of attention to the data, collected through in-depth interviews. The analytical process was guided by the decolonial theory approach and by critical discourse analysis. Among the analysis’ main findings, it is possible to point out the elaboration of a framework which reveals the mechanisms employed by the Brazilian nuclear segment as a way of exercising parallel power and silencing social agendas. The main contributions are the temporal and geopolitical updating of Polanyi’s thesis; and the definition of the mechanisms used by the company Eletronuclear and by institutions as a way of co-optation, naturalisation and marketification of social and political agendas.

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis: Mass Media

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deti Anitasari
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Main Support ◽  
The Individual

ABSTRACT: In this paper, the researcher aims are to review some key problems of approaches to research on mass media text from point of view discourse analytical and to present an argument, as well as a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) structures for analysis of mass media discourse. The researcher regards a number of areas of critical research interest in mass media discourse locally and elsewhere. An instance of actual CDA researches on mass media discourse is reviewed in terms of topics of obviously popular interest among society, before listing methodological, as well as the topical plan by a main support in the field for further work. This paper concludes that CDA’s multidisciplinary approach helps to understand and aware of the hidden socio-political issues and agenda in all kinds of areas of language as a social practice to empower the individual and social groups.

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