scholarly journals Freedom in Exile: A Linguistic-discursive Analysis of the Representations of the China x Tibet Conflict in the 14th Dalai Lama’s Autobiography

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Thiago Henrique Nunes dos Santos ◽  
Solange Maria de Barros

This article is part of an undergraduate course paper that studies the autobiography of the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso: Freedom in Exile. We analyse the discursive-linguistic representations of the conflict between China and Tibet within this autobiographical narrative through systemic functional linguistics. We understand the potential of the autobiographical narrative as a means to construe and organize life experiences through language and also giving new meanings to them. In this study we employ the theoretical and methodological apparatus of critical discourse analysis and the philosophy of critical realism in the attempt to understand the representational aspect of the texts. We use a qualitative research approach. The general objective of this study is to analyse the representations that the narrator creates of the contents of his vital experience by privileging and working with the ones that emerge from the conflict between China and Tibet. The specific objectives include: (i) to identify the lexical-grammatical choices regarding the constituents that structure these representations; (ii) to explore autobiographical writing; (iii) to analyse the representations discursively, in order to proceed to an explanatory critique of the discourse; (iv) to discuss and reflect upon the intransitivity of moral values to human emancipation and meta-Reality.

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Jones ◽  
Luke Collins

Abstract This research reports on newspaper representations of PrEP, a HIV-prevention drug recently made available on a trial basis to at-risk individuals in England. Using corpus-assisted queer critical discourse analysis, we investigate the linguistic representations of the users of PrEP within three leading British newspapers from across the political spectrum between 2014–18. We find that users of PrEP are most frequently positioned as ‘men who have sex with men’ or ‘gay men’, a representation that we argue limits public awareness of HIV itself, and of available HIV prevention. Furthermore, while the most left-leaning newspaper in our corpus focuses on the human benefit of PrEP, the most right-leaning newspaper takes a moralistic stance which frames gay men as risk-taking and therefore less deserving of healthcare funding than other groups. We therefore argue that certain representations of PrEP’s beneficiaries are implicitly homophobic, and that most representations are unhelpfully restrictive.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Marat Iliyasov

Abstract This article analyses the official discourse of the Chechen authorities and posits that it reflects the government’s efforts as self-legitimation. This investigation seeks to identify the mechanisms exploited by the Chechen regime to boost self-legitimacy by examining the ‘News’ programme on the Chechen state television channel ‘Grozny’, which, in the authoritarian setting of Chechnya, became the government’s mouthpiece and a propagator of official discourse. To provide for the context and to boost findings, the study is complemented by a discursive analysis of one more historical-political television programme and a political advertisement that was broadcast by the same channel during the period in which the fieldwork took place. The collected data is processed using Critical Discourse Analysis.


JALABAHASA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Agus Khumaedy Al Chazim ◽  
Indrya Mulyaningsih ◽  
Tati Sri Uswati

Masyarakat menginginkan informasi yang akurat, aktual, serta faktual terutama tentang politik dan pemerintahan di Indonesia. Namun, masih ada surat kabar yang hanya memberitakan salah satu partai politik atau berpihak kepada salah satu partai politik maupun kader partai. Terkait dengan hal tersebut, perlu adanya penelitian tentang netralitas dan keberpihakan Fajar Cirebon melalui berita politik di bulan menjelang pemilihan presiden RI. Penelitian ini menganalisis berita bukan hanya dari segi makna, tetapi juga dari segi maksud, tujuan, dan konteks melalui pendekatan inklusi, eksklusi, serta representasi untuk mengetahui netralitas dan keberpihakan Fajar Cirebon terhadap calon presiden. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif. Data penelitian ini bersumber dari Fajar Cirebon edisi November 2018–Januari 2019 terbitan Senin sampai Jumat setiap minggunya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Fajar Cirebon merupakan surat kabar yang netral dan tidak berpihak karena menyajikan berita tentang semua pasangan calon presiden. The public wants accurate, actual, and factual information, especially about politics and government in Indonesia. However, there are still news papers which only preachone political party or side with one political party or partycadre. Related to this, there is a need for research on the neutrality and partiality of Fajar Cirebon through political news in the month leading up to the Indonesian President's election. This study analyzes the news not only in terms of its meaning, but also in terms of the purpose, purpose, and context of using the approach of inclusion, exclusion, and representation to determine the neutrality and partiality of Fajar Cirebon towards presidential candidates. This study uses a qualitative research approach. The data in this study are sourced from the November 2018–January 2019 edition of Cirebon, published Monday through Friday eachweek. The results of the study show that Fajar Cirebon is a neutral and impartial newspaper because presents news not only about one of the pairs of presidential candidates.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Dahlborg ◽  
Ellinor Tengelin ◽  
Elin Aasen ◽  
Jeanne Strunck ◽  
Åse Boman ◽  
...  

PurposeThe paper aims to compare and discuss the findings of discursive constructions of patients in legal texts from the three Scandinavian countries. Since traditional welfare state systems in Scandinavia are being challenged by new governance systems, new questions are being raised about patient positions and agency, carrying with them potential ethical dilemmas for healthcare professionals.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology of the paper is inspired by critical discourse analysis. Comprehensively analysing the findings of previous discourse studies on how “the patient” is constructed in central policy texts, this study compares the position of the patient in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.FindingsThe paper reveals ideological struggles across the Scandinavian countries, operating at a political level, a legislative level and a healthcare level. It is shown that national governance systems still exert hegemonic power by strongly influencing patients' degree of choice and autonomy. The discursive struggle between welfare state governance and other governance systems in Scandinavia indicates a shift towards a commercial healthcare market although a traditional welfare model is advocated by professionals and researchers.Research limitations/implicationsBecause of the specific conditions of Scandinavian healthcare policy, the findings lack generalisability. The research approach should therefore be explored further in additional contexts.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study can inform policymakers, professionals and patients of the ideological values underlying seemingly objective shifts in national policy.Originality/valueA comparative critical discourse analysis can expose patterns in the Scandinavian approaches to patient rights.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Wizesa Nadewa Wasisrosa ◽  
Mochamad Aviandy

<p><em>Abstrak</em> – <strong>Artikel </strong><strong>Penelitian ini membahas representasi pengguna narkoba berdasarkan lirik lagu </strong><strong><em>Иуда</em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong><strong>(<em>Iuda</em>) milik rapper Rusia bernama Dmitry Kuznetsov atau Husky. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menjawab perumusan masalah perihal penemuan aspek yang merepresentasikan pengguna narkoba di Rusia berdasarkan lirik lagu <em>Iuda</em> pada periode pemerintahan Vladimir Putin di tahun 2012 hingga 2018. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode tiga dimensi analisis wacana kritis milik Norman Fairclough yang meliputi; analisis teks, praktik diskursif, dan praksis sosial-budaya. Kemudian peneliti menggunakan teori representasi Stuart Hall untuk melengkapi artikel penelitian ini. Melalui teori tersebut, ditemukan makna dari kalimat-kalimat tersirat yang merepresentasi pengguna narkoba yang diwakili oleh ketiga tokoh di dalam lirik tersebut, yaitu <em>Ja</em>, <em>Vy</em>, dan <em>Ty</em>. Hasil penelitian ini membuktikan bahwa ketiga tokoh tersebut merupakan representasi pengguna narkoba. Hal ini menyebabkan pemerintah Rusia turun tangan dalam musik rap Rusia dengan cara mengendalikannya.</strong></p><p><em>Abstract</em> – <strong>This research examines the representation of drug users based on the lyrics of the song named <em>Iuda</em> by Russian rapper, Dmitry Kuznetsov. This research aims to discover the aspects that represent drug users in Russia based on the lyrics named <em>Iuda</em> in the period of Vladimir Putin's rule from 2012 to 2018. This research uses a three-dimensional critical discursive analysis method of Norman Fairclough's which includes; text analysis, discursive practices, and socio-cultural praxis. Then to complete this research, the researcher uses Stuart Hall’s representation theory. Through this theory, discovered the meanings of the implied sentences that represent drug users are represented by the three characters in the lyrics, there are <em>Ja,</em> <em>Vy</em>, and <em>Ty</em>. The results of this research prove that the three characters are drug user representations which resulted in the Russian government intervening in Russian rap music by controlling it.</strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong> - Critical Discourse Analysis; Rap; Representation; Song; Music</p>


Author(s):  
Albert Guziak

The aim of this article is to find out what the status of English, currently the primary working language within the EU institutions, might look like once the United Kingdom leaves the EU structures. To that end, this paper will analyse a selection of press articles. Although the manner in which the so-called Brexit will take place is still uncertain, a diverse range of opinions and prognostications on what will happen to English is being expressed publicly, taking into consideration many factors (political, sociological and purely linguistic) which may contribute to a possible scenario or scenarios. This article does not lay claim to submitting any firm or reliable vision of the future as none such exists elsewhere. This paper intends to analyze some discursive strategies employed by the authors of the articles to place the discussed subject into a discursive framework by using tools of critical discourse analysis which mainly focus on the relation of power and language.


Widyaparwa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-229
Author(s):  
Dian Lestari ◽  
Sulis Triyono

This study aims to describe the representation in the case of a woman in the discourse of SEA GAMES gymnastics athlete who was sent back home because of a virginity issue that was published by Kompas.com on the 29th of  November, 2019. The discourse is a hot topic because it raises the pros and cons. Besides social context, this study also describes the structure of the text consisting of macrostructure, superstructure, and microstructure. The research approach uses critical discourse analysis by Van Dijk. The results of this study indicate that the news text has a main topic, namely the violation againts feminist values. The superstructure of the news text consists of an introduction, main text, and concluding part. Kompas.com through the micro structure chooses to use various diction in delivering news. In addition to diverse diction, the text is also built with cohesion and coherence to unify the meaning of discourse. The social context built by Kompas.com in this discourse, especially in representing womanis the persecution of women (gender bias) and professional violations of a person.Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk memaparkan representasi perempuan dalam wacana atlet senam SEA GAMES dipulangkan karena tidak perawan yangdiberitakan pada Kompas.com pada 29 November 2019. Wacana tersebut merupakan wacana yang sedang hangat diperbincangkan karena menimbulkan pro dan kontra di kalangan masyarakat. Selain konteks sosial, penelitian ini juga mendeskripsikan struktur teks berita yang terdiri atas struktur makro, superstruktur, dan struktur mikro. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan analisis wacana kritis model Van Dijk. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa teks berita mempunyai topik utama, yakni pelanggaran nilai-nilai feminisme. Selanjutnya, superstruktur teks berita terdiri atas pendahuluan, inti teks, dan penutupan berita. Kompas.com melalui struktur mikro memilih untuk menggunakan berbagai macam diksi dalam menyampaikan berita. Selain diksi yang beragam, teks dibangun dengan piranti kohesi dan koherensi untuk menyatukan makna wacana. Konteks sosial yang dibangun Kompas.comterutama dalam merepresentasikan perempuan pada wacana tersebut adalah adanya penindasan terhadap perempuan (bias gender) serta pelanggaran profesionalitas suatu oknum.


2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Maria Aparecida Resende Ottoni ◽  
Monithelli Aparecida Estevão de Moura

Apresentamos resultados parciais de uma pesquisa, na qual analisamos a representação discursiva da indisciplina escolar em gêneros publicados em duas revistas de circulação nacional, voltadas para professores, e em duas voltadas para leitores em geral. Para isso, apoiamo-nos nos pressupostos teóricos da Análise de Discurso Crítica. Os resultados mostram que as vozes dos alunos e de seus responsáveis não são incluídas nos textos. Quanto à voz dos professores, ela é incluída apenas nas revistas voltadas para leitores em geral. Contudo, na maioria das ocorrências, colabora para a construção de uma representação identitária enfraquecida desses atores sociais. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Indisciplina Escolar. Representação. Intertextualidade. Interdiscursividade. Análise de Discurso Crítica. ABSTRACT We present the partial results of a study, in which we examine the discursive representation of school indiscipline in two genres published in two national magazines for teachers, and in two magazines made for readers in general. For this, we apply the theoretical assumptions of Critical Discourse Analysis. The results show that the voices of students and their parents are not included in the texts. In relation to the voice of teachers, it is included only in magazines made for readers in general. However, in most instances, it collaborates to construct a weakened identity representation for these social actors.KEYWORDS: School Indiscipline. Representation. Intertextuality. Interdiscursivity. Critical Discourse Analysis.


Author(s):  
Pavlichenko I.V.

The purpose of the study is to examine, investigate and analyse the implied meanings in police interrogation discourse from the perspective of the role markers of participants in communication (a police officer and an interrogated person) at the stage of pre-trial interrogation. The following research methods have been applied in the study: pragmatic and semantic analyses including the concepts of “face” and “politeness”, methods of identification of conversational implicatures to describe pragmatic indices of communicative roles; in the format of discursive analysis a special place belongs to the study of elements of the method of critical discourse analysis to identify patterns of planning and course of interrogation discourse given the factors of institutional, interpersonal and psychological contexts; elements of the method of conversational analysis of discourse to determine such parameters as paired opposing roles, relevant and preferential / non-preferential role positions. The results of the work show that the roles of an investigator and an interrogated person in the discourse of pre-trail investigation are presented in the explicit and implicit ways. The markers of the communicative role of an investigator and an interrogated person depend on the degree of implicitness or explicitness of their presentation in the interrogation. From the analysis we can conclude that the roles are most explicitly marked by lexical means reinforced by adverbs-intensifiers. Non-preferential roles of an investigator (implicit and explicit ones) at the pre-trial stage of investigation require verbal means to mitigate the ‘threat’ of the respondent (indefinite pronouns, modal verbs, idiomatic expressions that reduce the categorical nature of the accusation). More implicit presentation of communicative roles of a police officer and an interrogated person cause the use of nominalization and double negation and is a weakened kind of statement. Implicit forms of expression of the communicative roles of an interrogated person are marked by various means of syntactic and semantic-syntactic levels.Key words: discourse of pre-trial investigation, interrogation, communicative role, implicature, presupposition. Мета статті – вивчити, дослідити і проаналізувати імпліцитні значення в дискурсі поліцейського допиту на етапі досудово-го слідства з точки зору маркерів ролей учасників спілкування (слідчого та допитуваного). Матеріалом дослідження слугували транскрипти допитів на етапі досудового слідства США і Великої Британії, отримані методом суцільної вибірки. У роботі були застосовані такі методи дослідження: прагматичний та семантичний аналіз, включаючи концепти «обличчя» та «ввічливість», методи ідентифікації конверсаційних імплікатур для опису прагматичних показників комунікативних ролей; у форматі дис-курсивного аналізу особливе місце належить дослідженню елементів методу критичного аналізу дискурсу для виявлення закономірностей планування та перебігу дискурсу допиту з урахуванням факторів інституційного, міжособистісного та психо-логічного контекстів; елементи методу конверсаційного аналізу дискурсу для визначення таких параметрів, як парні зустрічні ролі, релевантні і преференційні / непреференційні рольові позиції, а також для з’ясування структуростворювального потенці-алу зміни комунікативних ролей в розвитку сценарію допиту. Результати дослідження показують, що ролі слідчого та допи-туваного в дискурсі досудового слідства можуть бути представлені експліцитно і імпліцитно. У результаті аналізу матеріалу ми приходимо до висновку, що маркери комунікативних ролей слідчого та допитуваного залежать від ступеня експліцитності й імпліцитності їх представлення у дискурсі допиту. Аналіз показав, що ролі найбільш чітко позначені лексичними засобами і прислівниками інтенсифікаторами. Непреференційні ролі слідчого (імпліцитні та експліцитні) на етапі досудового розслі-дування вимагають лінгвістичних засобів для мітігації «загрози» допитуваному (неозначені займенники, модальні дієслова, ідіоматичні вирази, що зменшують категоричність звинувачення). Більш імпліцитне програвання комунікативних ролей слід-чого та допитуваного вимагає використання номіналізації (зокрема, герундія) та подвійного заперечення і є ослабленим видом твердження. Імпліцитні форми вираження комунікативних ролей допитуваної особи відзначаються різноманітними засобами синтаксичного та семантико-синтаксичного рівнів. Ключові слова: дискурс допиту, досудове слідство, комунікативна роль, імплікатура, пресупозиція.


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