scholarly journals Who Counts as Trans? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Trans Tumblr Posts

2021 ◽  
pp. 019685992110408
Author(s):  
Kai Jacobsen ◽  
Aaron Devor ◽  
Edwin Hodge
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Positive Identity ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
Trans Youth ◽  
Insight Into

Internet and social media sites have long served as a rich form of community-building and knowledge exchange within transgender communities. In particular, Tumblr has become a popular site among trans youth in recent years. Paralleling changes in medical and mainstream societal understandings of what it means to be transgender, trans Tumblr users have engaged in dialogue and debate about the definitions and limits of trans identity. While research has established the potential for positive identity-formation among LGBTQ+ youth on Tumblr, it is also important to consider how online trans communities may re-inscribe hegemonic narratives in addition to disrupting dominant discourses and ideologies. Using a critical discourse analysis of Tumblr posts, this research analyses how trans Tumblr users define “who counts as trans,” including how users define gender dysphoria and its relationship to trans identities. Our findings provide critical insight into how trans communities define the boundaries of their identities in a struggle for visibility, resources, and respect.

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

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.

The Portrayal of Masculinities in a Kiswahili Novel

2016 ◽  
pp. 388-396
Author(s):  
James Ogola Onyango ◽  
Yasin S. Musa
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
Property Inheritance ◽  
Insight Into

Although the themes of fate and class struggle have been profoundly explored in the critical analyses that have been undertaken on Nyota ya Rehema, however, in Critical Discourse Analysis and Hegemonic Masculinity perspectives, the question of masculinities is no less vital. Therefore, this paper seeks to give a critical insight into varied shades of masculinity that are manifesting in Nyota ya Rehema. Focussing on relevant texts, we uncover the disproportional masculine ideological and power positions that are explicit in sexuality and socio-economic spheres such as marriage, prostitution, employment and property inheritance that depict the disadvantaged position of female characters. The exploration of masculinities in islands Kiswahili novel that has mainly focussed on class struggle may be a welcome departure.

The Legitimating Power of Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-275
Author(s):  
Mustafa Menshawy
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Culturally Embedded

Abstract In this article, I examine a corpus of texts that address the 1973 war; these texts cover the period from 1981 to 2011, marking the beginning and end of Hosni Mubarak’s rule. Utilizing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), I explore how Mubarak’s regime employed the war to legitimize its power and defend its policies by deploying longstanding culturally-embedded ‘macro themes’. These macro themes refer to the war as an overwhelming and undisputed ‘Egyptian victory’ and, more significantly, they portray Mubarak himself as ‘war personified/war personalized’. The analysis of linguistic and extra-linguistic features in al-Ahram newspaper (the mouthpiece of the state), among other media texts on the war, show how the discursive construction was made consistent, coherent and resonant in a managed context that characterized the political and media landscapes. Depending on unique access to those who produced, edited and even censored the texts under analysis, this method unravels a complex set of cultural messages and conventions about the war, and fills a lacuna in the literature by offering insight into the deliberate and well-coordinated process of shaping and reshaping a specific discourse for a specific purpose.

scholarly journals What Do You Mean Your Staff Is Like Family?

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Cranston
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Teacher Behaviour ◽  
Adult Relationships ◽  
Staff Relations ◽  
Insight Into

This article explores the potential for critical discourse analysis to provide insight into the language principals use to describe the adult relationships within schools. Unpacking the discourses of leadership may shed some light on how language strategically shapes the thoughts and actions of principals. In particular, the invoking of “family” to conceptualize staff relations is analyzed from a critical discourse analysis approach. Drawing on this analysis, the author offers cautions regarding how such poignant metaphors can serve as control strategies for sanctioning teacher behaviour.

Convergence

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-147
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
To Come ◽  
Insight Into

Actor network theory as the “sociology of translation,” is used as a lens to examine the chronology of the development of the MOU Agreement, which provides insight into the mechanics of its formation and network of relations. Translation uncovered dimensions of the network's development: why associations between the actors were created, the factors that mobilized these heterogeneous parties to come together. Further, it also uncovered how their functions were ascribed and how stability or “black box” status was achieved. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is positioned as a moment in ANT facilitating the analyses of the network linkages of the MOU actor network assist to identify the interactions at various levels of the MOU social partnership actor network. The two worldviews complement each other within an interpretivist framework revealing the potential to analyse network interactions through the lens of discourse.

scholarly journals Identity Formation and Discourse of Power: A Study of Us, Them and Othering in Nervous Conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Fehmida Manzoor ◽  
Fouzia Rehman Khan
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Historiographic Metafiction ◽  
Official History ◽  
The Voice

This study was designed to trace the deconstruction of authoritative officialized history in fiction through Postmodern Historigraphic Metafiction. Historiographic Metafiction dismantles the metanarrative of official history and raises the voice of silenced subaltern thus generates mininarratives. The study is thus grounded in Postmodern Historiographic Metafictional theory of Linda Hutcheon for investigation of the “subversive strategies” of officialized history and deconstruction of positively accentuated binary of “us” and negatively accentuated binary of “them” in the backdrop of postcolonial literary text Nervous Conditions. Norman Fairclough’s model of Critical Discourse Analysis is taken up as a research method for the analysis of fictionalized historical work under study. Finally, text is analyzed leading to the conclusion of the study. The study shows that fiction unveils the official overriding history and provides new perspectives of untold historical events.

scholarly journals Words, Corpus and Back to Words: From Language to Discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (22) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Miguel Fuster-Márquez ◽  
Moisés Almela
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Lexical Relations ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

The aim of this issue of is to bring together investigation into the lexicon in a variety of languages, in a diversity of manifestations – both at the word level and beyond the word level – and from a variety of perspectives, including not only those which focus on how the vocabulary is internally organized, but also those which deal with the role that lexical units and lexical relations play in the organization of other language levels, particularly in the organization of the discourse. These issues are approached from a variety of perspectives that include not only developments in several disciplines of theoretical and descriptive linguistics, particularly in lexicology, phraseology, word formation, discourse analysis, but also in diverse applied disciplines such as translation, foreign language teaching, English for specific purposes and critical discourse analysis. One of the criteria employed in the compilation of the volume was also the coverage of linguistic diversity. In total, six different languages are investigated in the studies selected in this volume: English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian. Without claiming exhaustiveness, we consider that the variety of contributions presented here offers an insight into the vigour of current corpus research into phenomena related to the lexicon. Admittedly, the full range of topics, approaches and methodologies developed in this area of research could not fit in a single volume, but a careful selection of studies representing a variety of interesting advances can be representative of significant developments taking place in the field.

scholarly journals Implications for equity and diversity of increasing international student numbers in European universities: Policies and practice in four national contexts

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jani Haapakoski ◽  
Karen Pashby
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Student ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Key Questions

This paper examines the main rationales for and possible implications of the policy of increasing international student numbers in higher education (HE). Drawing on critical discourse analysis, we map key themes emerging from two sets of data—university strategy documents and interviews with staff—collected at eight universities in four national contexts in Europe as a part of a larger project focused on ethical internationalism in HE. In our analysis of the data, we apply social cartographic mapping to consider overlapping, competing and absent discourses related to the push to increase international student numbers by using a heuristic developed in the larger project. We found the imperative to increase international student numbers to be largely driven by economic rationales across different national contexts, reflective of a corporatization trend. Where more civic rationales are presented, these discourses are ultimately framed and mediated by neoliberalism. The findings contribute insight into the complicated discursive terrain of internationalising HE. The mapping makes visible what can be taken for granted or is left unexamined. It serves as a jumping-off point for reflection on the policy, practice and research of internationalisation in HE, promoting the formulation of key questions around the assumed benefits and ethics of internationalisation.

scholarly journals Uczeń zdolny w perspektywie dyskursu produkcyjnego. Część II: Świat szkoły

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Astrid Męczkowska-Christiansen ◽  
Kamila Zdanowicz-Kucharczyk
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Talented Students ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Empirical Illustration

The paper is a continuation and, at the same time, an empirical illustration of considerations regarding the production discourse of a talented student with neoliberal provenance (Męczkowska-Christiansen 2018). The presented analyses are embedded in the perspective of critical discourse analysis and include insight into selected school practices of meeting the challenges of gifted education. They used a variety of data, including document analysis and narrative interviews. As a result of the analyses, the school strategies for “dealing” with talented students were highlighted, emphasizing their exploitative dimension.

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