scholarly journals Informalization in UK party election broadcasts 1966-97

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Party Leader ◽  
General Increase ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Margaret Thatcher ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Made In

This article uses a novel, quantitatively based method to assess the extent to which UK party election broadcasts in the 31 years between 1966 and 1997 became more ‘informal’. Using the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, I identify 28 linguistic ‘markers’ which are salient in the assessment of formality, and count their frequencies in the 37,000-word corpus. My quantitative findings reveal a general increase in informalization over time, which corresponds with judgements made in critical discourse analysis (CDA). But I also discover an anomaly in the broadcasts from 1987, which I explain with reference to the influence of the Conservative party leader, Margaret Thatcher.

Proselytism and Ostentation: a Critical Discourse Analysis of the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law on Religious Symbols

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 162-188
Author(s):  
Giulia Evolvi ◽  
Mauro Gatti
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
European Court ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article focuses on the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) case law about religious symbols (N=27) from 2001 to 2018, exploring the following questions: What discourses does the ECtHR employ in cases about religious symbols? How do ECtHR’s discourses about religious symbols evolve in time? The data is innovatively analyzed through critical discourse analysis and leads to two findings: first, the ECtHR tends to endorse ‘Christian secularism,’ considering Christian symbols as compatible with secularism but not Muslim symbols; second, ECtHR discourses occasionally become more favorable to Muslim applicants over time, but the evolution of case law is not linear.

American Vogue and Sustainable Fashion (1990–2015): A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-118
Author(s):  
Katie Baker Jones
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Product Features ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Sustainable Fashion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Over Time

Discursive practices employed by American Vogue to recontextualize sustainable fashion between 1990 and 2015 were explored through the lens of a discourse-historical approach and multimodal critical discourse analysis. References to sustainably minded values and actions were found throughout the 26 years studied with notable peaks and valleys in coverage that, at times, contradicted changing social interest in the subject. Over time, Vogue recontextualized sustainable fashion discourses and encouraged a passive revolution by moving from a contentious positioning of either/or sustainable fashion to one that embraced a both/and positionality by narrowing focus to lifestyle and product features. Additionally, Vogue celebrated social actors engaged in sustainable behaviors though these were increasingly positioned as lifestyle choices rather than revolutionary collective action. Vogue continuously recontextualized the sustainable fashion discourse as “new” and desirable while neutralizing most negative considerations of fashion consumption through a variety of articulations and by drawing on well-established semiotic resources.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing “Race” and Racism in Health Disparities Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Vanidestine
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Over Time

Critically analyzing how language and discourse influence health policy agendas to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities (REHD) supports social work’s commitment to address oppression and marginalization. Various institutions construct health policy agendas regarding REHD without explicitly conceptualizing terms such as “race,” “racism,” “African American/Black,” “Latino/a,” “Asian,” and “White”, and their relationship to racialized health outcomes. However, there is limited research examining the inherent ideologies and meaning related to racial concepts, which rely heavily on conveying historical influences through discourse over time. The purpose of the current qualitative study is to explore how policy initiatives to address REHD conceptualized “race” and racism. By employing grounded theory (GT) and critical discourse analysis (CDA), the study examined the discourse underpinning city, state, and national policy agendas to eliminate REHD. The study’s findings highlighted how terminology, assigned meanings, and ideology are replicated over time to reproduce a non-critical analysis of “race” and racism. The resulting implications suggest that conceptualizing “race” void of understanding differential racial health outcomes as racism omits the structural, historical, and ethical characteristics of racial concepts. Within health disparities discourse, the meanings assigned to “race” and racism ultimately influence which interventions are identified to address REHD.

scholarly journals It’s Raining Immigrants! HELLelujah!: The Metaphors of Immigration in Early American Magazines (1828–1959)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Rogos-Hebda
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
Early American ◽  
The Times ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Over Time

Stemming from a conviction that the same phenomenon can be construed differently by different cognisers, metaphors used “reflect[ing] and effect[ing] underlying construal operations which are ideological in nature” (Hart 2011, 2), the present paper investigates how the conceptualisation and linguistic construction of IMMIGRANTS changed over time, forwarding a convenient representation of reality. To that end, the study marries the Cognitive Linguistic approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (Charteris-Black 2004; Hart 2010; 2011; 2015) with the multifactorial usage-feature analysis (Glynn 2010). The results have shown that in the times of increased migration IMMIGRANTS were objectified, their otherness foregrounded through appropriate discursive strategies and topoi. Curbing immigration in later periods contributed to an observable shift in the linguistic representation of the immigrant out-group.

scholarly journals JUDGING THE ONLINE JUDGES: THE TWO #METOO CASES IN HONG KONG

2021 ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Chris Y. H. Tsui
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Over Time

On November 30, 2017, Hong Kong track athlete Vera Lui posted a photo on Facebook marked with the #MeToo hashtag and described an experience of being sexually assaulted. Three days later, Hong Kong actress Louisa Mak published a similar #MeToo post on her Facebook page. While both posts, especially Lui’s, initially received many supportive comments, over time, the comments became negative and victim-blaming. Since these incidents, no other Hong Kong celebrities have risked revealing their experiences to respond to the #MeToo Movement. In this paper, I analysed the first 500 comments posted on each of the posts using qualitative content analysis and critical discourse analysis. The results reveal the practice of online judging that inhibits the disclosure of cases of sexual assault. The paper further describes the interplay between online judging and selective law enforcement by the Hong Kong Police, which has been a persistent issue in Hong Kong.

Institutional power in and behind discourse

Target ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meifang Zhang ◽  
Hanting Pan
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Made In

This article takes a critical approach to the study of the SARS notices and their translations from the perspective of discourse analysis. Drawing upon the insights of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study explores how language is used by different governmental institutions in shaping their social power and hierarchy. By conducting a comparative study of the SARS notices and their translations, focusing on speech roles, speech functions, modality types and modality orientation, the authors argue that choices made in producing the texts reflect the institutions’ social roles and their relationship with each other and with the audience. They also argue that the application of concepts from SFL in detailed text analysis and from CDA in the overall discussion may better reveal how different models of discourse analysis can supplement each other and be applied to translation studies.

‘Weekends became something other people did’: Understanding and intervening in the habitus of video game crunch

2020 ◽  
pp. 135485652091386
Author(s):  
Amanda C. Cote ◽  
Brandon C. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Over Time

‘Crunch’ – a period of unpaid overtime meant to speed up lagging projects – is a common labor practice in the video game industry and persists despite many costs to developers. To understand why, we conducted a critical discourse analysis of Game Developer magazine (2000–2010) to explore how industry members perceive and discuss gamework (1) in a publication for developers, by developers and (2) during the first decade in which serious conversations about labor emerge in the games industry. Our analysis found that many gameworkers treat crunch as ‘inevitable’ due to three specific themes: games as an unmanageable creative industry, an anti-corporate ethos, and a stereotypical developer identity based on passion and perfectionism. These constructions – combined with the industry’s project-based nature and cultures of passion and secrecy – build crunch into the habitus of gamework, helping reproduce exploitative labor practices. However, habitus can and does change over time, providing interested employees, companies, and labor organizers a means to intercede in existing work practices. We suggest a multipronged intervention that could build a healthier, more sustainable habitus of gamework.

scholarly journals Danish job advertisements: Increasing in complexity

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Walters ◽  
Antoinette Fage-Butler
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Job Advertisements ◽  
Over Time

Although job advertisements have developed to incorporate an important array of functions, they are not well understood and there has been little documentation of evolution in the genre (Rafaeli & Oliver; 1998, 342). The purpose of this article is to address this gap by analysing changes in the genre over time, in this way revealing the background for current practice. Examples of Danish job advertisements for communication positions from 1961, 1991 and 2011 are analysed using Critical Discourse Analysis, and a rich format for job advertisements is developed on the basis of the findings of the analysis and existing theory. The results are likely to be of interest to producers of job advertisements who want a broader knowledge of how this genre with its increasingly complex functionality has evolved and for whom genre features of contemporary job advertising practice is relevant. 

scholarly journals NETIZEN COMMENTS ON PRESIDENT JOKO WIDODO’S INSTAGRAM POST: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Nurbani Syifa ◽  
Didin Nuruddin Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Made In

Social criticism is one form of communication in the society that aims or functions as a control of the course of a system or process of society.  Instagram has been perceived as one of the most popular social media today. One of the focuses of this research is on one of the photos that President Joko Widodo brought up in his Instagram account. The study aims to examine how the form of social criticism delivered by netizens made in the comments column uploaded by President Joko Widodo. This study employed a qualitative approach to analysis. The data analysis technique used in this study was based on the theory put forward by Teun A Van Dijk’s Critical Social Discourse Analysis. The results of this study found the the background and knowledge of social netizens regarding Jokowi's presidential in the vocabularies of the comments they wrote, and their comments that stimulated other comments from other netizens.

Is Trump always rambling like a fourth-grade student? An analysis of stylistic features of Donald Trump’s political discourse during the 2016 election

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaqin Wang ◽  
Haitao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Discourse Analysis ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Campaign Speeches ◽  
Over Time

During the 2016 election, Donald Trump was characterized by his simple, pompous and repetitive language. However, studies have shown that sometimes he does not speak the way he used to. Critical discourse analysis suggests that political discourse analysis should include both the characterization of the text and the systematic description of the context. Thus, this study intends to evaluate stylistic features of Donald Trump’s political discourse based on the evolution over time as well as the genre variation by employing a comparison between Obama, Clinton and Trump. Results show that in debates, Trump uses less diverse vocabulary and simpler sentences. In campaign speeches, nonetheless, along with the change of circumstances, he sometimes employed a richer vocabulary and well-edited sentences. In addition, Trump’s speeches contain relatively more central themes in his campaign speeches. His concentration on political themes may meet key interests of a large proportion of electorates.

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