Articulating Geoengineering: Identifying an Understanding of Geoengineering Technology Through the Crutzen +10 Special Issue Forum

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-339
Author(s):  
Megan E. Cullinan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Good Science ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Articulation Theory ◽  
Research Questions

This article explores intertextuality, research questions, and arguments scientists use to articulate the legitimacy of geoengineering practices as “good science.” I employ critical discourse analysis to draw out patterns in articles from an invited special forum about the validity of geoengineering technology as a solution to climate change. Articulation theory guides my study of how scientists define what counts as “good science” by analyzing how geoengineering scientists legitimize their research as methodologically strong and beneficial to society. This project serves as a first step in clarifying how scientific debate influences broader circles and the potential social impacts of these debates.

scholarly journals Metaphors in climate discourse: an analysis of Swedish farm magazines

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. A01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Therese Asplund
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change ◽  
Positive Impacts

This article examines communicative aspects of climate change, identifying and analysing metaphors used in specialized media reports on climate change, and discussing the aspects of climate change these metaphors emphasize and neglect. Through a critical discourse analysis of the two largest Swedish farm magazines over the 2000–2009 period, this study finds that greenhouse, war, and game metaphors were the most frequently used metaphors in the material. The analysis indicates that greenhouse metaphors are used to ascribe certain natural science characteristics to climate change, game metaphors to address positive impacts of climate change, and war metaphors to highlight negative impacts of climate change. The paper concludes by discussing the contrasting and complementary metaphorical representations farm magazines use to conventionalize climate change.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address in 2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Ameer Ali ◽  
Mohammad Ibrahim Mohammad Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Collection Method ◽  
American Values ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Historical Model

The current research work is a critical discourse analysis of Donald Trump's Inaugural Address (2017). The researcher has made use of Ruth Wodak’s Discourse Historical Model (2004) to study the inaugural address. Moreover, the current research work is qualitative in its approach and analysis, as it answers the research questions in accordance with Ruth Wodak’s Discourse Historical Model (2004). Furthermore, research design used in this research is both descriptive and explanatory; and, it also contains purposive sampling as a data collection method. Although much CDA research has been already carried out on Trump’s speeches, the current research studies Trump’s speech in the context of history and power using Ruth Wodak’s Discourse Historical Model (2004). The researcher has focused lexical and syntactic items in Trump’s speech. Besides, the researcher has found out that power relations, historical norms, ideological constraints, and American values have played a significant role in the discursive construction of Trump’s Inaugural address (2017). Finally, the current research convincingly achieves its objectives and answers its questions.  

scholarly journals Locating and applying critical discourse analysis within education policy

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Nina Lester ◽  
Chad R. Lochmiller ◽  
Rachael Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Discourse Studies

This article introduces the first of a two-part Special Issue on Discourse Perspectives and Education Policy. This first special issue is focused on critical discourse analysis and education policy. Within this article, we provide a brief overview of discourse analysis generally and critical discourse analysis specifically. We highlight some of the ways in which policy researchers have applied the theories and methods associated with CDA and note the methodological and substantive contributions of this work. Then, we provide an overview of the six papers included within this special issue, noting each paper’s key points and explicit links to policy. We conclude by pointing to future directions for research at the intersection of education policy and discourse studies.

scholarly journals The representation of the Syrian conflict in the Syrian online news: A critical discourse analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 02003
Author(s):  
Kais Amir Kadhim
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
News Agency ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Syrian Conflict ◽  
Foreign Fighters

This study investigates the usage of Syrian media tools in manipulating people’s perception towards the uprising in Syria. The language of the Syrian media is analyzed using a critical discourse analysis. For this purpose, two frameworks are combined: the historical approach by Wodak (2002) and the socio-semantic network of social actors by Van Leeuwen (2008). The study particularly focuses on the way the Syrian government and the rebels are represented in the Syrian online news Cham press which is a pro-government news agency. The two research questions of this study are: (i) What are the referential and predication strategies used by Cham press in reporting the Syrian conflict? (ii) How do these strategies reflect the ideology that surrounds the representation of rebels in the Syrian news? Three hundred and ninety-seven articles were selected from Cham press based on the most relevant keywords. These articles were taken for a period of six months that is from June to October 2012 and May 2013. The study reveals that the Syrian uprising is negatively represented using terms with negative connotations like terrorism, foreign conspiracy, against the law, foreign fighters that are targeting people and responsible for the massacres that happened in the country.

scholarly journals Representation(s) of Developed and Developing Countries in Newspapers’ Coverage of Climate Conferences: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Luu Thi Kim Nhung
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
The Developed Countries

This study critically analysed how developed and developing countries were represented in The Independent and The New York Times’ coverage of the Conferences of the Parties to the UNFCCC between 2004 and 2013. The method of analysis was a qualitative critical discourse analysis in accordance with Fairclough’s (1989) framework with the support of corpus techniques.The research findings showed that there were distinct responsibilities for climate change ascribed to the developed and the developing countries. While the developed countries were represented as being reluctant and indifferent towards their responsibility, the developing countries tended to depend on the developed countries’ support in solving their climate-related problems. During the study period, therefore, no consensus could be reached on a common framework for climate change. The linguistic features of lexical choice, passivisation, nominalisation, modality and metaphor were found ideologically employed in the newspapers’ representations of the countries. Additionally, the ideologies and their linguistic manifestations were influenced by the media’s discursive practices and the wider social context.

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