Migrant platformed subjectivity: Rethinking the mediation of transnational affective economies via digital connectivity services

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 787-802
Author(s):  
Earvin Charles Cabalquinto ◽  
Guy Wood-Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Operating Model ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Digital Transactions

This article investigates how commercial and government-based sectors in the Philippines deploy emotive mechanisms to promote the importance of connectivity services in addressing the affective and transnational needs of overseas Filipinos. By combining a walkthrough method with critical discourse analysis, the study compares and contrasts the interface, operating model and mode of governance of three selected case studies in the Philippines: Western Union, LBC Express Inc. and BaLinkBayan. The findings reveal that the emotionalising techniques of connectivity services construct what we call ‘platformed migrant subjectivity’. This conception articulates migrants as economic subjects and valued clientele within the commercial infrastructures and operations of an online platform. In sum, this article takes a nuanced approach to examine how commercial and government institutions utilise online platforms in mobilising emotional, transnational and digital transactions, which may redefine a migrant’s subjectivity, mobility and citizenship in a digital era.

President Duterte’s bicephalous leadership: Populist at home – pragmatic abroad

2020 ◽  
pp. 205789112091200
Author(s):  
Christine B Tenorio ◽  
Patrik K Meyer ◽  
Achmad Nurmandi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Domestic Policies ◽  
At Home

Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippines’ 2016 presidential elections thanks to a well-orchestrated campaign and his populist appeal among Filipinos. Soon after he assumed the presidency, he surprised and upset most of his domestic and western international audiences by pragmatically rejecting the pro-Western approach followed by the previous Aquino administration and adopting a China-friendly one. Adopting Critical Discourse Analysis, this research reveals President Duterte’s bicephalous leadership: populist in domestic policies, and pragmatic but unpopular in foreign relations. To qualitatively describe the dichotomy between the populist and pragmatic nature of Duterte’s leadership, this article surveys the Philippines’ mainstream media from 2016 to 2019. Furthermore, this analysis shows that Duterte is using a defensive neorealist approach in building Philippines-China relations and that Filipinos are willing to consider China as a constructive partner for their country.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI KELUGASAN BERANDA LAMAN WWW.COVID19.GO.ID: TINJAUAN ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS

MIMESIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Irwan Suswandi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
The Government ◽  
Information Providers ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Valid Information

The digital era has encourages information providers to innovate by utilizing the internet to convey information quickly. No exception for the government in a way to provide information and news related to Covid-19 which has become a global pandemic.  Using a website as a source of information can give quick access for people to obtain actual and valid information relating to Covid-19.  Through www.covid19.go.id, the government provides a facility for people to be able to access all information about Covid-19 matters. In this research, the researcher will analyze how government gives simplicity in providing information related to Covid-19, which is represented on the www.covid19.go.id homepage. The researcher used CDA (critical discourse analysis) theory from Fairclough to analyze the text found on the www.covid19.go.id homepage.  Then, the results of critical discourse analysis were linked with the reputation theory of Charles J. Fombrun.  The analysis produced information in the form of language units of www.covid19.go.id homepage which contains a simplicity matter in the delivery of information.  From this analysis, the researcher can conclude that the simplicity in www.covid19.go.id homepage was represented through the website components, content, and propositions contained in the homepage.  The simplicity matter also found in the use of modes, those were descriptive, persuasive, and interrogative mode. 

scholarly journals The Failed Rhetoric: Presupposition Analysis on Duterte’s 5th State of the Nation Address

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Murillo ◽  
Aiden Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Lexical Item ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Presupposition Triggers

Presupposition triggers play a vital role in verbal communication. It is a linguistic element that can be employed in utterances. Language has a significant role too in the communication and interpretation of intentions by analyzing presupposition in political speeches. One example of these is the speech articulated by politicians which often serve as vehicles toward achieving their ultimate goals. This study analyzed the presupposition triggers found in the President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte’s 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA). Data was analyzed using critical discourse analysis (CDA), an approach to cognitively analyze how Duterte communicated his political intentions through the use of presupposition triggers. The results show that his SONA was filled with propositions that were erroneous and ambiguous. One example of his propositions was the frequently used lexical item “rest assured”, i.e., “Rest assured that we will not dodge our obligation to fight for human rights.” This highly contentious statement pertains to the killings and his war on drugs, and other human rights violations that his government is being accused of; a recrimination which alludes to the fact that the human rights crisis in the Philippines has heightened, if not worsened ever since he took office.  This study concludes that the study of presupposition enhances the comprehension of what is being communicated, particularly in political speeches where failed rhetorics could also reflect a failed state.  

MANIFESTATIONS OF POWER AND RESISTENCE: AN EXPLORATION OF QUENTIN TARANTINO'S DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012) AND STEVE MCQUEEN'S 12 YEARS A SLAVE

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-39
Author(s):  
Godknows Chera ◽  
Urther Rwafa
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
Language Interpretation ◽  
Film Images ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Dominant Classes

 This article explores the manifestations of power and resistance in films using Django Unchained (2012), directed by Quentin Tarantino, and 12 Years a Slave (2013), directed by Steve McQueen, as case studies. The research findings suggest that films are texts and terrains that are used to address class structures politically, socially, economically and culturally. Dominant classes use film to produce and reproduce ideologies of power and resistance. The films under scrutiny reflect an aspect of control, whereby conservative superior classes exercise the power to mistreat those who are viewed as ‘second-class citizens’. The argument of this article is that film images are mirrors of the ‘real’ world, where ideological domination is either achieved or resisted. The article deploys eclectic theories like semiotics, Marxism, critical discourse analysis, language interpretation and thematic analysis to analyse the selected films. It is hoped that the approach of these theories will help to investigate the manifestations of power and resistance in films 

scholarly journals Linguistic and Discursive Features of Mining News Discourse in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-193
Author(s):  
Jennifier Tabernero Diamante ◽  
Glenda Doroja Cadiente ◽  
Romualdo Atibagos Mabuan
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mine Drainage ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Local News ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Temporal Space

The Philippines is one of the mineral-rich countries in the world with an estimated US$840 billion worth of untapped mineral wealth, catapulting the mining industry as a significant economic player providing substantial contribution to the national revenue and generating employment opportunities for the Filipino people. However, the detrimental impact of mining to the country has also been heavily criticized as it causes massive potential destruction to environment and wildlife ecology such as acid mine drainage and contaminant leaching, soil erosion, and tailing impoundments among others. These conflicting interests are reflected in the mining discourses stoked or dimmed by media, which influence the readers’ construal of meanings in the mining texts, social actors’ roles in the mining industry, and the urderlying contexts of the mining reality. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, this study described the linguistic and discursive features of Philippine mining discourse in media texts. The study used 224 news articles published by three online portals within five years. Local news reports and peripheral discourses obtained through interviews with local “symbolic elites” in the identified mining communities and other archival documents supplemented the news texts. The UAM Corpus Tool, a software for linguistic tagging, complemented the manual analysis in identifying the social actor theme. Findings revealed that government actions, economic phenomenon, and political actors are the most prevalent themes in the mining news reports. Moreover, results showed that local news tends to focus more on the mining’s environmental impact, whereas the national news tends to put more premium on the mining’s economic impact. This means that the media allotted a much lesser spatio-temporal space for the environment and Indigenous Peoples’ cause. The findings further invalidate the assumptions that mining discourse is primarily concerned with environmental related issues. Keywords sociolinguistics; discourse studies; critical discourse analysis; discourse themes; Philippine mining discourse

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