scholarly journals Police interview of suspects in China: Developments and analyses

2020 ◽  
pp. 146135572094754
Author(s):  
Fanjing Zeng ◽  
Ching-Yu Huang ◽  
Ray Bull
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Police Interviews ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Chinese Police ◽  
Power Position

This article investigates the power dynamics in police interviews with suspects in China by examining a real-life sample. It first overviews some recent developments and legislation in China regarding police interviewing of suspects, followed by outlining the linguistic and psychological research upon which the analyses are based. The interviews are examined using critical discourse analysis that reveals the high-power position of the Chinese police in suspect interviews. However, the large proportion of open questions found in the interviews is encouraging, as this suggests that regulations outlawing use of evidence obtained by torture or other illegal means are taking effect. This article is the first to empirically examine actual Chinese police interviews with suspects, providing valuable insights for theories and practice.

Using corpus linguistic techniques in (critical) discourse studies reduces but does not remove bias: Evidence from an Arabic corpus about refugees

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad S. Haider
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
Statistical Measures ◽  
Discourse Studies

Abstract Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) investigates the relationship between language, power, and society. Corpus linguistics (CL) is the study of language based on examples of real life language use. Over the last two decades, various scholars have combined some approaches and notions of CDA with the analytical framework of CL to examine the representation of several phenomena in relatively large texts. This study follows a corpus-assisted (critical) discourse analysis approach to investigate a 2.5 million word corpus of Arabic news articles by Jordan’s News Agency (PETRA). It demonstrates how some researchers following this approach may make some decisions, at some stages of their analysis, which are likely to affect their findings. These potential decisions may include selecting what statistical measures to use, what threshold to consider, what terms from the frequency, cluster, and collocation results to further investigate, which concordance lines to include in their study, and some others. In this study, I argue that some of these decisions can be made to suit the researchers’ preconceived assumptions and pre-existing hypotheses. The study concludes that using corpus linguistic techniques to discursively analyze large data reduces but not completely removes researchers’ bias.

scholarly journals Politicotainment: Fictionalizing Politics in Pakistani Cinema

2017 ◽  
Vol II (I) ◽  
pp. 273-288
Author(s):  
Haleema Khalid ◽  
Muhammad Shahbaz ◽  
Behzad Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political System ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
Language Discourse ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

This article aims to investigate Maalik, Pakistani political thriller as the product of ‘politicotainment’, a genre combining politics and entertainment. Keeping in view the nexus of politics, media and language, Discourse Historical Approach from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis with a particular focus on media, discourse, and society is employed. Maalik, is exceptional movie because it is explicitly related to real life socio-political and socio-cultural events of Pakistan; its focus on social and political issues such as exploitation of power and corrupt political system shifts the focus towards the ownership of Pakistan and accepting responsibilities. Therefore, the film connects the emerging political discourse in Pakistan with the rising public pulse against corruption and call for accountability. This research provides insights regarding the discursive construction of contemporary Pakistani narrative in the time of national crisis in order to reveal the projected and recontextualized norms in the context of Pakistan.

scholarly journals Critical information consumption and textbooks used in teacher preparation programs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Courtney K. Smith-Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Teacher Preparation Programs ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Critical Information

Critical information literacy (CIL) and critical information consumption (CIC) are essential skills and habits of minds for pre-service teachers to develop as they prepare to educate future generations. The purpose of this critical discourse analysis was to investigate ways in which introductory teaching or pedagogy textbooks used in public universities' teacher preparation programs facilitate (or decline to facilitate) the direct and indirect application of CIL/CIC skills. Specifically, textbooks were evaluated on their (1) direct and indirect philosophical and epistemological discussion; (2) direct discussion of evaluating sources of information; (3) attention to power dynamics, biases, ideologies, and underlying assumptions in media and scholarly work; and (4) use of buzzwords and/or epistemically suspect statements. Findings were based on inductive analysis of emergent themes and suggest that there are key features of a text that indicate how CIL/CIC-favorable a work may be. These features include questioning, linguistic granularity, presenting strengths and criticisms of prominent paradigms, attending to power asymmetries in the classroom, and making explicit the hidden or implied messages in educational settings.

scholarly journals Trespassing a fusion of linguistic applications

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Mahvish Nisar ◽  
Samia Nisar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Code Mixing ◽  
Mixed Approach

This research paper aims to explore the cultural, political, and social realities of Pakistan in Uzma Aslam Khan’s novel Trespassing. The ethnic conflicts which engulfed Karachi in the 1990s in the aftermath of the Afghan War and Gulf War are also depicted. Mixed approach has been used as a tool in order to highlight different aspects of real life presented in the novel. These approaches are critical discourse analysis, punctuation as prosody of language, code mixing, and color semiotics. Code mixing in the novel gives a glaring picture of Pakistani culture and traditional values at the major level by the use of Urduised words. The application of critical discourse analysis in Trespassing reveals the political unrest, corruption, fantasy for America, individualism and ethnic conflicts which swamped the whole country. The prosody of punctuation illustrates the hidden meanings of the sentences more explicit thus making the societal issues more protuberant. The prosody is concerned with the semantic meaning rather than rhetorical meaning. Color semiotics of both eastern and western culture also objectified and presented a more comprehensive vision of the culture, ideas, and feelings in the novel. Trespassing is a book which is realistic and in all sense an essence of Pakistan and its people.

scholarly journals A Policy Shift from State to Non-state in Education Aid: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the UK’s Development Policies

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thu Ya Aung ◽  
Rolf Straubhaar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Quality Education ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Policy Shift

Due to the historically outsized influence of the United Kingdom’s development assistance office on international aid, a better understanding of the underlying ideologies and political priorities guiding this agency would help the larger aid community more clearly understand the power dynamics and structural context of the development industry. However, these ideologies and dynamics are often left implicit and are not always easily understood. The purpose of this article is to use critical discourse analysis to unpack the ideologies, political priorities and power dynamics present in DfID’s official education policy documents. In so doing, we make the implicit explicit, and begin to unpack the implicit meanings and assumptions that are present in these written texts, particularly regarding the deprioritized role of the state in providing a high-quality education. We argue that this analysis reveals an underlying perception within DfID that the private sector is more effective at providing public education in developing countries than the public sector.

Analysis of Speeches by the Former President of the US, Barack Hussein Obama, Regarding the Middle East and Northern Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Alelign Aschale Wudie
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
World Power ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa

The main intention in this article is to critically analyze the ex-president Barack Obama's speeches regarding the Middle East and (North) Africa and see how US-America, Middle East, and Africa are framed in political ideologies. Data is collected from the four speeches delivered by the ex-president of the USA in different places and settings. The data is analyzed using critical discourse analysis (CDA). The findings revealed that political ideology sleeplessly aspires to safeguard the interests of America and her “true” allies to sustain their world power and to suppress the “others” in the counterfeit names of tolerance, engagement, aid and support, democracy and freedom, knowledge-driven economy, peace and security, etc., that targets the younger generation. Contemporary pretexts and extensions have been done with discourse manipulations and real-life interventions.

The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 095792652110487
Author(s):  
Tian Xiang Lan ◽  
Gene Segarra Navera
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Dietary Restrictions ◽  
Halal Food ◽  
The Government ◽  
Mainstream Culture

Adopting the Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, this study investigates the ideology reflected by the anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China, the power dynamics revealed by such discourse and how social media discourse differs from and utilises the government discourse. Four ways to disguise the anti-Muslims, anti-Islam prejudice are investigated: appealing to patriotism to demand cultural assimilation; claiming to defend secularism; framing Islam as incompatible with mainstream culture; appealing to consumer rights to reject halal food. Non-Muslims and assimilated Muslims (especially the elites) are found to have the prerogative to dictate who belong to the ingroup, what dietary restrictions are legitimate and whom to blame when undesirable situations arise, while Muslim non-elites are at the receiving end of such dictates. This study also argues that social media discourse expresses antagonism of higher intensity than the government discourse does, and may misappropriate the official narratives to express the interlocutor’s hatred towards Muslims.

Discursive representations of domestic helpers in cyberspace

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-63
Author(s):  
Janet Ho
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Discursive Representations

This study investigates the online narratives Hong Kong employers construct around foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) and aims to compensate for the existing gap in discursive research and mainstream media, which tend to focus on the perspective of FDHs. It examines how employers portrayed FDHs both positively and negatively, as well as how they represented themselves in online environments. Critical discourse analysis was used to analyse more than 2000 Facebook posts on the subject of FDHs, identifying discursive strategies used in constructing both power dynamics and identities. The findings revealed that nomination strategies dominated the discourse, constructing both the in- and out-group identities of FDHs. Other strategies, such as predication and augmentation, showed how employers portrayed themselves as opportunity-givers and food critics, which further contributed to the inferior self-perception of FDHs. The study concludes that employers have developed a sense of ideological ambivalence, in which they perceived FDHs as motherly figures while simultaneously maintaining their superior status.

National Proxy 2.0

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Finlay
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Social Construction Of Technology ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
London 2012

The affordances of social media technologies increasingly allow Olympians to directly communicate with global audiences. Olympians can thus become more powerful autonomous discursive actors, threatening traditional Olympic power dynamics that have protected lucrative Olympic media streams. And yet, Olympians have yet to use social media technology to fully exercise their autonomy. This article adopts a social construction of technology lens within a larger critical discourse analysis framework to analyze the reticent behavior of social media–enabled Olympians. It is suggested that their social media voices are constrained by a powerful set of obligations to their nation-state. These obligations can be understood as ritualistic deep play national proxy identifications, which are constructed and reinforced by Olympic policies and practices, as well as larger sociocultural contextual factors. This argument is explicated through an analysis of Olympics policy documents and case studies from the first two Olympiads, where social media had a major impact: the London 2012 Games and the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.

Imag(in)ing the Nation

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 645-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Teo ◽  
Cui Ruiguo
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Concrete Image

This article focuses on the discursive construction of national identity through a National Day Rally speech delivered by Singapore’s Prime Minister in 2010. Inspired by the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis and using methods developed by Halliday and van Leeuwen, it offers a close analysis of the speech, which uncovers patterns related to the type, extent and effects of various agentive roles attributed to the country, government and people of Singapore. Macro-discursive strategies like the use of specific references and real-life anecdotes calculated to reify the success of the Singapore ‘brand’ and inspire Singaporeans are also discussed. Through this multi-layered analysis, the article demonstrates how discourse transforms an imagining of Singapore’s nationhood into a concrete image of what Singapore is and what being a Singaporean is all about.

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