scholarly journals Chapter 7: Discursive Patterns of Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 229-262
Keyword(s):  
Discursive Patterns

Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa C. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Domestic Practice ◽  
Domestic Design ◽  
Discursive Patterns

This book uncovers a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social, economic and political changes in nineteenth-century London, and investigates the literature that gave expression to their novelty. It brings together visual and literary representations to identify a series of new designs for domestic space that change the way people lived together in the metropolis, including model dwellings, women’s residences, settlement housing and the garden city suburb. It focuses on the ways that language shapes the built environment and domestic architecture in particular, but also attends to the ways that domestic practice shapes discursive patterns and literary representation. It argues that these new designs for urban living responded to shifting perspectives about gender, class and sexuality; but equally, it demonstrates that these innovations in domestic design forged opportunities for refashioning both individual and collective identities. Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London offers readers a new blueprint for understanding the ways in which literature imaginatively and materially produce the city’s built environment. In so doing, it also indicates what resources the nineteenth-century city — and the literature that responded to it — can offer for thinking through the most urgent problems of today’s urban environment environments.

scholarly journals Regional Ideas in International Education Organizations: The Case of SEAMEO

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-237
Author(s):  
David Krogmann
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
International Education ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Player ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Discursive Patterns

AbstractIn Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-78885-8_8, on SEAMEO, David Krogman focuses the attention on regional identities in international education organizations. This IO has been a major player in education policy in Southeast Asia for decades. The chapter explores the underlying themes and ideas which inform discursive patterns produced and reproduced by SEAMEO. How does SEAMEO conceive of education? Did SEAMEO’s image of education evolve over time? The analysis by Krogmann finds that SEAMEO mostly follows the UN’s global sustainable development agenda in education policy, stressing both the social as well as the economic purposes of education. However, it does so with a distinct emphasis on the education purpose of reinforcing the collectively shared values and traditions of its member states, which it deems unique to Southeast Asia.

Hoe gesprekken een participatieproces maken of breken

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Bleijenberg ◽  
Noëlle Aarts ◽  
Reint Jan Renes
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
Participation Process ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Discursive Patterns

A comparative case study into the meaning of conversations between citizens and government on the course and outcome of local participation processes Although the importance of conversations for citizen participation is widely recognized, there is still little insight into the meaning of conversations for participatory processes. This comparative case study provides insight into the discursive patterns that characterize the conversations between citizens, civil servants and other stakeholders in two participatory processes in different municipalities. Our framing-analysis shows how different discursive patterns develop in interaction and how these patterns effect the course and outcome in both participation processes. The results provide insight in how experiences of previous events influence the discursive patterns that participants construct in interaction. It is concluded that in both cases not the nature of the issue, but the way it was discussed and how participants framed this was crucial for the course and outcome of the participation process.

Epilogue: Messner Country

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bainbridge
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
South Tyrol ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Borders ◽  
Discursive Patterns

Disencumbered from their historical conditions and rehashed in different discursive patterns, symbols outlined in the previous chapters re-emerge today in the controversial debate on the cultural heritage of the Dolomites. This debate, critically revived after their inscription in the World Heritage List, subtly exploits these ‘neutral’ symbols when the economy of mass tourism and the internationalization of leisure appear to overshadow ethnic and national divides. Aspects of this most recent recirculation of symbols are presented through fieldwork conducted at the Messner Mountain Museums in South Tyrol. While perfectly aware of crossing multiple ethnic and political borders, Victorian travellers were, instead, mainly concerned with a picturesque version of the Dolomites that was translatable into their own language and heritage.

scholarly journals A Genre-based Study of Insurance Sales Agent-Client Interactions in Transformational China’s Rural Areas

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Weichao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
Operating Mechanism ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Value System ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Recorded Data ◽  
Sales Agent ◽  
Made In ◽  
Discursive Patterns

<p>Based on 10 authentic audio-recorded data, the study aims to explore the dynamics of the insurance sales agent-client interactions in transformational China’s rural areas from a socio-cultural perspective. It sets out from generalizing the specific discursive patterns from moves and steps (Askehave &amp; Swales, 2001; Bhatia, 2005) of the utterances made in the agent-client interactions, governed by communicative purposes. For the first move, warming up, it deserves more attention as it serves crucial functions in the interactions. The paper delineates the different types and functions of warming up, and relates them to the underlying operating mechanism of rural agent-client interactions; another vital move, establishing credentials and trust, has also been analyzed in details, since trust is the pillar stone in the conclusion of insurance sales. Through the analysis, we hope to depict the transforming nature of the modern Chinese rural society, where old and traditional value system has been, for a large part, demolished, while new value system is yet to be established.</p>

Jews and Muslims in contemporary French newspaper discourse (2000–2017)

2020 ◽  
pp. 095715582095202
Author(s):  
Adi Saleem Bharat
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
French Society ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Newspaper Reporting ◽  
Ethnoreligious Identity ◽  
Integrated Or ◽  
Discursive Patterns

Jews and Muslims in France never formed singular communities and never solely or primarily interacted with each other as a function of ethnoreligious identity categories. Rather, their on-the-ground interactions often took place as a function of a variety of other identifications, solidarities, and experiences. Yet, media discourse commonly constructs Jews and Muslims as homogeneous, disparate, and separate communities and their relations as oppositional and troubled. This article examines how Jews and Muslims are relationally defined and constructed in media discourse, focusing on the national dailies Le Monde and Le Figaro. My analysis reveals the discursive patterns that emerge in articles on Jews and Muslims and how these representations implicitly construct ‘Jews’ and ‘Muslims’ and their ‘relations’. In doing so, I make two main arguments about newspaper reporting on Jewish–Muslim relations in France: (1) With some exceptions, Jews and Muslims are constructed as two separate, homogeneous communities and their relations presented as tense and problematic; (2) Jews tend to be presented as fully integrated and their representation is in general positive, while Muslims are more often presented as not fully integrated – or even as at odds with French society and its values – and their representation is, at best, ambiguous and, at worst, negative.

scholarly journals A Semiotic Analysis of Gender Discursive Patterns in Pakistani Television Commercials

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Muhammad Haseeb Nasir
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Television Commercials ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Discursive Patterns

The study is multidisciplinary that ventures into the domains of semiotics, linguistics and cultural studies. Media has become one of the most viable social institutions of disseminating information to a wider audience. It has got power to (re)frame the ideology of larger audience through its visual/linguistic content and to pave the way to social change. The current study aims to investigate the manifestation of gender discursive patterns in the Pakistani television commercials. This study draws its theoretical foundation on the theory of semiotics propounded by Dyer (1982) in her book Advertising as Communication. Semiotics is conceived an appropriate tool for the critical inquiry of the televised commercials because of its wide ranging acceptability and reliability in the meaning making process. Williamson (1978), Dyer (1982) and Jhally (1990) not only recommended but they also practically employed semiotics as a tool of investigation for critically examining the meaning making process in the commercials that enhances the reliability and validity of semiotics as a tool of inquiry. The data for the current study comprises television commercials broadcasted on famous Pakistani television channels. The sampling technique is based on non-probability purposive sampling. The rationale of choosing purposive sampling technique is to include only those commercials which reflect gender representation. The findings of the study highlight that the commercials present layers of meanings via semiotic modes at symbolic level where men and women are displayed in stereotypical manner. The existing gender narratives in the Pakistani commercials subscribes to patriarchal structures. The study presents recommendations about the change in the content of the televised material and also highlights the unexplored avenues which can be brought under considerations by the future researchers.

scholarly journals Graduate Students’ Construction of Researcher Identities Explored Through Discourse Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Amelia Davis ◽  
Jessica N. Lester
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Discussion Board ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Classroom Discussions ◽  
Methods Courses ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Researcher Identity ◽  
Discursive Patterns

While many research methods courses challenge students to make sense of their own researcher identities as they relate to research paradigms and perspectives, there is a lack of research that examines how students actually go about constructing theses identities, particularly at the level of discourse. In this study, we attended to graduate students’ talk in an introductory research methods course, taking note of how students used particular discursive resources to construct a research identity in online classroom discussions. We analyzed 93 discussion posts students were asked to make in response to a discussion board prompt after completing assigned readings related to research paradigms and researcher identity. We identified two discursive patterns through our analysis: 1) minimizing knowledge, and 2) justifying paradigmatic orientations. Our findings highlight how being asked to talk about one’s research identity is a potentially fragile task, as evidenced by disclaimers of ‘knowing’, and one that evokes justifications and connections to students’ everyday lives. We highlight implications for the teaching of research methodology, particularly qualitative methods courses.

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