scholarly journals 'That once romantic now utterly disheartening (former) colliery town': The affective politics of heritage, memory, place and regeneration in Mansfield, UK

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Emery
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Shared Practice ◽  
Urban Futures ◽  
Post Industrial

Abstract This article investigates the affective politics of heritage, memory, place and regeneration in Mansfield, UK. Ravaged by workplace closures from the 1980s, Mansfield's local government and cultural partners have supposedly put heritage at the centre of urban regeneration policies. Principal are ambiguous, and forestalled, ambitions to mobilize the industrial past to build urban futures. Yet these heritages, and their attendant memories and histories, are emotionally evocative and highly contested. The affective politics are played out in the material, embodied and atmospheric remains of the industrial past as Mansfield struggles to make sense of its industrial legacies. Drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis, archival research, observant participation and interview data, this article critiques heritage-based regeneration; examines interrelations between local memory, class, place and history; and interprets tensions between competing imaginaries of what Mansfield is, was and should be. Contributing to work on memory and class in post-industrial towns, the article demonstrates that affect and place should be central to our considerations of heritage-based urban regeneration. In the case of Mansfield, an 'emotional regeneration' will be denied until a shared practice of remembering the affective ruptures of the past is enabled.

Inside the Propaganda Machine of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its Evolution Following the Rise of Islamic State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Bartolucci
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Visual Propaganda

The strategic communication of violent extremist organizations have evolved dramatically in the past few years. This chapter examines the evolution of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in relation to the Islamic State (IS) by showing that the two movements have always had different worldviews and, consequently, very different communicative strategies and discourses. To this end, this chapter presents the results of a detailed analysis of texts produced by AQIM and of an analysis of the visual propaganda of IS both performed through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis.

Are UK music therapists talking past each other? A critical discourse analysis of three book reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Donald Wetherick
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Shared Practice ◽  
Rich Material ◽  
Meta Theory

Ansdell’s ‘Winds of Change’ paper articulated a distinction in UK music therapy between established ‘consensus’ practice drawing on psychotherapeutic principles and developing or previously hidden ‘community music therapy’ practices based on ecological or social-psychological principles. Writing that addresses different theoretical positions in music therapy (meta-theory) exists from European and American perspectives but far less from a UK perspective. This article considers the view that UK music therapy writing in general has continued along one or other of these paths and that there has been relatively little exchange between them; indeed, that UK music therapists tend to ‘talk past each other’. To explore the matter systematically, this article takes a critical discourse analysis approach to analysing three recent music therapy book reviews. Critical discourse analysis was chosen to identify underlying assumptions (‘ideologies’) that shape thinking and practice, as revealed by language use. Book reviews were identified as texts where reviewers typically engage with authors from different perspectives and in doing so offer potentially rich material for such analysis. The analysis identifies ways in which UK music therapy writing shows signs of stress across a divide between ecological and psychodynamic approaches, with reviewers going to some lengths to reconnect these different positions and so unify a discourse within which ‘fault-lines’ are present. It is suggested that, in the United Kingdom at least, ecological and psychodynamic music therapy writing are becoming more separated as discourses, with a lack of integrated meta-theoretical discussion or examples of shared practice. This inhibits coherent development of the discipline and the effective training of future practitioners. A case is made for greater integration in music therapy writing through both developments in meta-theory and by practitioners sharing examples of cross-theoretical practice.

scholarly journals The "Winter of Native Discontent": A critical discourse analysis of Canadian opinion journalism on the Idle No More Movement

COMPASS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Tiffany Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Popular View ◽  
Opinion Journalism

Aboriginal activism has become increasingly subject to media publicity, reflecting a popular view of Aboriginals not only as a social problem but as creating problems that threaten the social fabric. This paper is based on the findings of a critical discourse analysis of a collection of opinion pieces published in The Globe and Mail and the National Post. The contemporary construction of the “Indian problem” was investigated in the context of the Idle No More movement, viewing these texts as part of larger processes of elaboration, articulation, and application of Western ideas on Aboriginal social policy. One of the fundamental conflicts that can be identified in settler discourse is in regard to history and change and a particular concern with how much of the past should be carried into the future. The discontinuous view of history emphasizes the distance of history, making the past seem foreign to the modern, civilized eye. Injustices are presented as characteristics of history, and the violence of colonial times can be disconnected from the present.

scholarly journals Satire as Tool of Political Cartoons in the Nigerian National Dailies: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (29) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Usman Salisu Ogbo ◽  
MomohTairu Nuhu
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Political Cartoons ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Failure

This work is an analysis of the use of satire as a form of imagery to depict some political issues in cartoons as featured in the Nigerian national dailies. Survey method of research design was adopted as a means of sampling copies of national dailies from which political cartoons were selected, while Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was adopted for the analysis of data gathered. Findings reveal images of corruption, official responsibility, political failure and brutality/cruelty/suffering as the dominant concerns of the cartoons featured by the papers. While the corrupt postures of those who have links with the past government are dominant in the image of corruption portrayed, both those in and out of government are subjected to some satiric expose in respect of official responsibility, failure in politics and brutality/cruelty/suffering. At the end, it is recommended, among others, that more searchlight should be focused on the corrupt tendency of those still in power, and that more research efforts be devoted to the use of political cartoons to encourage citizen participation in national discourse.

scholarly journals Discourse Construction by Non-Government Actors in Urban Regeneration Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Zubrzycka-Czarnecka
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Deliberative Governance

Abstract This paper employs critical discourse analysis to examine how Warsaw citizens (residents) perceived and organized the narratives of their participation in the governance of urban regeneration between 2004 and 2016 and how this evolved over that period. The study reveals citizens’ discursive practices, such as the construction of positive and negative identities of the relevant social actors, the binary opposition between ‘us and them’, the development of new interpretations of urban regeneration, and finally, the gradual elaboration of a model of empowered citizenship. Drawing on the concept of democratic urban regeneration policymaking, the research suggests that in the case of Warsaw, one can speak of a shift from a citizen discourse of rebellious participation in non-deliberative governance towards one of more consensual and empowering participation in more deliberative governance.

The retranslation of Chinese political texts

Target ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Pan ◽  
Tao Li
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Communist Party Of China ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Individual

Abstract The past three decades have witnessed an increase in research on retranslation. Drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis, this study examines the retranslation of political texts – specifically Work Reports by the Communist Party of China – as a special genre in its own right. By concentrating on the retranslation of a recurring set of Chinese political concepts, culture-specific items, and preferred usages into English from the early 1990s to the late 2010s, this study shows how and why the retranslations have been carried out, as motivated by the evolving ideologies of the original author – the Communist Party of China. The retranslations are shown to be influenced by the broader social, economic, and political dynamics within China, rather than by prevailing factors within the receiving culture or variables associated with the individual translators, as is commonly suggested in the literature. Our findings add to the existing body of research into retranslation by extending the genres and contexts of retranslation research.

Translating for a healthier gaming industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanting Pan ◽  
Meifang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Gaming Industry ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Sectors ◽  
The Impact

This article conducts a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of keywords and their translations in Macao’s gaming discourse, with an aim to explore the impact of translation on the construction of gaming discourse and the development of the gaming industry in Macao from 1999 to 2011, the first decade following the region’s sovereignty handover. The corpus consists of texts from 2000 to 2011 concerning three public sectors in Macao: local government, academia and the media. The study finds diachronic as well as synchronic changes in the distribution and translation of certain keywords in the corpus. It argues that shifts in the keyword terminology being used, such as from ‘gambling’ to ‘gaming,’ aim at framing the Macao gaming industry in specific social developmental ways. It also argues that translation plays a crucial role in the construction of a new gaming discourse.

scholarly journals ‘Bisexual oysters’: A diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis of bisexual representation in The Times between 1957 and 2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-267
Author(s):  
Mark Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Significant Variation ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
The Past ◽  
British Press ◽  
The Times ◽  
Bisexual People

Recent decades have witnessed an increase in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) visibility in the British media. Increased representation has not been equally distributed, however, as bisexuality remains an obscured sexual identity in discourses of sexuality. Through the use of diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis, this study seeks to uncover how bisexual people have been represented in the British press between 1957 and 2017. By specifically focusing on the discursive construction of bisexuality in The Times, the results reveal how bisexual people are represented as existing primarily in discourses of the past or in fiction. The Times corpus also reveals significant variation in the lexical meaning of bisexual throughout the 60 years in question. These findings contribute to contemporary theories of bisexual erasure which posit that bisexual people are denied the same ontological status as monosexual identities, that is, homosexuality and heterosexuality.

scholarly journals Analisis Wacana Kritis Film Rudy Habibie dalam Meningkatkan Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis Mahasiswa

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-85
Author(s):  
Goziyah Goziyah
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Ideological Attitudes

Discourse analysis has been noticed by several language researchers and educators over the past two decades. This study aims to analyze the use of discourse analysis on film as a medium of learning in improving students' critical thinking skills, especially in learning discourse analysis. Rudy Habibie's film is used as a medium for this analysis. The conceptual framework framework for Fairclough was adopted in this study, with a focus on analyzing meso-level critical discourse. This study explores how discursively formed in the process of production, distribution, and consumption in the film Rudy Habibie. This finding illustrates various behaviors taken from the Rudy Habibie film which aims to express stereotypes, prejudices, hegemony, power, and ideological attitudes. The ideology presented leads the audience through the film's story as a result of text production, distribution, and consumption. Representation contributes to building social strength. Furthermore, this research is believed to have implications for language teaching, especially in discourse analysis. The application of a critical discourse analysis approach in learning makes students able to understand the writer, find meaning and reason about certain writing styles and to enhance their critical thinking.

Playing hard to get: metaphor and representation in the discourse of car advertisements

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Thornborrow
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Linguistic Approaches

In this article I analyse some of the main semantic and metaphoric representations which underpin the discourse of car advertising in Britain. In particular, I focus on the use of male and female bodies as organizing metaphors which produce a gendered framework for advertising different types of cars. The discussion is based on adverts seen on roadside hoardings in the London area, in magazines, and on television at different periods over the past three years, and I use an analytic framework which is grounded in critical linguistic approaches to texts, situated within the context of current debates in feminist stylistics and critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1989, 1992; Mills, 1995; Stubbs, 1997; Toolan, 1997).

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