‘It doesn’t meet the requirements of violence or intimidation’. A discursive study of judgments of sexual abuse

Violence Against Women ◽

Feminist Perspective ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Dominant Discourses ◽

The Way

This study delves into the main discourses found in five sexual abuse judgments, in different Spanish Courts. The analysis employs Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis in order to explore the topic of sexual violence, its understanding, and the dominant discourses revealed in these judgments of sexual abuse, and to investigate the way rape cases are treated discursively in Court from a feminist perspective. The dominant discourses found have been those of sexuality; inaction of the survivor; and lack of violence and/or intimidation. Unravelling these hidden ideologies and relationships of power is crucial to give us a better awareness of the dominant ideas surrounding violence against women.

Gendered Attributions of Blame and Failure to Protect in Child Welfare Responses to Sexual Abuse: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

10.1177/10778012211024263 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122110242

Author(s):

Corry Azzopardi

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Child Welfare ◽

Explanatory Power ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Failure To Protect ◽

Attributions Of Blame

Gender-based relations of power and attributions of blame for child sexual abuse have been longstanding in child welfare policy and practice. Nonoffending mothers continue to be ascribed responsibility through the ideologically and institutionally entrenched doctrine of failure to protect. Feminist critical discourse analysis was used to (a) expose and disrupt dominant discourses of gender, motherhood, and risk that operate to construct and reinforce notions of blame and failure to protect, as enacted by way of child welfare text in context; and (b) build a credible case for social and organizational change grounded in an alternative discourse with greater explanatory power. Progressive avenues for resistance, negotiation, and transformation are proposed.

“Bitch, You Got What You Deserved!”: Violation and Violence in Sex Buyer Reviews of Legal Brothels

10.1177/1077801218757375 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (16) ◽

pp. 1887-1908 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Natalie Jovanovski ◽

Meagan Tyler

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Sense Of Community ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Unsafe Sex ◽

Harm Minimization ◽

Sexual Violation ◽

Sex Practices

In this article, we use feminist critical discourse analysis to examine online brothel reviews (148 reviews and 2,424 reply posts) of sex buyers in the context of debates surrounding harm minimization. Our findings show that sex buyers actively construct and normalize narratives of sexual violation and violence against women in licensed brothels through their language, referencing objectification, unsafe sex practices, and, in more extreme cases, rape to create a sense of community with other punters. Through this analysis, we challenge existing assumptions about harm minimization in systems of prostitution, which are legalized or fully decriminalized.

“Mongering Is a Weird Life Sometimes”: Discourse Analysis of a Sex Buyer Online Community

10.1177/1077801220930820 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 107780122093082

Author(s):

Catarina D. B. Alves ◽

Klaus E. Cavalhieri

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

Violence Against Women ◽

Online Community ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Online Forum ◽

The purpose of this study was to examine the narrative of sex buyers in an unmoderated online forum. Using a feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA) and intersectionality approach, we investigated overt and subtle ways power inequalities were present in the discourse of men who bought sex in Chicago. Four main themes emerged: (a) toxic masculinity; (b) violence against women; (c) intersectionality of sexuality, race, and age; and (d) the need to maintain the community. Our findings imply that johns’ self-described monger identity is closely associated with maintaining, perpetrating, and minimizing violence against women.

Skirting Around the Issue: Misdirection and Linguistic Avoidance in Parliamentary Discourses on Upskirting

10.1177/1077801219870606 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (11) ◽

pp. 1403-1422 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Chrissy Thompson

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

Violence Against Women ◽

Speech Acts ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Male Perpetrators ◽

Communicative Strategies ◽

Discourses on men’s violence against women have long been associated with linguistic avoidance and communicative strategies that obscure the responsibility of male perpetrators. Linguistic avoidance does not only obfuscate the responsibility of male perpetrators; such strategies also hide the norms and attitudes that underpin much of men’s violence against women. Such techniques represent a form of misdirection: communicative strategies that draw attention away from the true causes or nature of an issue. To demonstrate misdirection in action, I conduct a feminist critical discourse analysis of Australian parliamentarians’ speech acts during the criminalization of upskirting in Victoria in 2007.

Orientalist Representation of Nepali People, Culture and Landscape: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya

SCHOLARS: Journal of Arts & Humanities ◽

10.3126/sjah.v1i0.34445 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 24-40

Author(s):

Shuv Raj Rana Bhat

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Jamaica Kincaid ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Travel Narrative ◽

Garden Of Eden ◽

American Writer ◽

Imperial Politics ◽

The Himalaya ◽

The Way

Partly drawing on postcolonial rhetorics and partly drawing insights from critical stylistics and critical discourse analysis, this paper basically explores how Antigua-born-American writer Jamaica Kincaid rhetorically constructs Nepal in a disguised form of a travel writer through her travel narrative Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya. Even though Kincaid is best known as an anti-imperialist, the way she longs for the Garden of Eden and represents Nepali landscape, people, and culture posits that her travel to Nepal is threaded with the rhetoric of Othering, metropolitan culture, and imperial politics. In particular, she looks at the travelled places and people with an imperial eye: nomination, surveillance, negation, debasement, and binary rhetoric.

Sexual violence and the mental health system: A critical discourse analysis

10.32920/ryerson.14652303.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Julia Getchell

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Health System ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Mental Health System ◽

Service Providers ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Health Service Providers ◽

Broad Term

Sexual violence is a relevant topic in the Canadian mental health system. However, the dominant bio-medical understanding of mental health can be harmful to survivors. This study is focused on analyzing how sexual violence is discussed within the bio-medical mental health system. The bio-medical understanding of mental health is one that conceptualizes “mental illness” is brain disease and emphasizes pharmacological treatment. Sexual violence is a broad term that describes any violence, physical or psychological, carried out through sexual means or by targeting sexuality. Critical Discourse Analysis is used in this study to find and analyze discourses in the bio-medical mental health system found in three interviews with mental health service providers. The discourses that emerged were as follows: 1. people were “boiled down” to their diagnoses or experiences of sexual violence; 2. professionalism; 3. being funneled into “streams of care”; 4. what makes someone credible; and 5. who “gets it”. The MRP concludes with a discussion of implications of these findings for social work.

IDEOLOGI BAHASA POLITIK SOEKARNO: SARANA KETAHANAN, KEAMANAN, DAN PERDAMAIAN INDONESIA

Aksara ◽

10.29255/aksara.v31i2.364.251-268 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 251

Author(s):

David Samuel Latupeirissa ◽

Zummy Anselmus Dami

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Political Ideology ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Political Language ◽

Cultural Changes ◽

Founding Fathers ◽

Analysis Theory ◽

Static Nature ◽

The Way

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk (1) menggali ideologi yang terkandung dalam bahasa politik Soekarno selaku salah satu tokoh pendiri bangsa dan proklamator kemerdekaan NKRI, (2) menggali motivasi yang ada di balik lahirnya ideologi dalam bahasa tersebut, dan (3) melihat perubahan sosial budaya sebagai dampak dari ideologi bahasa politik Soekarno. Untuk mencapai ketiga tujuan penelitian di atas, peneliti menggunakan Teori Analisis Wacana Kritis (AWK) model Fairclough (1989, 1995, 2005, 2006) sebagai teori utama, dan teori Ideologi sebagai teori pendukung. Metode yang diterapkan dalam pengumpulan data adalah metode dokumentasi, sedangkan metode yang diterapkan dalam analisis data adalah metode deskripstif kualitatif yang diterapkan berdasarkan tiga level analisis AWK Fairclough. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Ideologi yang terkandung dalam bahasa Soekarno adalah ideologi ‘persatuan dan kesatuan sebagai hal yang penting’, ideologi ‘revolusi adalah bagian yang tidak terpisahkan dari jiwa bangsa Indonesia’, dan ideologi ‘imperialisme sebagai musuh utama bangsa Indonesia’. Ideologi tersebut perlu dihidupi sebagai salah satu strategi demi menjaga ketahanan, keamanan, dan perdamaian Indonesia. Selanjutnya, ideologi tersebut dilatari oleh keadaan bangsa yang plural dan kesadaran bahwa sifat statis adalah penghalang kemajuan bangsa. Kandungan ideologi dimaksud membawa perubahan dalam cara berkomunikasi dan cara hidup bangsa Indonesia.Kata kunci: ideologi, bahasa politik, analisis wacana kritis AbstractThe current study aims at: (1) to explore the ideology conceived in Soekarno’s political language as one of the nation founding fathers and the proclaimer of Indonesia independence, (2) to explore the motivations behind the birth of ideology in the language, and (3) to see the socio-cultural changes as the result of Soekarno’s political ideology. To achieve the research objectives, researcher used Critical Discourse Analysis Theory (CDA) of Fairclough (1989, 1995, 2005, 2006) as the main theory, and the theory of Ideology as a supporting theory. The method applied in data collection was documentation method, while the method applied in data analysis was descriptive qualitative method that applied based on three analysis levels of Fairclough CDA theory. The results show that the ideology contained in Soekarno’s political language is the ideology of ‘unity as an important thing’, the ideology of ‘revolution as an integral part of the Indonesian nation soul’, and the ideology of ‘imperialism as the main enemy of the Indonesia’. The ideology needs to be lived for the sake of Indonesia’s endurance, security and peace. Furthermore, the ideology is based on a plural nation state and the realization that static nature is a barrier to the progress of a nation. The ideology contents have brought changes in the way of communication and the way of Indonesian nation life.Keywords: ideology, political language, critical discourse analysis

A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF GENDER SUBJECTIVITY IN HENRY JAMES’ THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

European Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics Studies ◽

10.46827/ejlll.v5i2.275 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Shah Mir ◽

Saima Jahangir

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Henry James ◽

Social Order ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Power Structures ◽

Portrait Of A Lady ◽

Patriarchal Power ◽

Gender Subjectivity

Reassessment and interpretation of gender dynamics in the current social order has been prevalent theme within gender discourses. The yoke of subordination borne by women as readers, writers or fictional characters in the patriarchal pyramid occupies a central space across the whole spectrum of debates. This study utilizes a qualitative mode of inquiry which is centered on textual analysis. The present study evaluates the instances of gender subjectivity and patterns of subjugation within the textual arena invested with hegemonic ideologies as depicted in the novel The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. The paper employs feminist critical discourse analysis as a tool to analyze The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James in order to dissect the underlying ideologies present in the Victorian time period and investigates discourses of subjectivity. The findings of the study demonstrate that notwithstanding temporal advancements, gender power structures remain intact, and women continue to suffer under patriarchal power structures. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0874/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of The Stone Woman by Tariq Ali

Global Language Review ◽

10.31703/glr.2020(v-iii).28 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol V (III) ◽

pp. 275-287

Author(s):

Muhammad Asaf Amir ◽

Sajid Ali ◽

Farheen Akhter

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Social Class ◽

Social Institutions ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Feminist Critique ◽

The Social ◽

Family And Marriage ◽

Status Of Women

This paper brings out the Feminist Critique of Ali's Novel The Stone Woman by applying Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth CDA). The study employs a corpus-driven technique. Lazar's (2007) feminist CDA model has been used to study how women are kept out of the social circle, and the ideology of the superiority of men has been institutionalized and naturalized. This, in turn, gives power and hegemony to man as a social class. It has been concluded that the place and status of women in society have been gendered, and they are victims of social and economic discrimination. Men are supported by social institutions like family and marriage to make their discourse privileged, preferred and justified.

Quest for Body and Voice: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Shamsie's Broken Verses

Global Language Review ◽

10.31703/glr.2021(vi-ii).09 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol VI (II) ◽

pp. 78-84

Author(s):

Mashhood Anjum ◽

Iftikhar Baig ◽

Abdul Hameed

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

Critical Discourse ◽

Paradigm Change ◽

Feminist Discourse ◽

Discourse Strategies ◽

In contemporary and postmodern literary discourses, feminism has introduced a paradigm change in the sex debates. The plan of feminist critical discourse analysis is to explore different discourses from a feminist viewpoint. The planned study conforms to this field of feminist discourse that will attempt to analyze Kamila Shamsie's selected work, Broken Verses. She, being a famous feminist, has produced discourses in which structural and thematic samples absorb sex debates. Her feminist tendency has established clear expression in all the aspects of her works: body, voice and characterization. The current study shows how she has used feminist discourse strategies in conventionality with her feminist literary position. This research extensively improves the perceptive of Kamila Shamsie's work and pictures how the feministic arrangement and feminist critical discourse analysis have been inventively infused in her famous works.