scholarly journals Locating and applying critical discourse analysis within education policy

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Nina Lester ◽  
Chad R. Lochmiller ◽  
Rachael Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Discourse Studies

This article introduces the first of a two-part Special Issue on Discourse Perspectives and Education Policy. This first special issue is focused on critical discourse analysis and education policy. Within this article, we provide a brief overview of discourse analysis generally and critical discourse analysis specifically. We highlight some of the ways in which policy researchers have applied the theories and methods associated with CDA and note the methodological and substantive contributions of this work. Then, we provide an overview of the six papers included within this special issue, noting each paper’s key points and explicit links to policy. We conclude by pointing to future directions for research at the intersection of education policy and discourse studies.

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.

Representation, conceptualization and positioning in Critical Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-294
Author(s):  
Piotr Cap
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Space Theory ◽  
Discourse Studies

Abstract The present paper explores the current nexus between Cognitive Linguistics (CL) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), focusing on theories of conceptual positioning, distancing and perspective-taking in discourse space. It assesses the strengths, limitations, and prospects for further operationalization of positioning as a valid methodology in CDA, and political discourse studies in particular. In the first part, I review the cognitive models of positioning that have made the most significant contribution to CDA. Discussing Deictic Space Theory and Text World Theory, among others, I argue that these models reveal further theoretical potential which has not been exploited yet. While they offer a comprehensive and plausible account of how representations and ideologically charged worldviews are established, they fail to deliver a pragmatic explanation of how addressees are made to establish a worldview, in the service of speaker’s goals. The second part of the paper outlines Proximization Theory, a discursive model of crisis and conflict construction in political discourse. I argue that, unlike the other models, it fully captures the complex geopolitical and ideological positioning in political discourse space, providing a viable handle on the dynamics of conflict between the opposing ideologies of the space.

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis in Media Studies: A Review Research on Its Application in Indonesian Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Anwar Anwar ◽  
Asri Laraswati ◽  
Ridhani Ridhani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Analysis Application ◽  
The Media ◽  
Discourse Studies

This research examines the field of discourse analysis which has popularity in the media field and communication studies. The research is focused on the application of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in Indonesia. This study is especially interested in examining CDA’s variety of approaches. The goal of this review research is to discover and to know the role of CDA in the hidden ideologies in the media of discourse studies. The data in this study is on ten selected article journals to clarify the methods, ways, and to find in which CDA has been used in understanding social and educational phenomena. This study determined three themes in critical discourse analysis application, i.e. economic, political, and social contexts.

scholarly journals Competing and Contested Discourses of Citizenship and Civic Praxis

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Jill Koyama
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Civics Education ◽  
Actor Network

In this paper, I utilize complementary features of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to trace and investigate issues of power, materiality, and reproduction embedded within notions of citizenship and civic engagement. I interrogate the often narrow and conservative political and public discourses in Arizona, as well as the xenophobic-driven civics education policy. To these, I juxtapose the enactment of citizenship by youth who use, produce, and share language materials and counter authoritative citizenship and civic discourses, especially, but not exclusively, in online contexts.  I explore the questions: In what ways are discourses of civic engagement and citizenship assembled, interpreted, understood, enacted, and contested in Arizona? What are the relationships between the civics education policy, discursive enactments of citizenship, and the youth of Mexican descent’s online civic practices? I draw on a mixture of textual (language materials) and discursive (events, acts, and practices) data collected in Arizona to argue that youth are doing critical, yet unrecognized and undervalued, forms of civic engagement online, which could be incorporated in the formal civics education curriculum.

scholarly journals CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN MEDIA STUDIES: THE APPLICATION IN 1990s ERA OF INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asri Laraswati
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Discourse Studies

This research examines the field of discourse analysis which has popularity in the media field and communication studies. The research is focused on the application in 1990s era of Indonesia in critical discourse analysis that is examining a variety of approaches it. The goal of the review research is to discover and to know the role of CDA in the hidden ideologies in media of discourse studies. There are ten article journals to clarify the methods, ways, and finding in which CDA has found in our phenomenon of social and in education. That was found a CDA has been applied whilst presenting a positive drawing for a group of people in their communication.

scholarly journals Theories Media Discourse Studies in Critical Discourse Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwi Lusiana
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Applied Field ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Positive Images

ABSTRACT: The critical period in the analysis discourse emerged between the late 1990s and early 2000 in the linguistic applied field referring to various analytical and analytical frame works and approaches. The study reviewed five article journals to examine ways and methods in which CDA was used to find phenomena social while disclosing the original identity of the social actors. It was found that CDA has been used extensively, to open masks ideologies that discriminate against oppressed groups while presenting positive images for the group with supreme authority.

scholarly journals Critical discourse analysis of university teacher educators’ professionalism in Chilean teacher education policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Yenny Hinostroza-Paredes
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Managerial Control ◽  
Teacher Education Policy

This article uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) to interrogate the discursive construction of Chilean university teacher educators’ professionalism in government initial teacher education policy and institutional policy enactment documents. The study examines the network of discourses—new managerialist, quality assurance, performance, functionalist professional development—producing a version of professionalism akin to organizational professionalism. Used as a form of managerial control over teacher educators’ professional practices, such professionalism exacerbates performativity while reducing professional agency opportunities and consistent professional/academic development. Ultimately, this study contributes to the necessary questioning of Chilean ITE policy reform and the need to examine its effects on university TEs’ professional lives and the professional modeling of their student teachers. 

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