scholarly journals Dyskursywne (re)konstruowanie charyzmy. Przypadek Lecha Wałęsy

2018 ◽  
pp. 107-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur LIPIŃSKI
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Secret Police ◽  
Social Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
Argumentative Strategies ◽  
Interpretative Research

The paper analyzes the discursive reconstruction of L. Wałęsa’s charisma by the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper in response to S. Cenckiewicz and P. Gontarczyk’s book entitled SB a Lech Wałęsa. Przyczynek do biografii [The secret police and Lech Wałęsa. Addendum to a biography]. The paper uses the methodology of interpretative research which emphasizes the role of meaning for the social and political construction of reality. Inspired by the theoretical and methodological proposals of discourse analysis it examines the mechanisms used to reconstruct Lech Wałęsa’s charismatic identity in response to a book that undermines his social image. These attempts also involve the construction of individual identity, in the case under analysis, the identity of historians and authors of the book who are responsible for undermining this image. Therefore, the paper also attempts to analyze media representations of S. Cenckiewicz and P. Gontarczyk. Attention is primarily focused on the key actors, on the features attributed to them and related argumentative strategies understood as a more or less intentional plan of discursive practices adopted in order to achieve defined social, political, linguistic or psychological purposes.

scholarly journals Entre le sacré et le profane. Le discours journalistique français sur l’affaire Pussy Riot

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 147-161
Author(s):  
Agata Rębkowska
Keyword(s):  
Punk Rock ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Rock Band ◽  
Pussy Riot ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
A Performance

BETWEEN THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE: THE FRENCH JOURNALISTIC DISCOURSE ON THE PUSSY RIOT AFFAIROn 21 February 2012, three women of the well-known punk rock band Pussy Riot organized a performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In consequence of the exhibition at this religious place, the women were convicted for “vandalism” and “incitement to religious hatred.”The aim of this article is to examine the social meaning of this event constructed and transmitted in the French journalistic discourse. It highlights the role of religion that derives from the event and contributes to the image of contemporary Russia. In the second step, the article deals with the discursive practices and positions of the journalistic voice facing this event.

Using humor to disguise racism in television news: the case of the Roma

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petre Breazu ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Television News ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
News Report ◽  
Critical Scholarship

Abstract It has been argued that more research is needed on the role of humor in the expression of racism. One reason is that, in the ‘post racial’ society, overt racism has become publicly unacceptable and, therefore, tends to appear in more concealed forms. In this paper, as part of a larger project on media representations of the Roma, we look at the role of humor in a Romanian television news clip reporting on the financial rewards of begging. We draw on the critical scholarship in humor research and carry out a multimodal critical discourse analysis of a news report selected from a larger corpus. We argue that through humor a recontextualisation of the Roma’s situation takes place, transforming their actual situation of poverty and social marginalisation into a humorous account of cultural failure, incompetence, stupidity and calculated money grabbing. We show that humor is one way by which culture becomes represented as embodied by ethnic minorities.

Hobbes's Artifice as Social Construction

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raia Prokhovnik
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Constructionist Approach

AbstractThe paper argues that Leviathan can be interpreted as employing a constructionist approach in several important respects. It takes issue with commentators who think that, if for Hobbes man is not naturally social, then man must be naturally unsocial or naturally purely individual. First, Hobbes's key conceptions of the role of artifice and nature-artifice relations are identified, and uncontroversially constructionist elements outlined, most notably Hobbes's conceptualisation of the covenant. The significance of crucial distinctions in Leviathan, between the civil and the social, between science and philosophy, between mankind's nature and the human condition, is developed. A constructionist reading of the argument of Leviathan is then advanced. The interpretation focuses on the contribution of nature-artifice relations, and of Hobbes's notion of civil philosophy, in understanding the critical issues of the state of nature and individual subjectivity. This reconstruction of the meaning of the text highlights the necessarily social character of human life in Leviathan, expressed in the way that the social' gives meaning to the 'natural', as well as because for Hobbes we live in a mind-affected world of perception and ideas. Leviathan can be interpreted as, in particular, a political social construction, because both social and individual identity logically require the social order and arrangements that only a strong government can supply. The social world, in Leviathan, cannot exist prior to the generation of a political framework, in civil society, the commonwealth, and law.

The spectacle of the ‘Other’: Media representations of same-sex sexuality in Senegal

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-28
Author(s):  
Aminata Cécile Mbaye
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Selection Of

This article examines media representations of same-sex sexuality in Senegal, and analyses how same-sex sexuality has been covered in a selection of Senegalese newspapers since the early 2000s. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s perspective on the role of mass media and ideology and the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis, this article describes how discourses produced by selected Senegalese newspapers generate and circulate ideological meanings. This article intends to underline the ways in which Senegalese media have come to fabricate a certain image of gay and lesbian people, often portrayed as deviant, mad or abnormal.

scholarly journals Metasemiotic Projects and Lifestyle Media: Formulating Commodities as Resources for Identity Enactment

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-136
Author(s):  
Evgeni Nikolaevich Molodychenko
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
General Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semiotic Resources ◽  
Men's Magazines ◽  
Notable Increase

There has recently been a notable increase in the amount and perceived significance of new lifestyle media. Besides the instructive and entertaining function, these media arguably play a more fundamental sociocultural role of constructing identities. In consumer societies, these identities are to a great extent enacted through the acquisition of commodities and engagement in commodified practices, which thereby become semiotic resources of identity stylization. The purpose of this article is to explore the discursive mechanisms underpinning the process of formulating commodities and practices as such semiotic resources. To this end, several discourses from new online men’s magazines have been analyzed drawing on a model of discourse analysis that sees discourse as one of the “moments” of the social practice it is embedded in. The results indicate that the mechanism behind the processes in question can be described as a metasemiotic project. As such a project unfolds in discourse, various commodities and practices are being typified by a metasemiotic term. One of the most frequent prototypical metasemiotic terms in these resources is stylish man . The term is instantiated in texts by several lexemes, including the lexeme style and its derivatives, as well as lexemes naming various “masculine personas” such as man , guy, kid, gentleman, bad ass. It has been shown that an increasing number of commodities and practices are being “theorized” by the discourse of new online men’s magazines and typified by this term. One important feature behind the workings of the metasemiotic project is intertextuality. Specific texts are always dialogically linked to other texts of lifestyle discourse, while object-signs are reformulated and imbued with different social values. These results contribute to the exploration of contemporary lifestyle media and discursive mechanisms of identity construction used by them, and, in a more general sense, to recent discussions of operationalizing wider sociocultural context in textually oriented discourse analysis.

scholarly journals DESIGNING CHILDHOOD IN RUSSIA IN THE LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES: FROM THEORY TO THE STUDY OF DISCURSIVE PRACTICES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF CHILDREN'S PERIODICAL PRESS FOR MIDDLE AND OLDER AGE)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
E.V KRAVCHENKO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children's Magazines ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Mental Space

Aim: general analytical review of the design of childhood on the pages of periodicals for children and youth of the late XIX - early XX centuries. The work reveals the main theoretical aspects of researching the texts of children's magazines within the framework of discourse analysis, identifying and describing the main characteristics of discursive practices. In order to explicate the content of the image of childhood, we singled out and analyzed the representations reflected in journalistic articles in the genre of journalism. In pre-revolutionary Russia, the organization of discursive space in children's magazines played a huge role, since the content of magazines particularly influenced children's socialization through the organization of leisure, cognitive, and communicative activities and defined the child's mental space. As a result, various models of child design were identified that revealed the transformation of the child's image under the influence of the social and political environment of that time.

Visual Representations of Indigenous Tourism Places in Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-108
Author(s):  
Susanna Heldt Cassel ◽  
Cecilia De Bernardi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Media Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Indigenous Tourism

This article focused the analysis on social media representations of Sápmi using the hashtags #visitsápmi and #visitsapmi, which nuance official, top-down versions of the place communicated in other contexts, but simultaneously are more focused on visitors and their experiences. The results show that the making of the Sápmi region as a place and a tourism destination through social media content is an ongoing process of interpretation and reinterpretation of what indigenous Sámi culture is and how it connects to specific localities. Future research should look at the broader understanding of places that can be accessed through social media analysis. The main argument is that visual communication is a very important tool when constructing the brand of a destination. Considering the growing role of social media, the process of place-making through visual communication is explored in the case of the destination VisitSápmi, as it is coconstructed in online user generated content (UGC). From a theoretical viewpoint, we discuss the social construction of places and destinations as well as the production of meaning through coconstruction of images and brands in tourism contexts. The focus is on how places are created, branded, and made meaningful by visualizing the place in a framework of tourism experiences, in this case specifically examined through indigenous tourism. We use a content analysis of texts, photographs, and narratives communicated on social media platforms. Regardless of negotiated brand management's efforts at official marketing, branding, and tourism planning, the evolution of Sápmi as a place to visit in social media has its own logic, full of contradictions and plausible interpretations, related to the uncontrollable and bottom-up processes of UGC.

scholarly journals The reshaping of medical image by news reports during COVID-19 's epidemic situation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 390-400
Author(s):  
Xinyan Lu ◽  
Yijing Lu ◽  
Siyu Le ◽  
Yazheng Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Medical Image ◽  
Social Image ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
Intermediary Role

Medical image has always been a long-term topic in social life, through questionnaires and personal interviews to investigate the role of news reports on the reconstruction of medical image before and after the epidemic. Through the investigation, it can be found that the media has played a certain intermediary role and positive guiding role in the alleviation of doctor-patient relationship and the shaping of medical portrayals; some metaphorical discourse descriptions in news reports can achieve better communication effect; through a variety of reporting forms and attribute agenda settings, the media enriches the foreground image of doctors and indirectly shapes the social image of doctors.

scholarly journals ‘Imaginary geographies’: the aquatic roads in the (de)construction of the stereotyped representations of the Pan-Amazon space

Terr Plural ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jefferson Henrique Cidreira ◽  
Josué da Costa Silva
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Canons

The essay has as its theme the water roads on the MAP border in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia, inserted in the great Pan-Amazon, while crucial elements to deconstruct representations of an Amazon seen as "green hell", "isolated". To this end, we used to move across the borders of Geography, History, Literature, Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis to make the role of rivers visible in the process of deconstructing discourses cemented in literary canons, cartoons and in the social and cultural imagery that one has of region, from them as a place of transit, of social relations, and with nature.

scholarly journals The Role and Contribution of Academic Researchers in Congressional Hearings: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura W. Perna ◽  
Kata Orosz ◽  
Daniel C. Kent
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Witness Testimony ◽  
Congressional Hearings ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Research And Policy

This study uses critical discourse analysis to explain how legislators determine the role and contributions of academic researchers in Congressional legislative hearings. The discursive practices that legislators use serve to construct the social identity of academic witnesses, characterize witnesses’ qualifications, solicit information from witnesses, frame comments from witnesses, and amplify and mitigate witness testimony. The findings make visible the ways that legislators use the power of their positions to depict academic witnesses as both experts who offer independent knowledge and experts who validate or confirm a legislator’s preferences and priorities. The results have implications for academics who seek to improve connections between research and policy, and academics who seek to further advance the production of knowledge of federal policymaking processes.

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