Study on utterances of administrative law enforcement in van Dijk’s critical discourse analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-236
Author(s):  
Jingjing Wu ◽  
Yuxiu Sun
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Normative Factors

AbstractThis study explores the administrative law enforcement from three perspectives, namely, discourse, cognition and society, according to van Dijk’s theory of critical discourse studies. “Discourse” is the essential linguistic analysis of administrative law enforcement, which may lead to the tension between law-executors and law-breakers, as well as to ease the conflicts and achieve the balance, so that the discourse mode with considerable tolerance and explanation is of great significance for improving the current practice of administrative law enforcement. “Cognition” deals with psychological model based on cognitive and social psychology. In the interaction of administrative law enforcement, the social roles are institutionalized by the context, which is achieved through knowledge background, cognitive methods, communicative purpose, role expectations and information transmission. “Society” focuses on the investigation of institutions, powers and groups based on sociology. There are normative factors and non-normative variables in the administrative law enforcement: the former refers to superior will, judicial review, supervision and defense of law-breaker, while the latter involves administrative habits and experience, natural emotions, interest and mass media. In the institutional context, social variables affect the implementation of administrative law enforcement in different discourse modes.

scholarly journals The Politics of Voice in the Stereotypical Representation of the Pashtuns: A Critical Study of Khaled Hosseini’s Novels

2018 ◽  
Vol III (II) ◽  
pp. 385-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rab Nawaz Khan ◽  
Abdul Waheed Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Studies

The current study is an attempt to critically analyze the role and politics of voice in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns in terms of categorical and stereotypical representation of the Pashtuns. It is a critical discourse study (Norman Fairclough, 1989, 2018) of the selected data. Moreover, the data is viewed from the perspective of critical discourse studies. The novels under study are polyphonic in nature, and the characters belong to various Afghan ethnic backgrounds, like the Pashtuns, the Tajiks and the Hazaras. The study concludes that the novelist's choice of the characters with their respective voices and the roles assigned to them are political, ideological and somewhat biased. The Pashtuns have been stereotypically represented by categorizing them as the social, well-educated and more or less liberal Pashtuns, the tribal and traditionalist Pashtuns, extremist and fundamentalist Pashtuns, like Taliban. Misrepresentation of the tribal and fundamentalist Pashtuns as racists, ethnic nationalists, ideologists, sexists, exclusionists, traditionalists and power-abusers is indicative of the novelist's biasedness and exaggeration.

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 USING CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN MEDIA DISCOURSE STUDIES

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emi Sahmeni
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Know How ◽  
Authentic Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Discourse Studies

The purpose of this paper is to know how CDA unraveling the covert ideologies while researching the presence of power in media discourse studies. This study reviewed fifteen journal articles to examine the ways and methods in which CDA has been used to discover the social phenomenon while revealing the authentic identity of the social actors. It was found that CDA has been used extensively to unmask the ideologies which classify the oppressed group while presenting a positive image for the group with the highest authority.

scholarly journals USING CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN MEDIA DISCOURSE STUDIES

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emi Sahmeni
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Know How ◽  
Authentic Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Discourse Studies

The purpose of this paper is to know how CDA unraveling the covert ideologies while researching the presence of power in media discourse studies. This study reviewed fifteen journal articles to examine the ways and methods in which CDA has been used to discover the social phenomenon while revealing the authentic identity of the social actors. It was found that CDA has been used extensively to unmask the ideologies which classify the oppressed group while presenting a positive image for the group with the highest authority.

scholarly journals The sociocognitive approach in critical discourse studies and the phenomenological sociology of knowledge: intersections

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gyollai
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
Phenomenological Sociology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Studies

Abstract This article argues that phenomenological sociology has great potential to provide a strong theoretical support to the Sociocognitive Approach (SCA) in Critical Discourse Studies. SCA is interested in the interconnections between knowledge, discourse and society while placing subjectivity in the centre of its framework. It looks into the correlative relationship between personal- and socially shared knowledge, and the significance of these correlations to discourse production and interpretation. Analogously, phenomenological sociology explores the interrelated structures of subjectivity, knowledge and the social world. It systematically analyses the conditions and forms of intersubjective understanding and the mutually constitutive relationship between subjective- and objective knowledge. Given the considerable overlap between the subject matter of phenomenological sociology and that of SCA, the purpose of the article is to draw the attention of critical discourse analysts to a neglected but extremely resourceful field. Following a brief introduction to SCA, the article will address some of SCA’s key concepts in conjunction with the phenomenological-sociological insight.

Language use difference and social group differentiation: Immigrants’ negotiation of an imposed category of lau in bilingual Guangzhou

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-313
Author(s):  
Jing Huang
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Language And Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
Boundary Making ◽  
Critical Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Identity Category

AbstractThis study is situated in a bilingual community of Guangzhou where the local speech Cantonese used to have comparable power to the Chinese common language Putonghua regarding the range of domains, but recently a local concern has emerged over the declining status of Cantonese in association with the large number of immigrants and the vigorous implementation of the state language policy of Putonghua Promotion. This concern has been demonstrated in Guangzhou locals’ boundary-making practices and the categorization of immigrants in relation to language practices. This study aims to investigate the ways in which immigrants take up stances (Du Bois 2007; Alexandra, Jaffe. (ed.). 2009.Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.) to negotiate their identities in response to an imposed category oflau. Immigrants’ narratives of and comments on language use in their interactions with natives are analysed, at both semantic and formal levels, from a perspective of Critical Discourse Studies (e.g. Martin, Reisigl & Ruth Wodak. 2015. In Ruth Wodak & Michael Meyer (eds.).Methods of critical discourse studies, 3rd edn. 23–61. London: Sage, Fairclough, Norman. 2015.Language and power3rd edn. London: Routledge.). As the analysis shows, immigrants negotiate the imposed identity category through coming to terms with the underlying language beliefs, negatively evaluating the social actors who categorize them, recontextualising the category, and combining Putonghua and Cantonese in one language unit to indicate the symbolic oppositions between social groups and languages.

scholarly journals Anti-racist Text and Talk: A Critical Discourse Studies Approach to Black Feminism

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Philip P. Limerick
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Black Feminism ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
Women Police ◽  
Critical Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Racist Discourse ◽  
News Programs

While racist discourse has received much attention in Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), there is a dearth of scholarship on the anti-racist text and talk. A critical observation is that the anti-racist movement, and hence, discourse, often exclude women. With the goal of contributing to this gap in the CDS literature, the current analysis examines Black women's discourses concerning anti-Black racism in general and Black Feminism in particular. Four YouTube videos that feature both conference talks and news programs surrounding the topic of Black Feminism are analysed for recurring themes using thematic analysis and discourse structures from the perspective of critical discourse analysis. Findings reveal that the primary themes that emerged are the inclusion of Black women, Police brutality and unaccountability, and Black Feminism Defined, with various subthemes. In addition, the discourse structures examined are lexical choice, presupposition, pronominal choice, and the use of tag questions, among others. This study serves to further our understanding of the linguistic manifestation of ideologies through discourse concerning anti-racism and Black Feminism.

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