scholarly journals Crisis discourse and framework transition in Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 664-680
Author(s):  
Omer Michaelis
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Legal Code ◽  
The Past ◽  
Moses Maimonides ◽  
Crisis Discourse

AbstractIn his works from the past decade, Menachem Fisch offered an analysis of a crucial distinction between two modes of rationalized transformation: an intra-framework transformation and an inter-framework one, the latter entailing a revolutionary shift of the framework itself. In this article, I analyze the attempt to produce such a framework transition in the tradition of Jewish Halakha (i.e., Jewish Law) by one of the key figures in its history, Moses Maimonides (1135–1204), and to explore how this transition was rationalized and promoted by the utilization of crisis discourse. Using discourse analysis, I analyze the introduction to Maimonides’ great legal code, Mishneh Torah, and explore the modes by which he sought to establish, install and stabilize a homogenous and centralistic legal order at the center of which will lie one – that is, his own – Halakhic book.

Discourse Analysis: Contextualism and Reductionism

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-447
Author(s):  
Setareh Majidi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Language Interpretation

For the past twenty to thirty years, a good part of the domain of linguistics has been occupied by what has been called discourse analysis. Whereas syntax and semantics are concerned by the sentence and the units from which the sentence is built, discourse analysis claims that interpretation cannot accounted for at the level of the sentence and that a bigger unit, such as discourse should be used to account for language interpretation. We want to show here that discourse is not, in any sense, a well defined object and that, though it is certainly necessary to analyze how a given sequence of sentences is processed and understood, the notion of discourse,  A and related notions such as coherence does not have much to say about it. We rely on epistemological considerations about the necessity of a moderate reductionism and sketch on account of linguistic interpretation which accounts for contextual factors in linguistic interpretation through the notion of utterance (vs. sentence) and a development of Sperber & Wilsons Relevance Theory.

A bibliometric study of news discourse analysis (1988‒2020)

2021 ◽  
pp. 175048132110437
Author(s):  
Guofeng Wang ◽  
Xiuzhen Wu ◽  
Qiao Li
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Chinese Mainland ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Upward Trend ◽  
The West ◽  
News Values ◽  
The Past ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Scopus Database

This study conducts a bibliometric analysis of news discourse analysis using CiteSpace to sketch its scientific landscape based on journal articles in English in the Scopus database from 1988 through 2020. The statistical analysis provides evidence for the interdisciplinarity of this area, and shows an upward trend in general over these years as well as an accelerating growth rate in the past decade. Findings also indicate that the problem-oriented CDA has gained the most popularity in this area since its emergence, and the appraisal framework, multimodality analysis, and discursive news values have become three hotspots of news discourse analysis. In addition, the authors in the West have contributed most in this area, but those from Chinese Mainland, Malaysia, South Africa, and Indonesia have gradually been an emerging powerhouse, which has added diversity in topics and will enhance equality and promote dialogue between different communities, ethnics, and races across the globe.

“Unfortunately I’m a Massively Heavy Sleeper”: An Analysis of Fathers’ Constructions of Parenting

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 680-701
Author(s):  
Ashlee Borgkvist ◽  
Jaklin Eliott ◽  
Shona Crabb ◽  
Vivienne Moore
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Involved Fathers

Expectations for fathers have changed over the past few decades—research has shown that many men express more egalitarian views toward fatherhood and being more involved in parenting, particularly in the caretaking and emotional aspects of parenting. However, despite intentions expressed before parenthood, parenting will often play out along more traditional, gendered lines. In this research, we demonstrate how discourses used by fathers might work to maintain gendered divisions in relation to parenting and work. Data were collected through semistructured interviews that covered men’s experiences of work and parenting. Discourse analysis was employed to analyze the data. We identified that while participants expressed a desire to be involved fathers, often this did not transpire. Participants’ inability to, or decisions not to be, actively involved was accounted for in various ways, and suggested a tension between what fathers recognize they should be doing, and what they are doing, as parents.

Liberal articulations of the ‘Enlightenment’ in the Greek public sphere

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiannis Mylonas
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Greek Crisis ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Crisis Discourse ◽  
Neoliberal Restructuring ◽  
Discursive Constructions

Abstract This study presents a scrutiny of ‘liberal’ discursive constructions of the ‘Enlightenment’ in the Greek public sphere. The study is based on the analysis of articles published in two news/lifestyle websites, ‘AthensVoice’ and ‘Protagon’, during the (ongoing), so-called, ‘Greek crisis’. Discourse theory, informed by critical discourse analysis, is deployed to analyze these discursive constructions. The analysis shows that Greece’s economic/social/political problems are constructed as symptoms that underline Greece’s fundamental deficit, which is the country’s alleged ‘lack of ‘Enlightenment’, as perceived by ‘liberal’ voices in Greece and elsewhere. The article concludes that such discourses are part of a biopolitical, disciplinary framework producing the object to be reformed by austerity: an ‘un-Enlightened’ ‘Greek character’, ‘guilty’ for ‘self-inflicting’ Greece’s crisis. This ‘reform of character’ envisioned by liberals in Greece and elsewhere, is supposed to emerge through the institutional advance of neoliberal restructuring processes that include austerity reforms, privatizations, and loss of labor and civic rights, conditions to foster the neoliberal, entrepreneurial, mobile and austere subject, to potentially meet the socio-political requirements of late capitalist growth.

Ghosts, tigers and landmines in the nursery: Attachment narratives of loss in Tamil refugee children with dead or missing fathers

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lux Ratnamohan ◽  
Sarah Mares ◽  
Derrick Silove
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Parent Attachment ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
Protective Strategies

Objective: To build an account of how bereaved Tamil refugee and asylum seeker children, resettled in Australia, had processed the loss of their dead or missing fathers. Method: Phenomenological and discourse analysis was applied to attachment narratives of nine children (aged 11–17 years) and their surviving mothers in families that lost fathers in war-related circumstances. The narratives were analysed through the lens of Crittenden’s Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation (DMM) and Klass’ cross-cultural model of grief. Results: Two divergent pathways — ‘burying the past’ and ‘reifying the past’ — emerged, encompassing the children’s contrasting patterns of information processing regarding loss and trauma (dismissing or preoccupying) and representation of the past (distant-buried or rich-reconstructed). Each pathway reflected a strategic compromise between the constraints and resources presented to the child by the circumstances of the loss (ambiguous or confirmed), the response of their surviving parent (stricken or stoic) and the collective narrative surrounding the loss (silenced or valorised). Conclusion: The DMM’s conceptualisation of attachment as self-protective strategies for navigating danger was helpful in explaining the contrasting adaptations of refugee children to loss and trauma. However, to understand the multivalent meanings of these adaptations, there was a need to situate child–parent attachment relationships within the wider sociocultural reconfigurations arising from contexts of political violence.

scholarly journals English in the Pandemic: Changes and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 84-90
Author(s):  
L. L. Baranova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Work Arrangement

The article sheds light on some of the new developments in English under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic: namely, various types of neologisms, which have appeared over the past year and a half. The paper offers an overview of these new formations, supplemented by discourse analysis. The study is based on the material gleaned from online editions of The Economist newspaper, with the examples selected using the method of continuous sampling. Research results indicate that the majority of neologisms are portmanteau words; however, abbreviations, compounds and new coinages referring to people’s work arrangement are also encountered. In addition, some data on the increase in dictionary searches for words connected with the pandemic are adduced. COVID-19 has boosted the capacity of the English language for expanding its vocabulary, and the changes brought about by this process should be thoroughly studied and understood.

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.

scholarly journals Investigating the Use of Sustainability and Sustainable Development by the City of Toronto Through a 30-Year Document Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shenley Audrey Alkins
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Municipal Policy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
The City ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The purpose of this research is to map the conceptual and theoretical foundations of sustainability and sustainable development, specifically how these concepts have been defined, conceptualized, and operationalized in the past, in effect to elucidate knowledge gaps and limitations of current research. This research uses an exploratory approach to textual discourse analysis to uncover the ways in which sustainability and sustainable development has been defined, conceptualized, and operationalized by the City of Toronto over the past thirty years. The findings of this research indicate that despite poorly defined conceptions of sustainability and sustainable development, operationalization has continued. However, many challenges to conceptualization and operationalization remain, such as those related to cross-scale coordination, understanding of social, economic, and environmental interdependencies, inadequate understanding of environmental conditions, and issues related to information sharing and reporting across institutions. Keywords sustainability; urban sustainability; sustainable development; municipal policy; municipal decisionmaking; textual data analysis; content analysis; discourse analysis

scholarly journals Kontekstualisasi Filologi dalam Teks-teks Islam Nusantara

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
Khabibi Muhammad Luthfi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Data ◽  
Classical Philology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Object Of Study

This paper aims to explore the concepts, methods and significance of philology Islam Nusantara and contextualization in manuscripts from Indonesia. It departs from the problems that the Islamic manuscripts archipelago that has not been widely studied, whereas in it save the value, thought and culture of the past scholars Nusantara which would clarify the concept of Islam Nusantara itself. With the approach of descriptive data-based literature and discourse analysis found that the concepts, methods and significance of philology Islam Nusantara almost the same as philology in general and the only difference being the object of study, in addition to the contextualization as an approach to the study of Islam in Indonesia, particularly related to Islamic manuscripts archipelago could be advised to use The new philology without leaving classical philology.   Tulisan ini bertujuan mengeksplorasi konsep, metode dan signifikansi filologi Islam Nusantara serta kontekstualisasinya dalam pernaskahan Indonesia. Ini berangkat  dari persoalan bahwa manuskrip Islam Nusantara yang belum banyak dikaji, padahal di dalamnya menyimpan nilai, pemikiran dan budaya ulama Nusantara masa lampau yang tentunya akan menjernihkan mengenai konsep Islam Nusantara itu sendiri. Dengan pendekatan deksriptif berbasis data pustaka dan analisis wacana ditemukan bahwa konsep, metode dan signifikansi filologi Islam Nusantara hampir sama dengan filologi pada umumnya dan yang membedakan hanya objek kajiannya, selain itu kontektualisasinya sebagai pendekatan studi Islam di Indonesia, terutama terkait manuskrip Islam Nusantara bisa disarankan menggunakan filologi baru tanpa meninggalkan filologi klasik.  

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.

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