Legitimation strategies and theistic worldview in sociopolitical discourse: A systemic functional critical discourse analysis of Pakistani social media discussions

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-260
Author(s):  
Snobra Rizwan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Online Discussion Forums ◽  
The People ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Analytical Approaches

Abstract This study employs a systemic functional critical discourse analytical approach to the analysis of integrated theistic worldview of Pakistani social media users. To achieve its end, the study focuses on legitimation strategies, where these strategies serve to construct certain truth claims of the people. So, three thousand comments (comprising 8,401 words and 90,423 words) from online discussion forums of Dawn.com and Zemtv.com were studied and discourse samples were collected for in-depth analysis. The legitimation strategies, it is argued, are condensed and interpersonally charged through certain lexico-grammatical choices which embody people’s integrated theistic worldviews. The identity(ies) and identification claims of Pakistanis are found to be internally cohesive, based on theistic legitimation claims. To represent, legitimize and justify their worldviews, Pakistani social media users recontextualize discourses constructed from various combinations of discursive strategies, supported by references to Islamic scripture and popular narratives. The study is a prelude to a more detailed investigation of discursive strategies which represent (de)legitimized worldview and discourses internalized by Pakistani Muslims. Such studies provide deeper insights into (de)construction of (de)legitimation strategies of a society and facilitate further development of systemic functional critical discourse analytical approaches to text and context relations.

scholarly journals Rejection of the Medical Personnel Funeral of Covid 19 Victim in Sewakul sub-Village, Semarang District: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 07037
Author(s):  
M Muzakka ◽  
Suyanto ◽  
Mujid Farihul Amin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
The People ◽  
And Behavior

This study aims to: (1) describe and explain the knowledge and beliefs of the target study communities of Covid 19 and the corpse of victims of Covid 19 and (2) explains the sociocultural factors that influence the attitudes and behavior of the community regarding Covid 19 and the rejection of the funeral of Covid 19 victims. This study uses the Fairclough model of critical discourse analysis approach with a focus on social practices of the Sewakul community, Semarang District, represented in various mass media and social media. The formal object of this study is the discourse on social media detiknews.com, republika.co.id, and solopost.com and its formal object is the rejection of the funeral of a corpse of Covid 19 victims by the Sewakul community. Data collection uses the method of listening and note taking and in-depth interviews. Data analysis through three stages, namely data reduction, data display, conclusion / verification. The results of the study show that the people of Sewakul generally have undue (low) knowledge of the Covid 19 pandemic and its victims and loss of humanity. The sociocultural factors among the Sewakul people prioritize paternalistic, shyness, and blind social solidarity.

scholarly journals THE LANGUAGE AND IDEOLOGY OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR DRUG CONVICTS FOUND IN SELECTED OPINIONS IN THE JAKARTA POST

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Arina Isti’anah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Verbal Processes ◽  
Language And Ideology

This research is an investigation into the language use in peoples opinions of capital punishment for drug convicts in The Jakarta Post. Capital punishment was executed to six drug convicts on January 18th , 2015. Controversy about this action has risen before and after the execution. People give their opinions in social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and newspapers. The Jakarta Post is a well-known English newspaper in Indonesia which has a lot of readers. People choose this newspaper to convey their ideas so that their opinions will be read by people around the world. As the issue about capital punishment is popular recently, this research attempts at finding out peoples ideology about capital punishment for drug convicts. Critical discourse analysis was conducted in this research as an approach to figure out how language use by the people can reveal their ideology of capital punishment. This research focused on observing four opinions of capital punishment for drug convicts in The Jakarta Post. The analysis shows that material processes dominate the opinions, followed by relational, mental and verbal processes. The ideologies revealed in the opinions are power, pessimism, and criticism. Before the execution, pessimism dominates the opinions, while after the execution criticism appears most in the opinions.

scholarly journals Discursive Strategies on Ridwan Kamil’s Status Update: a Critical Discourse Analysis

Humaniora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Yudhy Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Written Expression ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
The Impact

The research was aimed to know the impact of a written expression through social media toward the people who read it. The analysis was performed in accordance with the theories of strategy, discourse analysis, and critical discourse analysis put by Wodak and Meyer (2001) and Renkema (2009), and the theories of internet and language by Crystal (2004). The data were taken from the page of Ridwan Kamil, Mayor of Bandung in that social media. The research needed to see the strategy in his status update (written expression). From the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) point of view, it can be understood the way people transfer their ideas and thoughts showed their power and influenced the people through some certain strategies. The results of the research show (1) all strategies are used in his status update, namely the referential/nomination, the predication, the argumentation, the perspectivation and the intensification strategies, (2) there are always some implicit and explicit intentions that are shared through the status update, and (3) there are some certain aspects that affect the readers of the status update.

National identity premises in Pakistani social media debate over patriotism

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-311
Author(s):  
Snobra Rizwan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
National Security ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Discursive Strategies

Abstract This paper focuses on critical discourse analysis of national identity premises as they enter in Pakistan’s social media debate over patriotism and treason. Drawing on a theoretical framework that calls attention to the embeddedness of religious and nationalistic ideas in identification paradigm of a society, the analysis emphasizes the naturalized link in motivational/inspirational and factual/circumstantial premises and the discursive and non-discursive practices of a culture. It also shows how (supposed) lack of a clear sense of national identity is intrinsically connected to a politicized understanding of national and anti-national identities, since anti-national identity is made salient as an obstacle in path toward national acceptance, and thus as a threat to national security. This, it is argued, is achieved through certain discursive strategies and non-discursive acts which serve to position undesirable anti-nationals as simultaneously in need of proving their patriotism and ineligible for integration into a broader national identification paradigm.

scholarly journals New approaches to the propagation of the antifeminist backlash on Twitter

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-237
Author(s):  
Miren Gutiérrez Almazor ◽  
Maria J. Pando Canteli ◽  
Mariluz Congosto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Graph Theory ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Graph Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discursive Strategies

A year after the #MeToo movement erupted, antifeminism started to retort. The idea behind the backlash was that ‘the men who have been accused are the heroes’ (Tolentino, 2018). Twitter was one of the public spaces where this confrontation occurred; the #HimToo backlash gathered steam in 2018 (Asimov, 2018) and expanded into 2019. Focussing on the reactions against #Cuéntalo Twitter campaign –the Spanish equivalent to #MeToo—, this article examines how the antifeminist backlash proliferates, offering a view of the dynamics driving it. The authors choose an eclectic and interdisciplinary approach that integrates graph theory and CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis), thus connecting social media formulations with offline discourses, and proposing new ways of studying social movements. To examine the backlash’s characteristics, this study utilises Congosto’s typology of Twitter profiles (Congosto, 2018). Findings suggest that both approaches are complementary and necessary, for while graph analysis enables the distinction of antifeminist communities on Twitter and their behaviour and characteristics, CDA allows investigators to uncover their discursive strategies and favoured themes.

scholarly journals MAKNA TOPIK ‘WARISAN’ DALAM UNGGAHAN FACEBOOK AFI NIHAYA FARADISA: ANALSIS WACANA KRITIS

TELAGA BAHASA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Ali Kusno ◽  
Wenni Rusbiyantoro
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Interactive Model ◽  
The People ◽  
Analysis Technique

Afi N.F., a student of SMA Negeri 1 Gambiran Bayuwangi had been stolenthe attention of the Indonesian people in May 2017. Afi N.F. upload an article on Facebook titled 'Warisan' is getting massive attention from the community and at the same time triggered the debates among social media users. This study aimed to express the meaning contained in the article. This research used critical discourse analysis of Fairclough Model. The research data was taken from the triggered titled “Warisan”. Data analysis technique using an interactive model. The results showed a significant message to all the Indonesian nation to maintain tolerance, especially in social media that is prone to friction among its users. In the article, Afi had been highlighting the issues of identity, such as religion, ethnicity, race, and nationality are inherited from parents, as she stated in her writing. Afi also invites all the people of Indonesia to live the Pancasila, the 1945 Constitution, and also the motto of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika so the life of religious tolerance will be maintained.

Text trajectories, legal discourse and gendered inequalities

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Ehrlich,
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Salient Feature ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Legal Institution ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Rape Trial

AbstractFollowing Blommaert (2005), this paper examines what he calls a ‘forgotten’ context within Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Conversation Analysis (CA) – that of text trajectories. For Blommaert, a limitation of both CDA and CA is their focus on “the unique, one-time” instance of a given text and, by extension, the (limited) context associated with such an instance of text. Such a focus, according to Blommaert, ignores a salient feature of communication in contemporary societies – the fact that texts and discourses move around, are repeatedly recontextualized in new interpretive spaces, and in the process undergo significant transformations in meaning. The text trajectory investigated in this paper begins in a legal institution, more specifically, with a 2004 American rape trial, Maouloud Baby v. the State of Maryland. This legal case garnered much media attention and, as a result of such exposure, references to the case have appeared in both mainstream and social media outlets. Hence, as a ‘text’ that has displayed considerable movement across different contexts within the legal system and, subsequently, beyond the legal system to mainstream and popular forms of media, the Maouloud Baby trial constitutes fertile ground for the exploration of a text's trajectory. Indeed, in keeping with Blommaert's claims, I show how this trial's ‘text’ undergoes significant transformations in meaning as it is recontextualized in different kinds of interpretive spaces (both within the legal system and outside of it) and how these transformations in meaning reproduce larger patterns of gendered inequalities.

scholarly journals The Enemy Next Door: The Image of Russia in Georgian and Ukrainian Political Discourses Amid Conflicts Escalation

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-203
Author(s):  
Aram Terzyan
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Image Representation ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The Core ◽  
Standing Up

Abstract This article presents an analysis of the evolution of Russia’s image representation in Georgian and Ukrainian political discourses amid Russian-Georgian and Russian-Ukrainian conflicts escalation. Even though Georgia’s and Ukraine’s troubled relations with neighboring Russia have been extensively studied, there has been little attention to the ideational dimensions of the confrontations, manifested in elite narratives, that would redraw the discursive boundaries between “Us” and “Them.” This study represents an attempt to fill the void, by examining the core narratives of the enemy, along with the discursive strategies of its othering in Georgian and Ukrainian presidential discourses through critical discourse analysis. The findings suggest that the image of the enemy has become a part of “New Georgia’s” and “New Ukraine’s” identity construction - inherently linked to the two countries’ “choice for Europe.” Russia has been largely framed as Europe’s other, with its “inherently imperial,” “irremediably aggressive” nature and adherence to illiberal, non-democratic values. The axiological and moral evaluations have been accompanied by the claims that the most effective way of standing up to the enemy’s aggression is the “consolidation of democratic nations,” coming down to the two countries’ quests for EU and NATO membership.

Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yating Yu ◽  
Mark Nartey
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Media

Although the Chinese media’s construction of unmarried citizens as ‘leftover’ has incited much controversy, little research attention has been given to the ways ‘leftover men’ are represented in discourse. To fill this gap, this study performs a critical discourse analysis of 65 English language news reports in Chinese media to investigate the predominant gendered discourses underlying representations of leftover men and the discursive strategies used to construct their identities. The findings show that the media perpetuate a myth of ‘protest masculinity’ by suggesting that poor, single men may become a threat to social harmony due to the shortage of marriageable women in China. Leftover men are represented as poor men, troublemakers and victims via discursive processes that include referential, predicational and aggregation strategies as well as metaphor. This study sheds light on the issues and concerns of a marginalised group whose predicament has not been given much attention in the literature.

Fenomena Arab Spring dalam Wacana Qatar Debate

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Mohammad Dzulkifli
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sentence Patterns ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Semantic Element ◽  
Social Views ◽  
The Arab Spring

<p><strong>This article aims to describe the Arab Spring phenomenon through critical discourse analysis of the Qatar Debate. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with the note-taking method. The results of the study show that the structure of the discourse contained in the Qatar debate consists of several structures. First, the macrostructure that contains thematic elements or general themes, namely about ‘Arab Spring has failed’. Second, is the superstructure which contains schematic elements referring to the system and the rules of the game in the turn of speech. Third, the microstructure contains elements of semantics, syntax, stylistics, rhetoric, and metaphors. The semantic element of the Qatar debate shows the uses of language that aims to rever to connotative meanings. Syntactically, the Qatari debaters are dominant using active sentence patterns and noun sentences (jumlah ismiyah). From the stylistic aspect, both teams have their own style of language, as the pro team uses a lot of declarative styles while the counter team tends to use an interrogative style. The rhetorical and metaphorical elements are used a few times but not in large portions. This study also shows the different views of the two teams from two countries that represent the social views of the people in their respective countries towards the Arab Spring phenomenon.</strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong> – <em>Arab Spring, Critical Discourse Analyst, Qatar Debate</em></p>

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