Analyzing neoliberal discourse: An integrated dialectical-relational critical discourse analysis-discourse theory framework utilizing conceptual metaphor

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-170
Author(s):  
Marissa K. L. E
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Nodal Point ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Primary Basis ◽  
Education Discourse

AbstractAn integrated Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-Discourse Theory (DT) framework is proposed that utilizes the Dialectical-Relational (DR) approach from CDA as its primary basis and incorporates DT concepts of articulation and nodal point to further develop DR and thus enhance descriptions and analyses of the complex, shifting and contingent nature of meaning making in discourses of late modernity that impact the construction of social realities (logic) and subjectivity. This paper argues that the addition of the above DT concepts enhances the description and analysis of the dynamics of meaning making by focusing on shifting and contingent meanings present in discourses operating within and between particular social contexts as a means to specifically and systematically capture the influence of context-specific ideologies. Furthermore, using DR allows for the inclusion of the relative permanence of social structures in dialectical relation with processes of meaning making which avoids the risk of a radical contingency that DT potentially entails. The framework is demonstrated using conceptual metaphors in the context of Singapore higher education discourse to show how neoliberalism as a seemingly hegemonic phenomenon operates as a variegated mobile technology adapting to its specific context by manifesting context-specific meanings, thus reflecting characteristics of complexity, non-permanence and contingency.

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.

Critical Discourse Analysis

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Reisigl
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has entered the mainstream of linguistic and social science research with a strong transdisciplinary orientation and social engagement. This chapter introduces six variants of CDA: (1) Fairclough’s approach, which is strongly social theoretically embedded and informed by systemic functional linguistics; (2) van Leeuwen’s and Kress’s social semiotic and systemic functional approach; (3) van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach; (4) the form of CDA promoted by the Duisburg Group around S. and M. Jäger, who keenly draw on Foucault’s approach to discourse analysis and Link’s discourse theory; (5) the Oldenburg approach, which is upheld by Gloy, Januschek, and others; and (6) the “Viennese” and “Lancaster” traditions of CDA, often termed the “discourse historical approach” and sometimes “discourse sociolinguistics.”

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 A Review of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on Qualitative Research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
rika armayanti ◽  
Wendy Pandapotan Sahat Martua Simangunsong
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

This article discusses critical discourse theory as a qualitative research theory. Analytical frameworks include analysis of texts, communication and social practices in local, corporate and social levels. It has the goal of expressing and engaging in politics to discuss or deal with certain research methods, statements or values. It refers to the need to explain, understand, analyze, and criticize social life that reflects in text using critical discourse analysis. According to Lake (1996), “the authors use texts to understand their world and at the same time, the article admits to creating actions and social relationships in everyday life, while text positions and individual buildings provide different meanings, ideas, and world versions”.

scholarly journals A New Discourse out of a Dark Atmosphere: Critical Discourse Analysis of Iran’s Eleventh Presidential Election

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 10-20
Author(s):  
Anna Parvin
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Floating Signifiers

This paper tries to indicate how the candidates of Iran’s eleventh presidential election attempted to rise to power by the means of language. In this analysis, the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe is applied. The candidates tried to win the battlefield of election by creating exclusion borders and excluding their rivals. Critical discourse analysis is a methodology that can reveal ideological purposes behind the political discourses to reflect the hidden Realities. The study of the debates between presidential candidates shows that Hassan Rouhani was elected because he could exclude other discourses resulting from the rising sociopolitical crisis. Nevertheless, He could not articulate his floating signifiers and his discourse was not hegemonic.

Discourse Approaches

2019 ◽  
pp. 212-220
Author(s):  
Johannes Angermuller ◽  
Raj Kollmorgen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discourse Studies

As a practice of meaning making in society, discourse points to important dimensions of social and historical change. This chapter discusses examples of discourse research on social transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. It shows how methods from linguistic, semiotic, and cultural theory can be used to account for a changing social order (e.g., how change is narrated in Russia during the perestroika period or how Eastern Germans are represented in Western media discourse after the reunification). Against a background in Discourse Studies, we put special emphasis on macrosociological views of discursive change, which one can find, for instance, in Foucault’s power/knowledge approach, Laclau/Mouffian hegemony analysis, and Critical Discourse Analysis. The chapter concludes by pointing out the strengths as well as the limits of discourse research, which is based on the idea that language not only represents social realities but, through representation, also contributes to creating them.

scholarly journals Signs of Colonial Discourse and their Psycho-Semiotic Significance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahzad-ul-Hassan Farooqi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Sign Theory ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Linguistic Practices

Colonial discourse is defined as a “complex of signs and practices” (Ashcraft, Griffiths, & Tiffin, 1998, p.235). In the light of this statement this research article investigates following main questions. 1-What are those signs and practices which constitute colonial discourse? 2- How do they signify according to semiotic theory? This article is a philosophical endeavour to develop conclusive argument to determine the psycho-semiotic nature of those meaning making practices which form the very basis of the colonial discourse. The aim of this study is to establish a triangular link of the sign theory, psychological conditioning and colonial discourse. Fairclough’s (1995) triadic model of Critical Discourse Analysis has been used to analyse various linguistic practices of colonisers at Description—Interpretation—Explanation levels. After exemplifying from various texts, the study concludes that colonial signs are psychologically conditioned, discursively conventionalised and socially upheld linguistic practices which disseminate ideas they stand for. Hence, colonialism is not only a historical fact but also a linguistically and semiotically crafted phenomenon. The article lays down a vivid criterion which can serve for further analytical studies in the domain of colonial and post-colonial discourse.

scholarly journals CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE SHORT FICTION “MAGIC” BASED ON NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH’S APPROACH

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Natasya Rhea Sudarna ◽  
Christina Atika Yulina
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Katherine Anne Porter ◽  
Linguistic Aspect ◽  
The Relationship

In the discussion about social injustice, inequality becomes a core issue. It is proven by inequality themed short stories which are still relevant nowadays although they were written decades ago. In this paper we analyse the 1928’s short story Magic written by Katherine Anne Porter under Fairclough's (1922) critical discourse analysis. It aims at finding social wrong—especially inequality issues in the short story and finding possible ways to solve the social wrong.The analysis will be done in the framework of Fairclough’s critical discourse methods which divides the discourse into three dimensions, i.e. linguistic description of the language text, interpretation of the relationship between the discursive processes and the text, and explanation of the relationship between the discursive processes and social processes (Fairclough, 1995). To describe the linguistic aspect of the text, appraisal theory is used as the approach to support the process of analyzing the linguistic elements that create the discourse. Thus, the analysis will link the linguistic and social contexts of the discourse. The results show that there are some social wrongs happen in the story. It is also shown through judgement, affect, and appreciation.

Voicing the absented presence of blackness in Canada: a multimodal critical discourse analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Amideo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Black People ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Specific Response ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
To Come

Abstract Canada makes of multiculturalism its trademark in a process caught between a (yet to come) full openness toward cultural and linguistic diversity, and the removal of an ambiguous collective memory rooted in racio-cultural violence. One that at different times in Canadian history considered Black people unwanted citizens, making of their experience an “absented presence” within the Canadian discourse. Drawing on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, the aim of this essay is to investigate the retrieval of part of that absented presence through an exploration of the 2015 miniseries The Book of Negroes (dir. Clement Virgo) which traces the life story of the West African storyteller Aminata Diallo as she is captured, sold into slavery and then slowly regains her freedom. The essay focuses on the analysis of the different semiotic resources employed in the miniseries and on the way a reflection of their co-articulation contributes not only to the meaning-making potential of the narrative but also to a specific response in the audience. The multiple ‘languages’ of storytelling through which Aminata’s story unfolds emphasise the need for a rethinking of national belonging by way of privileging diasporic affiliations that reject the violence inherent in monolithic and appropriating discourses.

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